Posted on 04/16/2008 2:44:08 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution today that calls on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ensure that former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson completes her full sentence in state prison.
The agenda item, sponsored by Councilmen Dennis Zine and Greg Smith, is supported by the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
The police union's president, Tim Sands, said the police union does not "believe those involved the taking of another life, or in attempting to kill police officers, should be entitled to any special breaks. If being young and stupid were to become a legitimate defense against blowing up police cars and killing bystanders, our society would not survive."
Olson was paroled March 17 after serving half of a 12-year sentence for the attempted bombings of two Los Angeles police cars in 1975 and for acting as the getaway driver in a bank robbery in which a Carmichael woman, Myrna Opsahl, was killed the same year.
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Why would he start now?
The wrong decision could cost him some LEO votes....
Good one! Bill Ayers should be serving life without parole at one of the Maximum Security Club Feds.
But, but, but... car tax! ;-)
Low Earth Orbit?
“Low Earth Orbit?”
That, too.
What? The budget. Traffic. The murder rate. Gang activity. Employee layoffs. A downward spiral in the standard of living.
Seems that Villar and the council has more than enough on the table without involving themselves with an old WASP who spent her youth killing an innocent for perceived, political gain.
Yeah. Amazing what city councils are allowed to consider.
The Minneapolis city council is more powerful than the Mayor and in some cases, the Governor of the state......
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