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March 1, 2007
AP Describes Cop-Killing Moonbat Bandit Judith Clark As "Freedom Fighter"
Posted by Dave Blount at March 1, 2007 9:02 AM
When it comes to 1960s flower children, something sinister lurked under all that mellow marijuana smoke. The Manson Family offered a hint of it. So did Judith Alice Clark.
Wikipedia describes Clark as a "radical activist against the Vietnam War and racism." She joined the Students for a Democratic Society in 1965, and stuck with the Weathermen after that terrorist cult splintered off from SDS. She served seven months for participating in 1969's "Days of Rage" in Chicago.
When she got out, she joined up with David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin to form the May 19 Communist Organization, aka M-19, which took on leftovers from the Black Liberation Army, a particularly violent offshoot of the Black Panthers. To finance their revolution against American civilization, this fun-loving bunch held up a Brinks armored car at a shopping center in Nyack, New York in 1981. They killed one guard, severely wounded another (Joe Trombino, who later died at the WTC on 9/11), and made off with $1.6 million. Police chased them down and a gun battle resulted, killing two officers. Clark was arrested at the scene, securing herself a pedestal in the progressive pantheon. Like Kathy Boudin, she has continued her leftist activism from behind bars.
Illustrating why the death penalty is so necessary, Clark is angling for a new trial all these years later, as described in an article in which her fans at Associated Press actually define this vicious enemy of society as "a former freedom fighter." Last year Judge Shira Scheindlin awarded her a new trial, noting that the first time around, Clark was
so unwilling to abide by courtroom protocol that she remained in a cell, outside the courtroom, for the entire presentation of the prosecution's case.
Fortunately 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor later had this to say about Clark insisting on representing herself, then refusing to behave like an adult:
It was her choice. It is one she has lived to regret, but it was her choice.
After all, Clark left the courtroom voluntarily, too petulant to participate in her own trial.
Whether AP's "freedom fighter" gets a new trial, serves out her sentence, or is appallingly let out on parole like her colleague Kathy Boudin, her victims will remain dead.
On a tip from Wiggins.
