Someone help me out here! Today I am directing this page in my diary to my friends and followers from the United States (mostly) because these incidents happened over there and I had never heard of them until now. If you knew about this female terrorist group, or had read news items about them, please let me know.
I had been in law enforcement in the US for many years. I took courses at the local, state and federal level. I served in the USCG reserves (until 2018) and for 9 years I was part of US Homeland Security and I was never taught about this terrorist group!
As I read now, I have just discovered that this female-led organisation bombed the Capitol Building in Washington on the 7th of November 1983. They called themselves the May 19th Communist Organization, or M19. They were fighting President Reagan’s (supposed) imperialistic regime. Although no one was hurt in the incident, the bomb did cause one million dollars in damage.
It was no small act, and one that should be known to all. But that is not all. They bombed the National War College, the Washington Navy Yard (twice), The Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, South African consulate in New York, the New York City’s Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the US Capitol. All from1982 to 1985. Almost all their members are now dead or in prison but one of their leaders, Elizabeth Ann Duke is a fugitive.
This seems very strange to me because I had been exposed knowledge of many radical terrorist groups, including sovereign citizens, the Weather Underground, Black Panthers, et al but I never heard of this very unique group. And neither had my colleagues! Now that I have, I wonder why so many things, previously unknown to so many people are appearing as news items of the past…
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That is old buddy you were in Florida I was in New Jersey in those years !!) And there are more still in prison in the U S A .
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There is also a Comunist party in the USA lol!!!
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Yes, I knew about the Communist Party USA, but not about this particular group…
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Well there are others little known, I know was VP Rep in NJ!!
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No entiendo que es un VP Rep in NJ?
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Vice chairman partido Republicano..
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Venga, gracias.
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Voy haber si hago un post sobre esos galardones de pared lol!
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Venga, ale, hazlo que lo espero.
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Good, thank you.
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Nice information,Sir.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you so much Sir!
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I never heard of this group, but there was other stuff going on at that time, as I recall. Serial killers, Shiite terrorism, etc. The U.S. government lies and manipulates the media so much, who knows what the truth is!
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That is true, but most of the other terrorist groups are well known, at least they were to me, I was already in the police by 1982. But this one I’ve never heard of. Thank you Dawn.
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I wonder if they were dismissed as unimportant because they were a female group…
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No, they’re in prison and one is a fugitive…
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Then I second your question why they were not given much attention.
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It’s strange to me that terrorist attacks like these are unknown to so many people, especially many who were in law enforcement at the same time…
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These images look familiar to me. I was a kid then, probably heard about them once or twice and that was that, because I wasn’t watching TV News very often at that age, and definitely wasn’t reading newspapers much. Seems like news just didn’t travel as well then as it does now. I’m seeing a lot of regurgitated news online from years past.
Maybe some of it is attributable to the similar low reportage on the actual frequency of instances of one taking of one’s own life, which happens much more often than media reports. There is evidently data somewhere that such stories encourage some personality types to take additional, similar actions.
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Good thoughts and interesting perspective I would say, but I was an active law enforcement officer in the States in the 80’s and I never heard of this group or these very high profile bombings, i.e. the senate section of the US Capitol…
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This is surprising, I admit. It seems so unlikely, unless being busy policing is anything like being overworked elsewhere–hyperlocal becomes foremost awareness?
Right now we need library microfilm access I think 🙂 To see if/how often this group was reported
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Yes, you are right. There is a book recently written about this and about how no one knew about it…
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Wow
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Incredible no?
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It it due to some info became declassified after 25 odd year? I was reading a book called ‘The Brains of the Patagon’, it was based on declassified info and interviews of people involved.
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I don’t think this could have been hidden after all the bomb in the capitol was in the senate building and damages were 1 million USDollars…
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Interested indeed.
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