Showing posts with label Lynette Squeaky Fromme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynette Squeaky Fromme. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

The Squeaky Fromme Gets the Parole

Squeaky
Wow, how wrong could I be? I never thought any of the Manson chicks would ever get out of prison except in a body bag.
Squeaky Fromme wasn't implicated in the Sharon Tate murders of August 1969 (yeah, that was a crazy ass month) but she did wave a loaded gun at President Gerald Ford in 1975. She's been in jail since her conviction. Oh wait, except for the time she escaped from prison in 1987. Yeah, they tacked a few years on to her life sentence for that.
She was shipped off to a prison in Pleasanton, CA in 1978 after prison officials said she had become a "model inmate." But she was sent back to West Virginia in 1979 as punishment for striking another inmate with a hammer while the two tended a garden.
I'm thinking maybe the Squeakster wasn't such a model prisoner, and why would you need a hammer for gardening?
It sounds as if Lynette even though she's now 60, is still suffering from a case of the crazies.
In 2005 she wrote a letter to a Dallas newspaper in which she said, "I stood up and waved a gun (at Ford) for a reason. I was so relieved not to have to shoot it, but, in truth, I came to get life. Not just my life but clean air, healthy water and respect for creatures and creation."
Right.
I'm thinking it was a bad idea to let her out. Do we really think she'll be checking in with her parole officer?