Only a woman knows that the sex act, no matter how gentle, becomes rape if she is an unwilling partner. Her soul, as well as her body, is scarred. The gentleness of Willie Wolfe does not preclude rape. Rape, in this instance, was dependent upon Patricia Hearst's state of mind, not Willie Wolfe's. We must all remember that only Patty knows what she felt; and if we refuse to believe her, there can be no justice.

Patty also said that her intercourse with Cinque was "without affection."

The SLA women insisted they were not "mindless cunts enslaved by big black penises."

"You need seven inches," a reporter was explaining, "for a byline in Newsweek."

"Patty Frigid After DeFreeze," stated a headline that was set in type but not used in the Daily Californian, the Berkeley campus newspaper.

"Hearst Blows Weed," stated a later headline that was used in the Daily Californian.

"Is the Government saying," objected Bailey, "that everyone who smokes grass is a bank robber?"

Oh, that's right, this was a bank-robbery trial, wasn't it?

"Were you acting the part of a bank robber?" Browning asked Patty.

"I was doing exactly what I had to do. I just wanted to get out of that bank. I was just supposed to be in there to get my picture taken mostly."

Ulysses Hall testified that after the robbery, he managed to speak on the phone with his former prison mate, Cinque, who told him that the SLA members didn't trust Patty's decision to join them. Conversely, she didn't trust their offer of a "choice," since they all realized she'd be able to identify them if she went free--and so they made her prove herself by "fronting her off" at the bank with Cinque's gun pointed at her head. Out of the closet, into the bank!

Patty testified that Patricia Soltysik kicked her because she wasn't enthusiastic enough at a dress rehearsal, and Cinque warned her that if she messed up in any way, she'd be killed. Before the trial, prosecutor Browning had admitted that it was "clear from the photographs she may have been acting under duress." And during the trial, Bailey, with only fifteen minutes to go before weekend recess, brought out the government's suppression of photos showing Camilla Hall also pointing her gun at Patty in the bank.

Moreover, in a scene right out of Blow-Up or an aspirin commercial, a "scientific laboratory" had used a digital computer "to filter out the grain without changing the content," then scanned the photos with a laser beam, all to indicate that Patty had opened her mouth in surprise and recoiled in horror at the firing of shots in the bank, and that it was merely a shadow that made her look as if she were smiling during the robbery, although Cinque had given her strict orders to smile whenever she met anyone who was supposed to know she was Tania, because the original image of Patty, the one that was disseminated around the world, showed her smiling broadly.

No wonder KQED's courtroom artist Rosalie Ritz was approached by a promoter willing to pay her to design a Patty doll with a complete change of clothes so it could be turned into a Tania doll.

It did not come out in the testimony of Louis "Jolly" West that he once killed an elephant with an overdose of LSD--which UPI's Don Thackrey called "pachydermicide"--nor that Dr. West once spent eight straight hours in John Lilly's sensory deprivation tank. According to Kayo Hallinan, Patty "hated" West because she was aware of the fascistic implications of his proposed UCLA Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence, which would practice what it preached against—violence--in the form of electrode implantation and aversion therapy. Obviously, then, some kind of coercive persuasion must have been used to get her to talk to him. Perhaps she had been reduced to a state of infantile helplessness--once again.

A letter from a prisoner in the San Mateo County Jail: "I was coming out of the doctor's office when I saw Tania being taken out the front door. The guards had cleared the hallways of all prisoners and it was by mistake that I was let out at that time by the jail nurse. Tania was taken out by one female and three males. When I called to her I was dragged out of the hallway. Our comrade was exhausted and frightened, lethargic in her movements and appeared drugged. While I was in the doctor's office, I had noticed a 3-by-5 manila envelope--the type used to hold medications given to prisoners--which had written on it, 'Hearst.' There is little doubt she is being drugged."

Associated Press reported that, "a source close to the specialists conducting the examination . . . said that the dosages of 'anti-psychotic drugs' listed on Miss Hearst's medical report would themselves cause lethargy and disorientation." Would she eventually emerge from the psychiatric kidnapping only to proclaim, as she had previously done on an SLA communiqué, "I have not been brainwashed, drugged, tortured, or hypnotized in any way"?

F. Lee Bailey put Patty on the witness stand. He asked her what Cinque had done on one occasion to show his disapproval.

"He pinched me."

"Where?"

"My breasts"—pause--"and down--"

"Your private parts as well?"

"Yes."

Then Browning cross-examined Patty:

"Did he pinch one or both of your breasts?"

"I really don't remember."

"Was it under your clothing?"

"Yes."

"In both places?"

"Pardon me, I don't think that the other was under my clothing."

"All right, your breasts he pinched by touching your skin. The pubic area, he did not touch your skin. Is that true?"

"That's right."

Good Lord, this was supposed to be the Trial of the Century, and the government was trying to find out whether Cinque got bare tit.

Bailey fought unsuccessfully to have Patty testify about the bombing of the Hearst castle, so that the jury would know she was still, indirectly, afraid of SLA members Bill and Emily Harris. But, once more, Patty tricked Browning during cross-examination. He was asking why she hadn't taken advantage of opportunities to phone for help.

"It wasn't possible for me to call," she explained, "because I couldn't do it, and I was afraid of the FBI."

Browning was certainly not going to disagree with Bailey's contention that Patty suffered from "a misperception about the viciousness of the FBI," so he asked Patty if it had occurred to her to turn the Harrises in.

"I was afraid. They aren't the only people like that running around . . . There were many others who could've picked up right where they left off."

Browning wondered if they really had such "power over your life."

"They did. It's happening right now."

"Has somebody been killed?"

Suddenly, Patty switched from her usual monotone to a hurried delineation of the latest terrorist acts, threats, and broken promises, including this:

"San Simeon was bombed. My parents received a communiqué demanding $250,000--"

Your Honor, please, the witness is leading the prosecutor. But it was too late. The jury had heard her.

Browning countered weakly: "Was anybody killed?"

"No."