[AZRepublican]

San Francisco has a lot of dangerous loonies running around...

[dfwgator]

"I was functioning, I think, purely on adrenalin and not thinking clearly. I have often said that I had put blinders on and I was only listening to what I wanted to hear,"

Sounds like a typical DUmmie.

[Numbers Guy]

Sara Jane Moore was a far-left wacko, yet after her attempt to kill the President nobody in the media called for a crackdown on far-left groups (and there were no demands for them to cool their rhetoric). Could you imagine what the media would have been demanding if the situation was reversed?

[fishtank]

Was she AKA Squeaky Fromm or was that a different nutcase?

[mtbopfuyn]

Hey, it'll look good at her parole hearing.

What is life there? Here, with good time, they can get out in 20 years.

[wideawake]

Squeaky Fromme is in a laughing academy in TX. Did anyone reach her for comment?

[AppyPappy]

Moore said she was blinded by her radical political views at the time, convinced that the government had declared war on the left. "I was functioning, I think, purely on adrenalin and not thinking clearly. I have often said that I had put blinders on and I was only listening to what I wanted to hear," she told KGO.

Hmmmm....sounds a lot like rabid anti-Bush people today.

[Valpal1]

She's 76 now, what a wasted life. Sad, sad, sad.

However, she should not be paroled, ever, except to a nursing home when she's so old she can no longer wipe her own butt.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

" Moore, now 76, told KGO-TV on Tuesday in a phone interview from a federal prison in Dublin, where she's serving a life term for the attempted assassination."

That answered my question.

[91B]

I am willing to take her at her word that she has seen the error of her ways and regrets her actions. However-the question that was previously asked on this thread is pertinent: what would have happened if a rightie had taken a shot at a Democrat president? The legacy media would be screaming for a crackdown, but deluded lefties can issue all sorts of deranged threats against a Republican president without the DBM batting an eye.

[bondjamesbond]

"People kept saying he would have to die before I could be (paroled)," Moore said.

Why would people say something stupid like that? Why should she be paroled now?

Assassination of the President is an attack on the nation. It should be dealt with in the harshest possible way. There is no reason to parole this person now.

[napscoordinator]

I never heard of her and never even knew that President Ford was shot twice...I was 4-6 when he was President which explains why. I am impressed that she is sorry for her act now. I guess everyone on FR is still not willing to forgive her. You all sound really angry over this. Obviously, I can see why you would be upset, but after thirty years shouldn't we begin to forgive. Even Pope John forgave his attempted assassin.

[OESY]

"I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try," Moore, now 76, told KGO-TV....

Moore Quotes
"I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos."
"I didn’t want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun."
"The government had declared war on the left. Nixon's appointment of Ford as vice president and his resignation making Ford president seemed to be a continuing assault on America."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore

[kcvl]

Sara Jane Moore (born Sara Jane Kahn on February 15, 1930 in Charleston, West Virginia) attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had attempted to assassinate Ford. [1] Moore was 40 feet away from the President [2] when she fired a single shot at him. The bullet missed the President because bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the gun from firing a second time. [3][4] The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel [5] but struck no one.

Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but they had decided she presented no danger to the President. [6]

A former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant, Moore had five husbands before she turned to revolutionary politics in her forties. [7]

After Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, her father Randolph Hearst created the organization People in Need (P.I.N.) to feed the poor, in order to answer S.L.A. claims that the elder Hearst was "committing 'crimes' against 'the people.'" Moore was a bookkeeper for P.I.N. and an FBI informant when she attempted to assassinate Ford. Her friends said she was obsessed with Patty Hearst. [8]

Moore pled guilty [9] to attempted assassination and was sentenced to life in prison [10] [11]. In 1989, Moore escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia [12], but turned herself in two days later. After her return, she was transferred to a more secure facility. [13] She is currently serving at the federal women’s prison in Dublin, California. [14]

In an interview in 2004, former President Ford described Moore as "off her mind" and said that he continued making public appearances, even after two attempts on his life within such a short time, because "a president has to be aggressive, has to meet the people." [15]

[kcvl]

1976

"I do regret I didn't succeed, and allow the winds of change to start. I wish I had killed him. I did it to create chaos." [16] [17]


2004

"I didn’t want to kill anybody, but there comes a point when the only way you can make a statement is to pick up a gun." [18]

[Aquinasfan]

Moore and "Squeaky" Fromme are both former Manson cult members.

[G Larry]

She may be the only attempted assasin to express regret.