Posted on 03/17/2009 7:41:09 AM PDT by earlJam
Olson took part in two bank robberies to help fund the SLA, according to court documents. During the Carmichael robbery, Olson "entered the bank with a firearm and kicked a nonresisting pregnant teller in the stomach. The teller miscarried after the robbery," the documents said.
In August 1975, Los Angeles police found homemade bombs under two squad cars. They were designed to explode when the car moved, but neither device detonated.
Authorities cast the attempted bombings as payback for the bloody shootout that left Atwood and other SLA members dead.
A probe into the gunbattle helped police arrest Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst.
In her book "Every Secret Thing," Hearst put Olson at the center of the Carmichael robbery.
Olson soon left California. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, "she evaded capture for 23 years, and in the meantime, became a doctor's wife, mother of three, community volunteer, veteran of charity work in Africa and practicing Methodist living in an upscale neighborhood in St. Paul."
Her Minnesota friends and neighbors were shocked, even incredulous, when she was arrested. They pleaded with a judge to grant her bail. The Sara Olson Defense Fund began selling cookbooks, titled, "Serving Time: America's Most Wanted Recipes."
It would help that Olson was generous with her time. She was active in the church. She volunteered for political campaigns. Dawkins said he had a blind client to whom she used to read The New York Times.
Olson's philanthropy, coupled with the connections of her husband, a respected emergency room doctor, made raising the $1 million bail relatively easy, said Dawkins, who remembers that some members of the community had so much faith in Olson they put up their children's college funds.
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Were I the father, I’d be waiting for her right outside the Prison door.
No statute of limits on murder? Indict the old monster for murder.
They'll soon know what they're mommy's about!
Has she ever said she was sorry for kicking the pregnant woman and causing her to miscarry?
Or is she like Bill Ayers—still unrepentant?
As usual another big fat mistake to let this woman free. She was given life; she should serve life.
this criminal’s out-—how awful for her victims.
Let’s hope they can sue her civilly for all she has left.
At least CNN mentioned in passing the murder of the innocent customer by these cretins, as well their abuse of that poor teller-one of the proletariat they claimed to care about so much.
Watching the Philthadelphia NBC news today, they merely said this hag was imprisoned for “a bank robbery” way back when—I already knew the full story, but think of all the mouthbreathers who only get news from the MSM.
PS-I don’t watch the Philly TV news much—but from what I have seen, if you only got your news from them, you’d believe Barry is doing the best job in the history of the Presidency....
When will Obama pardon her and hire her for some kinda silly a$$ post
No doubt she’ll fill a position in the Obama cabinet.
She caused the death of an unborn “WANTED” child and wasn’t charged with murder? She should never be released IMHO.
She seems cut from the right cloth.
BUT I thought that radical leftists support a mother's right to CHOOSE.
Where is NOW protesting the release of this bitter misogynist (or at the least, "anti-breeder")?
The National Organization of Women is a racket and nothing but. Women's rights are the last thing on their agenda.
From what I read, she apologised for the person killed by a shotgun blast, but I haven’t seen anything about the death of the unborn.
Now now, Barack Obama, POS of the USA, tells us that it isn’t even a baby when it is delivered out of the womb breathing for hours unassisted.
Future Obama judicial nominee.
The radicals who protested this nation in favor of Communism 40 years ago are now in charge of the newsrooms and Democrat party.
The modern DNC is not the DNC of anyone’s grandfather. It more resembles Uncle Joe’s or Chairman Mao’s “party”.
Maybe as a special assistant to Sebelius.
Okay, exchange Sarah Jane Olson for Kathleen Ann Soliah and fry her!
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