It just doesn't get any more blatant then this


A conference featuring eight prominent 2020 Democrat presidential hopefuls kicked off in Washington, D.C,. with the fiery rallying cry of a fugitive cop-killer on Monday, as the labor and political groups in attendance shouted in unison, "We have nothing to lose but our chains."

Jamal Watkins, the Vice President of Civic Engagement at the NAACP, began by telling the audience at the We the People conference that he would invoke the words of Assata Shakur, whose real name is Joanne Chesimard.


Shakur was convicted of the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper when she was in the Black Liberation Army. After escaping from prison in 1979, Shakur fled to Cuba, which granted her asylum even as she remains on the FBI's list of most-wanted fugitive terrorists.

"Now I came here not to talk at you -- it's gonna be a long and powerful day," Watkins said. "But I want you to do something with me. I'm gonna actually have you participate with me in repeating some words from a leader by the name of Assata Shakur. So if you could stand up -- if you can't stand, it's okay -- but I want you to repeat after me."

Watkins then quoted Shakur, pausing to let attendees repeat after him: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Shakur's words, in turn, were appropriated from the final sentences of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' Communist Manifesto: "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!"

Among the groups in attendance were the Sierra Club, MoveOn.org, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, SEIU and Communications Workers of America.

They were drawn to the conference to hear from a series of speakers that included 2020 Democratic White House contenders Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Inslee and Kirsten Gillibrand.

Although there was no indication the candidates embraced Shakur's comments, Democrats and progressives have long embraced the convicted murderer. California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters, for example, wrote in 1998 to then-Cuban President Fidel Castro to apologize for voting for a resolution that called for Cuba to stop harboring Shakur.

"I, and some of the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, mistakenly voted for House Concurrent Resolution 254 which called on the Government of Cuba to extradite to the United States Joanne Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States from political persecution and received political asylum in Cuba," Waters wrote to Castro. "Joanne Chesimard was the birth name of a political activist known to most Members of the Congressional Black Caucus as Assata Shakur. For the record, I am opposed to the resolution. I unequivocally stated that a mistake was made and I would have voted against the legislation."

Notably absent from the conference on Monday was former Vice President Joe Biden, who is grappling with accusations of unwanted touching from two women.


https://www.foxnews.com/politi...killer-assata-shakur

Not even remotely surprised, no mention to free Mumia, dems must be slowing down.

Once again, Trump needs to blast these people as radicals and domestic terrorists if they are advocating the words of a cop killer as a rallying cry. All of them.

Disgusting assholes, all of them.

I love the quote "We have nothing to lose but our chains". I guess he thinks it's still 1850 Mississippi.

I've often wondered why the NJSP hasn't allowed a few hispanic Troopers to get into Cuba and bring Chesimard back to NJ. Either dead or alive.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I've often wondered why the NJSP hasn't allowed a few hispanic Troopers to get into Cuba and bring Chesimard back to NJ. Either dead or alive.

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State Department? Travel bans? International incident?

However, if it could be done, dead is better than alive. Come back with a picture.

This is all good stuff. Let these fucks embrace this worthless woman and use it against them next year.

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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

They should be careful promoting such ideas. Do you think it's the city dwelling, man bun having, skinny jeans wearing liberals who can carry out such a motto? Or us?

Get rid of "we have nothing to lose but our chains" buzz words BS and that fits us pretty well.

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Originally posted by PD:

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I've often wondered why the NJSP hasn't allowed a few hispanic Troopers to get into Cuba and bring Chesimard back to NJ. Either dead or alive.

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State Department? Travel bans? International incident?

However, if it could be done, dead is better than alive. Come back with a picture.

This is all good stuff. Let these fucks embrace this worthless woman and use it against them next year.

I was talking VIGILANTE JUSTICE all the way.

I doubt any political candidate writes their own speeches anymore. An underling probably wrote the speech/quotes. It doesn't make it any less shocking that a fugitive murderer is held in apparent high regard.

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Originally posted by FN in MT:
I've often wondered why the NJSP hasn't allowed a few hispanic Troopers to get into Cuba and bring Chesimard back to NJ. Either dead or alive.

I'd like to think, when 44 loosed things up with Cuba, a three letter agency within .gov put some eyes on target, updated their intel for future usage all while cultivating new assets. Unfortunately, HUMINT tradecraft seem in short-supply.

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Originally posted by az4783054:
I doubt any political candidate writes their own speeches anymore. An underling probably wrote the speech/quotes. It doesn't make it any less shocking that a fugitive murderer is held in apparent high regard.

I don't care who wrote the speech. Anyone who would stand and repeat it does not belong in elected office, or arguably, in this country at all.