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THE DAYS OF RAGE

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"For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another"   On October 20, 1981 in Nanuet, New York  the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) in collaboration with the Black Liberation Army (BLA), robbed a Brinks armored truck containing $1.6 million dollars. Two policeman and one security guard were  killed in the violent confrontation. WUO, a predominately all white clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the United States Government issued a "Declaration of War" against the united states, primarily because of its involvement in the Viet Nam War and the murder of Black Panther Party(BPP) leader - Fred Hampton. WUO believed that the young people in this country were being channeled, coerced, misled ,misused, and mis-educated in the school setting. According to WUO, young people were being alienated from the authentic p