Annals Of "Witchy"

Through the mists of anomic suburban middle-class youth committing random acts of brutal, meaningless violence & criminality comes word that a now 60 yr.-old Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is soon to be back on the streets. (Although we expect she'll be stuck in a halfway-house for several mos.)

• STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• "Squeaky" Fromme was convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Ford
• For years, she was one of Charles Manson's few remaining followers
• According to reports, she for years waived her right to a parole hearing
• She was not involved in the murders that landed Manson, other followers in prison

CNN. Here's the anomie.

Secret Service agents prevented her from firing, but the gun was later found to have no bullet in the chamber, although it contained a clip of ammunition.

In a 1987 interview with CNN affiliate WCHS, Fromme, then housed in West Virginia, recalled the president "had his hands out and was waving ... and he looked like cardboard to me. But at the same time, I had ejected the bullet in my apartment and I used the gun as it was."

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She said she knew Ford was in town and near her, "and I said, 'I gotta go and talk to him,' and then I thought, 'That's foolish. He's not going to stop and talk to you.' People have already shown you can lay blood in front of them and they're not, you know, they don't think anything of it. I said, 'Maybe I'll take the gun,' and I thought, 'I have to do this. This is the time.' "

She said it never occurred to her that she could wind up in prison. Asked whether she had any regrets, Fromme said, "No. No, I don't. I feel it was fate." However, she said she thought that her incarceration was "unnecessary" and that she couldn't see herself repeating her offense.

"My argument to the jury was, if she wanted to kill him, she would have shot him," John Virga, a Sacramento attorney appointed to defend Fromme, told CNN on Tuesday. "She'd been around guns. And let's be realistic: We know the Manson family, at least some of them, are killers."

Ah, nostalgia. Aimless like a leaf in the wind.

(The NRA is right, coastal elitists are turning us into a nation of easily conquerable weaklings. There hasn't been a successful assassination in this country for 41 yrs.! Learn the fundamentals & then practice, practice, practice, people, so you don't go off half-cocked like this ditz.)

Photos of the events of 1975 here. A sample:Any weapons fanciers out there know what the "well-armed U. S. Marshal" is packing? (Or should we say flaunting? And isn't he the very lookist definition of a slack-jawed, inbred, homicidal cretin? Shoot for the head, he's got a vest on underneath that hideous sport coat!)