Not guilty for a 70 year old.
Posted on 07/27/2024 2:55:48 PM PDT by Krosan
What do you guys think? Was she a willing terrorist or a traumatized teenager with a Stockholm syndrome?
I don't know too much about that case and was leaning toward the first, but today I read a description:
Meanwhile, the SLA was indoctrinating Hearst and raping her repeatedly. Then the SLA offered her a choice: to join them, or be released.
Let me ask you a question: in the shoes of 19-year-old Patty Hearst, how much would you trust the assurances of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA? That’s exactly how much Hearst trusted them when they said they’d let her go. So she said of course she’d join them. Hearst famously robbed a bank with the SLA and went on the run with them. The account I’ve given of her decision is hers, which I believe.
Guilty
Interesting topic. This was the chosen topic for my debate class in junior high.
She is guilty if you ask Hall and Oates.
She was a normal girl captured by terrorists. Her survival instinct kicked in. She did what was needed to survive. Unless someone was there with her and went through the pain she suffered, no one can make a worthy comment.
It is a sad, horrible story.
Stupid-ass question.
Look- she was a rich, naive 19 years old when she was kidnapped. Scared to death. Stockholm syndrome. The left was not going to let her get away with it knowing who her father was. They made her pay for those that died in Viet Nam.
Ford pardoned her. Did the same for Tokyo Rose. Don’t know about that one. Nixon? Cost him but the country was better off not letting the left have their way.
I was just a kid but my mom thought she was a spoiled bored rich girl who decided to slum it for awhile.
I watched a long documentary on her story. Definitely not guilty, especially by today’s standards.
Both
For some reason - many people on this site immediately blame the victim.
She was raped by jungle and class fever bound Cinque wasn’t she?
Maybe a little of both?
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You know like me freepers live to scold
You could post the prettiest basket of chocolate lab puppiw
And somebody would say something negative at some point
But they do also shine on occasion
Guilty.. she joined the SLA and her stories were BS.
Huh?
“Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland’s Thompson gun and bought it.”
“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” - Warren Zevon
You could ask Roland but he probably won’t answer as he’s headless.
Great tune, that one.
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Traumatized.
Guilty!
Not guilty for a 70 year old.
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