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Another 70's radical freed
The American Thinker ^ | March 23, 2009 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 03/24/2009 2:51:33 AM PDT by Scanian

Sara Jane Olsen, the former Symbionese Liberation Army radical who was a fugitive from justice for a quarter of a century, has completed half of her 14 year prison sentence in California for placing shrapnel-laden pipe bombs under LAPD squad cars, and being an accessory to a bank heist murder in Carmichael, California, in 1975, and was released on parole. Prior to going on the lam, she was known as Kathleen Soliah, part of the gang of thugs who kidnapped, gang raped, and ransomed Patty Hearst, among other crimes.

Gary Larson describes her return to her native Minnesota (where she posed as a doctor's wife, community theatre actress and Democrat activist) in the Intellectual Conservative:

Nary a word to waiting reporters about what she had learned, maybe, from two trials and seven years in prison. Family and friends embraced her, scooping her up at the baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for the 15-minute drive to her ivy-covered home in the upper-middle class Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul.

She offered not a nod, or a wave, to waiting reporters. No statement today, an anonymous friend told the waiting reporters. Her car sped by them, into her home's attached garage, out of sight, for unloading.

Neighbors strolled by, some with dogs on leashes; a few wondering why the commotion on their street. Trucks with satellite TV antennae pointed skyward stood at the ready to broadcast something, anything, a glimpse of the convicted felon, maybe a celebrity wave, in time for the 6 p.m. newscasts. They went back empty.

On her return Sara Jane was "wearing a tan trenchcoat and a happy smile," said the Star Tribune.

Like presidential buddy Bill Ayers, Soliah/Olson seems to have plenty of supporters on the left

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: leftists; olsen; radicalism; soliah; terrorism

1 posted on 03/24/2009 2:51:34 AM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Bizarre.

She’s a murderer of innocents.

7 years in the slammer.

Adoring followers.

????


2 posted on 03/24/2009 3:33:29 AM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor

Gary Larson, the retired cartoonist of “The Far Side”?


3 posted on 03/24/2009 3:36:52 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: Scanian

So which university is going to make her a full professor?


4 posted on 03/24/2009 3:49:42 AM PDT by Big Mack (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat VEGETABLES!)
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To: NewRomeTacitus

No, disclamer at the end of his article.


5 posted on 03/24/2009 3:55:31 AM PDT by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: MilspecRob

Donkey shine.


6 posted on 03/24/2009 4:23:07 AM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
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To: Scanian

I was surprised she was not released to the Ayers bunch.

Vince


7 posted on 03/24/2009 5:57:23 AM PDT by Mouton
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