A
Camper Van Beethoven ode, about fifteen years after the fact, to the
woman who was, briefly, America's
beloved revolutionary sweetheart,
Patricia Hearst. After her
kidnapping by the
Symbionese Liberation Army, her "eyes were opened", and she joined the struggle against
The Man yadda yadda yadda, even participating in a
bank robbery (for indeed she was "Photographed in fifteen second intervals / In a bank in San Leandro"; the security cameras caught her holding a
machine gun, but debate raged over whether or not the gun was actually pointed at anyone) and other assorted activities. Her new
revolutionary name was "Tania"; she ditched that "fascist insect" (obscure
Doonesbury reference), well-scrubbed collegiate-looking
fiancé Steven Weed, for one of her SLA compadres, William "
Cujo" Wolfe (
Sorry, comrades, she's taken!). Wolfe later died in a house fire, presumably started by the
FBI, and the SLA released a tape of Patty/Tania delivering a
eulogy, of sorts, to her fallen comrade/amour.
See also: SLA tape, 24 April 1974.