Talk:Patty Hearst

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Do you think that she was really brainwashed? If so, how do you think this was achieved?

I'm curious about the distinction this article makes between being "brainwashed" and Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm Syndrome says that if you keep people prisoner by threatening their lives, they sometimes come to identify with you. How is this different from "brainwashing," i.e., a coerced change of personality? Nareek 18:28, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pardons

Yes, Presidents can commute a sentence using their pardon power, that means they serve a lesser sentence but they are still considered 'guilty'. A full pardon means that the person is considered to have never committed the crime. --Gorgonzilla 22:38, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Quiz question - how many convicted felons in US History have had a conviction for a very serious offence such as bank robbery commuted by one President and then pardoned by another. Is Justice blind?! Ms Hearst got this treatment because of who she was. Anyone else would have got 15-20 in the pen with no commutation or pardon.

Holden 27

Quiz question #2 - the sentence at the original trial with Judge _____ Federal Court _____?

How can a Judge 'sentence' to a Presidential pardon?

You can't be commuted until some verdict is rendered.

Feb. 4, 1974 SLA kidnaps newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment. The group demanded that her parents, newspaper executive Randolph Hearst and Catherine Hearst, give $70 in food to every poor person in California.

April 1974 Hearst sends an audiotape to her parents saying she has decided to join the SLA and adopted the name "Tania." During a San Francisco bank robbery, captured on surveillance tape, Hearst wields a carbine.

Sept. 18, 1975 Police searching for Soliah in two separate San Francisco apartments find Patricia Hearst instead. Police raid one apartment expecting to find Soliah but found Hearst, Soliah's brother Steven, and three other SLA members. Hearst is arrested for her involvement in an SLA bank robbery and is eventually convicted and sentenced to a seven-year prison term.

1979 Then-President Jimmy Carter commutes Hearst's sentence.

January 2001 Then-President Bill Clinton pardons Hearst just before his term of office is about to expire.

http://www.courttv.com/trials/soliah/chronology.html

Anyway you slice it - Randolph Hearst spent a truckload of money to clear his daughter.

BTW - U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter Opposing Bailey was U.S. Attorney James L. Browning Jr.

"At Bailey's urging, Patty took the Fifth Amendment 42 times when asked about her activities in the year before her capture. That badly damaged her credibility."

"The most important piece of circumstantial evidence against Patty, Browning claimed, was her reaction when William and Emily Harris got into trouble at the sporting-goods store. Patty was waiting alone in a van outside. The defendant testified that she lived in terror of the Harrises, yet she fired off a fusillade of shots to cover their flight."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,918151-1,00.html

What did happen to those State charges?

ArmedCitizen 04:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of the bank robbery would be good here

I added to Wikipedia:Requested pictures a request for the surveillance camera photo of Patty Hearst robbing the bank. Hopefully it's available for us to use, and should be in this article and also be put over at Stockholm syndrome. Tempshill 23:05, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Roland

I can think of two alternate interpretations for the Warren Zevon lyric, both hinging on alternate meanings of 'bought it' and can't find any reference to what exactly was meant by Zevon, so perhaps these are worth considering.

1. "heard the burst" as meaning heard a message, perhaps the effectiveness of violence, and "bought it" as believed. Given the brainwashing/stockholm (an argument I don't wish to enter into) this seems plausible and somewhat relevant.

2. A description of Roland shooting her, ie heard the burst as he fires, and bought it meaning died. Not as plausible, and I can't really think of a reason Zevon would have a description of a fictional shooting of her in the song either, but it's *just* possible. (As opposed to 1, that I would call quite plausible.)

I don't know much about Hearst or Zevon, but it just struck me that perhaps the very literal interpretation might not be the right one for a song written by someone like him. Hatchetfish 07:09, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VANDALISM

Reverted some vandalism. What drives people to do this?BassBone (my talk · my contributions) 20:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Um. Stockholm Syndrome? --Michael K. Smith 23:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

POV question

Hearst has cultivated a surprising part-time career as an actress.
"Surprising"? Isn't that a rather slanted comment? It's certainly not objective. --Michael K. Smith 23:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

It currently says she was holding a full auto M1 Carbine. If it was automatic, wouldn't that make it an M2?

Heiress

Is she a millionaire? any details would improve the article.