Sara Jane Moore Released

This is just ludicrous. Why would they parole a person who thinks the reason she tried to shoot the President of the United States because she "was functioning, I think, purely on adrenaline and not thinking clearly. I have often said that I had put blinders on and I was only listening to what I wanted to hear". Is that really a legitimate excuse for taking such action?

Sara Jane Moore started the new year Tuesday a free woman more than three decades after a bizarre assassination attempt on President Ford that still baffles even her own attorney.

"I never got a satisfactory answer from her as to why she did it," said retired federal public defender James F. Hewitt.

Prison officials have offered no details on why Moore, 77, was paroled Monday from a federal penitentiary east of San Francisco, where she had been serving a life sentence. Moore had been behind bars for 32 years.

Give me a break. The woman admitted she did it to make a statement, and fully expected the government to kill her one way or the other. She admitted she was "blinded" by her radical political views and she was convinced the government had declared war on advocates of left-wing politics.

Oh sure, she says she regrets her actions, but I think that's only because the government didn't kill her when she thought they would.