SLA's Yoshimura keeps mum while ex-comrades serve time.... (lying SLA'er - Myrna Opsahl case)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/27/03 | Patrick Hoge

[I_Love_My_Husband]

When five graying, former Symbionese Liberation Army comrades pleaded guilty in recent months to carrying out a deadly Sacramento bank robbery more than a quarter century ago, Wendy Yoshimura was living quietly out of the spotlight in Oakland.

The 60-year-old Yoshimura is an enigma, a painter of tranquil watercolors and a part-time employee of Berkeley's Juice Bar collective who has never publicly discussed her days among some of the nation's most-wanted fugitives.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

For more than 25 years, the Opsahl murder case languished as prosecutors did not feel they had enough evidence. Yoshimura didn't make it any easier for them. She was granted immunity in 1990 in the hope she would help a Sacramento County grand jury indict her SLA cohorts. She didn't.

[ccmay]

they wouldn't want to take you if you're nobody.

You're not a nobody. You're a vicious murderess who should have been put to death.

-ccm

[jordan8]

But before her day in court came, four of the ex-SLA members had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case. They were given six-to-eight-year terms.

Zen koan: what is the sound of wrists being slapped?

The FBI apparently searched for these people in the same places OJ is looking for his wife's killer. I'd bet that if they spent 1/100th of the money they spent looking for Eric Rudolph they'd have dug most of them up much sooner. But Rudolph offended and attacked the system while these people, bless 'em, had their hearts in the right places even if they were a little extreme in expressing themselves.