Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol

The Explosive Story of M19, America's First Female Terrorist Group

De: William Rosenau

Narrado por: Gabra Zackman

Duración: 7 h y 12 m

Resumen del Editor

In a shocking, never-before-told story from the vaults of American history, Tonight We Bombed the US Capitol takes a close look at the explosive hidden history of M19 - the first and only domestic terrorist group founded and led by women - and their violent fight against racism, sexism, and what they viewed as Ronald Reagan’s imperialistic vision for America.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced that it was “morning in America”. He declared that the American dream wasn’t over, but the United States needed to lower taxes, shrink government control, and flex its military muscles abroad to herald what some called “the Reagan Revolution”. At the same time, a tiny band of American-born, well-educated extremists were working for a very different kind of revolution.

By the end of the 1970s, many radicals had called it quits, but six veteran women extremists came together to finish the fight. These women had spent their entire adult lives embroiled in political struggles: protesting the Vietnam War, fighting for Black and Native American liberation, and confronting US imperialism. They created a new organization to wage their war: The May 19th Communist Organization, or “M19”, a name derived from the birthday shared by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, two of their revolutionary idols. Together, these six women carried out some of the most daring operations in the history of domestic terrorism - from prison breakouts and murderous armed robberies, to a bombing campaign that wreaked havoc on the nation’s capital. Three decades later, M19’s actions and shocking tactics still reverberate for many reasons, but one truly sets them apart: unlike any other American terrorist group before or since, M19 was created and led by women.

Tonight We Bombed the US Capitol tells the full story of M19 for the first time, alongside original photos and declassified FBI documents. Through the group’s history, intelligence and counterterrorism expert William Rosenau helps us understand how homegrown extremism - a threat that still looms over us today - is born.

©2020 William Rosenau (P)2020 Simon & Schuster

Good book but authors conclusions are biased

This book is a fascinating story of an event that I had never heard of even though I was in college at the time. What I found interesting was the same grievances being used by todays Antifa/BLM terrorists are just recycled from that era. America bad, racism, socialism/communism will lead to equality and everybody except white people are noble. The murder of innocents and robbing of banks and business' is justified to support the revolution in the warped minds of these people. The narcissisms of the terrorist groups are galling . Instead of moving to Cuba or the Soviet Union to live the ideology they espoused, they instead sought to revolutionize America and reform it in their image, even if it went against the will of the vast majority of Americans.
Did the group(s) have some valid points about the governments actions? Yes, just as there have always been grievances against the government since its inception. Their method of addressing those grievances was madness.
I reject the authors conclusion that Antifa/BLM are not terrorists. Two billion plus in property damage , 75 lives lost and countless injuries disprove that rather easily. Instead the White Power movement is the problem. Where is that? And the white power movement espouse the ideologies of the left ( socialism), not the right. Just ask Richard Spencer, supposed head of the NAZI Party in the U.S.