Since the Obama Administration
announced its intentions last month to normalize relations with the
“workers’ paradise” of the Caribbean, Governor Christie has asked the
administration to put pressure on Cuba to extradite Joanne Chesimard,
also known by her African
nom de guerre Assata Shakur,
a black
militant convicted of murdering state trooper Werner Foerster. She
escaped from prison in 1979 and later fled to Cuba where she has been
sheltered ever since.
The Obama Administration seems to be paying lip service to the
Chesimard issue, claiming that “the return of fugitives is one of the
issues on the U.S-Cuban agenda,” according to a USA Today article from
David Jackson. Frankly, their reassurances sound like more of this
administration’s empty promises. The State Department should demand that
Chesimard be extradited as a precondition of diplomatic negotiations. I
say this as someone who believes that our “talk to the hand” foreign
policy toward Cuba needs to change. We should absolutely open up to
Cuba, but we can’t have relations with them while they harbor miscreants
like Chesimard.
Yet I won’t hold my breath waiting for President Obama to press his
advantage to bring a cop killer to justice. After all, if Obama had an
older sister she’d look like Assata Shakur, which tells me that Obama
will side with her by default. He doesn’t have all the facts, nor does
he ever, but he knows that the police acted stupidly…or something.
… President Obama is undoubtedly cut from the same reflexive,
cop-hating cloth as the congresswomen [Maxine Waters and Barbara Lee, both
Democrats from the People’s Republic of California, were actually
embarrassed to have voted for a 1998 resolution calling upon Cuba to
extradite Chesimard], if only a little more cagey about
it. I predict that he will purposely fail to bring Chesimard to justice
and then pretend that he tried his hardest but it just wasn’t meant to
be.
President Obama is (or was), after all, a close friend of Bill Ayers,
a left-wing terrorist whose Weather Underground group bombed NYPD
headquarters, among other acts of terrorism targeting police. Obama has
repeatedly denied the relationship, insisting that Ayers was just some
guy in the neighborhood, but Ayers himself described Obama as a “family
friend” in an updated edition of his terrorist memoir “Fugitive Days”
that was published after Obama was safely elected in 2008. In the same
book, Ayers also admitted hosting an Obama fundraiser at his home,
something which Obama supporters had dismissed as right-wing conspiracy
theories.
Ayers belonged to a movement that spoke openly of “offing pigs,”
rhetoric that was not unusual in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. This
fact has been erased from history so that the era could be remembered as
a time when utopian peace activists employed nonviolence to defeat the
skull-cracking reactionary establishment. But it wasn’t all peace and
love. As the Yippee prankster Abbie Hoffman once said, “I think killing a
cop can be an act of love.” This from a man who was a squishy liberal
compared to the Weather Underground and Black Panthers. The fact that
Hoffman could say that and still maintain his good standing with the
progressive community speaks volumes.
The quickest way to achieve celebrity status among chic leftists is
to blast a cop. Ray Luc Levasseur, Leonard Peltier, Huey Newton, and
Mumia Abu Jamal are but a few of the Left’s favorite cop killers. Most
leftists would never touch a police officer, of course, but only because
they’re chicken excrement, hence all of the jock-sniffing they do when
they find an actual cop killer. They’re like teenage girls at a Beatles
concert circa 1964, only not nearly as composed.
… Even supposed examples of unwarranted violence by police, cited by
leftists as part of a pattern of police brutality, are actually examples
of violence against police. Poor Michael Brown, the “gentle
giant” of Ferguson is dead today because he tried and failed to murder a
patrolman with his own gun. Yet Brown is portrayed as the victim, his
myth padded with now debunked lies about being shot in the back while
his hands were raised. When the Left inverts reality to the extent that a
cop is guilty of murder because he fought for his life when someone
else was trying to murder him, that tells you a lot about how these
people think. The only good cop is a dead cop.
