By Michelle Malkin
Friday, May 03, 2013
There's a stomach-turning segment of the American
population that sees surviving Boston bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a
romantic maverick. The New York Times mused about the accused jihadist's
"Holden Caulfield-like adolescent alienation." Pop singer Amanda
Palmer wrote a fan girl "Poem for Dzhokhar." An adoring "Free
Jahar" movement thrives on social media.
Fringe, you say? Think again. The fetish for cop-killing
fugitives and cop-hating radicals is a mainstay of Hollywood, academia, the
liberal media and Democratic Party circles. It has persisted for decades. It
reared its head on May Day with rock-hurling anarchists in Seattle and D.C.
shouting "F**k the pigs" and kicking cops. And consider the
exaltation of the woman just named to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list,
Joanne Chesimard.
On Thursday, the feds announced that they are doubling
their reward for the capture of Chesimard (a.k.a. "Assata Shakur").
The former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army agitator has been a fugitive
from justice for nearly 40 years and openly thumbs her nose at her victim's
family while living in Cuba as a political asylee. Congressional Black Caucus
members have stubbornly protested extradition efforts, invoking the poisonous
race card and deifying Chesimard as a "political prisoner." Columbia
University professor Marc Lamont Hill glorifies her as a "freedom
fighter."
Just last week, rapper Common added an Assata Shakur
tribute verse to Jay Z's recent "Open Letter" rap defending his
wedding anniversary trip to Chesimard's sanctuary of Cuba. "The same way
they say she was a shooter, Assata Shakur, they tried to execute her. We should
free her like we should (convicted cop-killer) Mumia (Abu Jamal)," Common
proclaims.
Chesimard/Shakur is the godmother of the late Tupac
Shakur, a gangsta rapper whose genre spawned NWA's "F**k tha Police,"
Ice-T's "Cop Killer" and The Game's "911 is a Joke"
("I ought to shoot 51 officers for the 51 times that boy was shot in New
York").
Mic check this: In 1973, Chesimard shot and killed New
Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster execution-style during a traffic stop. The
gunfight also left her brother-in-law, Black Liberation Army leader Zayd Malik
Shakur, dead. At the time, the BLA had been tied to the murders of more than 10
police officers across the country. Chesimard, Zayd Shakur and another member
were wanted for questioning in the murder of two of those cops when they were
stopped.
Chesimard was convicted and sentenced to life in 1977,
but escaped from prison two years later with help from violent left-wing
accomplices. One of those thugs, Black Liberation Army killer Tyrone Rison,
admitted to participating in a series of armored-car robberies, including a
$250,000 heist in the Bronx on June 2, 1981, that left a Brink's guard dead.
Rison also confessed to taking part in the planning of the Rockland County,
N.Y., $1.6 million Brink's robbery by left-wing domestic terrorists on October 20,
1981. Police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O'Grady and Brink's guard Peter
Paige were murdered during the siege.
Chesimard's brother, Jeral Wayne Williams (a.k.a. Mutulu
Shakur), was the convicted ringleader of the group responsible for murdering those
law enforcement officers; he also masterminded Chesimard's escape. His release
is set for February 2016.
Celebrated left-wing heroine Kathy Boudin and her
then-husband David Gilbert were convicted for their role in the bloody Rockland
County robbery. Boudin and Company, as I reported in March, are the
inspirations for Robert Redford's new movie love letter to the Weather
Underground. Boudin now holds an adjunct professorship at Columbia University's
School of Social Work, along with a scholar-in-residence post at New York
University, as the New York Post reported in April. The adoptive parents of her
son, Rhodes scholar and Yale legal fellow Chesa Boudin, are Weather Underground
militants-turned-academics Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Susan Rosenberg, a violent "progressive"
domestic terrorist who participated in bombings of the United States Capitol
Building, three military installations and other sites during the 1980s, was a
principal getaway coordinator for Chesimard, Shakur, Boudin, et al. After
receiving a pardon from Bill Clinton, Rosenberg taught literature at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice and was offered a teaching position at Hamilton
College.
Blogger Bill Ardolino, whose father was a N.J. state
trooper and classmate of murdered N.J. trooper Werner Foerster, recounted
Chesimard's chilling lack of remorse: "After their capture, my father was
part of the team assigned to guard the severely wounded Chesimard in the
hospital. As the troopers stood outside of her room, she incessantly chanted,
'If I had some poison gas, I'd throw it on your white ass.' ... Today she walks
free as a professor, counter-cultural heroine and published author reviewed by
The New York Times: "A deftly written book ... a spellbinding tale."
From Free Assata to Free Mumia to Free Jahar, the left's
police-bashing bloodlust is not just a sick joke. Their romanticizing of
cold-blooded terrorism is a pathology. Twisted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev summed it up
in three letters for his friends while still on the lam for committing a deadly
terrorist attack, murdering a police officer and wounding another:
"LOL."
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