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Less than 30 minutes ago, we arrested Patty Hearst.
56 days in the closet turned her into an urban gorilla.
During the trial for the Hibernia bank robbery, the one thing that we had to do
was prepare her for testimony.
She wanted to name the people who had abused her.
I would not have put Patty on the stand.
Well, holy caroly, he's opened the door. It's always damaging when you take the
Fifth Amendment.
And it killed us.
The granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst was abducted by two men and a
in a bizarre kidnapping.
No ransom note, no phone calls, no word, nothing.
The SLA is the people's army and we fight in their interest.
The FBI said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was Patricia Hearst.
Rich college girl turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks.
Southern California's largest manhunt continues.
For someone my age, I've been through an awful lot.
We don't know where she is.
Mom, Dad, I'm okay.
Whatever private thoughts the jurors may have had as they went to court on this
last day of the trial, they were required to keep to themselves till they
a verdict.
The jury deliberated about a day's worth, and when the phone rang and it
Gene DeLoach, the judge's law clerk, we knew we had a verdict, and we were
shocked.
So we went upstairs and still thought it was a coin toss.
When the jurors began to deliberate, I told Patricia Campbell Hurst that it was
my opinion, based upon all that had transpired in the previous eight weeks,
she would be acquitted. When a juror comes back, and they will not look at
defendant, but look at the floor instead, you don't need to wait to hear
verdict read.
Just after the verdict was announced, Patricia Hurst turned to her lawyer and
whispered, did I ever really have a chance?
Everything went pretty much the way the SLA said it would go.
I was arrested.
I was brought to trial, convicted.
Seems like everything the SLA told me would happen has happened.
Patricia Hearst watched an old jungle movie on her TV set near her cell in the
San Mateo County Jail today as her lawyers announced they will appeal
yesterday's guilty verdict in her bank robbery trial.
No one ever convicts a defendant that they like. I think her story about the
kidnapping and what she went through evoked sympathy from everybody.
I think they very much dislike some of the things that they learned about her
later on, some of her conduct.
just decided that she'd turn bad. That's the only way I can reason out a verdict
of guilty for the Hibernian Bank.
I must say, without equivocation, the worst case I have ever taken on in my
was the United States against Patty Hearst.
She was more unpopular than the Boston Strangler.
I think the importance of the Hearst verdict was... That people realize that
money can't buy you out of going to jail.
You know, they don't have any more rights than the average person. I'm glad
justice was done.
There was certainly a major school of thought in the mid -70s that no Hearst,
one that wealthy, no one from such a powerful family would ever be convicted
something so lowly as a bank robbery.
And the conviction surprised a lot of people.
She may be found guilty now, but later on it will be thrown out of court.
Why do you say so?
Money talks.
It was not exactly a note of sympathy that went out to Miss Hearst from
and Emily Harris, her companions during much of the escapade.
They said Miss Hearst chose during a trial to go the route of power, as they
it, slandered her dead lover, wronged her associates, and vilified the
organization that she voluntarily joined.
The Harris's are awaiting trial on a variety of felony counts, and in a
statement they said the guilty verdict restored their respect in the jury
system. People wanted Patty to do jail time, and the first time they seemed
happy was when the judge gave her a seven -year sentence.
The judges in the federal court very, very rarely release anyone on bail.
subsequent to a finding of guilty.
Judge Orrick, he allowed her to be released on bail during appeal,
that bail being very unusual.
He said she'll be bailed on $1 million bail, the highest bail I had ever seen.
This was just a statement concerning her wealth and power.
Let's set the record straight, then. How do you feel about your family?
Oh, I love them.
They've been so fantastic.
And this will be the first Christmas in, oh,
well, since 74, no, 73,
that we've been together.
When Judge Orrick ordered that she would be released on bail, he also ordered...
A very strange thing.
A condition of her bail would be that she be protected at her family's own
from others who would want to harm her by a cadre of
police officers who would be hired by her and her father.
Never had I heard of that before.
That's a new one.
I spoke to the chief and asked him who he would recommend in his department.
He told me that Bernie Shaw had been an exemplary member of the department.
He was a family man.
He was married and had a lovely family, and that's why I chose him, to guard her
24 -7.
Not surprised that Patricia Hearst ended up in an affair with
Bernard Shaw.
From the moment that we kidnapped her,
She was in some type of a relationship with somebody, originally with Willie,
one of her captors.
And then she was in a relationship with Steven Soria.
And then as soon as she got bailed out, she developed an affinity for one of her
bodyguards, a police officer.
Her future is still clouded, an appeal pending on her San Francisco conviction,
another trial scheduled in Los Angeles in March.
Indeed, when Patty was released on bail, She still stood charged in Los Angeles
regarding her activities at Mel's Sporting Goods store.
That charge remained over her head, if you will, during the entire trial for
robbing the Hibernia bank.
She had a machine gun and she fired it in the direction of a group of people.
Witnesses saw her. So that case is a nightmare.
It couldn't be one.
Almost three years ago, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army fled from the
robbery of a Los Angeles sporting goods store. Their escape was covered by a
machine gun firing girl.
Today, Patricia Hearst pleaded no contest to charges of robbery and
connection with that shooting.
The sentence could have been as much as 15 years to life.
The L .A. case was the worst case for her.
There was tons of evidence against her in L .A.
It was probably at least a year between our case in L .A. and her case.
When we were arrested, we only remained in the San Mateo County Jail for three
days and we were transported to L .A. to go to trial in the Mel's case.
After deliberating for nine days, a Los Angeles jury found William and Emily
Harris guilty today of kidnapping and robbery and the holdup of a sporting
store. We were convicted to a six -year term.
As soon as we were convicted, we could tell that there was pressure from the
hearse. They removed the judge.
He had sat through the whole trial. He was very familiar with the evidence.
He knew that not only was she probably guilty of everything that we were found
guilty of, but that she would probably eat all the ADWs, the assaults with a
deadly weapon, because she's the only one who fired a weapon the whole time.
She got a five -year probation out of that when we were doing six years in the
pen.
Privilege began to come through. Her class privilege that she was rejecting
she was with us. But all of a sudden, her class privilege was what was going
protect her.
As soon as we were convicted in Los Angeles, They needed somebody to claim
responsibility for her kidnapping.
Well, six of the people that kidnapped her were dead.
There were only two people left alive, and that was Emily and myself.
They offered us an opportunity to plead to the sheet, which would be to plead to
a life without the possibility of parole, which we thought was hilarious,
know. When we refused the offer, within a month, the offer came down to, what
would you take? How much time do you really want?
We could surmise that there was probably pressure from the hearse not to
prosecute as it would draw her into it as a witness.
She had no way to withstand a cross -examination by her comrades who were
her the whole time.
I had been with her for nearly two years. I knew everything that she had
Eventually, we agreed to the 10 -year, 8 -month sentence, a sentence that
allowed us to count the time we'd already done.
We'd already been in custody over three years.
We actually benefited from the Hearst efforts to help her
stay out of any further litigation.
Privilege does a lot, man.
Once we worked out a plea bargain for the kidnapping case, we had one more
of which we could be prosecuted, and that's the Carmichael bank robbery.
During her trial for robbing the Hibernia Bank, Charles Bates, who was
in charge of the FBI at that time, indicated that the FBI would be willing
recommend immunity from prosecution for Patricia Hearst, not for the Hibernia
Bank robbery, but for other circumstances, if she would make herself
for questioning by the FBI under use of immunity.
Most important, the FBI now has Ms. Hurst's own description of the SLA
of a bank near Sacramento last year in which a woman bystander was killed.
Ms. Hurst named a half dozen members of the robbery team, including sources say
her old SLA companions, William and Emily Harris.
We had been accused in the newspaper of involvement in the Carmichael Bank
robbery as early as September 21st, 1975.
Subsequently... Very soon, they charged Steve Solia with the bank robbery
in Federal District Court in Sacramento.
There were witnesses to the robbery who claimed that they saw him in the bank
and put him among the robbers. When she ends up debriefing, she tells the FBI
the real story of what happened and reveals to them that Stephen was not in
bank. The prosecutors, they wanted to stick with their eyewitness
identification.
principally because they knew she was a horrible fucking witness, even if she
was telling the truth.
Stephen was acquitted.
The federal government used that essentially as a test run as to whether
they could prove the murder.
That trial was a debacle. It went horribly.
And that gave the Sacramento DA either the out or caused them to evaluate it
believe they couldn't prosecute it.
All the physical evidence was 100 % consistent with everything that she told
them, but they weren't sure whether they could rely on her.
Patty chose to disclose the truth about the Carmichael bank robbery, but they
didn't want it. Our purpose was served anyway, simply because our assignment
from day one was to somehow contain or neutralize the murder charge
out of Carmichael.
Our only way to do that was to go the immunity route.
So now Patricia Hearst has come full circle from kidnapped victim to urban
guerrilla to state's witness.
Mr. Bailey and I were both involved at that time with her appeal for the
Hibernia bank robbery.
First to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the United States
Supreme Court.
After the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal.
Patty Hurst surrendered at the federal prison at Pleasanton, California, to
finish her sentence.
After that time, I was advised by George Martinez to turn over the document
which we had acquired to him as new counsel.
Martinez got us fired after we brought him into the case at her request.
I mean, we found him through a list of divorce lawyers.
So her boyfriend, who had kids and a wife, could get divorced and marry her.
Al Johnson, far more than F. Lee Bailey, devoted his life to Patricia Hearst.
He's a Boston lawyer who spent years in San Francisco away from his family.
And as soon as she hooks up with Bernie Shaw, she cuts Al Johnson dead
and they never speak again.
I was upset by it, obviously.
I had worked as hard as I have ever worked on any case in my life, and I
believed in her and in her defense.
She was on the hook for a very grisly first -degree murder, and we
got her out of that.
Had that been understood at the time, the Hearst case would have been labeled
a major victory.
And Randy and Catherine Hurst understood, and they were very grateful
If Patty ever said thank you, I don't recall it.
Patricia Hurst is asking for a new trial, charging her trial attorney, F.
Bailey, with an ineffective defense.
Patricia Hurst went back to prison in May, but attempts to free her before
eligible for parole are building up.
The latest effort centers on her lawyer's conduct of her defense.
All counsel, including Mr. Bailey, at all times acted very professionally
the trial.
At no time did I observe anything whatsoever which would indicate any lack
effectiveness or lack of attention to duty. She files a motion saying her
lawyers gave her ineffective assistance of counsel.
That was rejected.
Look, they were in a position to have to alter...
public opinion on her post -conviction.
Patty Hearst waged a press offensive to change public opinion to get
Jimmy Carter to commute her sentence.
She doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didn't know all the facts
of the case.
They focused on the victim part exclusively.
Since she's been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as
an urban guerrilla, the narrative has been altered dramatically.
So it's not that hard to pull off.
When you have a media empire that's back in your play, that's a big deal.
Her family recruits Democrats, Republicans.
Ronald Reagan also endorses this effort.
You can't blame Patty Hearst for that. You can't blame her family.
Any family would have tried to do it. It's just that most families wouldn't
had the money, the connections, the influence to do what her family could
Patty Hearst had her story and access to the press, and
she used it like a master.
The committee conducts an extensive mail campaign. Patty Hearst's family
organized this tremendous effort to commute her sentence.
But they were helped by something that came completely out of the blue.
Never shall forget what he's done for me.
Jonestown was a cult led by a man named Reverend Jim Jones, and he was a very
charismatic, manipulative person. He was essentially a con artist.
He moved his people to a compound in Guyana. Their passports were taken away.
A congressman came to check out what was going on there because these were U .S.
citizens. As the congressman was leaving, they went and shot Congressman
Ryan and a TV cameraman and a few other people.
And Jones then told his people that this was the end.
We didn't commit suicide. We committed an act of revolutionary suicide,
protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.
It was not really a suicide. It was a mass murder, as far as I'm concerned.
when this hit the news and people saw that over 900 people lost their lives
because they followed this charlatan preacher, that, to some degree, changed
public opinion about why people do the things they do when they're in these
cultic situations.
The whole country started talking about the question of how can a charismatic
person persuade people to act so much against their own self -interest,
in this case, kill themselves.
That question redounded very much to Patty Hearst's benefit because that was
her argument, that the charismatic leaders of the SLA persuaded her to
bank robber. And in that environment, Jimmy Carter was weighing the decision
about whether to commute her sentence.
Well, this is quite a difference from last time, and thank you all.
And I'm really happy to be going home.
There it is.
The commutation.
Thank you all so much.
Bye -bye.
Yeah, I am. Bye -bye. Oh, I won't count.
I look at her and just marvel to see the sparkle in her eyes and realize that
she came through it with a sparkle still there.
How does it change you?
So please kill me.
Although both of Ms. Hurst's parents were there for today's homecoming, the
ordeal has put a severe strain on the family.
Randolph Hurst and his wife have been legally separated since last year.
During an interview with a small group of reporters, Ms. Hurst said her
kidnapping and imprisonment had cost her five years of her life, but said she
has also benefited from it. I think that I've gotten a lot stronger, a lot more
self -confident.
I take a lot of things in stride that make other people fall apart.
For someone my age, I've been through an awful lot.
Patricia Hearst was never a pathetic, crying, whiny, small
victim. She adapted rapidly in ways that were surprising.
We thought that she was the exception to any rule.
Did she brainwash us? Did she convince us that she was something that she
wasn't?
I didn't wear a bulletproof vest, but I dressed for the occasion.
I'm just really happy.
Patricia Hearst is off on a vacation, she won't say where, to try to get away
from the last five years and from what the name Patty Hearst has become.
Patricia Hearst just published her autobiography titled Every Secret Thing,
in it, she made some surprising admissions.
She now reveals in her book that she also participated in two other bank
robberies. In one, the Crocker Bank in suburban Sacramento, a woman was killed.
It was a casual way that they did it, too, and talked about it. It was, oh,
well, she was a pig. After all, her husband was a doctor.
So what?
Toughest part in Every Secret Thing was when Hearst quoted
Emily Harris of saying she was a bourgeois pig. Her life doesn't
matter. It was so cold. It didn't matter what they did to anybody. They were
always right. Always.
Publishing that book was one of the dumbest things I have ever seen in my
Because youth immunity does not cover writing books to make money about how
committed a capital crime.
And being the getaway driver in a bank where murder occurs makes the driver
liable for murder in the first degree.
Patty, you've never been tried for that. No, no.
President Carter commutes her on the bank robbery charge.
He doesn't commute her on any other case.
She's still got this murder case hanging over her head.
Trisha Hearst had written her book, and so most of the details were out there to
kind of lead them where to find the evidence.
But the years kept going by and by, and still nothing had happened.
It took a long time before I felt like I was the victim. You know, I have a life
now and children, and I just want to move ahead.
She seemed to have gotten almost a celebrity status over this.
Terrible thing.
14 years ago, Patty Hearst was the victim of the most bizarre kidnapping
in American history. The film Patty Hearst from Atlantic Entertainment will
released nationwide in September.
Take your clothes off, Patty.
Have you seen it? I have seen it. It's really good.
It's Natasha Richardson.
She's Vanessa Redgrave's daughter, and she's fabulous.
She went on with her life. It's almost like it never happened.
She's reclaimed her status as a ruling class matron.
Her life has not been destroyed by this experience.
If anything, it's been enhanced.
She's been in John Waters' movies.
Hi, kids.
Remember, always look both ways before crossing. Mother!
It's really impressive that she built a good life for herself.
I think the general concept today in America is that you were innocent. You
a bum rap. Most Americans, I think, believe that. The body of information
was created to support her became the narrative.
Well, I just think it's not true that I could have left at any point. I couldn't
do anything at any point anymore.
Whenever she did interviews, she was haughty, she was arrogant, she was
dismissive. Totally different person.
No other people were prosecuted for that bank robbery except me. None of my
kidnappers were charged or prosecuted.
What about the other people in the bank robbery?
No, the rest were dead, and the two that were left alive were not charged.
Why weren't they charged, you know?
Their name wasn't Hurst? I don't know.
They had no evidence that we were involved in that bank robbery at Ibernia
because we were not in the bank. They charged Patricia with that because she
front and center and prominent in the video.
She came from one of the most famous journalistic families in the world. And
understood the power of controlling the narrative.
She persuaded the public, by and large, that this was a story about...
One young woman who was kidnapped and forced to commit one bank robbery.
And that's what most people remember about this case.
She eliminated Mel's Sporting Goods, the bombing she participated in, the death
of Myrna Opsal, which she was morally responsible for.
After so many years, it was always Patricia Hearst that got the limelight
this fascination with this celebrity, semi -celebrity.
I think everyone just kind of dropped all hopes of ever holding the SLA
accountable for my mom's murder.
But then, there was a glimmer of hope.
In 1999, I was transferred into the major crimes division in Los Angeles.
I think the first week or two that I was there, I was handed a very thin file,
maybe a quarter of an inch thick.
I was asked to hold on to it. I was told the FBI was looking for this particular
person. Kathy Soley had been a fugitive since 1975, I believe.
This was 1999, so it was 24 years had gone by.
She was charged essentially with planting two bombs with intent to
at the IHOP in Hollywood and the other at the Hollenbeck police
station.
The evidence that tied these bombs to Kathy Solia and to the FLA in general
both overwhelming.
We knew that Kathy Solia was living at 288 Presida Avenue in San Francisco with
Bill and Emily Harris.
She had signed the lease to the apartment.
Her fingerprints were all over the place and particularly in the closet.
Every component of the bomb had a matching component in that closet.
And most importantly, we had an eyewitness.
The person that sold her the pipe remembered her. I mean, you had a young,
-headed girl coming in to buy two pieces of three -inch pipe with taps at the
ends of them. It caught his attention.
If she was ever caught, I'd be responsible for the case.
Quite frankly, I didn't put a lot of effort into it because I had a bunch of
other murder cases on my plate, and she hadn't been found in 24 years.
It was as cold as a case can be.
At 8 .21 this morning, members of the Minnesota Fugitive Task Force arrested
Sarah Jane Olson, whom we believe to be longtime Symbionese Liberation Army
fugitive Kathleen Ann Salia.
In 1999, Sarah Jane Olson was arrested.
Sarah Jane Olsen is the name taken by Kathleen Solia.
She was in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and she was raising her kids, acting in a
community theater, evidently feeling relatively secure that she'd be safe.
Police say a segment about her on the TV program America's Most Wanted is the
breakthrough, generating tips about where she lives. And tonight, after
double life for nearly 25 years, she was quietly arrested in St. Paul.
She was not.
the same person by appearance that she was back when she did these horrible
things.
Part of the problem of the case was we were going to have a whole set of jurors
that didn't know who the SLA was. They would have never heard of them, and so
that led us to looking at some of the other crimes they did.
What did you find when you looked at the Carmichael crime?
We were overwhelmed.
We just couldn't believe that nobody had been prosecuted for the murder, murder
of Opsal.
John was outraged, so he made it his own mission to do what he could to try to
get justice for his mom.
I'm very happy that my mother's murder is getting the attention that it
deserves, and I trust that justice will be served.
I knew that when she was arrested, all this shit was going to hit the fan, and
that we would be exposed again to prosecution in the Carmichael case.
I believe that there is now both direct and circumstantial evidence sufficient
to file charges and begin criminal proceedings for the murder of Myrna
January 16, 2002, I was arrested and charged with the murder of Myrna Opsal.
And it was way worse for me at that time because I had a family.
I was really angry.
I'd already really done the time.
I got out of prison the first time on April 26, 1983.
And from that time on, I'd lived an exemplary life.
I became a well -respected investigator for lawyers.
Emily and I got divorced in maybe 86 or 87, and we did that
because she was in a long -term relationship with a woman that she
So I got remarried.
I had two older sons.
I was not trying to hide out. I hadn't changed my name.
It was a fucking nightmare that we had to revisit.
So when the Sacramento DA did finally file charges against all five of the SLA
members that were eligible for being indicted, we were happy that finally
people were going to be held accountable.
We soon found out that...
Patricia Hearst would probably end up being a star witness in the case.
And I remember being asked, well, why wasn't she indicted with the rest of
There were four people in the bank. There were two getaway drivers, Bill
and Patricia Hearst.
Patty did not go into.
the Crocker Bank, the way she went into the Hibernia Bank.
But she was a participant. She drove what was known as the switch car.
There's no excuse for not prosecuting us until 28 years later.
They had a treasure trove of evidence, most of it provided by Patricia Hearst,
and the only explanation that I can imagine, and I have no evidence of this
because there is none, there had to have been pressure from the Hearsts to keep
that from being brought.
They didn't want her on the witness stand in a trial that would be the
one publicity trial of the moment.
And she was going to have to tell this story all over again, and she was going
to have to try to be honest.
See, that's the thing, you know, for all her bullshit, she didn't testify.
What's that tell you? You know, she had to say that in the book, but she could
have testified.
She got on Larry King and said we were all a bunch of assholes, and she wants
do everything she can to prosecute us.
Well, girl, all she's got to do is testify.
It was a combination of she didn't want to do it and the DA didn't trust her as
a witness.
Charging the murder case was seven to life.
And we were allowed to work out a plea.
And I'm sure that had a lot to do with Patty Hearst not wanting to testify and
having the power to go with that.
We were told the SLA members were going to plead guilty.
We at least knew that there was some level of justice being done and that we
would get to kind of face the people that brought us so much sorrow and
Whether her murder was a careless accident or a planned assassination, the
result was the same.
She was dead and our family was devastated.
Not only did the defendants have that moment in the bank to change course and
possibly prevent her death, they had plenty of opportunities after that to
from their mistakes.
and to refrain from further violence without necessarily giving up their
imaginary cause.
I do believe Emily Harris admitted that she was the one that pulled the trigger
and claimed it to be an accident.
And I'm happy to give her the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't change the
outcome.
When she got out of the fog of being in the SOA, it really weighed heavily on
her.
Our role was to make sure that people were held accountable for what they did.
When they were prosecuted, the mission was accomplished.
verse in Proverbs, and it says, there is a way that seemeth right unto a man,
but in the end thereof are the ways of death.
And when I read that verse, it just instantly popped into my mind, the SLA
I never could figure out why in the world would they do the things they did.
And it dawned on me, it's like they actually believed what they were doing
somehow the right thing to do.
The whole SLA drama, I think, was a Greek
tragedy in some ways, in that everybody suffered.
Maybe Patty Hearst least of all.
On the day that Patty Hearst was convicted, the message a lot of people
was, no one is above the law, no matter how rich and powerful.
But as you see how the story evolved,
In subsequent years, it's a story about how it's really good to be rich and
powerful.
Even though she shot up a street in Los Angeles, even though she
participated in bombings, even though she robbed banks, when
a woman was killed in one of them, she wants a pardon.
In addition to the commutation, she wants her record completely wiped clean.
And when Bill Clinton is in the waning days of his presidency, she gets it.
I think the main reason this story has endured is that it shows how difficult
is to know what's in someone else's head.
How did this happen?
Who is this woman?
Which side is she on? Does she deserve punishment or sympathy?
The woman was kidnapped.
She was brutally kidnapped.
That's got to be a terrifying experience. Can you imagine?
We'll never know what went through her mind.
I do the best job I can to explain it.
But there are many people who just will never understand it or believe that they
can be so totally controlled by other people that they don't even have to have
them standing right there next to them any longer with a gun directly to their
head.
I feel that Patty was a kidnap victim, and it was a horrendous
thing. But I also think she had a choice.
It sounds so impossible now to believe that someone of great
privilege
could join in this radical terrorist -like group.
But I think she did it to survive.
At some point, I think, in that year, if not sooner, Patty Hearst put on Tanya
and liked it better than anything she'd had before.
I truly believe that she was, to some extent, indoctrinated into those beliefs
and now regrets it.
denies it by saying she was truly a victim the whole time. Because once you
on those beliefs, those radical beliefs, you have to take a certain amount of
responsibility for them.
I often wonder, knowing what she knows, how she deals with that dissonance.
Unless she just is so repressive that she doesn't even consider it. I don't
know. It certainly is something that I wouldn't want to relive ever.
You know, I just think I've really tried to make a life in spite of it. If you
were to stack Patty and Tanya next to each other, clearly the most interesting
person is Tanya.
I mean, I'm still impressed this very day with her as a comrade. She endeared
herself to me over and over again. I remember that person.
I remember that person more than I can imagine the person that she's reverted
to.
She's a rich lady in the suburbs.
She raises dogs for dog shows.
I was talking to one of the press during the Patty Hearst case, and he asked me
what I thought of Patty Hearst. And I said, I think she's water.
She takes the shape of the glass she's poured into.
She's privileged enough to goof everybody.
You know?
the epitome of an entitled person, that she could even become a terrorist and a
bank robber and still get on with her life. It's quite amazing.
America's a funny place.
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