Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

SLA member captured after more than 20 years (1999)
History.Com (This Day in History) ^ | 06/16/2017 | staff

Posted on 06/16/2017 12:39:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

SLA member captured after more On this day in 1999, Kathleen Ann Soliah, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), is arrested near her home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Soliah, who now calls herself Sara Jane Olsen, had been evading authorities for more than 20 years.

In the mid-1970s, the SLA, a small, radical American paramilitary group, made a name for itself with a series of murders, robberies and other violent acts. They were most well-known for the 1974 kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, who became a member of the group. In April 1975, members of the SLA robbed a bank in Carmichael, California, and, in the process, killed one of the bank’s customers, Myrna Opsahl. According to Patty Hearst, who served as the group’s getaway driver that day, Soliah took part in the robbery.than 20 years

(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: sla; terrorism
40 years before Trump the New Left was murdering and terrorizing.
Where is Kathleen Ann Soliah today? Where is William Ayers today? Where is Joanne Chesimard?
1 posted on 06/16/2017 12:39:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

Patty Hearst got pardoned by Carter.


2 posted on 06/16/2017 12:42:19 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

Where today’s Leftists are heading.


3 posted on 06/16/2017 12:43:56 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen
Leftist violence, circa 1965:

Looks like Ferguson or Baltimore, 2015.

4 posted on 06/16/2017 12:45:30 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

Something made me feel bad about those persecuted Symbionese but I never felt bad enough to check out an atlas to see where Symbion is located. Wherever it is, I bet they all would like some “Make Symbion Great Again” baseball caps and tee shirts.


5 posted on 06/16/2017 12:47:34 PM PDT by VietVet876
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

I always thought the government was not really looking very hard for these people. I think they were pretty much just living a normal life after changing their names etc.

I think I would have given Patty Hearst a break tho I also think she really did join the terrorists. Maybe just stupid.


6 posted on 06/16/2017 12:47:49 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NorthMountain
Looks like Ferguson or Baltimore, 2015.

Same species, no surprise.

7 posted on 06/16/2017 12:48:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: doorgunner69

2 of them are free living in Hawaii under different names. Patty may have been scared to death and been a victim of the Stockholm syndrome. Remember she was a rich 19 year old at the time of her kidnapping. Her ‘boyfriend’ was Steven Weed, her math teacher-31 years old- who wrote a book to capitalize on the episode. American public opinion was not going to let her get away with being a rich girl whose parents empire advocated wars that cost ‘regular’ peoples lives. Carter did the right thing pardoning her.


8 posted on 06/16/2017 1:21:38 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

“Where is Kathleen Ann Soliah today?”

She was found after she was profiled on America’s Most wanted, convicted, served about 8 years in prison in California, and was released in 2009. She is now 70.

She had been living under an assumed name (Sara Jane Olson) in St. Paul Minnesota, married to a doctor (Gerald Frederick “Fred” Peterson), with whom she had three daughters. She has legally changed her name.


9 posted on 06/16/2017 1:33:36 PM PDT by BeauBo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen; Conservative4Life

But.. she made her daughter cake mix cupcakes for her school! /s


10 posted on 06/16/2017 1:34:52 PM PDT by Trillian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kid Shelleen

“Where is Joanne Chesimard?”

She fled to Cuba in 1984, where she still lives.

“Where is William Ayers today?”

Living a comfortable lifestyle in Chicago, with a fat public pension from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his family’s money. He beat all his charges, due to illegal methods used by the FBI to find him and the others in the Weather Underground.


11 posted on 06/16/2017 1:43:12 PM PDT by BeauBo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VietVet876
an atlas to see where Symbion is located

It's not a country, but a company -- they make a machine that ladies can ride and get the big O every time.

12 posted on 06/16/2017 1:46:03 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: yarddog

“I think I would have given Patty Hearst a break tho I also think she really did join the terrorists. Maybe just stupid.”

They blamed it on Stockholm Syndrome, but she did pretty much go all in.


13 posted on 06/16/2017 1:51:36 PM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: NorthMountain

I remember those events in real time.


14 posted on 06/16/2017 1:58:41 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson