Seven Days of Rage The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer (48 Hours Mystery)

The scary scenario, you know, I mentioned the seventies, um, you know, domestic terror actually got to be quite a thing in the seventies in the U S and there's this great book called days of rage that kind of chronicles basically this like very widespread pattern of domestic terror, ideologically motivated domestic terror in the seventies.

This is Paul LaRosa, an Emmy Award-winning producer for 48 Hours Mystery on CBS and co-author of the book Seven Days of Rage, The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer.

Also, Paul wrote a book on this case which was turned into a 48 Hours Mystery special by the same name. It's called Seven Days of Rage, the deadly crime spree of the Craigslist killer.

And what it is is that if you actually see the way that they rhetoric that was these organized things, where they call them actions. Action is a traditional word in new left activism, and it goes back to the days of the Weather Underground, of the Symbionese Liberation Army and many of these other crackpot groups from back in that time.

And those people had a fundamental belief that if you set off 1,000 bombs or whatever, what the Weather Underground and these types of groups did, if you kidnap Patty Hearst, if you create awareness, quote unquote, and you basically make life miserable and annoying for people, that they will rise up the great proletariat against the establishment. And instead, actually it was completely counterproductive. The vast majority of people hated these groups. They supported law enforcement and they turned against the very causes which the protest movements of the 1960s on civil rights and on Vietnam were extraordinarily successful.

So what I would say to these Palestinian groups is that blocking working class people from traffic or a man from his daughter, preventing people from picking or dropping off from school or for going to work is not only counterproductive, but it's fundamentally stupid and it misses the point of who is actually in power for quote unquote awareness.