Patty Hearst

[Old TexMex]

"I agree that she got off due to money and influence. It brings back a lot of memories of the unrest in the late 60's and early 70's."

"The documentary discusses this in detail, including the reasons why the request failed, primarily because Hearst didn't have near that much money . . ."

Did she ever have influence. She got Presidential pardons from BOTH Jimmy Carter, and later, Bill Clinton...

Gee, wonder what those two (three) had in common?

 

[SupportTheSecond]

During that time I lived very close to their home and we used to ride by and see all the news vans out in front. Soon after that as well I worked in security at the Examiner building in San Francisco, it was the beginning of a new era of security and checking bags etc at the door before getting in.

It was kind of creepy to tell the truth.

 

[Old TexMex]

What new names are they using? They have to be better than the Simbonese Liberation Army, what a joke. Were the SLA ever a threat to the USA existence? They sure seemed like a handful of nutcases, akin to the Manson "family". More people are killed in Chicago in a week than they ever killed.

Those separate little jokes were part of a movement that actually did change the system. It changed the membership of both major political parties, altered police tactics and equipment (both weaponry and intel), amongst other things brought the concept of armed insurrection into the living rooms of America. Don’t sell them short.

 

[500SNW]

I would swear this was written by the old Chicago cops I knew back in the day. All Vietnam vets.
The west side MLK riots, DNC riots in Grant Park '68, shoot outs with black panthers, snipers shooting cops from the Carbrini Greene projects, SDS, weathermen and all the radical bozo groups that were "peaceful socialist" hell bent to bring the communist utopia to the U.S.

Yep. Many people think we live in the most dangerous time in history...but the truth is, today is the least violent era in world history. Things were way worse 50-100 years ago.

 

[Old TexMex]

Well, yeah. When the stats include Stalinist pogroms and Nazi genocide, along with two World Wars....

 

[DWalt]

"Plus Patty was hot and came from money."

Interesting that she had taken up with an adult male teacher at her private girl's school when she was 15 and shortly thereafter they were living together and engaged. I would have thought Mom and Dad Hearst would have a little more concern over that arrangement than they seemed to. But I suppose it would have been considered nothing more than "so what?" in SF back then. I also didn't understand why in the world the CA prison system was letting the Berkeley radical students go into Vacaville Prison to "Teach" the inmates. In what world would that be a good idea? Security there must have been a joke, allowing Donald "Cinque" DeFreeze to essentially walk out the door unmolested and escape, after which he set up the SLA with the assistance of those same radical "teachers."

 

[500SNW]

Don't forget about the People's Revolutionary Strike Force kidnapping the SF Mayor in 1975

 

[DWalt]

And the Indians taking over Alcatraz.