Boudin is no ordinary American radical lawyer who picked up Cultural Marxism from his leftist college professors.
Older Americans might remember when terrorists set off scores of bombs in America’s cities five decades ago. The majority of the perpetrators were home grown, usually members of the Weathermen—later renamed the Weather Underground to be less sexist.
Although the terrorist attacks tapered off in the 1980s, in 1981 Weather Underground leader Kathy Boudin participated in the robbery of a Brink’s armored car in Nanuet, New York, that killed two police officers and a security guard. She was convicted, but paroled in 2003.
Then she became a professor at Columbia University. It’s impossible that a neo-Nazi convicted murderer would become a professor at a university. Yet she did because she was a leftist, not a rightist. Wonder no more why our universities turn out radical leftist, anti-American graduates.
Dohrn was independently sent to prison for seven months, but only for refusing to testify against a fellow terrorist. She became a professor at the Northwestern University School of Law.
Compare the treatment of these leftist terrorists to the Jan. 6 protesters at the U.S. Capitol. Most at worst should have been charges with misdemeanor trespassing and let out on bail.
This is the same radicalism advanced by Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City, soon leaving office, and Los Angeles County D.A. George Gascon, who also faces a recall.
Of course, much of the mayhem has resulted from the disturbances after George Floyd died in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 while in the hands of police. Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder on April 21, 2021.
But the solution to the problem of police misconduct is not to turn criminals loose or “defund the police.” The victims in San Francisco and other cities are overwhelmingly the poor, especially minorities.
The solution comes from New York City, where former police officer Eric Adams is running to replace the discredited de Blasio. Adams currently is the president of Brooklyn Borough. In the 1990s, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor and cut crime, Adams worked with the city’s new computerized crime-fighting system. But he also fought bad police behavior as a founder of the reform group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.
He added: “When you start defunding, hey, the cop is no longer on your corner. That cop is no longer in your lobby. That cop is not standing outside when you leave your Broadway play. And I have never been to an event where the people were saying we want less cops. Never.”
A Democrat, his election against the token Republican opposition is in November. By the end of this year, we should have some indication of which direction American cities are going: Boudin’s turn-the-criminals-loose approach—or Adams’ reforms that strengthen both police responsibility and protection.