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KEITH ELLISON AND KATHLEEN SOLIAH/SARAH JANE OLSON #2
By Michael B. Brodkorb | May 16, 2006
"Minneapolis lawyer Keith Ellison, an [Sarah Jane] Olson supporter, says the prosecution's strategy focused on guilt by association. "I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts," he said." Source: MPR, November 1, 2001
Below is a partial list of crimes committeed by the SLA and Kathleen Soliah/Sarah Jane Olson.
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On November 6, 1973, the SLA murdered Oakland, California superintendent of schools Dr. Marcus Foster and badly wounded his deputy Robert Blackburn as they left an Oakland school board meeting. The hollow point bullets used to kill Dr. Foster had been dipped in cyanide. Source: Wikipedia
On 4 February, 1974, publishing heiress Patricia Hearst, then a Berkeley college student, was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the SLA. The SLA had chosen to kidnap Hearst to increase the news coverage of the incident. Source: Wikipedia
On 21 April 1975, the remaining members of the SLA robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California and killed Myrna Opsahl, a bank customer, in the process. Source: Wikipedia In November 2002, Olson pleaded guilty to murdering Myrna Opsahl in 1975.
On 21 August 1975, Kathleen Soliah failed in her attempt to kill officers of the LAPD when the bombs she placed under a police car did not detonate. Soliah remained a fugitive, first in Zimbabwe, and then in Minnesota under the alias Sarah Jane Olson; she was married to a doctor and had several children. Source: Wikipedia
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Always remember that Keith Ellison, the DFL endorsed candidate for Congress in the 5th CD, supported Kathleen Soliah/Sarah Jane Olson.
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11 Responses to “KEITH ELLISON AND KATHLEEN SOLIAH/SARAH JANE OLSON #2”
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May 16th, 2006 at 11:31 am
The first few events on your list are indeed dastardly, but they also occured BEFORE Soliah had anything to do with the SLA Source: Wikipedia
Anyone else find it ironic that Mike points out Keith’s guilt by association statement, and then trys to make Soliah guilty by association?
It’s quality reporting like this that makes this site so funny to those of us with brains. Shawn Towle may not be able to spell, but his stuff is at least valuable. This site is becoming just plain silly.
May 16th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
“The first few events on your list are indeed dastardly, but they also occured BEFORE Soliah had anything to do with the SLA”
If you are defending Soliah, you have it backwards. You could maybe defend here if the events happened AFTER she left the group. But she joined the domestic terrorist group after they did these things, and she never left, just went into hiding amongst the other liberals of St Paul.
May 16th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
So now everyone anyone has ever associated with is fair game?
That’s an interesting prescedent to create. I say create, since it did not exist when Tim Pawlenty attempted to defend his role in the telephone company scam by saying he was only on the board, and didn’t know that they were ripping off Minnesotans.
And what about when Steve Sviggum presided over ethanol debates, using the claim it was not a conflict of interest for him to enrich his brothers with the legislation, despite the fact that he co-owns the farm with them.
If you want to walk down this path, there are hundreds of examples of people on both sides of the aisle associating with people whose interests were less than pure. I think I recall a story about people who live in glass houses…
May 16th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I also recall the old saying, “Birds of a feather flock together.” So there.
Keep Digging, you should follow your own advice and stop digging the hole you keep sinking into further and further. The fact of the matter is most of us believe the Nation of Islam and the SLA are radical organizations who possess odious views. The fact that Ellison has been associated with both is very telling and very troubling.
May 16th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I agree that guilt by association is generally a tool to use when you have little else to go on.
But don’t compare a phone companys sales tactics to murderers. That’s a little bit of a stretch.
Either way, I used to work for a company that had lying sales people. I doubt if anyone on the board had any knowledge of it.
May 16th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
I’m a Democrat who hates Ellison, Pawlenty, and Sviggum.
Stop pigeonholing people….one can belong to one party and not be a member of its radical fringe. 90% of the world’s problems right now are due to the extremists in all societies.
Viva la Middle!
May 16th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I had a dream last night that I was Jack Bauer from the show “24″. In my dream, the SLA had attempted to bomb some police cars in Los Angeles and later they robbed a bank and ended up kidnapping some people. We figured out the location of the SLA’s hideout and we planned a rescue mission. For some reason (and I’m not really sure exactly why, as this was a dream after all), I needed to brief a bunch of Congressional leaders to get approval for the rescue mission before we could go in. All the congressmen I briefed (both Democrats and Republicans) understood the threat and fully approved of us going in to apprehend the domestic terrorists and bring them to justice. . . . . .except Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) who strenuously objected to our planned rescue attempt, as he considered the SLA to be a “political association” and said the government should not pursue the SLA because of their “political views”.
And then I woke up. Thank god it was only a dream.
May 17th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
In my dream last night, Keith Ellison was the leader of the world, a hot fudge volcano erupted in my back yard, and a bus full of nude supermodels were back there playing in the fudge. Then, a monkey riding a unicycle and smoking a cigar rode up and started talking in perfect english about how he wishes he could scrape together three more dollars to buy a trampoline. Then a helicopter crashed into my neighbor’s house, but instead of burning, it instantly turned into a disco.
I mean seriously, do you ever think about what you write, and if it contains any value, or do you just get the jones to say really awkward things, and then type and hit the submit comment button before logic and reason causes you to think about how worthless it is?
I have read a lot of things on the internet. It takes a lot to be the most worthless thing in my book. But congratulations. You are the new champ!
May 17th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Keep Digging,
You’re absolutely right. Enough with the fun speculation about how Ellison’s views on domestic terrorists might play out if he were a character in a TV show.
We should focus back like a laser beam on the questions that REALLY need answering. Enough with the other distractions. Let’s go back to Ellison’s other documented writings which are MUCH more politically untenable than his obviously uninformed views about the nature of the SLA.
1. Ellison advocating the partition of the United States and creation of a separate “black state” (see page 7, writing as “Keith Hakim”):
http://128.101.178.16/archive/download.php?archives/1990/02021990.tif
2. An opinion piece by Ellison in which he defended Louis Farrakhan from criticism, revealed strong and extensive knowledge about the dogma and history of the Nation of Islam (a listed “hate group”), and which the Minnesota Daily’s editor deemed “a genuine threat to the long-term safety and well-being of the Jewish people” (see page 7, writing as “Keith Hakim”):
http://128.101.178.16/archive/download.php?archives/1989/11271989.tif
Oops. Looks like all these writings still exist online, unlike that Cynthia McKinney quote that was scrubbed from Ellison’s website.
BTW, you must be an unpaid intern, because I can’t imagine that any DFL party donors would approve of compensating you for the puerile crap that you’ve written.
And dude, it took you all day to respond to this, and all you could come up with was “fudge volcano”? That’s actually kind of creepy.
May 17th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
I wish I could debate this issue by pointing out the failings of your candidate, but, well, all I know of him is that he was endorsed by the independence party two years ago because he was afraid of running against a guy whose last bid for office saw him lose to a wrestler.
While I am certain that you have never said anything that you regretted later, or held any beliefs that changed over time, some of us function that way. It isn’t flip-flopping. It is gaining knowledge and perspective. For some reason, Republicans have made such quests a negative thing. Anyone who changes their mind is obviously a flip flopper, and not just someone who is capable to learn. But, I guess when you got a guy like George Bush at the top of the ticket, you have to play to his strengths, and not learning appears to be one of the few areas where he really shines.
September 14th, 2006 at 5:28 pm
So now everyone anyone has ever associated with is fair game?
That’s an interesting prescedent to create. I say create, since it did not exist when Tim Pawlenty attempted to defend his role in the telephone company scam by saying he was only on the board, and didn’t know that they were ripping off Minnesotans.
And what about when Steve Sviggum presided over ethanol debates, using the claim it was not a conflict of interest for him to enrich his brothers with the legislation, despite the fact that he co-owns the farm with them.
If you want to walk down this path, there are hundreds of examples of people on both sides of the aisle associating with people whose interests were less than pure. I think I recall a story about people who live in glass houses…
(As posted by keep digging)
First off, Keep digging, Kathleen Soliah, aka the liar formerly known as Sara Jane Olson, actively participated in plots to murder LAPD officers and was involved in the murder of Myrna Opsal, a wife of a doctor in Sacramento. I do not see how your logic (which is a word that obviously is in abstenia in the lexicon of the American Left) of equating her actions with the interests of Gov. Pawlenty with a telecom & Rep. Sviggum’s with an ethanol producing farm is relevant? Please “enlighten” me oh lefist guru!
On that note, Ellison’s support of a known (and thankfully now incarcerated) terrorist should make one quake in their shoes. The same could be said for Andy Dawkins since he was banging the drum for her acquittal. So if you live a lie for 20+ years and support the causes of the American left, then all is forgiven. Kind of sounds like a scene I saw in the movie “The Killing Fields” when the leftist thugs under the auspices of Pol Pot gave the former doctor a hug telling him “Angkar” will forgive you.
Thank God I left Minneapolis when I did! (I now live in a city in Orange County CA) Minneapolis was once a decent city but with the shape that it is in now, I dreaded taking my own 4 year old daughter to the downtown area. In short, the city has become a cesspool of sleaze and crime with the City Council and the current state reps like Phyllis Kahn sticking their heads in the sand over the shape of the city. Good luck with Ellison representing the 5th! I’m sure you’ll blame the Republicans for your city’s problems.