When daddy can buy you the best lawyers available, you become a kidnap victim instead of an armed perp.
Posted on 02/04/2017 11:40:53 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by two black men and a white woman, all three of whom are armed. Her fiance, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a neighbor who tried to help. Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk of a car. Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to take cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover their escape.
Three days later, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a small U.S. leftist group, announced in a letter to a Berkeley radio station that it was holding Hearst as a “prisoner of war.”
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Damn I’m getting old. I remember it well.
When daddy can buy you the best lawyers available, you become a kidnap victim instead of an armed perp.
It was said that Hearst succumbed to “Stockholm Syndrome.”
I remember that. She was lucky to have a rich father. She would have gone to prison if not.
I remember it well. Daddy bought her a brand new syndrome.
Stockholm Syndrome is used by rich people to stay out of prison.
Patty Hearst was clearly put under incredible mental duress during her false imprisonment. I've always been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt regarding this incident. Anything else was a miscarriage of justice, IMHO...
Patty Hearst was clearly put under incredible mental duress during her false imprisonment. I've always been willing to give her the benefit of the doubt regarding this incident. Anything else was a miscarriage of justice, IMHO...
Me too and it seemed to go forever and ever like Watergate. Every day in the news Patty Hearst Patty Hearst Patty Hearst, I use to get a headache from hearing her name.
The Loch Ness Monster is less pseudoscience than 'brain washing'.
Oh yeah, and her name was no longer Patty Hearst but “Tanya”.
Those were two of the biggest stories I remember from ‘74, especially with Nixon resigning and Ford becoming President. But I was only 7 at that time...
Don't forget 'Mama' Cass Elliot...
I remember this very well and read everything I could on the subject. To this day I am not sure what the truth is in regards to her kidnapping.
Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Weather Underground, SLA, Davis, riots, bombings, police targeted. (Ayers and Dohrn rose to become professors at prestigious Universities even though they once were on the FBI list...how in the H%LL did that ever happen instead of a lengthy prison term.)
This is the phase we now living, once again. Only this time we can’t seem to get a handle on it and I think it is going to get much worse.
At least back then the police protected the vi
I vaguely remember that, but it wasn’t on the news enough to make an impression on me.
What a shame, because, as History has taught us, so much GOOD comes out of Berkley, CA.
*SMIRK*
Doesn't look like you finished your thought.
At least the Symbionese Liberation Army got burned to a cinder inside a blazing house surrounded by cops.
At least back then the police protected the victims and their hands weren’t tied.
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