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...banality does not stop there. This revolution has not just gone into therapy. It is heavily into food. When Bobby Seale, co-founder and chairman of the Black Panthers, finally produced his oeuvre, it was Barbeque'n with Bobby. Karleton Lewis Armstrong, jailed for a 1970 University of Wisconsin bombing that injured four and killed one, now runs a fruit-juice business in Madison, Wisconsin. And Katherine Power, expert chef and cooking instructor, was renowned in her adopted Oregon for her recipes. Power's therapist, reports the New York Times, found it impossible "to believe that this bespectacled cook with...
...everything was different. A physics student lay dead in the ruins of the Army Math Research Center and the brothers, Karleton and Dwight Armstrong, who had engineered the blast, were on the run from the FBI. The fresh-faced students from the surrounding Wisconsin dairy farms were gone; in their place stood experienced guerrillas trashing bank windows and planning immediate, total revolution. Nobody, not even the frat boys, cared about football anymore...
...reasons that Karleton Armstrong was not made a folk hero. The Wisconsin graduate student who blew up a war-research building at the university in Madison and killed an unrelated occupant had a few radical intellectuals to help him out at his trial, but the liberals and students who shared his point of view about the Indochina War couldn't make the leap to understanding his action. They felt the horror of the war, but for them fighting it was not a way of life for people to join in together. For Armstrong, reacting to the war was a personal...
THIS IS WHY I think Karleton Armstrong should go free. There are also at least two reasons why it's important not to forget him. First, because he's a reminder of other things, things it is easy to forget even when they're in the newspapers every day. The people who were more shocked at antiwar students shouting down prowar speakers than at what was happening in Indochina were forgetting what was in the newspapers every day. I think I have been more concerned with the nobility of my compassion--what the English poet Jon Stallworthy called wearing suffering...
...second reason for remembering him may be even more important. Karleton Armstrong's not just a symbol. He's a real person, condemned to spend the next 25 years in prison. For 25 years--maybe less, if he gets parole--he can't go out to watch the leaves change color in the fall, or have a heterosexual love affair, or drop in on a friend when the whim seizes him, or listen to the birds in the morning to make sure it's really spring...