These Women’s March clowns sure are a piece of work. Maybe those pink knit hats are on too tight.
The Nasty Women’s March Twitter feed featured a cartoon of Joanne Deborah Chesimard aka Assata Shakur, a woman who has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for decades. She is wanted for escaping from a New Jersey prison in 1979. She had been serving a life sentence for the execution-style murder of a police officer.
Classy.
On May 2, 1973, Chesimard, who was part of a revolutionary extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Army, and two accomplices were stopped for a motor vehicle violation on the New Jersey Turnpike by two troopers with the New Jersey State Police. At the time, Chesimard was wanted for her involvement in several felonies, including bank robbery. Chesimard and her accomplices opened fire on the troopers. One trooper was wounded and the other was shot and killed execution-style at point-blank range. Chesimard fled the scene, but was subsequently apprehended. One of her accomplices was killed in the shoot-out and the other was also apprehended and remains in jail.
In 1977, Chesimard was found guilty of first degree murder, assault and battery of a police officer, assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to kill, illegal possession of a weapon, and armed robbery. She was sentenced to life in prison. On November 2, 1979, Chesimard escaped from prison and lived underground before being located in Cuba in 1984. She is thought to currently still be living in Cuba.
Source: FBI Most Wanted List
Here’s the Happy B-Day Tweet:
Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur! Today's #SignOfResistance, in Assata's honor, is by @Meloniousfunk. pic.twitter.com/V66au1dRnl
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 16, 2017
And they weren’t the only ones. Their anti-cop BLM buddies did one better — they had a rally for her:
HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY, ASSATA! We are turning up in Brooklyn for you. We celebrate the revolutionary spirit you are. You inspired a movement. pic.twitter.com/MZRwawnmfH
— BlackLivesMatterNYC (@BLMNYC) July 16, 2017
When the Twitter hate got to the Women’s March, they tweeted 20 messages defending their actions.
Women's March is a nonviolent movement. We have never and will never use violence to achieve our goals. (1/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
The far right is threatened by our movement, and by our solidarity with other movements. (2/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
Our power—your power—scares the far right. They continue to try to divide us. Today's attacks on #AssataShakur are the latest example (3/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
Here is a brief refresher on who #AssataShakur is and why we consider her a feminist figure: (4/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur is a civil rights leader who used her leadership position to challenge sexism within the Black Liberation Movement. (5/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur's resistance tactics were different from ours. That does not mean that we do not respect her anti-sexism work. (6/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
#AssataShakur took a militant approach. We do not. That does not mean we don't respect and appreciate her anti-racism work. (7/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
Like many activists during the 60s and 70s, #AssataShakur was under constant FBI surveillance through a program called COINTELPRO. (8/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
Via @ACLU: COINTELPRO was "an effort to suppress domestic political dissent through an array of illegal activities." (9/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
COINTELPRO used illegal techniques to monitor & discredit civil rights groups and even kill civil rights leaders like Fred Hampton. (10/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
COINTELPRO targeted MLK until his assassination. Once he was killed & no longer a threat to FBI, they went after the Black Panthers. (11/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
COINTELPRO repeatedly tried to imprison Assata, attempting to link her to every east coast bank robbery involving a Black woman. (12/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
This is the terrifying climate #AssataShakur's resistance work took place in—when the govt was killing her friends and colleagues. (13/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
In 1973, #AssataShakur was involved in a shoot-out in which she was wounded & a NJ State Trooper & several of her colleagues killed. (14/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
‘Involved in a shootout‘. That State Trooper doing his job was killed execution-style. It wasn’t an oopsie.
Assata was arrested, tortured and charged for the death of the State Trooper. As further punishment, she was held in a men's prison. (15/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We see the decision to place Assata in a men's prison as state-sponsored sexual assault—using rape as legal punishment for a crime. (16/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
After two years, #AssataShakur escaped from prison. She has been living with political asylum in Cuba ever since. (17/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
‘Political asylum‘ in Cuba. Where they murder dissidents. That should tell you what you need to know.
Though, if Che Guevara were still alive he’d be upset since he was a blatant racist.
In 2013, #AssataShakur became the first woman added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. She'd been implicated in no new crimes. (18/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
In 2013, #AssataShakur became the first woman added to the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list. She'd been implicated in no new crimes. (18/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We say all this not to say that #AssataShakur has never committed a crime, and not to endorse all of her actions. (19/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
We say this to demonstrate the ongoing history of government & right-wing attempts to criminalize and discredit political activists. (20/20)
— Women's March (@womensmarch) July 17, 2017
So, now that we’ve been lectured by the Cat-hat crowd, let’s get to some reality.
Let’s talk about their ‘peaceful roots’.
Remember, these are the same people that are claiming that Dana Loesch is ‘promoting violence’ by speaking out against Leftist violence in her latest NRA ad.
Yep, I’m pretty sure that hat is on too tight.
Here’s Dana Loesch to educate them:
The man behind the so-called peaceful woman's march movement #DaddyFarrakhan pic.twitter.com/69Y23WGlYI
— "Gitmo" Bama (@President1Trump) July 14, 2017
