California Board Votes To Parole Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy Assassin
“The decision by the two-member panel doesn’t assure his release.”
Sirhan Sirhan, the man who shot and killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, has just been granted parole in California.
In a post about this earlier this week, I asked, if Lee Harvey Oswald was alive today would he be eligible for parole too?
There are still steps to be taken before Sirhan is actually released, but at this point it looks as though it’s going to happen.
Louis Casiano reports at FOX News:
Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan granted parole by California board
Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was granted parole by a California board Friday after spending more than 50 years in prison after two of his sons said they support his release, a decision that still needs to be approved by the governor.
Sirhan gunned down Kennedy, then a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York and brother of President John F. Kennedy, in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after Kennedy delivered a victory speech in the pivotal California primary. Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder.
Sirhan, a Christian Palestinian from Jordan, has said he was angry at Kennedy for his support of Israel.
This was his 16th appearance before the parole board.
“I would never put myself in jeopardy again,” he told the parole board from a San Diego County prison where he appeared for the virtual proceeding. “You have my pledge. I will always look to safety and peace and non-violence.”
The decision by the two-member panel doesn’t assure his release. It will next go up for a board review and requires approval from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Please read and share statement from my family regarding today’s recommendation of parole for Sirhan Sirhan. pic.twitter.com/60klc1fHxU
— Rory Kennedy (@roryekennedy) August 28, 2021
How crazy is this decision? Even the far left law professor Laurence Tribe disagrees with the idea.
I fail to see why Bobby Kennedy’s assassin should ever be released from prison. Even at 77, he could be a threat. And the enduring harm he inflicted was incalculable. But for his vicious act, the rest of U.S. history would’ve been different. https://t.co/QevhN39Bsq
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 26, 2021
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Can’t wait to hear Newsom’s comment on this. Even in California, I would expect that there’s plenty of “Kennedy Worship”, and if Newsom approves Sirhan’s parole (or even just fails to condemn it) his chances in the recall will take another drastic plunge.
“EVEN”? More like especially.
I’ll get crushed for this but, here goes. Wolhoever took RFK out probably did the nation a favor.
Yes but it was still a horrible crime.
Virtually any homicide is.
No, I think RFK went through a spiritual change for the good after his brothers murder and would have been a wonderful President
I think he went through a spiritual change after Sirhan Sirhan shot him.
But not right away.
RFK was a spoiled “brat”, a known hothead. He was one of the ones behind the group wanting JFK to nuke Cuba during the missile crisis. He would have been a disastrous president.
Were he not Kennedy, he’d have gone nowhere.
Not a chance. He was just another Kennedy who could get away with anything before a fawning public, and had a very short fuse.
“Kennedy Worship”
I remember when news reporters used to liken our time under Kennedy as Camelot. Oh those were the days, the wonderful mythical days of days of wine and roses,
Oh yeah, the media were total Democrat whores, all the way back that far.
The Kennedy’s were one of the worst things to happen to this country. Thankfully, they’re gone from national public life. But like cockroaches, they live behind the walls.
A late friend of mine said it well.
Paraphrasing here, “Were it not for their money, each and every one of them would be drinking up their paychecks down at Paddy’s every payday night; their kids would be dressed in rags, the wife covered in bruises.”
Fortunately, they were moneyed enough to be able to afford genuine lobotomies for the womenfolk.
As always with the left, victims and their loved ones get the shaft. Lord protect us from liberal “compassion.”
Worse, Sirhan will become a hero to the Palestinian lunatic who would murder. Hell, this murderer could run for office in Omar or Tlaib’s districts.
If Charles Mansion were alive he probably would get paroled too..
I think so too.
I live in CA. Charles Manson (D, Dead) gets elected statewide by about ten points–as opposed to Glass of Water who wins by 20.
“his release, a decision that still needs to be approved by the governor.”
Newsom?!
Insert meme of terrified spaceman choosing between two red buttons.
Newsom will consult with his political and spiritual advisors and seek an answer one question: “Will this help or hurt my recall?” That’s it.
In defense of Newsom, so would any politician, regardless of party. They are, at bottom, poiticians.
How about middle and top?
No sirree, No sirree, Sirhan Sirhan.
He was a political prisoner. Had he shot somebody with the name of “Smith” or “Jones”, he would have been out years ago.
Why is it this is the only bad guy the left has an issue with?? He is not the only person that killed a liberal that’s been turned loose.
Because he killed a member of America’s Royal Family (Reg US Pat Off). He killed a Kennedy!
I thank Sirhan for his service to America and regret only that RFK had spawned as profusely as he already had. America owes Sirhan a debt of gratitude.
I recommend that the Mass Pike be renamed in his honor, as Sirhan Highway and that the Kennedy family name be expunged from the public record.
And, for the record, there is no way in the world that the bullet that entered behind Kennedy’s ear came from Sirhan’s firearm.
Tony Shaloob is Sirhan Sirhan!
not really surprising–after all, when you exonerate a marginal police officer for the coldblooded murder of an unarmed civilian exercising their rights what’s a parole decision for a convicted murderer?
Are you referring to that muslim quota-hire who gunned down a white woman?