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From: farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re:  Who is Emily Harris?
Message-ID: <342@well.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 13:42:43 EST
Article-I.D.: well.342
Posted: Thu Dec 12 13:42:43 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Dec-85 23:15:54 EST
References: <340@weitek.UUCP>
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: California history

In article <340@weitek.UUCP>, mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) writes:
> Lots of people are wondering "Who is Emily Harris?".  She is a northern
> California folk hero from the Seventies.  Back then, a band of outlaws
> made war against Pacific Telephone, Pacific Gas & Electric, Bank of America,
> and other giant corporations.  They extorted over a million dollars from
> the rich and gave it all to the poor.  Eventually, most of them died in
> Los Angeles when the police trapped them in a house and set it on fire.
>
> Surviving members of the group are Russell Little and Joseph Remiro (both
> still in jail), Bill Harris (Emily's ex-husband), Wendy Yoshimura, and
> of course Patty Hearst.
>
     He refers, of course, to the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army).  I find
it extremely difficult to think of any of these people as "folk heros", as it
was apparent at the time that the only folk they were interested in were
themselves.  Any group that can find no means of expressing their politics
other than murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and extortion deserves contempt,
not adulation.

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