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 banks customers, Myrna Opsahl. According to Patty Hearst, who served as the groups getaway driver that day, Soliah took part in the robbery.than 20 years
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Patty Hearst got pardoned by Carter.
Where today’s Leftists are heading.
Looks like Ferguson or Baltimore, 2015.
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.
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.
Same species, no surprise.
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.
“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.
But.. she made her daughter cake mix cupcakes for her school! /s
“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.
It's not a country, but a company -- they make a machine that ladies can ride and get the big O every time.
“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.
I remember those events in real time.
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