I spent a couple hours at the library this afternoon looking for source material for my Terrorism class paper. It's tough, actually. The topic I have has sort of morphed into "The Sons of Liberty: The Origins of American Terrorism". It's tough because there's not a lot of primary-source material for this topic. A lot of it is conjecture, and reading things into other peoples' writings.
Meanwhile, D's girlfriend from the city is up for the weekend, and I totally want to hang out with them, but I know that I need to knuckle down and get this paper worked on (since I don't know how much time I'm going to end up spending tomorrow working on the Tuesday debate in my other PoliSci class). I haven't gotten to see much of her this week at all (and let's face it, the next two weeks don't look all that bright, either, given the course workload I've got to grind through).
I just have to keep reminding myself that in two weeks, it'll all be a hell of a lot better, schedule-wise, and hope that she continues to be as understanding as she was a couple minutes ago on the phone....
You've heard about the Weathermen, I assume? If not, there's a great documentary of them on DVD. Some of it is primary: interviews with the surviving members. And some of them have written books, particularly the guy who's serving a life sentence and is commie to the bone.
Ummm, must be some different organization.
The Sons of Liberty were Revolutionary era "freedom fighters" around 1765 or so. :-)