The Rising Threat in America by DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND, Biola President T he U.S. News and World Report of March 23, 1970 summarized a developing situation in this country which could produce results too terrible to contemplate. The heading states: “Bombings— real or threatened— are confronting cities across the nation with a spring ‘reign of terror.’ They seem to be haphazard, but are they? One concern: Militants skilled and schooled may be starting a deliberate campaign to unnerve one community after another.” The article de clares that New York City had been hardest hit, with more than 400 bomb scares in less than 48 hours. Twenty-three stores were dam aged by a blast in Pittsburg. San Francisco reported that nearly 100 successful or unsuccessful bombing attempts or serious threats were investigated in 1969. At Albuquerque, police uncovered a bomb 15 minutes before it was set to explode under the floor of a Reserve Officers’ Corps building. Detroit had 24 incidents of bombing in 1969, including attacks on police stations, draft boards and an army re cruiter. In Cambridge, Maryland, an explosion ripped a hole in the old County Courthouse. On one day— March 12th— three Manhattan sky scrapers were rocked by bombs; a college and high-school were fire- bombed at Appleton, Wisconsin; in Chicago, parked police cars were damaged by bombs. These are but a fraction of the bombings that have hit the newspapers recently. In addition to the actual blow-ups, hundreds of bomb threats have been made by telephone. Although proven false, they brought disrup tion as building after building was evacuated and thoroughly searched. After the March 12 bombings of the three Manhattan skyscrapers, United Press International reported receipt of a letter from “Revolu tionary Force 9,” which claimed credit for those explosions. The let ter contained this chilling statement: “ In death-directed Amerika (note the spelling), there is only one way to a life of love and freedom: to attack and destroy the forces of death and exploitation and to build a just society— revolution.” In one dynamited car, a note was found with the same misspelling, addressed to “Amerika.” It said in part, “dynamite is my response to your justice.” Also on that ill-fated day of March 12th, five federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including those of the Justice Department, were evacuated due to bomb scares. Although no bombs were discovered, the risk of ignoring these threats cannot be taken when so many lives are involved. Many government officials believe that there is a definite correlation between this latest outburst of violence and the turbulence which has been occurring on university campuses during the past few years. New York City’s coun cil president made this statement: “What we are dealing with here is a terrific problem. These are urban guerrillas, the outgrowth of an era of disrespect for law and the acceptance of a Maoist philosophy of guerrilla warfare.” Among the terrorist groups, he lists the Black Panthers, the militant faction of SDS, and the Young Lords, a group of Puerto Ricans. Leave it to the psychiatrists to come up with the philosophical answers! One professor at Brandeis University declared that the chief motive behind these outrages is “revenge against society.” He said, “The young people have had protests, and riots, and disorders. They have done everything one can do in the way of peaceful and un planned protest and not much has changed. To that degree there is an increasing sense of desperation and a sense of vengeful ness." So, incredibly, this educator of youth claims that these “little darlings” are merely giving vent to their frustrations! Destruction, disorder and even death have followed in their wake, which is a far cry from
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