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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: doubletrouble™ on May 12, 2005, 12:58:35 AM
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HAVANA - President Fidel Castro has rejected calls to hand over a black militant convicted in 1973 of killing a New Jersey state trooper, saying she's a victim of racial persecution and not a terrorist, as U.S. officials declared recently.
"They wanted to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie," Castro said in a television address Tuesday night.
While Castro did not identify the woman by name, he was clearly alluding to Assata Shakur — the former Joanne Chesimard — who was put on a U.S. government terrorist watch list May 2. On the same day, New Jersey officials announced a $1 million reward for her capture.
Castro's remarks were his first comment on the new U.S. actions.
A member of the Black Liberation Army, Shakur, 57, was convicted of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster as he lay on the ground. She escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba.
Castro referred to her as a victim of "the fierce repression against the black movement in the United States" and said she had been "a true political prisoner."
"They have always been hunting her, searching for her because of the fact that there was an accident in which a policeman died," Castro said, reflecting Shakur's assertion that she did not shoot the officer.
Castro said an appeal for her expulsion had been raised with him several years ago by a woman who was both "a friend of Cuba" and a friend of former President Clinton.
"I transmitted my opinion to the president of the United States," he said, though he did not specify who raised the issue nor when she visited. He made clear the case involved New Jersey.
Castro suggested that the action was meant to divert attention from Cuba's demand that U.S. officials arrest Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted in Venezuela on charges of involvement in blowing up a civilian Cuban jetliner in 1976, killing 73 people.
His attorney has said that Posada, a former CIA employee, slipped into the United States and is seeking asylum. Posada denies any role in the airplane attack.
The Cuban leader called for a massive rally on May 17 in front of the U.S. Interests Section, or diplomatic mission, to demand the arrest of Posada.
He dedicated most of Tuesday's remarks to descriptions to numerous terrorist actions that Cuba alleges Posada and his anti-Castro associates have committed over the past 35 years.
Castro referred to earlier published suggestions that Posada and Florida-based exile Orlando Bosch could have been involved in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
"There are strange things, very strange, mixed up here," Castro said.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/11/cuba.fugitive.ap/index.html
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Good.
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Good.
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Good.
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Good.
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Some1 should kill both Posada and Shakur :)
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Good.
I'm lovin' that Game sig.........and yes i got The Documentary :)
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I'm lovin' that Game sig.........and yes i got The Documentary :)
Of course you do ;)
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Basically America owned about 80% of Cuba's land before Castro came to power and nationalized the countries resources. Because he decided to put the interests of his own people ahead of America's interests in his country, America has been after him ever since (Kennedy ordered an assasination attempt against Castro). But Castro remains defiant, and now in this instance he is protecting an American (Assata Shakur) from facing injustice in her own country.
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that's why i respect Fidel............he don't stand for no bullshit
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THAT'S CRAZY,I WAS WATCHING CNN today and the U.S has crackdown on cuba,and i was thinkin to myself, 'are they doing all this just to get Assata Shakur '..and they are...
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Open Letter from Assata Shakur
http://www.allhiphop.com/editorial/?ID=257
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so someone commits a murder and because they were related to the g.o.a.t everyone wants this person to live without consequences ::) man this is a strang world we live in
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so someone commits a murder and because they were related to the g.o.a.t everyone wants this person to live without consequences ::) man this is a strang world we live in
She's been in Cuba since 84. Let her stay there. The whole country is fucked and going down the tubes anyways.
If she does come back to the US, then she should be locked up for life.
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so someone commits a murder and because they were related to the g.o.a.t everyone wants this person to live without consequences ::) man this is a strang world we live in
Agreed with everything but the GOAT part ;D
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If you're drunk, and you read the title, it comes off as really confusing. "Fidel Castro Refuses To Give Up Ass" but I can't figure out what a Shakur is.
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Fidel has a lot of balls to keep standing up to the U.S. since USSR broke up. I got mad respect for him, even though his economic sense may be slightly below average.
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I suggest you read her story and listen to Commons Song "A Song For Assata".
Cointelpro was a BITCH.
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Fidel is a fucking commi and hes just doing this to piss off America. He probably wanted some cuban criminals who fled to america to come back and america refuted it.
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^^^^^America do tha same shit to other countries...........Shut Up
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no fuck you i never said they didnt
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so someone commits a murder and because they were related to the g.o.a.t everyone wants this person to live without consequences ::) man this is a strang world we live in
I suggest you read her story and listen to Commons Song "A Song For Assata".
Cointelpro was a BITCH.
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no fuck you i never said they didnt
If you know then why tha fuck did you even bring it up in tha first fuckin' place................? Cunt
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eat a dick
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^^^^^Fag :puke:
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Castro is dope, he has done some bad shit but, is still a dope muthafucker. Although if he fucked wit my family id choke him wit his beard
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Rappers Mos Def, Talib Kweli and dead prez spoke in support of former Black Panther Assata Shukur at a press conference yesterday (May 25) at New York’s City Hall.
Charles Barron, councilman from Brooklyn's East New York called the meeting as a response to a million dollar bounty on the political fugitive, who now resides in Cuba.
Barron also introduced a resolution that seeks presidential clemency for Shakur, claiming that she the victim of “trumped-up charges and a kangaroo court with an all-white jury.”
Both Mos and Kweli stated that they feel Shakur was unjustly convicted for the murder of a police officer in 1973.
While maintaining her innocence, Shakur escaped prison in 1979, after claims of experiencing deplorable, inhumane treatment.
"It's time people know the truth about Assata Shakur, that she's innocent," Mos Def said.
During a recent concert by rapper Common, Mos Def altered the words to his song “Umi Says” and inserted lyrics like “I want Assata to be free/ Hands off Assata...remember Malcom....hands off Assata.”
Concurring, Talib Kweli said, "Meeting her made her human...her autobiography [“Assata: An Autobiography”] changed my life."
The rappers met Shakur when they visited Cuba with Black August, a yearly show dedicated to political prisoners.
With the million dollar bounty on her head, federal authorities have deemed Shakur "120 pounds of money” and labeled her a “domestic terrorist” on the same list as Bin Laden.
Barron, also a former Black Panther, stated that the bounty isn’t an attempt at justice, but suggestive of vengeance.
"I’m infuriated that a bounty has been put on her, placing her life in danger. She is a hero to our community," Barron said.
Barron’s resolution has already been blocked by Speaker Gifford Miller, who said the measure will never even get a hearing or vote, labeling Shakur a “convicted cop killer who broke out of prison and has fled the country.”
The Cuban government, led by Fidel Castro, has continued to grant Shakur asylum despite the bounty.
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There are greater threats to the nation than Assata Shakur.