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I have a theory that Obama was involved in this crime as well. He was in the area at school. He knew Ayers. He was of the right political persuasion. His records of what he did at school are sealed. And there were several that escaped. This is payback for keeping her mouth shut for the last decade and you can bet there are financial rewards for her as well.

That's a fantastic theory, and would be a political scandal of historic proportions if it could be proved.

But it seems unlikely to me, not because Obama wouldn't have wanted to participate, but because (a) it would require secrecy on the part of so many people even after he became a household name all over the world, and (b) he's not smart enough or hard-working enough to have been much of a help to any sort of boots-on-the-ground action. I don't think the kind of badasses who did the Brink's robbery would have been much interested in help from Obama, who was all talk and no action back then, into doing drugs and boasting about all the big things he was going to do "from the inside."

My guess is they would have blown him off if he had tried to become involved. They all got convicted, so he wasn't able to help them very much. Only two of the defendants even tried to undertake a serious legal defense; one of them hired one of her father's law partners to defend her, but she got twenty years anyway. The other one (Samuel Brown) got 75 years to life. So Obama's "insider status" didn't get them much.

But, in 1981 he was a smart assed 20 year old little Bolshevik. He probably was not yet aware what Ayers was going to put together for him 10 years later so he wouldn’t be thinking about that legacy so much yet.
I agree with you about his laziness, but there are lots of ways he could have participated without being an actual direct actor.
He could have hidden them away in a safe house. He could have been sent to scout the brinks activity at that location. He might have made them smores and hot chocolate.
remember he was a homo and a doper. He would do anything for cash and blow.

But he was a radical communist, in the right location and time. Sure is food for thought that he would have found them, because he sure found Bill Ayers.

But it seems unlikely to me, not because Obama wouldn’t have wanted to participate, but because (a) it would require secrecy on the part of so many people even after he became a household name all over the world,

You do realize that countless people know the truth about 0bola’s fraudulent identity, or at least parts of it, and it is still a “secret”. Hasn’t stopped him from faking his way into the presidency.