the government charged her with bank robbery even though
she was under their mental control.

She had renounced her rich parents and taken a new name.

Happens all the time.

The FBI called her a 'common criminal'.

Then put her on their Top Ten Wanted List.

Maybe they thought she had taken Terrorism 101 at school and
ambitiously decided to start robbing banks of her own accord.

Anyway, there was an episode before they caught her where six
members of the SLA were armed and wholed up in a house.

Outcome?

Five of them were burned to death.

How did the house get set on fire?

A tear gas grenade.

They apparently cannot be deployed without setting a place on fire?

If a place gets set on fire, and the government has many guns pointed at
you, you might not decide to get out in time until it is too late.

o 5 SLA people burned to death from a tear gas grenade.

o An armed wholed-up person burned to death in San Diego on May 2, 1997.
The police fired CS gas into the house. According to the Union Tribune
newspaper: as the CS gas filled the house it ignited, and caused the
entire structure and surrounding trees to be engulfed in flames.

o A member of a violent militia group called 'The Posse' was armed and
wholed up: they simply *purposely* set the house on fire. Burned
him to death.

o Philadelphia police purposely drop an incindiary device on the top
of a building housing an armed and holed-up African-American group
(men, woman & children) called 'Move'. They burned down the entire
neighborhood of 62 homes. 9/28/96 NYT: 1.5 million dollars was awarded
to survivors. Eleven men, women and children died in the fire purposely
set ("a satchel of explosi