Communist Murderers- Domestic Terrorists- Are Just Activists
A novel, The Hill, by Harriet Clark, the daughter of a domestic terrorist, is getting rave reviews:
“superb,” praising its “brilliantly deprived bildungsroman,” “charged with a hushed quality of distillation,” “beautiful, unrepeatable bildungsroman,” “extraordinary,” noting its “sculpted purity.”
The book is written by the daughter of a communist murderer, Judith Clark, who co-founded two domestic terrorist organizations. The novel describes her daughter’s weekly childhood visits with her mother in prison. Her mother was responsible for the death of two officers and a security guard.
According to The Telegraph, the book tells of the horrors of family separation and estrangement, and what it means to be a vulnerable minor caught in the middle of these dramas, watching, listening, trying to understand the world, and one’s place in it. But mostly, The Hill is about a child’s ongoing efforts to make sense of what to them is their ordinary, known life, but what to others might seem like an extraordinary, singularly strange experience.
Making sense out of it should have been simple. Her mother was not an activist. She was a communist murderer and thief.
According to the review by The Telegraph, Clark has written a novel about freedom and confinement, agency and choice, and what these states of being look like to different people, and how “one person’s adventure is another’s expulsion.”
What is not in the book is what her mother, the domestic terrorist, did, so we’d like to add to the novel and ask: when do we see novels by Nazis or killers of gay people beloved by their children, and how sad the separation is?
Unrepentant Judy
Judith Alice Clark (born November 9, 1949), known as Judy Clark, is an American far-left radical activist, a domestic terrorist, formerly a member of the Weather Underground and the May 19th Communist Organization (M19), both of which she co-founded. Her mother was the researcher Ruth Clark. Ruth and her husband were prominent communist officials.
In 1967, Judy began studying at the University of Chicago, where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and later co-founded the Weather Underground, participating in the Days of Rage. She went underground, was arrested, and was briefly incarcerated. Afterward, she lived in New York City and co-founded M19.
In the early 1980s, M19 linked with the Black Liberation Army (BLA) as The Family. Their explicit goal was to carry out bank robberies to support their so-called revolutionary struggle.
Clark was arrested driving a getaway car after the October 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nanuet, New York, in which a security guard and two Nyack, New York, police officers were shot and killed.
Terrorist Clark is called an activist over and over, but she wasn’t an activist. She was a communist cop hater, using activism as an excuse to steal and kill. Clark was a ringleader of terror.
Judy Clark was never repentant. She had her own website and posted the following while she was in prison.
From Judy’s Sworn Statement:
“I was arrested on Oct. 20, 1981, after I participated in an attempted robbery of a Brinks truck in Nyack, New York. Peter Paige, a Brink’s guard, and two policemen, Waverly Brown and Edward O’Grady, were killed during the robbery, and others were injured. Accused of being one of the “getaway drivers,” I was indicted on three counts of second-degree murder. I was not represented by counsel during voir-dire and at the trial itself. Instead, I represented myself and refused to participate in the proceedings, absenting myself from the courtroom for virtually the entire trial. I was found guilty and sentenced to three consecutive terms of 25 years to life.”
She defiantly refused to participate and expressed no regrets for most of the 37 years of her confinement. Clark was a domestic terrorist. She claimed she was merely sitting in a getaway car. She was neither a shooter nor a robber. Actually, she was a leader, and it wasn’t the only crime her group committed. There was no doubt of Judy Clark’s guilt.
Cuomo Commutes Her Sentence
Three people were killed. Instead of serving the 75-year sentence, Gov. Cuomo, who more than once freed cop killers, commuted her sentence to 35 years, with three men dead because of her and her comrades.
While she was in prison, her small child, Harriet, was dragged to the prison every Saturday. Harriet went to visit Mama Judy, who allowed it. Every Saturday of that child’s youth was spent visiting a communist killer. Her mother could have stopped it or at least reduced the visits.
Rockland County Legislators Toney Earl, Nancy Low-Hogan, Aney Paul, Alden Wolfe, Harriet Cornell, Michael Grant, Jay Hood, Phil Soskin, Aron Wieder and Itamar Yeger issued this statement on the parole granted to Brinks’ getaway driver Judith Clark after 37 years:
This is a difficult decision to comprehend for anyone who remembers the tragedy of Oct. 20, 1981, when Nyack Police Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly “Chipper” Brown, along with Brinks’ Guard Peter Paige, were needlessly and mercilessly fatally gunned down by a group of extremely violent domestic terrorists. The perpetrators of these crimes, including Judith Clark, were bent on robbery and creating anarchy.
The families, friends, and all who knew these men have lived with their loss for decades. They have been robbed of companionship, birthdays, anniversaries, the birth of grandchildren, and so much more.
This crime changed our county’s self-identity from that of an idyllic suburb to that of a place where terribly violent crime could – and did – invade what we believed was our safe space.
Our thoughts are focused on the families and friends of Sgt. O’Grady, Officer Brown, and Security Guard Paige. We will never forget the sacrifice made by these men.
When do we get the book about the unrepentant white man who drove a getaway car that resulted in three murders and several injuries?
Don’t read the book. Instead, watch the detailed account of the robbery by the homicidal maniacs here.
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