[sargon]

Patty Hearst's kidnapping led directly to her brainwashing. Her participation in the subsequent bank robbery was due only to the sequence of events that began with her kidnapping.

Patty Hearst was clearly put under incredible mental duress during her false imprisonment. I've always been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt regarding this incident. Anything else was a miscarriage of justice, IMHO...

[slipper]

I remember this very well and read everything I could on the subject. To this day I am not sure what the truth is in regards to her kidnapping.

Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Weather Underground, SLA, Davis, riots, bombings, police targeted. (Ayers and Dohrn rose to become professors at prestigious Universities even though they once were on the FBI list...how in the H%LL did that ever happen instead of a lengthy prison term.)

This is the phase we now living, once again. Only this time we can’t seem to get a handle on it and I think it is going to get much worse.

At least back then the police protected the vi