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His parents were convicted of felony murder. That is not a violent crime per se. I think if you just say "murderer" it is dishonest by omission, but I doubt "f
by perl4ever 5y ago
His parents were convicted of felony murder. That is not a violent crime per se.
I think if you just say "murderer" it is dishonest by omission, but I doubt "felony murder" is widely understood either without an explanation.
I think most people are like "oh, felony murder, yeah, obviously those durn liberals have reduced murder to a misdemeanor in most cases, must have been really heinous to be a felony".
And every time I see someone bring it up regarding Boudin, I assess them as a particularly nasty propagandist who for some reason doesn't care about their personal credibility.
I'm not saying that his father should or shouldn't be released from prison, but the sentence clearly was a lot longer than many actual murderers get, like for instance the guy who killed George Floyd.
I don't think I need to read extensively about the events and trial for it to be obvious that at the time, it was about terrorism, and so they were being punished for being part of a group of terrorists. One may agree or disagree with it for political reasons, but it's not at all the same sort of thing as the ordinary murders in SF that people are blaming on Boudin now.
It's not universally agreed that felony murder should be a thing at all, although people of all types generally salivate at using it against their political enemies as for example after the Jan. 6th events.
- spoonjim 5y agolol. You want me to replace “murderer” with “terrorist” and think that will elicit more sympathy from the reader.
- perl4ever 5y agoI don't know, it depends on the person. Some people have heard of COINTELPRO, and also have eyes and ears and see how political the definition of "terrorist" always is. If you are a patriotic person, you likely have noticed and disagreed that for political reasons people who work on national defense are sometimes equated with terrorists. The point of calling someone a terrorist is generally to imply a lot of associated things without specifically lying. If it were worse than accurate specifics, people wouldn't substitute it.
- spoonjim 5y agoI have heard of COINTELPRO but don’t see how that has anything to excuse people who killed two police officers to rob $2 million from an armored truck. Kathy should have never seen the outside air and Chesa should never have been elected with his supportive comments about them.
- perl4ever 5y ago>people who killed two police officers to rob $2 million from an armored truck I don't see what that has to do with his parents. As I understand it they weren't even onlookers to the killings.
- spoonjim 5y agoWell that’s just wrong, Kathy Boudin was driving the truck when they killed the police officer. These people were a complete menace and if you hire a DA who makes excuses for terrorists/murders you get the results you get.
- perl4ever 5y ago>Well that’s just wrong, Kathy Boudin was driving the truck when they killed the police officer She was waiting in a getaway vehicle at a different location from where the guards were killed by the people actually doing the robbery. It seems like you are playing with ambiguous statements. If you disagree with any of my statements about the facts, could you please be specific and explain where your information comes from.