Sympathy for Sarah Jane Olson

              If  Sept. 11 had not happened, poor old Sarah Jane Olson - now

    a typical middle class mom -beloved by her family - would probably  have

    been dismissed as a  60s relic. It is not clear to this reader the extent

    of her guilt for the SLA lunacy a long, long time ago.

               USA Today reader  Michael J. Gorman - one of New York's finest-

    brings a typical cop mentality to the case : forgive and forget nothing !

                Apart from the question of her crime, there is an overlooked

    error in political theory by the Sarah Jane of long ago : the belief that

    an elite few - independent of the majority - and of all things, in alliance

    with thugs and gangsters - could  constitute a revolutionary force in our

    flawed but real democracy.

                    People nowadays forget or want to forget everything great

    and good - and even extraordinary ! - about the feverish 60s.

                One sad lesson we learned : never trust upper class spoiled

    brats - in a slumming frenzy.

                  Revolution for the hell of it was not a good idea.

              Perhaps in a year or two Sarah Jane Olson might get more

    understanding.