Sep 15, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
They say that every son of a gun deserves a lawyer and his day in court; it’s a core principle of the American legal system. But certain lawyers informally focus on certain cases and certain clients…
Robert StilsonGuestMichael WatsonHost
Ken BraunHostKen, you have written on the Weather Underground and some of this historical communist stuff.
Boudin, just from what I've read of the profile, is far less of a committed communist than Rabinowitz, who seemed to have been a card-carrying member back when The Communist Party was clearly a Soviet front and funded by them, we found out later on.
But yeah, I mean, something Robert and I have talked about before is just the through line that you can do from...
You know, even from Rabinowitz, was it Rabinowitz's? I think it was Rabinowitz's father was the guy that made money with the bra strap hook machine as a communist who made money.
Yeah, I mean, he was a committed socialist, not a communist, who became wealthy, I think the way the thing is phrased, became wealthy making hooks for women's bra straps, which as a straight, speaking for straight men everywhere, I think we can be happy to blame them.
But anyway, from there we go all the way through to 2019 when Chessa was elected as the, I won't even say soft on crime, the I'm not even going to prosecute crime prosecutor of San
The woman who replaced him actually resigned from his office and said, told the newspapers before she launched her campaign to run against him that I'm not even convinced Chessa wants to prosecute any crime anywhere ever or something to that effect.
of these, all of yesterday's history becomes today's headlines with the far left movement in the United States.
Four generations there, the bra strap-making great-grandfather, Rabinowitz, and we get all the way through to Chessa as the grandson of Leonard.
So yeah, that's four generations of communism right there, or at least far-left activism.
Ken, you have written on the Weather Underground and some of this historical communist stuff.
Boudin, just from what I've read of the profile, is far less of a committed communist than Rabinowitz, who seemed to have been a card-carrying member back when The Communist Party was clearly a Soviet front and funded by them, we found out later on.
But yeah, I mean, something Robert and I have talked about before is just the through line that you can do from...
You know, even from Rabinowitz, was it Rabinowitz's? I think it was Rabinowitz's father was the guy that made money with the bra strap hook machine as a communist who made money.
Yeah, I mean, he was a committed socialist, not a communist, who became wealthy, I think the way the thing is phrased, became wealthy making hooks for women's bra straps, which as a straight, speaking for straight men everywhere, I think we can be happy to blame them.
But anyway, from there we go all the way through to 2019 when Chessa was elected as the, I won't even say soft on crime, the I'm not even going to prosecute crime prosecutor of San
The woman who replaced him actually resigned from his office and said, told the newspapers before she launched her campaign to run against him that I'm not even convinced Chessa wants to prosecute any crime anywhere ever or something to that effect.
of these, all of yesterday's history becomes today's headlines with the far left movement in the United States.
Four generations there, the bra strap-making great-grandfather, Rabinowitz, and we get all the way through to Chessa as the grandson of Leonard.
So yeah, that's four generations of communism right there, or at least far-left activism.
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