Boudin

The recent discussions regarding what children should learn from parents vs teachers has led most people to agree that parents are the primary teachers of values and beliefs. A good example of the power of family values can be seen in the recently rejected AG Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. Boudin's parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were Weather Underground members. When Boudin was a baby, both were arrested and convicted of murder in their role as getaway drivers in the Brinks robbery of 1981. Boudin was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who like his parents were members of the Weather Underground. Boudin descends from a long left-wing lineage. His great-grand-uncle, Louis B. Boudin,[16] was a Marxist theoretician and author of a two-volume history of the Supreme Court's influence on American government, and his grandfather Leonard Boudin was an attorney who represented controversial clients, such as Fidel Castro and Paul Robeson.[17] His uncle Michael Boudin[16] was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and his grand-uncle Isidor Feinstein Stone ("I. F. Stone") was an independent progressive journalist For the young people here, the Weather Underground was a radical left wing group first active in 1969 and the Brinks robbery was to get money to promote their agenda. While Ayers was the head of the Weather Underground the group conducted series of bombing public building including the US Capitol and the Pentagon. He was charged and released because the FBI used illegal means to arrest him. A bomb exploded in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage.