St. Paul Police say they’d just as soon Kathleen Soliah stay in California after her upcoming parole.
Cali agrees (I add emphasis):
“The police officers on both ends of this case are united in their opposition to Ms. Soliah’s attempt to once again run away from her crimes,” said LAPPL President Paul Weber. “Governor Schwarzenegger has the power to stop her this time, and we are asking that he exercise that power.”
“Returning Soliah to the same neighborhood that harbored her during her 24-year flight from justice is hardly conducive to strict parole monitoring,” St. Paul Police Federation President Dave Titus wrote in his letter to the governor. “When Soliah has paid her entire debt to California, then and only then, should she be allowed to live where she chooses. Making parole convenient for the perpetrator is a travesty of justice.”
In 1975, Olson, as part of radical group SLA, participated in two failed pipe-bomb attempts on Los Angeles Police squad cars and a bank robbery in which one person was killed.
Let nobody forget – that “one person” was 42 year old Myrna Opsahl. Soliah’s “Symbionese Liberation Army murdered the mother of four in utter cold blood – Opsahl was in the wrong place at the wrong time – on April 21, 1974.
In [Patricia] Hearst’s account, Olson later asks Emily Harris, who had been listening to radio reports, “How’s the woman who was shot?”
“Oh, she’s dead,” replied Emily Harris, airily. “But it really doesn’t matter. She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor. He was at the hospital where they brought her.”
Hearst says that Bill Harris mocked Opsahl’s death, referring to her as “good, old Myrna” and congratulated the robbers for having committed a “gas chamber” offense.
It was two years ago Tara McKelvey profiled Soliah’s family here in the Twin Cities in Marie Claire. They still think Soliah is the victim.
In a way, I hope California lets her come back. Having their revolutionary hero among them would certainly bring out the true colors of an embarassingly-large chunk of the St. Paul DFL.
She’s too whack for me. (completing the title)
I think there’s at least an argument that her sentence was too short; I don’t find a compelling one that there should be special punitive rules for her parole that don’t apply to others, just because some of the people she didn’t help murder, but tried to, carry badges and guns.
I think the union president knows that, too, judging by his manifestly lame excuse for keeping her anywhere in California rather than home with her family in St. Paul.
Wow! It’s noon and no Peev infestation! No odious meandering screed demanding Mitch rip on every other person in world history that tangently participated in a murder!
Paul,
Peev swoons when her name is mentioned.
He’s busy working on getting Our Little Terrorist back in St. Paul.
Move her in next to Flash. “Linda” needs someone to keep her company.