KATHY BOUDIN'S LIES

New York Post ^ | October 30, 2003 | Eris Fettmann

[OESY]

The good news: The truth about Kathy Boudin's decades-long history of violent revolutionary history finally is emerging, thanks to a new book by her one-time college classmate and friend that exposes the lies she and her supporters have long been telling. The bad news: Susan Braudy's "Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristrocracy of the Left" (Knopf) was published too late to keep Kathy Boudin behind bars for her role in the 1981 Brinks heist in Nyack, in which her Black Liberation Army comrades murdered three law-enforcement officers.

[OESY]

Pataki has long favored abolishing parole, and has succeeded in eliminating it for violent felons. But the Democratic Assembly has refused to go further, and critics of the governor contend that the administration is now abusing the parole process to punish felons and to keep them behind bars as long as possible. Under Pataki, the parole release rate for murder convicts has dropped from about 30 percent to about 5 percent. Additionally, release rates for lesser crimes are a fraction of what they were before his 1994 election.

The governor's parole policies have also attracted the attention of federal prosecutors, who two years ago investigated allegations that members of the administration doled out parole in exchange for political campaign donations. Two state parole officials and another individual were convicted and Parole Chairman Brion Travis and Pataki campaign aide Patrick Donohue were labeled unindicted co-conspirators.

Excerpted from New York Law Journal, April 28, 2003

[Chancellor Palpatine]

What an evil, evil witch. Typical of the narcissism of her movement - not caring about the people she killed, oblivious to the notion that those cops and security guards her movement murdered were poorly paid men with mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives and children.

Screw her and her apologists. Scrap her poetry, to hell with her so-called ideals.

As far as I'm concerned, her parents raised an irredeemable monster.

[Jim Noble]

Kathy Boudin's brother, Michael, is Chief Judge of the US First Circuit.

He is the grandson of a founder of the Communist party of the USA, the son of a notorious communist and radical lawyer, and the brother of a cop-killer who was robbing a bank to get money to overthrow the government of the United States.

He was nominated to the district and circuit courts by George H.W. Bush, and confirmed without a single Republican negative vote.

Now, just imagine that a judge was nominated whose grandfather was a KKK Grand Wizard, whiose father was the lawyer for the White Citizen's Council, and whose sister was in jail for killing an abortionist.

Do you think that person would be confirmed to the US Circuit Court without a single Democrat Senator voting, "no"?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

To be fair (and I've not seen the guy's record), he very likely turned his back on his family and its history. That does happen.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

As I thought, here is a NYT article (reprinted in Front Page Mag) describing Boudin's father:

His love of the law became the basis for his deep pride in his son, Michael Boudin, who rejected the family's left-leaning political traditions to become a prominent conservative jurist and judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. By the time Ms. Boudin was in college, Ms. Braudy writes, her brother had eclipsed her in her father's eyes. Judge Boudin could not be reached for comment.

[Little Bill]

What is his issue score card, the First District is a stange place, some unliberal descisions have come down in the last several years.

[ought-six]

I blame George H.W. Bush for nominating the guy in the first place.

[Jim Noble]

To be fair (and I've not seen the guy's record), he very likely turned his back on his family and its history. That does happen

Thanks, I should have included that, but I was running to work.

Do you suppose that if Bush nominated the son of a KKK wizard whose sister was in prison for killing an abortionist, EVEN IF HE HAD TURNED HIS BACK ON HIS FAMILY, that he would be confirmed without a single Democrat voting, "no"?

[ought-six]

Scratch my ealier post if the guy is not the loony lefty I thought I was reading about. I got the impression from the postings that the Judge was following in the footsteps of his lefty kinfolk.

[theDentist]

I'm sure her friends are hoping for a Hillary win so a pardon can be purchased.

[nickcarraway]

agree 100%