Six degrees….
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- April
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Once again and, it seems forever more, the Brinks robbery ends up amidst national politics. The connections of both Democratic presidential hopefuls to Weather Underground figures has gained some spotlight.
There’s lots of discussions about Barack Obama’s links to former Weather Underground radicals Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, now respected Chicago community leaders and academic types. “The evidence linking Obama, who was born in 1961, to the two former militants, now in their 60s, remained thin,” the Los Angeles Times reports (see link.) Lots of the hullabaloo comes from this YouTube video titled “Obama’s Terrorist Connections.” No one’s saying Obama and Ayers don’t know each other. But what that means, well, is up to interpretation.
But as Obama has pointed out, President Bill Clinton (the spouse of his challenger) granted clemency to two former Weather Underground members, including Susan Rosenberg, who had been indicted, but never tried, for her alleged involvement in the 1981 Brinks heist. In 2001, Clinton cleared the way for Rosenberg’s and Linda Sue Evans’ prison release on other Weather Underground-related charges.
So, here we have both linked to Brinks, a crime that forever changed Rockland.
Weird.
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on Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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