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<p>Kathy Boudin, carrying roses she was given after her mother died, walks out of a Westchester prison yesterday (above). She was jailed 22 years ago for her role in the infamous Brinks heist that left two cops and a guard dead.</p>

The Age of No Consequences The world where we live. Just about exactly as I am writing this, up in Westchester County, north of New York City, Kathy Boudin, aged 60, is being released from prison after 22 years. Back in 1981, she helped the Black Liberation Army, an extreme-Left terrorist group, rob a Brinks truck. A security guard was killed in the robbery. When the getaway vehicle was stopped at a police roadblock soon after, Ms. Boudin in the passenger seat, her companions gunned down two policemen. For her participation in this robbery and these three murders, Ms. Boudin...

<p>BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) &#8212; Over bitter protests from law officers, 1960s radical Kathy Boudin was released from prison yesterday after serving 22 years for murder in an armored car heist that left two policemen and a security guard dead.</p> <p>"I'm physically ill right now," said Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "I can't believe I just saw Kathy Boudin walk out of prison."</p>

BEDFORD, N.Y. - Over bitter protests from law officers, 1960s radical Kathy Boudin was released from prison Wednesday after serving 22 years for murder in an armored car heist that left two policemen and a security guard dead. "I'm physically ill right now," said Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "I can't believe I just saw Kathy Boudin walk out of prison." Boudin, 60, a former Weather Underground member, was granted parole last month despite heavy opposition of relatives, friends and colleagues of the slain men. On Wednesday morning, she walked out of the Bedford Hills...

<p>September 17, 2003 -- It was hard from Day One to understand the rationale for paroling Kathy Boudin, the one-time child of privilege turned revolutionary urban terrorist. Apparently Gov. Pataki had some questions, too, because big changes at the state parole board are accompanying Boudin's walk to freedom this morning. While Pataki's office last night denied involvement, Parole Board Chairman Brion Davis is said no longer to be involved in its day-to-day affairs.</p>

In 1970, Kathy Boudin belonged to a revolutionary cell that failed in an attempt to commit mass murder at an army dance at Fort Dix. A decade later, she participated in a robbery that killed 3 people and left 9 children fatherless. Last week, two brain dead black parole board members released her from prison because she said she did it for them. On August 20, 2003, two New York parole board commissioners Vernon C. Manley and Daizzee D. Booey -- both African American -- paroled convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving twenty years to life for felony murder...

<p>ALBANY - The lawyer of Brinks robber Kathy Boudin said yesterday a new place has been found to house her when she is released from jail - possibly as soon as next week.</p> <p>The original choice, the home of Charlotte Phillips and Oliver Fein, married doctors from Brooklyn, was scrapped after their identities became public, lawyer Leonard Weinglass told The Post.</p>

Thursday, August 28, 2003 Kathy Boudin's Liberation Bradford Wilson, National Association of Scholars In 1981, Kathy Boudin, a Bryn Mawr grad and daughter of American-style privilege, was convicted of second degree murder for her role in an armed robbery of a Brink's car in Nyack, New York. The violent crimes that day of Boudin and her friends in the Weather Underground included the murder of two police officers and a Brink's guard. The New York Times reported last week that by the unanimous vote of two -- yes, two -- parole commissioners, Ms. Boudin's release was ordered. No explanation was...

<p>As far as we know, Chesa Boudin (Yale '03) has never met Edward O'Grady III (Annapolis '97). Let's just say that they have a connection through their folks. Mr. Boudin's mother, Kathy Boudin, has been doing time for her role in the 1981 Brinks robbery in Nanuet, N.Y., that killed Lt. O'Grady's policeman-father, along with another Nyack cop and a Brink's security guard.</p>

Portrait of a Progressive Terrorist By Greg YardleyFrontPageMagazine.com | August 25, 2003 On August 20, 2003, two New York parole board commissioners Vernon C. Manley and Daizzee D. Booey -- both African American -- paroled convicted terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving twenty years to life for felony murder and robbery.  In 1981, as part of a joint action by the Black Liberation Army and May 19th Communist Organization, Boudin had participated in the hold-up of an armored truck in Nyack, New York, a botched robbery that left three dead - security guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Waverly...

We just won a reversal of the denial of parole to my friend and client Kathy Boudin. NYSupreme Court Justice Benza just faxed his opinion to my co-counsel Len Weinglass. He orders a new hearing for failure of the parole board to consider the sentencing court's opinions and recommendations as contained in the sentencing minutes. Kathy's now been in prison over 21 years on a 20 to life sentence. At the sentencing the judge said he expected that Kathy would be granted parole after 20 years. The DA said that whether Kathy would be released after 20 years would depend...

hen explosives accidentally demolished a Greenwich Village town house 33 years ago, three young militants inside were killed, leaving two of their comrades to stagger out and into clandestine life. All were members of the Weathermen, a violent offshoot of 1960's radicalism.One of the survivors, Kathy Boudin, was granted parole last week for her role in a 1981 armored car robbery that left a Brink's guard and two police officers dead. The Boudin case was a compelling reminder of a turbulent era. But the other woman who escaped serves as another reminder, of how a once revolutionary band has dispersed...

<p>Some final thoughts on the parole of Kathy Boudin, the '60s radical and cop-killer-accomplice, now ordered set free after 22 years behind bars.</p> <p>A reconsideration of that order, always a long shot, was ruled out yesterday.</p> <p>Much has been made of the exemplary prison record compiled by the former Weather Underground radical.</p>

Kathy Boudin needs your help NOW! Dear Friend of Justice, There are ten days left until Kathy Boudin goes before the parole board again. We urgently need your help. Kathy has spent 22 exemplary years in prison. Even the parole board is impressed with her remarkable work and disciplinary record. She is 60 years old. In August 8th's N.Y. Times a spokesman for the state's Division of Parole is described as saying that "the people urging that Ms. Boudin remain locked up outnumber those who want her freed." This is simply not true! The parole board must hear that there...

Give Islamic terrorists this much credit: At least they act out of deep religious conviction, twisted though it is. At least--tragically--they are not inept; they generally know how to rig a bomb and accomplish their horrible goals. And when caught, they tend to acknowledge their crimes. Their American counterparts of the 1960s were not nearly so inspired, skilled or bold. Their philosophy was a lazy hash of Mao and Marx and Dylan, and their dreams of bombing Army bases and the Pentagon largely remained dreams or else blew up, literally, in their faces. We didn't call them "terrorists'' back then,...

The son of '60s radical Kathy Boudin says his mother wants to personally apologize to the relatives of the three men killed in an 1981 armored car heist when she is freed from prison in the next few weeks. “She would very much like to have an opportunity to express her remorse,” Chesa Boudin said Thursday, shortly after talking to her by telephone at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. “She’s not been allowed to do that thus far.” It was the first time he had spoken to his mother since she learned Wednesday that she had been granted parole after...

<p>New York's decision Wednesday to parole left-wing terrorist Kathy Boudin &#8212; who was denied parole twice in the past two years &#8212; shocked relatives, friends and colleagues of the three men killed in a 1981 armored-car heist.</p> <p>"Today's Eddie's birthday. He would have been 55 years old, so it's especially difficult," said Edward O'Grady, whose uncle, police Sgt. Ed O'Grady, was gunned down with M-16s after Boudin helped spring an ambush while her gang made its getaway from a robbery in Nyack, N.Y.</p>

<p>August 21, 2003 -- What message is to be learned from yesterday's decision granting parole to Kathy Boudin, the child of privilege turned urban terrorist? Simply this: Get enough big-name celebrities on your side, and maybe - just maybe - you'll walk free.</p>