Former governor. Andrew Cuomo not only abandoned his dog on his last day in office, but also gave New York a last thumbs up by opening the prison doors of one of Brink’s killers, with bloody hands.
Have I ever heard of the Brink killers? This is understandable; it happened a long time ago (October 21, 1981, to be exact) and, moreover, the killers themselves are much better known among leftists as the boys and girls who only started a “theft” of armored vehicles suburbs of New York.
But that euphemism doesn’t begin to do justice to the event: two separate acts of premeditated killing that cut off a Brink guard and two police officers, executed by heavily armed thugs looking for a big payday and their radicalized accomplices, it looks more like him.
There were a lot of things going on at the time: spoiled students talking about radical rhetoric and associating with common criminals for fun and profit – and it would almost have been comical if the consequences hadn’t been so extensive and so deadly.
Names like Brink’s escape drivers Kathy Boudin and Judith Clark, and Weather Underground bombers Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn, along with Susan Saxe, Katherine Ann Power and JoAnne Chesimard, resonate. Not all of them were murderers, even if only by circumstances, but they devoted themselves to the violent destruction of their country and their way of life.
In other words, the murder came naturally. Although, even though they wished to commit the crime, the real armed insurrection, honest to God, none of them have been happy doing so. And the lamentations on his behalf have been incessant but productive.
The recipient of Cuomo’s separation gift is David Gilbert, late in Weather Underground and serving a 75-year life sentence for three second-degree homicide offenses and four first-degree burglary offenses at the same time. Without government interference, he would not have been eligible for release until 2056, which seems very right: the gang’s three victims, after all, are serving 1981-to-eternity terms.
As it is, Gilbert will soon go before a parole board and get to know Brink, Clark and Boudin’s escape drivers again. The latter is the mother of Gilbert’s son Chesa Boudin, 41, a San Francisco district attorney backed by George Soros, who refuses to prosecute “poverty crimes” such as assault, shoplifting and robbery. low quality.
Kathy Boudin herself, a well-connected Baby Diaper Red, managed to negotiate her way out of Brink’s strong phrase; she was released on parole in 2003 after 20 years. Clark, who also managed to shoot himself during Brink’s escape, was 75 years old on three counts of murder, but was released after Cuomo commuted his sentences in 2016.
Cuomo’s fascination with the case (he would think it should be enough to get a triple killer out of prison) would be a mystery if the former governor’s reception was not known in the face of progressive pressure and accompanying campaign donations. .
In the case of Brink’s convicts, that pressure was as relentless as it was naive; the essential argument was that Boudin, Clark, and Gilbert were good people caught up in bad company who realized their mistakes and had devoted themselves to rehabilitation and remorse.
And while this approach may resonate with regard to garden variety offenders, only for cash, it is nonsense when applied to well-educated radicals who want to destroy their own rule of law. Countries less engaged in due process would have reinforced them against a wall and ended it in 48 hours; all three should be grateful for every breath they take.
But thanking is not for the radicals.
In the case, Boudin became a professor at Columbia University (unsurprisingly) after his release; Clark hired a nonprofit company, and while Gilbert faces procedural hurdles, he will soon be free to touch base with Chesa, perhaps to advise him on the best way to continue San Francisco’s destabilization.
For, while it is absurd to equate a premeditated bloody assassination with Chesa Boudin’s approach to law enforcement, it is fair to point out that while David Gilbert sought revolution through the commission of crimes, his son pursues change by inciting them. Sunrise, sunset, so to speak.
And Cuomo gave both approaches a big moral boost Monday: no surprises, of course, but shame for him.