Posted on 11/19/2019 9:40:46 AM PST by GreyFriar
San Francisco elects a D.A. [Chesa Boudin] rooted in the Weather Underground.
On October 20, 1981, the guys and gals of the Weather Underground finally did it. They at last carried out a criminal act that not only led directly to deaths but also landed at least some of them in prison. Unlike Bill Ayers, one of several Weather Underground fugitives fleeing the FBI who would later boast, “Guilty as hell, free as a bird! America is a great country!,” the orchestrators of this incident didn’t get away with it.
This time, the plotters, including Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, pulled off an armed robbery of a Brinks truck outside the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, New York, in which two “pigs” (read: police officers) and a Brinks guard were killed, plus three other officers seriously wounded. Losing their lives that day were Brinks guard Peter Paige and police officers Edward O’Grady and Waverly “Chipper” Brown.
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At the time of the Brinks robbery, Boudin was not only a Marxist revolutionary but also a Marxist mother. With Gilbert, she had a 14-month-old infant named Chesa. In fact, mom and dad had just left the baby with a sitter that October 20 before they ventured off for their Brinks heist. With Chesa in the hands of the sitter, Boudin put her hands on the wheel of the getaway truck.
Once Chesa’s mom and dad were tossed into the slammer, the baby boy was without a mother and father. What would happen to Chesa? Who would raise the radicals’ son?
Well, the radicals chose two fellow radicals to raise the boy. No less than the infamous Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn
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I did not find this article by Paul Kengor already posted here on FR.
I suppose that’s why Pinochet threw his out of helicopters.
He knew they’d live damn near forever, and their spawn would follow in their footsteps and be even worse.
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