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ras ‘Piyst of all, the law aprlies to all persons equally, - to come and go at will. And, if she really wants to would convict her of voluntary or involuntary man . pege 2°. Saxbe f° \° ry | - ’, Lae es TF But along comes Clarence <élily, “and the San Francisco Bureau chief, Charles Bates, makin't contradictory statements day after day -- and, to crown everything - Mr. Bates appears on television pleading with Patty (put none of the others} to give herself up, with an implied clemency ana references to brain-washings whether they are presidents, Mickey Cohens and Jimmy Hof.'ags and Juan Coronas, or an heiress to the Hearst fortune. For Mr. fates to stand in front of x-million people talking about prain-washing and @ thinly-veiled statement there is a law for the rich, and a aifferent law for you and me (assuming your wealth is not equal to the Hearst's}, Was & (expletive deleted) shocke And one bit of lopic escapes me, and perhaps you can clear it up: if Miss Hearst is an unwilling hostage of the SLA, as the FBI. maintains and the family La (understandably) jnsists, how can she give herself up? - She is a hostage and & captive, and J presume not free — escape, why didntt she take the opportunity when -she fired 30 shots into the Compton sportins zoods store? She could, it seems to me, as an unwilling, hostage, fire 20 shots into the store, and then empty ten shots on her male captor-associate {who had dropped his gun) and her female captor~associate {who was unarmed ) wm nastily giving herself up to any nearby friendly policeman with the knowledge no ‘jury in the country slauchter when she was trying to escape her captors who (we may assume from the FBI) held her hostage under the threat of death? As for brain-wasning, even the Chinese, who are masters at it, admit it is impossible to brain-wash a person in such a short time, and under such circumstances, and ‘have the person ambulatory. (Why, Ho Fat, the arch enemy on "Hawaii Five-0," complains - without losing his sinister-ship, it is impossible to break-down and brain- wash someone in the short time allotted him, even thourh he had a sophisticated Laboratory that makes M.I.Te . took like a kindergrade classroom.) I respectfully submit Mr. Bates would be more qualified searching for subdversives in the WCTU or the DAR, and, from his -atatenents, Mr. Kelly possesses no higher qualifications in law enforcement than a cop on a beat back in Kansas