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Interesting. The SLA, Patty Hearst, S.W.A.T. teams
http://www.alternet.org/visions/do-we-owe-military-style-police-swat-teams-wild-story-patty-hearst-and-sla
A lot i did not know. I once stayed in an apartment complex with Patty and others in Carmichael (by Sacramento) Ca. Didnt know it at the time, but they killed a lady in a bank there during that period, but left the apartments.
Ive always been facisinated by the story and now i have a better idea.
VISIONS
Do We Owe Military-Style Police Swat Teams to the Wild Story of Patty Hearst and the SLA?
The dramatic kidnapping and deadly inferno are a crazy slice of the 1960s.
By Paul Krassner / AlterNet January 7, 2017
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Photo Credit: Patty Hearst— Photo by kai hecker / Shutterstock.com
I asked author Brad Schreiber, “Why is your new book about the kidnapping of Patty Hearst important now?”
He replied, “Revolution’s End pinpoints the moment in history, the shootout and fire by law enforcement in May 1974, broadcast live on TV, that led to police departments across the country asking the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to help them set up their own SWAT teams. In a post-Ferguson America, with the Standing Rock battle, we cannot overlook the importance of this beginning of police militarization.”
(Inside the pages, he points out that such militarization is due in major part to the Department of Defense’s 1033 Program, which has transferred more than $5 billion in Army military hardware to local law enforcement since 1997.)
He continued, “Also, the creation of the false front Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), which destroyed a legitimate leftist movement, unfairly, reminds us to look carefully at major events and at who is being blamed, such as 9/11 being falsely attributed to Iraq.”
A diligent researcher, Schreiber traces African-American Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze’s background from boyhood when his father attacked him with a baseball bat and a hammer—his father also broke his arm twice when he was ten and again when he was twelve—all the way to doing time in prison where he met Colston Westbrook.
Do We Owe Military-Style Police Swat Teams to the Wild Story of Patty Hearst and the SLA?
The dramatic kidnapping and deadly inferno are a crazy slice of the 1960s.
By Paul Krassner / AlterNet January 7, 2017
23 COMMENTS
Photo Credit: Patty Hearst— Photo by kai hecker / Shutterstock.com
I asked author Brad Schreiber, “Why is your new book about the kidnapping of Patty Hearst important now?”
He replied, “Revolution’s End pinpoints the moment in history, the shootout and fire by law enforcement in May 1974, broadcast live on TV, that led to police departments across the country asking the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to help them set up their own SWAT teams. In a post-Ferguson America, with the Standing Rock battle, we cannot overlook the importance of this beginning of police militarization.”
(Inside the pages, he points out that such militarization is due in major part to the Department of Defense’s 1033 Program, which has transferred more than $5 billion in Army military hardware to local law enforcement since 1997.)
He continued, “Also, the creation of the false front Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), which destroyed a legitimate leftist movement, unfairly, reminds us to look carefully at major events and at who is being blamed, such as 9/11 being falsely attributed to Iraq.”
A diligent researcher, Schreiber traces African-American Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze’s background from boyhood when his father attacked him with a baseball bat and a hammer—his father also broke his arm twice when he was ten and again when he was twelve—all the way to doing time in prison where he met Colston Westbrook.
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