Sara Jane Olsen

By Ethan • March 23, 2008, 10:19 am MDT

The Los Angeles Times reports:

California authorities rearrested Sara Jane Olson at noon Saturday, just hours after she was prevented from flying home to Minnesota from Los Angeles, and said she must serve one more year in prison because they miscalculated her release date.

Aw, poor Sara Jane Olsen, right? Wrong! Keep reading:

The former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army had been paroled Monday from a California women’s prison after serving about six years for her role in a 1975 plot to kill Los Angeles police officers by blowing up their patrol cars.

Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said at a news conference that they had made a mistake in computing the amount of time Olson should serve in a separate case in which she pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for participating in a Sacramento-area bank robbery in which another SLA member killed a customer.

Finally, Wikipedia adds the true level of Mrs. Olsen’s nastiness: “[During the bank robbery Olsen] kicked a pregnant teller in the abdomen, leading to a miscarriage.”

So remember, if you see this story in the news, and the media takes the angle — and I’m not saying they have — that we should be sympathetic to Mrs. Olsen’s legal system plight, don’t buy it: this is one bad woman.

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