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 | | Thus, when the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patrician Hearst in 1974, many people opined that since the SLA members were supporting a worthy cause ("helping the poor"), they should not have been held accountable to their crimes of murder, bank robbery, and kidnapping. |
 | | At worst, many argued, the punishment handed out to those in the SLA and like organizations should have been less severe than retribution given to common criminals who commit their transgressions out of simple greed or anger. |
 | | Indeed, the recent arrest of Kathleen Soliah, an SLA member who had escaped justice for 25 years, has triggered a new wave of protest, as her supporters hold that she has a "passion for justice" (read that, a left-wing view of the world) and is above prosecution. |
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