I remember the sickeningly favorable treatment this terrorist got from the local media where I was living in California.  They employed Madam Pantsuit's tactic of publicly using an innocent young daughter in a cynical attempt to excuse the felonious actions of the mother.  They browbeat the daughter of one of the murder victims for piling on, seeking vengeance at any cost...and they "appealed" to the victim's "sense of decency" with the disgusting "two wrongs don't make a right" canard (as if, by seeking justice for the murder of her mother, she was intentionally depriving an innocent young girl of the same rights the girl's mother had inadvertantly deprived her of).  That's right, they actually tried to make a villain out of the victim and a victim out of a villain.  And what moral equivalency argument on behalf of a fugitive terrorist murderer would be complete without the "she's lived an exemplary life in the years since she fled justice, so shouldn't we take that into account before judging her for her criminal acts...and besides who are we punishing here: the exemplary mother who made a rash judgment oh so long ago in her developmental infancy or the innocent product of the marriage that reined in the spirit of the rebellious idealist" plea?  The coverage this fugitive terrorist murderer received was frankly nauseating...not to mention dishonest.  She should be spending the rest of her miserable life in jail...but instead she and her family get a second bite at the sympathy apple thanks to the sycophantic media.  Pardon me while I vomit.

Oh, and by the way this "fetching idealist" kicked a pregnant bank teller in the stomach...causing her to miscarry.  And we're supposed to dwell on the time this monster was forced to spend away from her husband and daughter?  Puh-leeze.  

So, the Minnesota legislators chose to overlook that Ms. Soliah voluntarily joined a group that assassinated the Oakland Superintendent of Public Schools, Marcus Foster, with cyanide bullets.  (But guess that’s what confused teenagers involved in the anti-war movement tended to do.)

I wasn’t wild about the war either, Kathleen, but the SLA was nothing but a group of Marxist killers.

First of all, she was NO fetching high school pep-squad member, as the article describes her. Nor was she a confused teenage who got caught up in the anti-war movement as some of the local legislators rationalized. When she joined the SLA she was 27 years old.!

I rmemember the circus when she was found: I lived near St. Paul at the time. The local crusade was as you said: it was a long time ago; she's a good mother now, active in the community; etc., her "fans" even created and sold a cookbook to raise money for her ("Serving Time"...hahaha). For the flavor of the local adoration at the time, see this article by local bloggers John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson of Power Line.

The only discrepancy is that in spite of their claiming that the case was weak, etc., she was, in fact, unexpectedly convicted. And you would have thought that Mother Theresa had been framed, to hear the outrage from her supporters.

Moral of their story....if you can hide long enough, you should be allowed to get away with attempted murder.

When she joined the SLA, she was no naive 16-year-old, nor was she an idealistic college student.....she was 27.