Serve California time in California

Our local police federation does not want Kathleen Soliah [aka Sara Jane Olson] to serve her parole time in our state.  The Los Angeles police agree.  I wonder whether their opposition might not happen or be made known if one of the crimes for which Ms. Soliah was sentenced after her guilty pleas was not the attempted bombing of a police car and I question the federation’s fear that Ms. Soliah’s neighbors might not report any violations or irregularities since they had said nothing before her arrest.  After all, that would presume that they knew who she was while she lived among them with a phony identity, but the suggestion that she finish her sentence in California seems to make sense.

 

Ms. Soliah apparently wants to serve her sentence here because she has family here.  I do not want to be anti-family, but we should note that Ms. Soliah is a product of the West Coast who had no connection to our state or city until she happened here while on the lam and who had no family here until she married and started one here while a fugitive.

 

In other words, why should a California person who commits crimes in California not serve her sentence in California?

 

Any adult United States citizen who wishes [and there are a lot who do although I wonder why] can live in California.  If Ms. Soliah and her family cannot tolerate any longer a separation, he husband and daughters are all free to relocate there.  It would not be California or Minnesota which has forced the separation.  It would be the Soliah-Peterson family which is forcing the situation on themselves.

 

We have enough of our own crooks among us.  We do not need California'a also.  Governor Pawlenty says that he cannot keep her out.  Governor Schwarzenegger can keep her there.  I doubt whether he reads this, but it would not be bad if he is able to read things similar to this.