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MAY 6, 2013 7:54AM
Obama FBI re-image bombers into face of Black woman?
Dante
Did Obama FBI re-image bombers into face of
Black woman to counter smiling, white-boy-next-door-look
of the Boston bombers?
On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Assata Shakur<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5uoQt6_es> became the first woman added to the FBI's most wanted terrorists list<http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists>. The reward for her capture was doubled to $2 million.
Shakur is the second person originally from the United States to be placed on the FBI terrorist list.
[http://api.ning.com/files/-i6IiG*TvNTxU*uUFAFZnGyW*OiXP1BUVvDZ8FhecMQ7D8BpkuOGV8YDnholjpGpya9atCArvDgs*YrlPwmyhSL3QWqC2Xx4/53201381837PM.jpg?width=380]<http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/fbi-billboards-not-about-assata-shakur-50320131>
Assata Shakur is 65-years old and living in exile in Cuba. She was a member of the Black Panther Party For Self-Defense, the Black Liberation Movement and the Anti-War Movement back in the 1960s. She was falsely convicted in 1973 for killing a New Jersey state trooper during a gunfight where she was shot twice while having both her arms held up in<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7unIuy0ET8> the air, and also shot in the back.
Shakur is the step-aunt and godmother to famed Hip-Hop artist and poet, Tupac Shakur and has always maintained her innocence and accused federal authorities of political persecution under Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO operations to destroy the Black power movement for human rights.
A surgeon who examined her wounds after the shooting said it was "anatomically necessary" for her arms to have been raised for her to receive the bullet wounds she did and that her hand wounds made it "anatomically impossible" for her have fired the shot that killed the state trooper. No gun powder was found on her hands. In 1979, Shakur escape from jail, later fleeing to Cuba where she received political asylum. Listen to Assata Shakur in her own words<http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/3/assata_shakur_in_her_own_words>.
After holding the press conference to suddenly declare Assata Shakur a domestic terrorist who killed a state trooper "execution style<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFIa0IsgkIM>" (which grossly misstates the documented and reported evidence), the FBI proceeded, 40-years after the incident, to place huge "most wanted terrorist" billboard photos of Assata <http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/fbi-billboards-not-about-assata-shakur-50320131> in New Jersey.
"We're talking about a woman who was shot twice while attempting to give herself up to police who were co-operating with Federal authorities to target and assassinate or otherwise eliminate members of the Black Liberation movement just as they had done and admitted in a civil lawsuit to doing to Martin Luther King Jr." - Scotty Reid<http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/fbi-billboards-not-about-assata-shakur-50320131>, Black Talk Radio.
In these fascist heyday of the morally corrupt financial elites, effectively represented by Barack Obama, the billboard photo simply re-images bombers and terrorists with the face of an African woman.
[http://open.salon.com/files/assata-shakur1367840159.jpg]
Assata Shakur
For psychological purposes, for white supremacy, its vampirish, cannibalistic taste, its world-renown avarice, for the Euro minority's desperate historical and world lies to keep working, it seems that the kind, smiling, curly-haired white-boy-next-door-look of young Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev or of Connecticut's Adam Lanza - had to be countered pretty fast, no? Even if Obama's FBI had to reach back 40-years to re-make reality for today.
[http://open.salon.com/files/bomber21367842170.jpg]
Captured suspected Boston bomber, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev
It seems, Obama's FBI found it convenient in this climate when the US public is reeling from shock and fear, after the Connecticut Sandy Hook school massacre and the Boston marathon bombings, to confuse the issue. Re-imaging bombers and mindless gunmen with the face of an African woman freedom fighter and putting her pictures on billboards in New Jersey serves not to find Shakur but only to intimidate the Black community and other civilian justice advocates legitimately protesting the prison industrial complex and US police departments killing unarmed, innocent citizens with impunity.
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Adam Lanza, 20. Shot his mother and then fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in cold blood.
If the FBI's mandate is to preserve and protect the lives of the innocent, then FBI resources would best be applied to reign in the rogue police departments in the US that kill unarmed innocent citizens, especially in the Black community, with impunity. The FBI would better serve the public if they paid more attention to these domestic terror cells or concentrated more on finding the potential Lanzas and Tsarnaevs before these mentally disturbed folks caused public harm.
Attacking and re-imaging a 65-year old Black woman, not even living in the US as a dangerous "domestic terrorist," who presumably would, like the mindless, gun-toting Lanza, hurt innocent school children, or like the two white Boston bombers, indiscriminantely kill marathon watchers and participants is an outragious misuse of the public trust and a gross distortion<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5uoQt6_es> of the 1960s Black liberation struggle.
This is the very same FBI that's accused of dropping the ball on the elder Boston bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. (Video -"Did the FBI drop the ball on elder Boston bombing suspect?<http://video.foxnews.com/v/2317729880001/did-the-fbi-drop-the-ball-on-elder-boston-bombing-suspect/>" ; See also, Boston Bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's connection to a CIA-linked NGO<http://www.infowars.com/tamerlan-tsarnaev-attended-cia-sponsored-workshop/> .)
It is amazing — and pathetic — how swiftly the FBI felt compelled to frame the domestic terrorism conversation around a Black revolutionary living in Cuba, instead of two White men from Boston. - Kirsten West Savali<http://newsone.com/2436064/angela-davis-fbi-assata-shakur/>, Newsone.com
The huge Assata Shakur "FBI most wanted" billboards, plastered in New Jersey where Obama's FBI know<http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57582705/joanne-chesimard-first-woman-on-fbis-terror-list-not-likely-to-be-caught-in-cuba/> Assata Shakur is not living, is, as many have noted<http://newsone.com/2436064/angela-davis-fbi-assata-shakur/>, about politically repressing the Black community. A pretext to invade, send drones to Cuba? Shut up human rights avocates who struggle against tyrannical US foreign and domestic policies<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5uoQt6_es>? Repress public dissent by dehumanizing and misrepresenting justice advocates as psychopaths or cold-blooded executioner?
"This is not about Assata Shakur, it is about sending a message to the Black community and those that live within it who stand up to police violence, oppression and murder of residents, one of the very reasons for the formation of the Black Panthers. It is about the political repression of those who advocate on the behalf of the many political prisons being held by the United States government often in torturous conditions. It is about sending a message to anyone who would take up arms in defense of life, liberty and true freedom in a country that is home to the largest prison population in the world which the federal government and various corporations use as slave labor. It is about sending a message to those that would dare stand up and point out that the US government is the most violent entity on the planet and one that commits acts of terrorism against non-white people and nations on behalf of maintaining the American imperialist status-quo." (See entire Scotty Reid article at FBI Billboards not about Assata Shakur, it is about FBI politically repressing the Black community<http://blacktalkradionetwork.com/page/fbi-billboards-not-about-assata-shakur-50320131>. See also Assata Shakur in Her Own Words: Rare Recording of Activist Named to FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List<http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/3/assata_shakur_in_her_own_words> and, A Song for Assata<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2xddaL6Ey0>.)
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