Kathleen Ann Soliah Rearrested
Kathleen Ann Soliah, who the media insist on calling by her assumed name of Sara Jane Olson when they report about her, has been rearrested after being incorrectly paroled. She should not have been released, since it seems she had another year to serve even under the bizarre rules California uses to determine sentences and release dates.
State corrections officials re-arrested Sara Jane Olson on Saturday - five days after she was released - and announced that they intend to keep her in prison for another year.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesman Oscar Hidalgo said that officials miscalculated Olson's sentence and gave her a year's more time off her term than she deserved.
"We're launching an investigation to prevent this from happening again," Hidalgo said.
Hidalgo said that Olson, the former Symbionese Liberation Army member who was convicted of killing Myrna Opsahl inside the lobby of a Carmichael bank in 1975 and of trying to bomb police cars in Los Angeles, was detained Friday night at Los Angeles International Airport as she was preparing to fly to Minnesota, where her family lives.
I Pulled out my copy of a book titled The Voices of Guns by Vin McLellan and Paul Avery about the Symbionese Liberation Army who Kathleen Soliah belonged to. The woman killed in a botched bank robbery where Soliah was present - as a participant, and not for the good guys - was Myrna Lee Opsahl. Her husband was on staff at the Carmichael American River Hospital where she was rushed after being shot. Despite desperate efforts by the staff to get him there in time, Myrna Opsahl died before he could reach her side.
Kathleen Soliah can wait to reunite with the family she lied to gain.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Saturday, 22 March , 2008 @ 10:23 pm
Gaius, there is a reason why the media continue to maintain the fraud of "Sara Jane Olson": many still sympathize with the goals of these terrorists. The MSM is comprised of aging, out-of-touch hippies who still get misty-eyed at the mere mention of Castro’s name, and who cried in sorrow when the Berlin Wall came down. Their present fave-rave is Islamofascism.
Obviously in a democracy one cannot punish journalists merely for being in sympathy with bloodthirsty fascists like Soliah. However, I am reminded of a line from the movie version of The Onion Field when one character, frustrated by the glacial pace of the legal system and the non-stop obstruction of justice, said, "If it were up to me, I would let [the killers] go, and send some judges and lawyers to the gas chamber instead." I must be honest: if it were up to me, I would let Soliel go and send some of her MSM enablers to prison in her place. It would not be just, but it certainly be appropriate. And how much damage could Soliel do at this point in her wasted life?
By Mwalimu Daudi, Saturday, 22 March , 2008 @ 10:29 pm
That should be Soliah, not "Soliel".
By Lars Walker, Sunday, 23 March , 2008 @ 7:21 am
Now the media will cry over her not being home for Easter. Well, Myrna Lee Opsahl hasn’t been home for Easter for a long time.
By Anthony (Los Angeles), Sunday, 23 March , 2008 @ 11:01 am
I was in high school in Carmichael the day that happened, and I still remember how it dominated the news that night and for days afterward.Soliah’s sentence was far too short.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Sunday, 23 March , 2008 @ 9:01 pm
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/22/olson.custody/index.html">Interesting article from CNN.</a>
The Sarah Jean Olson-as-victim meme is on full display in this fawning article. I also noticed that CNN could not print the name of the woman Soliah murdered. Perhaps Myrna Lee Opsahl has become an unperson to CNN.