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“This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.” said Voltage producer Nicolas Chartier.
Now the movie centers on a bank robbery by the Weather Underground personnel where an off duty officer is killed. Then they assume different identities and attempt to escape their part in the crime. The tone is sympathetic towards the killers. The underlined part above is just funny. Let's be straight - they were criminals that had their sights set higher than mere monetary gain.
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The real story of the bank robbery/murder is here.
On October 20, 1981 heavily armed terrorists staged a daylight assault on a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, New York. In the attack that followed, Brinks guard Peter Paige was killed and Joseph Trombino seriously wounded, nearly losing his arm to the gunman’s bullets. Another Brinks guard, James Kelly, suffered wounds and a concussion as the gunmen pumped automatic weapon fire into the armored vehicle.
... Kathy Boudin, an occupant of the U-Haul, complained to the police that their guns made her nervous. Apparently, thinking they had the wrong U-Haul, the police stowed their weapons and shotgun. At that moment the rear of the U-Haul flew open and half a dozen heavily armed killers jumped out, each with military-style fully automatic weapons. Police Officer Waverly Brown was hit immediately and died at the scene. Detective Arthur Keenan was struck before he was able to take cover and return fire. Sgt. Edward O’Grady was shot numerous times and died ninety minutes later at Nyack Hospital. Officer Brian Lennon exchanged shots but was seriously outnumbered and under heavy fire.
The history also mentions Boudin's high class background... The daughter of prominent New York City attorney Leonard Boudin, she attended the finest schools and was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Accepted into law school, Boudin joined the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960’s and devoted her life to "toppling the imperialist state".
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Kathy Boudin was was eventually captured and jailed for 22 years. What is she doing now?
Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work,...
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Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel — being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on “the politics of parole and re-entry.”
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Nothing like having an anti-American murderer teach our young adults - and receiving a nice salary for her work - and then seeing her life's major achievement chronicled and glorified on the movie screen. Just goes to show you the criminals have the money and the power right now.
So for all the gun rights supporters who are positive that they have to arm themselves to fight their tyrannical government, this should be right up their alley.
psst....let me give you a little hint. They were terrorists then, and they're terrorists now...
“This is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about real Americans who stood for their beliefs, thinking they were patriots and defending their country’s ideals against their government.” said Voltage producer Nicolas Chartier.
Now the movie centers on a bank robbery by the Weather Underground personnel where an off duty officer is killed. Then they assume different identities and attempt to escape their part in the crime. The tone is sympathetic towards the killers. The underlined part above is just funny. Let's be straight - they were criminals that had their sights set higher than mere monetary gain.
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The real story of the bank robbery/murder is here.
On October 20, 1981 heavily armed terrorists staged a daylight assault on a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet, New York. In the attack that followed, Brinks guard Peter Paige was killed and Joseph Trombino seriously wounded, nearly losing his arm to the gunman’s bullets. Another Brinks guard, James Kelly, suffered wounds and a concussion as the gunmen pumped automatic weapon fire into the armored vehicle.
... Kathy Boudin, an occupant of the U-Haul, complained to the police that their guns made her nervous. Apparently, thinking they had the wrong U-Haul, the police stowed their weapons and shotgun. At that moment the rear of the U-Haul flew open and half a dozen heavily armed killers jumped out, each with military-style fully automatic weapons. Police Officer Waverly Brown was hit immediately and died at the scene. Detective Arthur Keenan was struck before he was able to take cover and return fire. Sgt. Edward O’Grady was shot numerous times and died ninety minutes later at Nyack Hospital. Officer Brian Lennon exchanged shots but was seriously outnumbered and under heavy fire.
The history also mentions Boudin's high class background... The daughter of prominent New York City attorney Leonard Boudin, she attended the finest schools and was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Accepted into law school, Boudin joined the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960’s and devoted her life to "toppling the imperialist state".
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Kathy Boudin was was eventually captured and jailed for 22 years. What is she doing now?
Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s School of Social Work,...
...
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel — being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on “the politics of parole and re-entry.”
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Nothing like having an anti-American murderer teach our young adults - and receiving a nice salary for her work - and then seeing her life's major achievement chronicled and glorified on the movie screen. Just goes to show you the criminals have the money and the power right now.
She did her time and she has the right to make a living. That is of course, unless you can find me some obscure American law that says that you're not allowed to make a living after you've been to prison.
Or would you prefer that she goes on welfare?
She's not teaching kindergartners...she's teaching young adults that PAY to sit in her classroom. Big difference.
She committed a crime, paid the price for it, and was rehabilitated. She never concealed her past, and was qualified and able to be the best person for the job.
Do you want people to be punshied long after they served their punishment? It would be more humane to take them out behind the courthouse and put a bullet in their head then to lead a life of destitution and constant punishment long after serving it.
I also don't see where it states her political affilation. Just because she is educated doesn't mean she is liberal. That's not something I would champion honestly, and makes me wonder about the doublethink required for conservatives supporting MBA and JD graduate Mitt Romney for president.
Last edited by EmeraldCityWanderer; 04-02-2013 at 10:21 AM..
"I'm shocked that liberals would honor a convicted marxist cop killer", said no one ever.
If you can't grasp the idea that once you do your time, you have the right to make a living...well, i don't know what to say for you. Get some help or something because the concept is rather simple.
This article, written in 2009, looks over Boudin's book Gringo, and how he, Ayers, Dohrn, Castro, and Chavez are still spreading propaganda that is anti-US.
Interestingly, an official Venezuelan announcement of the event identified Ayers this way: “…William Ayers was leader of revolutionary and anti-imperialist group the Weather Underground which brought an armed struggle to the USA for more than 10 years from within the womb of the Empire… He teaches classes on urban reform of schools, problems of the capitalist school, and investigation. He authored and published more than 11 books, including a memoir titled Fugitive Days about the struggle against the government of the United States.”
Labeling communist terrorism an “armed struggle” from “within the womb of the empire” is an indication that this is a foreign government that wants to encourage violence against the U.S. and understand the best way to undermine and ultimately destroy the “imperialist” United States.
She did her time and she has the right to make a living. That is of course, unless you can find me some obscure American law that says that you're not allowed to make a living after you've been to prison.
Or would you prefer that she goes on welfare?
She's not teaching kindergartners...she's teaching young adults that PAY to sit in her classroom. Big difference.
I prefer she be where those who died are.
She did her time and she has the right to make a living. She was part of the effort that wiped out the officer's right to make a living. She deserves the same fate.
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Originally Posted by EmeraldCityWanderer
She committed a crime, paid the price for it, and was rehabilitated. She never concealed her past, and was qualified and able to be the best person for the job.
Do you want people to be punshied long after they served their punishment? It would be more humane to take them out behind the courthouse and put a bullet in their head then to lead a life of destitution and constant punishment long after serving it.
The officers that died, who did nothing, were punished by the death penalty from people not in the position of administering the death penalty. I agree with the blue above.
If you can't grasp the idea that once you do your time, you have the right to make a living...well, i don't know what to say for you. Get some help or something because the concept is rather simple.
Sure, let's let convicted pederasts run daycare while we're at it.
If you can't grasp the idea that once you do your time, you have the right to make a living...well, i don't know what to say for you. Get some help or something because the concept is rather simple.
I agree if you are referring to stealing, lying in court, vandalism, etc. ... not murder.
Cases like this, where it is obvious of who committed murder, should result in the death penalty within two weeks of arrest. Consistently applied, that would do more good than any gun control legislation.
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