[secret garden]

Mark? The answer is no.

[sinkspur]

Lie down with dogs, get fleas.

I thought life was a fair sentence.

[Ronin]

Gee, they're right. She shouldn't be in prison.

They should have taken her outside and shot her silly A$$.

[JimSEA]

I would have thought she would experience a jailhouse conversion to Islam by now? No, well I still have no sympathy. She is right where she belongs.

[randog]

Hmmm, I see it's time for ol' man Berenson to drag out his cryin' towel again. I wonder if he ever has any regrets about raising a red diaper baby?

[cavtrooper21]

This woman ranks right up there with Rachel Corrie as a supporter of terrorists.
Corrie got a body bag, She gets a 20 year view of the Andes.
She is a criminal, let her be treated as such.

[InvisibleChurch]

[Drango]

At least she didn't lay down in front of a bulldozer and get squished flatter than a pancake...

[Criminal Number 18F]

She wanted to write free lance articles for nonmainstream publications

She was accredited to a Marxist paper in NYC. Berenson had a cache of weapons and explosives in her yard, and they found sketches that she had made of security arrangements at the legislature. Her MRTA pals thought she could hide behind her US passport and go places they couldn't, but she drew a lot of attention and brought the whole network down. Heh.

The father is also a Marxist; so was her mother. So the basic story here is, another Red Diaper Baby doesn't like the consequences of her decisions. Waaaaaah.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Clemenza]

I went to school with "Sandalistas" like this b-tch and believe that the sentence was too lenient. SOME REVOLUTIONARY she is: begging for mercy since she has been caught. Lenin and Castro never whined for clemency while they served their sentences...

[backhoe]

-The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)--

[fire_eye]

This is getting to be a really boring movie to watch over and over again. First that dweeb who got executed by the Chilean military, then Benjamin Linder, then Rachole Corrie, and now this critter.

I guess they expect the tin-pot-dictatorships to allow leftist students to start "Revolutionary People's Brigades" to overthrow the government without doing anything about it, like our government does here... then when they run off to some bug country to spread The Revolution and get thrown in jail, the poor little dears are just *sHOCKed*...

I just love hearing the parents wail, though. They raise this little icon of Marxist "Progressiveness" and send it off to "Find Itself" agitating in some foreign schumerhole, and prattle to all their leftist "colleagues" at the wine-and-cheese soiree' about the wonderful "work" their little dear is going for the "oppressed" in a "third-world nation", and the next thing they know, they've got to spend their vacation money on plane tickets to try to extract their little prize's posterior from a romantic revolutionary third-world *jail*...

(I better quit here, I'm enjoying this far too much...)

[goldstategop]

I'm touched. An American who promoted Communist revolution in a South American country should be freed cause she's an American?? What's funny is her father invoking patriotism as a Get Out Of Jail Card. The Left to which Lori Berenson belongs hates America and wants it to be replaced by a more enlightened country. Like the one you know, Berenson and her Marxist Shining Path associates attempted to impose by force upon Peru. That's exactly why she should be kept locked up for the rest of her natural life as a lesson that terrorism doesn't pay even if you're involved in it as an American citizen.

[Joe Boucher]

Sympathy or support? NOt from this corner. She is where she belongs after doing what she did.
Also tired of hearing her whine, do the crime shut up and do the time.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

While a freshman at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, professors said she thought and spoke more on the lines of a graduate student

In other words, she had been well trained to parrot Marxist dogma.

[BlackElk]

Nothing is wrong with Lori Berenson that a firing squad cannot cure. Her parents should show the courage of her convictions and theirs by going to Peru to help Tupac Amaru, get captured (or shot) and, if they survive arrest, be convicted. Lori, who cannot now be executed for her criminal conviction, can watch. If she tries to get in the way, she should be Rachel Korriefied.

[BlackElk]

Nothing is wrong with Lori Berenson that a firing squad cannot cure. Her parents should show the courage of her convictions and theirs by going to Peru to help Tupac Amaru, get captured (or shot) and, if they survive arrest, be convicted. Lori, who cannot now be executed for her criminal conviction, can watch. If she tries to get in the way, she should be Rachel Korriefied.