Anyone know how much these 2 stooges are paid at by their respective schools?

moxie_neanderthal on April 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM

More on the robbery mentioned by Ed:

Fellow weatherman members Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were convicted for their involvement in a Brinks robbery that resulted in the killing of three people (a Brinks guard and 2 policemen). (Kathy was earlier involved in the conspiracy to murder soldiers at Ft Dix but escaped after the March 6, 1970 Greenwich village explosion)

In 1981, when Kathy Boudin was 38 years old, she and several members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army robbed a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York. After Boudin dropped her infant son, Chesa, at a baby sitter’s she took the wheel of the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck. Kathy Boudin waited in a nearby parking lot as her heavily armed accomplices took another vehicle to a local mall where a Brinks truck was making a delivery. They confronted the guards and firing immediately broke out, severely wounding guard Joe Trombino and killing his co-worker, Peter Paige. The four then took $1.6 million in cash and rendezvoused with Boudin.

An alert high-school student called the police after spotting the heavily armed gang abandoning the getaway vehicle and entering the U-Haul. A police officer spotted and pulled over the U-Haul, but they could only see Boudin in the drivers seat. Boudin then got out of the cab, and raised her hands.

The police officers who caught them testified that Boudin, feigning innocence, pleaded with them to put down their guns and got them to drop their guard; Boudin said she remained silent, that the officers relaxed spontaneously. After the police did lower their weapons six of the men in the back of the truck armed with automatic weapons came out of the back of the truck, surprising the four police officers. A police officer, Waverly Brown, was killed instantly. Boudin and David Gilbert, a Weatherman radical and the father of Boudin’s infant son, allegedly acted as decoys as well as getaway drivers: The Brinks robbers the police were searching for were all from the Black Liberation Army and drove a red car. Officer Edward O’Grady lived long enough to empty his revolver, but as he reloaded, he was shot several times with an M16. Ninety minutes later, he died on a hospital operating table. The other two officers escaped with only minor injuries. The occupants of the U-Haul scattered, some climbing into another getaway car, others carjacking a nearby motorist while Boudin attempted to flee on foot. An off-duty corrections officer apprehended her shortly after the shoot out. When she was arrested, Boudin gave her name as Barbara Edson.

Boudin was paroled in 2003.

A controversy arose as the victim’s family and others disputed whether she was truly contrite for her crime or instead was masking her radical politics in order to gain her freedom. Supporting this allegation was a statement, years earlier, from William Kunstler, a law partner of Leonard Weinglass, Boudin’s attorney. Kunstler had explained Boudin’s evolution from political activist to violent revolutionary: “I went to Bedford Hills penitentiary a few weeks ago and talked to Kathy Boudin. Kathy had reached a point where she thought, along with others, that non-violence was ineffective, and that you have to take the next step, into violence.” ,[10]

After eleven years underground, Gilbert was arrested in 1981, along with members of the Black Liberation Army and other radicals, after they killed three people in an armored car robbery. He is now a well-known prisoner in upstate New York, serving a 75 years-to-life sentence for his role in the robbery.

Boudin and Gilbert’s son, Chesa Boudin, is now a co-author of The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions–100 Answers. In 2005 he worked as an intern on President Chávez’s foreign policy team, doing research for a master’s degree in Latin American public policy at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He also is associated with a Chavez advisory group.

moxie_neanderthal on April 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM

Boudin’s son Chesa was adopted by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn.

You are correct. You can actually get his book on Amazon or listen to audio clips of him speaking online. He’s a clear apologist for Hugo Chavez.

Obama is dead in the water if the bigger narrative is ever delivered in a political add.

Everyone is familiar with Charles Manson and the butchering of a pregnant Sharon Tate is no laughing matter (unless your Bernadine Dohrn). But I digress.

The Ayers/Dohrn narrative is obvious and should be expanded to include all of the Weathermen activities. Ayers and Dohrn were leaders and spokespersons for the group so they own it en toto.

In today’s post 9/11 environment, bombings, threats, conspiracy to murder soldiers and the brinks murders are all going to resonate among large segments of the population. Any campaign message has to dispel the mythology that these were well meaning kids that while they bombed buildings, no one was ever hurt. This is not terrorism lite.

In all, this is a compelling narrative and should include how Joe Trombino barely survived the Weatherman brinks robbery while his partner was shot dead. Trombino was later killed on 9/11 while making a Brinks delivery in the garage of the Twin Towers.

Then include Bill Ayers quote regarding how he wished he’d done more (bombing).

This neatly connects the weathermen terrorist of yesterday to the terrorists of today while telling Joe Trombino’s story as a moving narrative.

One might want to include an interview clip with one of the family members of the slain officers of the Brinks job or Joe Trombino’s widow talking about the weathermen and the 9/11 attack.

Obama says he should not be held accountable for what someone said or did 40 years ago. Fine, Ayers and Dohrn like nearly all of the weathermen are not repentant and have continued to say outrageous things, simply pick one.

moxie_neanderthal on April 23, 2008 at 4:11 PM