I watched a horribly violent true crime movie, The Last Rampage, the story of murderer Gary Tison's escape from an Arizona prison in the late '70's.
Partway through, the story started sounding familiar. It was the case lawyer Alan Dershowitz was working on when he went to work for Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune.
In Reversal of Fortune, we see Dershowitz shouting into a phone trying to save two innocent young boys from execution. One of Dershowitz's sons explains that "two kids" helped their father escape from prison and had been sentenced to death because their father committed a couple of murders while on the run. Such injustice!
I'm against the death penalty in any case, but The Last Rampage paints a very different picture of the case. There were three sons who helped their father escape from prison. He was kept in a minimum security wing of the prison, God knows why. He was a convicted murderer. He and his cell mate who escaped with them were both monsters. The prison allowed visitors to have little picnics with the inmate they were visiting, so the three sons came in with a basket loaded with guns---revolvers and sawed-off shotguns. They held the guards and other visitors at gunpoint and made their escape.
The three sons stayed with their father as he and his cellmate headed for Mexico. When their car broke down, two of the sons stood by the car on the side of the road. A man and his family stopped to help them and rest of the gang appeared from the behind the brush with guns. They robbed the family, put them in the car and drove them to another spot and murdered them. The sons played an active role in the robbery and kidnapping, but didn't actually shoot the victims who included a 15-year-old girl and a two-year-old boy.
From there, they went on to murder a couple on their honeymoon and Tison plotted to murder his brother.
The way Tison was presented in the movie, it's impossible to imagine that the sons didn't know how dangerous he was. They visited him in prison every Sunday. Their mother was out of her mind, insisting he was completely innocent.
I saw Dershowitz long ago on a daytime talk show. He shouted down members of one of the victim's family. "STOP HIDING BEHIND YOUR VICTIMIZATION," Dershowitz screeched. Ironic coming from a Zionist. And anyway, going on TV to talk about their family being murdered is not hiding behind their victimization.
Dershowitz is a typical Zionist only more so, sort of liberal in the United States but a violent racist when it comes to Palestinians. The actor who played him in Reversal of Fortune, Ron Silver, was a stereotypical neo-con, a liberal who turned right-wing because it would better serve Israel. He became a Bush supporter, supported the invasion of Iraq, and co-founded a group called One Jerusalem established to oppose the Oslo Peace Accords and maintain Jewish control over Jerusalem. Silver died years ago, but he would have loved Trump.
"One Jerusalem" held a rally. CNN said thousands attended. The Israeli press claimed 100,000 and "One Jerusalem" itself claimed 400,000, an absurd number---it would be half the population of Jersualem which is only 64% Jewish.
The Last Rampage is available for instant viewing on Netflix.
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