http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236015,00.html
Yes, I know, Fox News. I'm using it to prove my point. They're fucking wackjobs now. I saw the word terrorist twice in the first 1 minute of reading the story Lame lame lame.
Yes, I know, Fox News. I'm using it to prove my point. They're fucking wackjobs now. I saw the word terrorist twice in the first 1 minute of reading the story Lame lame lame.
A New York City college is under fire for honoring a former student who happens to be a fugitive from justice.
The Daily News reported Monday that police groups are angered that the City College of New York has allowed a community center on its Manhattan campus to carry the name of convicted cop killer and domestic "terrorist" Assata Shakur.
"We use tax dollars to support an institution that indemnifies a cold-blooded terrorist?" Dave Jones, president of the New Jersey State Troopers Fraternal Association, told the Daily News.
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"She's a cowardly, cold-blooded convicted murderer who's part of a murdering sect," he told the newspaper. "She's no different from those people who flew those planes into those towers and destroyed all those innocent lives."
In 2005, the FBI named Shakur, whose real name is Joanne Deborah Chesimard, to its list of most wanted domestic terrorists, placing a $1 million bounty on her head.
In 1977, Shakur was convicted of the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a routine traffic stop. Shakur had been a member of the Black Liberation Army and was wanted in connection with several felonies, including bank robbery, the FBI said.
She skipped out on the life sentence, escaping from prison in Clinton, N.J., on Nov. 2, 1979. She's now believed to be living in Cuba.
On her Web site, http://www.assatashakur.org/, Shakur says she is innocent.
"I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one," she said.
Shakur, who is the godmother of slain hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur, has been heralded as a hero among the hip-hop community and political activist groups and reviled as a villain by police organizations.
The Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center on the CCNY campus was named in 1989, the paper reported. It is shared by three groups: Students for Educational Rights, the Student Liberation Action Movement and Dominicans 2000.
Guillermo Morales, also exiled in Cuba, is a former member of FALN, a Puerto Rican liberation group that claimed responsibility for a rash of bombings in New York in the mid-1970s.
"This is not the college or the administration's idea of a good name for this room, but we believe the university is a place to discuss and argue ideas, some of which are not widely supported," school spokeswoman Mary Lou Edmondson told the Daily News. The school has no plans to rename the room.
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