Good News: Violent Leftist is Dead

I'm shocked the AP even refers to this spawn of Satan as a leftist. Usually these people are referred to as activists. OK, well they wait until the third paragraph for that.

Marilyn Buck, a violent leftist incarcerated for 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the 1980s, including the bombing of the U.S. Capitol and a deadly armored car heist, has died in Brooklyn. She was 62.

Buck had been paroled July 15 from a federal prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Her death Tuesday was confirmed by federal probation and parole agencies. Friends and supporters wrote that the cause of death was uterine cancer.

Buck belonged to a clique of anti-war and civil rights activists who took up arms in the 1970s and became involved in a series of politically motivated attacks on government and corporate targets.

On Oct. 20, 1981, she was part of a group of Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army members who ambushed a Brink's armored car carrying $1.6 million at a mall in Nanuet, N.Y.

One guard was killed at the scene. A second was badly wounded. Two police officers were subsequently killed after they pulled over one of the getaway cars.

Buck accidentally shot herself in the leg during the gunbattle with police, but she escaped and remained free for four years.

During that time, she was involved in a series of bombings that included a 1983 nighttime blast at the Capitol that didn't hurt anyone but damaged Senate offices. The bomb was purportedly placed to protest the U.S. invasion of Grenada.

After her 1985 capture in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., she was convicted in the Brink's robbery and a string of other crimes.

Few tears are being shed for this monster.

Will Kennelly, owner of Kennelly's Grill House on Route 9W in Congers, helped arrest Buck in 1985 outside a Dobbs Ferry diner. Kennelly was a detective with the New York City Police Department assigned to the federal Joint Terrorist Task Force.

"I am not shedding any tears for her," Kennelly said Friday. "She helped kill three men and destroyed three families. I am certainly not in mourning. Her death is the ultimate justice."

Rockland District Attorney Thomas Zugibe, an assistant prosecutor at the time, said he would "pray for her soul, but I am not mourning her loss."

"We will never forget the central role she played in the Brinks bloodbath, as well as the escape of cop killer Joanne Chesimard," Zugibe said. "She was released early because she was dying. Knowing the slain officers, I wouldn't have been that merciful."