Will Obama Sell Assata Out? by Min Paul Scott

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The New Assault on Assata Shakur: Will Obama Sell Assata Out?
by Min Paul Scott
No Warning Shots Fired !: Will Obama Sell Assata Out?

Most Americans are not familiar with Assata Shakur. After all, she's not exactly the type of black super hero that they parade around during Black History Month. This is the type ignorance that some legislators in New Jersey hope will allow them to extradite Shakur back to the US under the cover of our darkness.

Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) was involved in a 1973 shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that resulted in the deaths of fellow Black Liberation Army member Zayd Shakur and NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster. Shakur was sentenced to life in prison in 1977 but was broken out of prison by her comrades in 1979. She has been living under political asylum in Cuba since 1984.

She still remains on the FBI's Most Wanted List with a million dollar reward for any snitch willing to give her up to the FEDS.

However, with President Barack Obama seeking to open political channels with Cuba and ease US restrictions, politicians in New Jersey have been turning up the heat on the Prez to make the Cuban government give up Shakur if they want to be in Uncle Sam's good graces.

While the current headlines of "NJ to Press for Return of Cop Killer" would lead you to believe that Shakur is some heartless street thugstress that went around shootin' up police stations just for kicks, the truth about the government repression by which groups like the Black Panther Party and its underground military arm, the Black Liberation Army sufferered has never really been told.

We cannot allow the media to even begin discussing Assata Shakur without putting her struggle in the context of COINTELPRO. The Counter Intelligence Program was an effort by J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation and its associated agencies to destroy groups that dared stand against US oppression.

It was under COINTELPRO that black leadership suffered under "dirty tricks" that ranged from political assassinations (Fred Hampton) to smear campaigns which are too many to even begin to name here. Even the good Rev. Martin Luther King JR was not immune to Hoover's "dirty tricks."

Could you really expect Assata Shakur to get a fair trail under such repressive policies?

According to the late Civil Rights attorney, William Kuntsler in his book "My Life as a Radical Lawyer," a law enforcement agent told him that during Shakur's trial " a member of the New Jersey State Assembly had gone to the hotel where the jury was sequestered and talked to them about the necessity to convict." In the book Kuntsler hints that even he underestimated the lengths that NJ law enforcement would go to get a conviction of Shakur.

Today, those same types of people are at it again. On April 17th, NJ Senator Sean King sent a letter to President Obama asking him to "delay normalizing relations with Cuba unless they agree to extradite convicted cop killer JoAnne Chesimard."

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_imp...enatorKean.pdf

Also, NJ Attorney General Anne Milgram has been quoted as saying "Obama's move to ease sanctions against Cuba is an opportunity to bring back Joanne Chesimard."

Attorney General Milgram to seek Chesimard extradition

Now, do I think that Obama would sacrifice Assata Shakur on the alter of "Democracy" for political expediency ?

You're darn right !

To appease middle class white America President Obama will throw Shakur under the same Greyhound that he threw Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

That is, if we don't raise our voices.

There are organizations that have been fighting to keep the plight of Assata Shakur in our faces for years.
Assata Shakur Speaks!

Black bloggers must start an immediate, emergency mass education campaign to tell the true story of Assata Shakur and COINTELPRO to combat the efforts of the miseducation of the mainstream media.

We must make sure that our local and national "urban" radio stations inform their listeners about this issue. (Tom Joyner, Michael Baisden)

We must arm ourselves with information about Assata Shakur and COINTELPRO through websites, DVD's and books such as "Show Down" by the late Del Jones and "Racial Matters" and "Black America:The FBI Files" by Kenneth O'Reilly.

Finally, we must appeal to the Hip Hop artists who have the ears of the people to raise the issue if only for the reason of reppin' for "Tupac's kin folk." (If that will motivate them to take action.)

If we do not raise this issue, loudly, Assata Shakur will be back in a US prison or worst before she knows what hit her.

We owe this much to a sister who, as the rapper Common said in "A Song for Assata,"

"Went through all this.... so we can be free..."

A Song For Assata - Paris Music RBG Tube | PanAfrican.TV v2.0 - Free Revolutionary Audio Video Speech Library of Leaders, Activist, and Educators

A Song For Assata - Paris Music RBG Tube | PanAfrican.TV v2.0 - Free Revolutionary Audio Video Speech Library of Leaders, Activist, and Educators

Paul Scott writes for No Warning Shots Fired.com www.nowarningshotsfired.com He can be reached at info@nowarningshotsfired.com (919) 451-8283

[Guinan]

Oh boy...I hope it doesn't pan out this way. This is one of those times I would LOVE to be wrong.

[Sourakhata]

We have double our efforts up, no doubt.

[Mordecai_7]

If the Cuban government's interests are going to benefit from a new relationship with the U.S., and turning Assata over is "conditional" for those interests to be realized, then our sister is in serious trouble.

[DarkManJah]

i hope Raul will stick to his country's fundamentals and tell washington that any deal that includes Shakur's return to this hellhole is laughable and that they will wait another 50 years and test the waters...

[mamaleekabooboodei]

I think Obama would sell out our fine sister in a heartbeat.

He is little more than the puppet of the white mattoids behind the New World Order. There is only one black person Obama cares about, and that is himself.

I tears me to say this, but can anyone point to anything he has done so far to help out our brothers and sisters struggling for social justice in this society?

[RDC]

President George Bush: male Caucasian
Sister Queen Assata Shakur: female Black

Violent deaths attributed to President George Bush through June, 2009: 1,100,000 (one-million, one-hundred thousand)

Violent deaths attributed to Sister Queen Assata Shakur through today: ONE (according to all-white Jury, though medical examiners, forensics experts, etc., testifed it was “impossible” that she even HAD a weapon to shoot anyone)

Punishment meted out to President George Bush for murdering 1,100,000 men, women, children, babies, and fetuses: NONE

Punishment meted out to Sister Queen Assata Shakur for alledgedly murdering a police officer: Sentenced to a prison term of LIFE PLUS 33 YEARS (though she friends and followers and admirers [black and white] helped her break out of prison–she is still free).

Current U.S. legal status of President George Bush: clear

Current U.S. legal status of Sister Queen Assata Shakur: escaped convict; Wanted by FBI, which offers a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture; Granted political refugee status by Fidel Castro, of Cuba

Current salary of President George Bush: $161,000/yr. (This is his ex-President salary only, not other income.)

Current salary of Sister Queen Assata Shakur: $4,745/yr—approximately $13 a day from Cuban government

Legacy of President George Bush: Mass murder and genocide; Destruction of U.S. Economy; Despised by world government leaders; U.S. now hated even more than it was before.

Question: Who is the criminal??

[Anonmuz]

Obama will sell Assata out, Cuba will give her up either willingly or be forced. It's the way that America works.

There are so many countries whos leader was actually helping the people of that country and the leaders did not take the bribes the US was offering them to in turn take the peoples money away and basicly make the people slaves like us here. Guess who's running those countries now... the US.

The devil has many blind and broken people working for him that wil do anything for a buck or to stay alive.