This originally aired on The Final Straw radio show.

Have you heard about the case of adjunct professor James Kilgore at the University of Illinois, in Urbana-Champaign? Kilgore is an interesting guy. In the early 1970’s, he was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which makes him a personal hero of mine. The SLA was an urban guerrilla faction that robbed banks, kidnapped Patty Hearst, and- along with the Weather Underground- effectively brought an end to the Vietnam War. As one demand for the release of Patty Hearst, the SLA had Hearst’s father, the publishing magnate, deliver millions of dollars in free food to the inner-city poor of Oakland.
There is a PBS documentary called “Guerrilla”about the SLA it’s inspiring.
Starting in 1975, Kilgore went underground and lived overseas until 2002. Kilgore came back to the U.S. and plead guilty to possession of explosives from 1975 and to passport fraud. He served six years in prison and since 2010, Kilgore has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana, teaching classes on Urban Planning and Global Studies.
After Kilgore effectively organized his community against the building of a new jail in town, a local rag called The News Gazette went on a smear campaign against Kilgore. The paper published a few pieces on Kilgore that completely reinvented the facts of Kilgore’s SLA involvement. They completely sensationalized the story with the clear goal of getting Kilgore ousted from his job.
I think that rather than going to the university with his hat in his hand, Kilgore should do what he does best. He can organize dozens of former students with whom he has best rapport, and recruit them for a new project.
If the powers-that be want Kilgore to put down the assault rifle and turn over a new leaf and make a new start, perhaps he should pick the assault rifle back up and lock and load.
He could easily reconstitute the Symbionese Liberation Army, teach former students the strategy and tactics of urban guerrilla warfare and start the next campaign with an assault on the News Gazette. Then he could storm the University of Illinois at Urbana, clad in a ski mask, the staccato rhythms of a machine gun to punctuate his arrival.
My thinking is, if the gatekeepers of modern culture want to pee on someone trying to go along with the program, they should perhaps have enough sense to not pee on the guy who can assemble an AK-47 in 30 seconds and shoot your face off. Forcing them to deal with a newly-constituted urban guerrilla  faction, the second incarnation of the Symbionese Liberation Army, would be an excellent way for adjunct professor James Kilgore to teach a valuable lesson.
If the system won’t accept your peaceful, well intended participation, use that explosives experience from 1975 and leave a smoking crater where the haters used to be.
Shoot First. Ask For A Job Later
This is anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain …If you are listening, you are the resistance