My response to the 1981 Weather Underground Brinks robbery. Nothing is more American than sticking to your guns, even when shooting yourself in the foot. David Glbert, smart and kind, who I knew by his alias "Lou," did not directly participate in the shooting that took two lives. He was foolish enough to team up with the guys who did. Their idea of fomenting an anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, anti-racist revolution as Ronald Reagan took office was a tragi-comic delusion.