SLA Radical Sarah Jane Olson Is Back to Prison

They say it was a computing error. But this computing error has caused not only mental stress and agony for Sarah Jane Olson, but also cost her another year of her freedom. Now she will be freed only in March net year.
In 1970s Sarah Jane Olson was a member of SLA, a group of a bunch of misguided college kids.They were the rebels against the Fascist American State, so was every one in those days. A couple of stupid mistakes later, the group dissolved and Sarah Jane Olson went in to hiding after a failed bank robbery. It seems that she was discovered after some ( jealous?) neighbor might have tipped off cops, after a program was aired on America's Most Wanted.

SLA stands for Symbionese Liberation Army.World interest in SLA was ignited when they kidnapped media Heiress Patty Hearst. Hearst later disowned ( if I may use the word) her parents and declared to join SLA. Later when the group disbanded, she claimed that she was brainwashed.She was sentenced to seven years, but later pardoned after serving around two years of her sentence in prison.
Young people joined such groups to fight against injustice and oppression.Most of the times they were not aware of the true objectives and backgrounds of their revered leaders. Donald Defreeze, the leader of SLA was an escaped prisoner who had robbed a prostitute.
Now back to Sarah Jane Olson. Her lawyers thought that she would be given at the most, five years. But in her case, the prison board used a rarely used section of state law, and sentenced her for 11 years.
A 61 year old woman, who has lived most of her life peacefully, is being treated like
fascists and terrorists.

Hail Gandhigiri

OK, first of all I am not a baldy with a fixation with furer, so hailing is for something which is totally opposite to little hittly’s Nazism. The phenomenon I am talking about is called Gandhigiri and it has forced the US govt. to reverse a decision related to issuance of green cards.

For the uninitiated,Gandhigiri is a term coined in the Bollywood movie “Lage Raho Munna Bhai”. In the movie the hero (a thug and local goon) takes to non violence to impress her fiancee. The comedy movie underlines the importance and relevance of “principles” of Mahatma Gandhi( termed gandhigiri in the movie). The formula of opposing injustice through nonviolent means is slowly regaining popularity in India.

Another victory for the followers of gandhigiri came on tuesday,when US govt. reversed its decision to limit green cards to highly skilled workers. The disappointed Indian techies resorted to the noble protest and sent thousands of flowers to to US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ office ( As done in the movie by hero Sanjay Dutt) .

Interestingly the term gandhigiri is fashioned upon another term with an opposite meaning : Dadagiri ( which is a slang for loompanism).

I found an interesting link on gandhigiri.

ps:I wanted the link to this site’s forum section but it didn’t work so I had to upload the original site, which ironically has Home sex video as its latest post!!!!! Gandhi practised celibacy in later part of his life.

http://www.gandhigiri.org

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Its been ages when i was last here.It was a busy week.what with tour de france,wimbolden,guests coming and going and of course catching up with family.I am still recovering from the hang over of finding my place crowded with people and now totally lonely.