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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (8691)	3/15/2001 4:04:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Does it sound wrong?" Yes. It is very hard, maybe impossible, to completely separate the circumstances which lead to crime from the criminal behavior itself. I am pretty sure that Patty was truly captured and taken against her will. But then, she fell in love with the leader of the group, and bought into the "cause" hook line and sinker. The rest of it is about serious criminal behavior and a family with enough bucks to get her off. My basic view of criminal behavior is that we should do what needs to be done to remove the threat of continued criminal behavior. I haven't followed the case since, but it doesn't seem that Patty ever posed a criminal threat after that episode. The other problem people have is that, if you or I were in similar circumstances we'd still be rotting in prison.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (8691)	3/15/2001 5:05:04 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Patty Hearst wasn't exactly "let off". She was convicted and served prison time; her sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter. She was pardoned by Clinton. A bit from the first story that came up on google: Hearst, the daughter of newspaper tycoon, Randolph Hearst, briefly became the most famous woman in the world when, as a 19-year-old student of art history in Berkeley, California, she was kidnapped by eight members of a revolutionary terrorist group. For 57 days, Patty Hearst lived in a cupboard at a safe house. She was blindfolded, sexually assaulted, then raped repeatedly. Her only conversations were lectures from her captors about the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). On the 58th day of her ordeal Hearst tried to win her freedom by joining the SLA, a revolutionary group, and ended up carrying out bank robberies for them. When most of the SLA were tracked down by the FBI and burnt to death in their safe house, Hearst survived. One year later, she was captured by the FBI,and convicted for robbery. She spent two years in prison before President Carter commuted her sentence. observer.co.uk Personally, I doubt if a less well known person who went through that would have been prosecuted in the first place, but you never know.