Former Weatherman Bill Ayers & Your Investments

Dynamite And Investments Easy To Access

           by: Brendan Magee

In March of 1970 a group known as the Weatherman was planning on bombing a dance that was to be held at Fort Dix, N.J. If you are a student of late 1960's and early 1970's history, the names Bill Ayers, Cathy Wilkerson, Jean Boudin, Terry Robbins, Teddy Gold, Diana Oughton, and Sam Melville would be familiar to you. This was a group that had determined that the best way to fight what they saw as an oppressive U.S. Government was to start attacking its military and financial institutions as well as the police through bombings, bank robberies, and kidnappings.

This group led by Robbins was meeting in,planning the bombing, and building bombs in the Fifth Avenue townhouse of Cathy Wilkerson's parents who were away on vacation. Robbins like just about every member of the group was college age, not an expert by any stretch in building bombs or handling dynamite. After a late night conversation between Wilkerson and Robbins, Robbins admitted how intimidated he was by the technical difficulties of building a bomb. In college he was an English major and studied poetry, not science or any thing to do with handling bombs made of dynamite. Most of his knowledge came from books he found an the local library.

Now one of the things that surprised and made the idea of carrying out the bombings much more feasible was the easy access to an ample supply of dynamite. With just a fake i.d. card and for less than $60 two fifty pound cases of dynamite was easily purchased from the New England Explosives Company.

So, driven by the desire to create a revolution the group persevered. The days leading up to the attack date, Friday, March 6th, Robbins busied himself in basement of the townhouse putting together the bombs that were to be used in the attack. The morning of the day scheduled for the attack later that night, the group is busying itself trying to put the finishing touches on the bombs. They are also getting ready to clean and leave the house without leaving any clues that they had been living there while Wilkerson's parents had been away. They are about to commit a crime and do not want to leave any clues behind. This when the unthinkable happens.

The bombs are still in the basement and as some are cleaning up the house, bathing, etc. the bombs go off. Remember,they have got two fifty pound boxes of dynamite in the house. A solid brick house goes from home to flying splinters and plaster in a matter of minutes. There are two immediate blasts that destroy the first floor of the house, the top floors of the house are dangling balconies at this point, and the house is engulfed in flames. Wilkerson who was doing ironing on the first floor and Oughton was showering in a second floor bathroom at the time of the blast were buried under the rubble of the explosion.
They managed to get out of the house before its inevitable collapse.

Others who were in the house at the time were not so lucky Robbins and Gold perished in the explosion. As described in the book "Days of Rage" I would remind you of the scenes reported of the bodies found in the courtyard of the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001 to describe the gruesome state the police found the bodies of Gold and Robbins.

Not only the Wilkerson's house was damaged in the blast, as well, all the homes on the block suffered damage. Windows were blown out of all the homes on the block and the adjoining homes were destroyed as well. The scene was one of needless death and utter destruction to the property of innocent people.

My point here is not to make a political statement. It is to point out how easily disaster strikes when people engage in things they have no expertise in. Easier than accessing dynamite, people can access an unlimited supply of investment products. If you have the money there is always someone willing to sell you anything.

The question every investor needs to be asking themselves is this, "When it comes to building your investment portfolio, do you know exactly what you are doing and why?" If you cannot answer this question 100% with a yes, stop, put down the dynamite, back away quietly, and go and call an expert to coach you.
If not, eventually it's all going to blow up. Peoples lives will be affected permanently.


Brendan Magee is the founder of Inevitable Wealth Coaching.With questions or comments e-mail brendan@coachgee.com or call 610-446-4322.