I love the letter Kathleen put up on her website just last week:

To Bail Donors

Dear Bail Donors

Thank you so much for allowing me to have the past two and one-half years with Fred and the girls before going to prison. I realize that being deprived of your donated funds and property has been extremely difficult for many of you and may have altered your plans in some cases. I never intended, in the beginning, to pursue the legal course I ended up following. Like many journeys, it slipped from my control at certain junctures and I made mistakes.

Although some of you may think I intended to plead guilty from the start and merely dallied for two and one-half years, this is not true. I intended to go to trial. As I stated in my plea when the judge made me return to court to reiterate my first and totally legal plea, I did not plan to make a bomb, I did not make a bomb and I did not place a bomb under police cars. I pled guilty because my husband and daughters need to get on with their lives. We're all exhausted and my family is out of money. I made the plea on the advice of an attorney, a man trained in the law and extremely experienced. I did not agree with him but I have never been in a situation like this before. I relied on his expertise. I would no more face a monstrously huge criminal trial (one of the largest, most complicated in American legal history against a lone citizen) without trained legal advice than I would have a gardener remove an inflamed strawberry gall bladder. Maybe someone else would but not this "girl."

A conspiracy charge is difficult to defend. It doesn't require "beyond a reasonable doubt" evidence and thrives in a courtroom culture of circumstantial innuendo. It carried a sentence, if conviction occurred, of a mandatory life sentence. In my case, the withdrawal motion resulted in a display of Napoleonic Law when the defendant became guilty until proven innocent. My lawyer, Shawn Chapman, and I were completely unprepared for this sudden change of circumstances and we both certainly spent that night sleepless and depressed.

Regardless, the plea has been made, albeit under duress, the motion to withdraw it duly denied, and I am going where over two million Americans find themselves today, into the world's largest prison system.

I should be sentenced to five and one-quarter years. I should serve a little over half of that. I intend to maintain good behavior and I hope I will be allowed that privilege. Any other course would be illegal and, I am assured, has never occurred in California sentencing history. Of course, there is always a first time, as I have been reminded but I sincerely hope that will not happen.

When I am sentenced on January 18, the bail will be vacated. It will be returned to the Cooper Law Firm trust and then be returned to the donors. Whether this will be done in a few days or a week, I don't know. Perhaps Steve Cooper can provide this information.

Thank you for your kindness in the first place when you gave me help. I am grateful and humbled by your generosity. I am sorry your donations were tied up in my legal process for so long.

I hope this experience doesn't make anyone hesitate when someone, anyone, needs help again. Given the largess and great humanity for which Minnesotans are justifiably known I don't believe that will ever be the case.

I wish to thank the Cooper Law Firm and it's staff for all of their hard work and commitment to posting bail for me.

Peace in the New Year,

Sara Jane Olson

Well, at least by charging her with the murders just before sentencing they didn't give her the opportunity to skip bail and therefore the bail suckers (oops, I meant donors)will get their money back.

She still doesn't get it as the letter shows. All the whining about conspiracy! One overt act in furtherance and you're toast. That's the law. Has been for years. If she had any brains she'd have steered clear of the SLA lowlifes. I have no sympathy for any of them, except the exceptionally vapid and impressionable Ms. Hearst who was brainwashed into participating. In her case I blame only her parents for not giving her the strength of character to adequately resist.

I should be sentenced to five and one-quarter years. I should serve a little over half of that.

Clueless to the end. I just can't stop laughing over this!

Surprise, Kathleen. Actions have consequenses.

"I should be sentenced to five and one-quarter years."

Guess again! Heh, heh, heh, heh.

Of course the only point of trying to withdraw her guilty plea was so that she could tell her rubes (i.e., the idiot liberals sending her money) that she was railroaded and denied her right to a trial. Looks like that little trick might have cost her another 15 years.

Enjoy prison.

What a denying self-serving low life. She was wanted and ran for twenty years. Could have saved everyone the heartache if she would have faced the music twenty years ago. Oh well, it's so much better to put a husband and children through this.

Sarah, you were, are and always will be a lying murdering a--.