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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.

Very interesting theory.

I have a theory that Obama was involved in this crime as well.
I would not be surprised one iota.

Obama is like a ghost in the evening mist.
So many details of his life are sealed and/or cloaked in shrouded mystery.

If I ran for office...there would be THOUSANDS of family, friends, former classmates, teammates, coworkers, and others who could speak of their experiences with me and simultaneously confirm my whereabouts. Not to mention the countless photographs that illustrate a clear timeline of my life.

President 0bama essentially materialized from nowhere in 2007. No college pals who remembered him, few old photos, shady birth records, and nothing else that illustrates a normal upbringing in typical American society. History might one day prove he was bad news for the United States going back long before his shameful presidency.

I remember this case fairly well. It happened when I had just entered graduate school, and seemed ironic to me because it brought back memories of the political violence of my undergraduate years, specifically of the Patricia Hearst case, which happened during my freshman year in college. It "seemed like old times," in a way, even though 1974 seemed a distant memory to me in 1981. I remember thinking "are those people still around," meaning the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, which was formed by former members of the Black Panther Party.

Seems like they tried to pull off a robbery that was choreographed to look like something from a Hollywood movie, although it didn't have a movie ending. Real bullets caused the death of three innocent people and seriously wounding two others. That one of those killed was a Black police officer — the first African-American cop ever hired by the Nyack PD — only added to the nasty irony of the crime.

It seemed like they had come back, meaner and more violent than ever.

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.

Ping to Brinks robbery thread that Obama and Ayers might have also been involved in as Ayers buddy Kathy Boudin was involved in it.