Reply #79: Do you want to start with Truman assassination attempt?

[one-eyed fat man]

Earlier??

The bombing of the Los Angeles Times on October 1, 1910 killed 21 people. The prepetrators of this crime were the McNamara brothers (James and John McNamara), two Irish-American brothers who wanted to unionize the paper. The McNamaras became a cause célèbre amongst the labor movement in the United States, though their support eroded when they admitted their guilt. Are bombs with a Union label a conflicted idea for a non-violent Leftist?

In late April 1919, approximately 30 booby trap bombs were mailed to a cross-section of prominent politicians, including the Attorney General of the United States. The Galleanists intended their bombs to be delivered on May Day, the international day of communist, anarchist, and socialist revolutionary solidarity. (Ya gotta admit, that's pretty stereotypical Left wing.)

The mail bombs were wrapped in bright green paper and stamped "Gimbel Brother's - Novelty Samples." Inside the paper was a cardboard box containing a six-inch by three-inch block of hollowed wood about one inch in thickness, packed with a stick of dynamite. A small vial of sulfuric acid was fastened to the wood block, along with three fulminate-of-mercury blasting caps. Opening one end of the box (one end was marked "open") released a coil spring that caused the acid to drip from its vial onto the blasting caps; the acid ate through the caps, igniting them and detonating the dynamite.

On the evening of June 2, 1919, the Galleanists managed to blow up eight large bombs nearly simultaneously in eight different U.S. cities. These bombs were much larger than the April bombs. One used twenty pounds of dynamite, and all were wrapped or packaged with heavy metal slugs designed to act as shrapnel.

The Galleanists detonated a bomb at 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York City. The blast killed 38 and seriously injured 143. It was more deadly than the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. It was the deadliest bomb attack on U.S. soil until the Bath School bombings in Michigan seven years later.

The attack on the US Capitol in 1954, or how about in your life time?

How about the Weather Underground?

Oh,Susan Rosenberg and Bill Ayers who on June 18, 1969 authored the founding document calling for a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other radical movements to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and achieve a classless world: world communism."

The Haymarket Police Memorial bombing October 7, 1969

Park Place Police Station bombing, February 1970

New York City, Judge Murtagh's home firebombed, February 1970

Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, March 1970 (Aw too bad, the bomb they were building to bomb a dance at the Fort Dix NCO club exploded prematurely. Do the dead bodies of mechanically inept leftists count?)

Timothy Leary prison break, September 1970

The bombing of the United States Capitol on March 1, 1971.

The bombing of the Pentagon on May 19, 1972.

The January 29, 1975 bombing of the United States Department of State Building.

Plot to Bomb Office of California State Senator John Briggs (1977)

Brinks robbery (1981)

May 19th Communist Organization

The May 19 Coalition (also variously referred to as the May 19 Communist Coalition, May 19 Communist Organization, and various alternatives of M19CO), was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization. The group was originally known as the New York chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), an organization devoted to legally promoting the causes of the Weather Underground. This was part of Prairie Fire Manifesto change in Weather Underground Organization strategy, which demanded both aboveground mass and clandestine organizations. The role of the clandestine organization would be to build the "consciousness of action" and prepare the way for the development of a people's militia. Concurrently, the role of the mass movement (i.e., above ground Prairie Fire Collective) would include support for, and encouragement of, armed action. Such an alliance would, according to Weather, "help create the 'sea' for the guerrillas to swim in." The Weather Underground members involved in the May 19th Communist Organization alliance with the Black Liberation Army continued in a series of jail breaks, armed robberies and bombings until most members were finally arrested in 1985 and sentenced as part of the Brinks Robbery and the Resistance Conspiracy case.

The (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed largely of former Black Panthers (BPP), the organization's program was one of "armed struggle" and its stated goal was to "take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States." The BLA carried out a series of bombings, robberies (what participants termed "expropriations"), and prison breaks.

According to a Justice Department report on BLA activity, the Black Liberation Army is suspected of involvement in over 60 incidents of violence between 1970 and 1976 and the murder of 13 police officers.

On October 22, 1970, the BLA planted a bomb in St. Brendan's Church in San Francisco.

On May 21, 1971, the shootings of two New York City police officers, Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones.

On August 29, 1971, the murder 51-year old San Francisco police officer John Victor Young.

On the 3 November, 1971, Officer James R. Greene of the Atlanta Police Department was shot and killed. His wallet, badge, and weapon were taken. Two men had attacked the officer to gain standing with their compatriots within Black Liberation Army.

United Freedom Front, a small American Marxist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s. Between 1975 and 1984 the UFF carried out at least 20 bombings and nine bank robberies in the northeastern United States, targeting corporate buildings, courthouses, and military facilities. Brent L. Smith describes them as "undoubtedly the most successful of the leftist terrorists of the 1970s and 1980s."

The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American self-styled, far left "urban guerrilla warfare group" that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders, and other acts of violence between 1973 and 1975. Among their most notorious acts was the kidnapping and the brainwashing of the newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

Venceremos

Unisight

Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Environmental activists using arson, vandalism, and bombs in lieu of protest signs is a more recent development. The Earth Liberation Front has been classified as threat only since 2001.

Animal Liberation Front (ALF) Animal rights activists had a history of committing low-level criminal activity in the U.S. dating back to the 1970s. PETA feigns non-violence, but, in fact, routinely pays the legal bills of persons they deny are members, but who have been arrested for bombings and other criminal acts.According to ALF statements, any act that furthers the cause of animal liberation may be claimed as an ALF action.

In 1982, letter bombs were sent to all four major party leaders in England, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. The letter bombs were claimed by the Animal Rights Militia (ARM)

In June 1990, two days apart, bombs exploded in the cars of Margaret Baskerville, a veterinary surgeon working at Porton Down, a chemical research defense establishment, and Patrick Max Headley, a psychologist at Bristol University. Baskerville escaped without injury by jumping through the window of her mini-jeep when a bomb using a mercury-tilt device exploded next to the fuel tank. During the attack on Headley, which involved the use of plastic explosives, a 13-month-old baby passing by in a stroller suffered flash burns, shrapnel wounds to his back, and a partially severed finger.

Nine American and two Canadian activists calling themselves the "family," engaged in direct action in the name of the ALF and ELF. Environmental and animal rights activists have referred these acts as the "Green Scare." The incidents included arson attacks against meat-processing plants, lumber companies, a high-tension power line, and a ski center, in Oregon, Wyoming, Washington, California, and Colorado between 1996 and 2001.

You sure you still want a body count? Or will you concede that violence used by groups who want to effect change rather than established political processes is Left-wing extremism, and it is as reprehensible and as morally bankrupt as the use of violence by the Right wing.