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Old terrorists never die. They simply move on to academia. Just like her
buddy from the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers, convicted terrorist Kathy
Boudin is now enjoying the high life as a prestigious “professor” at the
Ivy League institution Columbia University as well as holding a plum spot at
New York University.
Sickening.
Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in
prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard
— now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University’s
School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel — being named the
Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave
a lecture on “the politics of parole and re-entry.”
Boudin’s bounce-back into respectability after her 2003 parole comes to
light a week before the release of Robert Redford’s movie “The Company
You Keep,” loosely based on the $1.6 million heist.
Boudin’s status of perp-turned-prof outraged the widow of one of her
victims, Brinks guard and dad of three Peter Paige, who was gunned down by
her accomplices from the Black Liberation Army on Oct. 20, 1981, in Rockland
County.
Boudin acted as a getaway driver in the heist.
“She doesn’t deserve a job at all,” said Josephine Paige, 74, when
told of Boudin’s posts. “She doesn’t deserve anything, nothing at all. I
think she should be back in an institution.”
John Hanchar, the nephew of another victim of the robbery, Nyack Police
Officer Edward O’Grady, said that while Boudin “has a right to do whatever
she wants . . . I just hope the people that she’s lecturing are smart
enough to question why [she felt] like killing people is an acceptable
choice to forward their goals.”
“It’s easy to forget that violence is never the answer. Nine children
grew up without their dads because of her actions,” said Hanchar, whose
uncle O’Grady was shot with automatic weapons.
Nine kids grew up without a father, but Boudin’s son grew up with Ayers
while his mother did a 22-year stretch.
The sons and daughters of those gunned down by Weather Underground
killers have lived in obscurity. Meanwhile, as I first reported more than a
decade ago, Chesa Boudin has lived a pampered life surrounded by tenured
academics and celebrity friends. His adoptive parents? The infamous pals of
Barack Obama, Weathermen organizers Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Refresher course: Dohrn declared war on “AmeriKKKa,” helped stage the
“Days of Rage” in Chicago, when Weathermen blew up a memorial statue to
police officers and rioted violently, leaving 75 policemen wounded and one
permanently injured in a wheelchair, and then spent years as a fugitive from
justice before settling into a comfy post as director of the Children and
Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
Ayers remains in the limelight after celebrating the Weathermen bombing
the Pentagon and flitting from campuses to socialist regimes and back
preaching education as the “motor force for revolution.”
Chesa Boudin attended Yale, won a prestigious Rhodes scholarship,
shilled for Hugo Chavez, wrote books and keeps a busy speaking schedule. He
still stands by the Weathermen’s revolutionary agenda: “My parents were
all dedicated to fighting U.S. imperialism around the world. I’m dedicated
to the same thing.”
A Columbia bio for Boudin casually mentions she was in prison, but doesn’t
explain the trail of bodies left behind.
In the 1960s, Dr. Boudin was active in civil rights, antiwar, and
international justice movements. She served 22 years in prison, beginning in
1981, and during that span she worked with other women creating national
model programs focusing on HIV/AIDS, parenting, and higher education in
prison. She was a family law educator in prison for more than 15 years and
is a co-author of The Foster Care Handbook for Incarcerated Parents: A
Manual Of Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities (1994). |
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