Robbery is defined as the act of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force

or threat of force.

The definition of terrorism is the unlawfully use of violence and intimidation, especially

against civilians in the pursuit of political aims.

Those two things are very different, it kind of goes without saying.

The reason I pointed out is because for one group of people in the 1980s, those two

acts weren't so clearly defined.

This organization of rebels and revolutionaries was known as Weather Underground.

Years before the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995

in the ISIS uprising in the Middle East, there were the weathermen, a co-ed group of

robbers and bombers in the United States whose radical ideology was birthed during the

anti-war movement of the 1960s.

In the late 60s and 70s, the group splintered off into different factions, in each had their

own goals and varying levels of extremism.

Weather Underground was split into two main veins, the pacifists and the destroyers.

This schism caused a lot of infighting, and by 1977, the organization had, for the most

part, dissolved with the exception of a few small subgroups that linked arms with the

Black Liberation Army, a spin-off of the Black Panther Party.

BLA and Weather Underground factions publicly stated that their goals were to achieve long-term

political and racial reform in America.

They often carried these ideals out through acts of violence.

In 1981, members of both groups collaborated with one of the most violent and deadly robberies

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