“So go ahead and commit a crime, expropriate a bank. Just make sure you leave an incoherent manifesto at the scene, claiming that youre shooting your guns and filling your pockets with loot for the people. When caught, you wont be a convicted murderer, but a political prisoner. And when released, you can be a college professor.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/10/how-1960s-radicals-ended-up-teaching-your-kids.html
(paraphrasing here) ... a bunch of tenured University of Illinois professors, blaming political pressure and sensationalist media coverage, say the plight of the bank robber and second-degree murder felon is a threat to academic freedom. They have formed “Friends of James Kilgore,” to promote the terrorists rehiring...
Yeah, terrorists have lots of friends in high places at the Brain Factory.