WIDOW'S PAIN (Letter by Widow on the Parole of the Activist Who Helped Kill Her Husband)

New York Post ^ | DIANE H. O'GRADY

[nickcarraway]

August 28, 2003 -- EDITOR'S NOTE: On Oct. 20, 1981, six Weather Underground radicals ambushed and robbed a Brinks armored car at Nanuet Mall in Rockland County. One guard was killed and another injured. Then-fugitive-radical Kathy Boudin was in the getaway van. The fleeing robbers gunned down Sgt. Edward O'Grady and another police officer who had stopped the van. Boudin was sentenced to 20 years to life for murder and robbery. Last week, an ostensibly repentant Boudin won parole and will be released Oct. 1.

[nickcarraway]

Boudin's supporters have referred to me as an angry, vengeful and unforgiving person.

She doesn't sound very sorry for what she did. I guess the way to get parole now is to attack the victim's family.

[ventana]

Leftists are arrogant and angry, but they always project these and other negative qualities onto their opponents or victims, it gives them cover. V's wife.

[glory]

Agreed and any rational person on a parole board would realize that a person who would be so arrogant and flippant with the family as to assign them some kind of responsibility for being unforgiving to them shows absolutely no remorse. I would not be surprised if Boudin is still a wacked out leftist given the tactics to put guilt on the party she hurt to begin with.
Message to Boudin, there would not be a family that is hostile towards you if you had not helped to kill a man that they loved. YOU are responsible for the hostility against you, not Mrs. O'Grady. She would have been happy to never have known anyone named Boudin, but you made that impossible. Leave the woman and her family alone criminal!

[GailA]

They also think all they need to do is express 'remorse' and we will believe them. Forgiveness is not society's to give, it is the victim's to give...the victim is DEAD and can't grant forgiveness.

Her children are NOT victims, exactly what you would call them I can't put a name to, BUT they are NOT VICTIMS.

They can visit their relative in prison.

We must visit GRAVES and wait until the Resurection to see our Loved Ones.

We who have been through this particular pain know there will come a day when they will release the killer of our Loved Ones. It is not easy to except that they will now walk free among us.

My son Jeremy's killer walked 'free' on June 21, 2001 after serving 14.6 years of a 20 year plea bargain. We had to fight for every day he spent in prison.

[FreedomPoster]

"Activist" is far too benign a term for this evil murderous female cur.

Bump.

[IronJack]

I've done a lot of reading on Kathy Boudin in the last few days, including the transcript of her parole hearing. She's a poser, a typical criminal who will say or do anything to secure her release. She's 60 years old, and the Reaper looms mighty before her, so she'd like a few years to actually live a life not bound by bars.

Her original sentence was 25 to life; she served 22. I doubt she regrets anything but getting caught. Her actions in the few years she has left will tell the true story. And ultimately, she will have to face a far harsher and wiser Judge than any parole board.

[goldstategop]

Murder is the one crime that can't forgiven in Jewish religious tradition since only the person who has been offended can forgive the one who has done him injury. God can only forgive sins committed against Him personally not sins committed by humans against theur fellow humans.

[Damocles]

I can forgive, but that does not negate the need for justice. The two are not related.

There are consequences to actions, and just because someone feels remorse does not alleviate the burden of justice.

This Boudin should simply not be alive IMHO. Cold blooded, premeditated murder and out in 20 years. THAT is a miscarriage of justice...

[ought-six]

Boudin, like all her Weather Underground comrades, are foul and vile pond scum, a putrid chancre on civilized society.

[goldstategop]

No murderer SHOULD be alive. The Bible thinks its holy for the righteous to bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked... the one regret I have is that vile murderer Kathy Boudin is still walking on God's green earth.

[RippleFire]

BUMP

[sonserae]

Where did you come up with your theories? They certainly aren't Biblical.
In the Bible, we are asked to forgive whether the person is "sorry" or not. I'm not saying that the person should be set free. Humans sinning against humans is a sin against God. I believe there should be justice served and the person should remain in jail for sure...but we are called to "forgive" whether the person is sorry or not. When we don't "forgive"...the sin constantly eats away at our soul....the bitterness takes over and the sinner ends up having control over us. When we forgive, that person no longer controls our emotions or heart. We are set free by the hatred. That is why believing in Christ and His forgiveness is a freeing thing.

[goldstategop]

This is where Jews and Christians disagree about the meaning of forgiveness. We Jews believe forgiveness of human sins requires the offending party to make amends to the offended whereas Christians believe forgiveness is an act of divine grace. Simon Wiesenthal wrote an interesting little volume of his experience entitled The Sunflower and every Jew without exception agreed Wiesenthal was right in refusing to forgive a Nazi soldier who asked him for it. The soldier's Jewish victims were not in a position to make amends. And God cannot right a wrong that cannot be righted at least in the world in which we live. And the wrong God cannot atone on our behalf is surely murder.

[carlo3b]

This is an open message to Diane O'Grady, the widow of Sgt. O'Grady, and to all the other victims of those despots.

I promise, there will not be one member of my family, or any of my close friends will buy a book, pay to see a movie, or increase the ratings of any network that attempts to promote anything that financially benefits anyone that was found guilty in this case. So help me GOD!

[carlo3b]

Gail, bless your heart, I cannot imagine how much hearing about matters must hurt you and your loved ones. How it must feel dredging up all of those devastating memories, but rest assure there are many Freeper friends of yours, you may count me as one of them, that keep you, and Jeremy in their prayers at moments like this.

[jp morgan]

The only places murderers should be paroled to:

... a graveyard.

[sonserae]

Okay...guess you choose to live a life of bitterness rather than joy. That's your perogative.

[Marysecretary]

When the dear author of Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom, met one of her prison guards, who had since become a born-again Christian, he put out his hand for her to shake. She was unable to do that for a minute, but when she did, love flowed from her to this man. That's the difference Christ made in her life. In our own flesh, we can't do it. It's impossible. But in Christ, the barriers are torn down and we can forgive because He forgave us our transgressions.