Talk:Kathy Boudin
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I think it should mention somewhere that she was a member of the Wheather Underground Organization
"nine children without fathers." seems a bit maudlin. The bit about Leonard Weinglass and his "peculiar expertise" is overlong. The offhand "executed communist spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg" is rather disingenuous. "Not exactly a place to rub elbows with the proletariat" is tellingly snarky. Etc. I'm no expert and don't want to mess with the article but it's slanted, no? I see there's already an issue with the author on the discussion page of his Leonard Weinglass article. Perhaps one of those "The neutrality of this article is disputed" labels is in order here as well?
I would agree that the article is slanted. Leonard Boudin also defended Daniel Ellsburg against Federal charges arising from Ellsburg's release of the Pentagon papers; the Nixon administration secretly offered the judge in that case the directorship of the FBI during the trial. Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and author, was another Boudin client, in connection with his counseling young men to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. The omission of such clients when others are listed helps define the article as more concerned to condemn than to illuminate. It is also untrue that "Some of these bombings had lethal outcomes." The Weathermen were actually proud of the fact that none of their bombings ever killed or injured anyone as a result of their warnings prior to the explosions. Perhaps the author is confusing them with the University of Wisconsin Army Mathematics Research Center bombing in which four people were killed, a bombing perpetrated by an unaffiliated radical and condemned by the Weathermen; or deliberately and misleadingly confusing bombing actions with the accident in the Greenwich Village townhouse where bombmakers blew themselves up.
The author of the article likewise says nothing about Boudin's activities in prison, when she taught literacy and AIDS-related health education and published at least one scholarly paper on these subjects as well as other writings. She is at present working towards an advanced degree in the field in which she is working, public health, but these facts do not fit in with the author's concern to create as damnable a picture of Ms. Boudin as possible.
>>Kathy Boudin attended radical kindergarten at the Little Red School House<<
what the hell is that line supposed to mean? this article is far from objective.-lenny zelig
This article all needs independently verifying, its is full of POV and prejudice, and the grammar is pretty poor. I did some cleaning up, but some one with a better knowledge of the subject needs to add some decent sources. --Jackyd101 05:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] not to be trusted
This article is written by a nincompoop who knows virtually nothing about Kathy Boudin or her history. Almost every "fact" here is wrong. The writer's blind hatred for the woman is not even hidden. The article is also terribly written.
