Burn in Hell, Joanne Chesimard | The American Spectator

Three Democrats out of the 58 who actively voted against the Charlie Kirk resolution in the House of Representatives earlier this month have popped off with hagiographic statements about Joanne Chesimard, the unrepentant cop killer and one-woman crime wave who fled to Cuba rather than face justice for her crimes.

Chesimard, who called herself Assata Shakur for some reason, was 78.

The three Democrats refused to honor a man killed for engaging in civil debate on college campuses, but they were solicitous in mourning a communist revolutionary who murdered New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in a 1973 shootout along the New Jersey Turnpike. Chesimard had been a member of something called the Black Liberation Army, a criminal gang that funded itself through bank robberies and other crimes, and had been in and out of court multiple times evading conviction on various charges.

But Foerster’s murder did produce a conviction of Chesimard in 1977 for murder in the first degree, and she was sentenced to life in prison. That sentence lasted only two years in actual effect, because in 1979 her Black Liberation Army pals broke her out of Clinton Correctional Facility for Women, and from there she was on the lam for some time.

Then in 1984 she appeared publicly from Cuba to announce she’d been given political asylum by Fidel Castro, in a move that provided incandescent evidence that communism and crime are inseparable both in theory and practice.

That’s a lesson we can see with perfect clarity today, of course, as modern Democrats, particularly those hailing from the political machines, have turned our cities into cesspools of crime and embraced criminality with gusto.

You don’t like such an accusation? Then show me the Illinois Democrats who have come out strongly against Antifa’s ongoing assault against the ICE facility in Chicago.

Show me the Democrats supporting the Trump administration’s move to bring in the National Guard to protect federal facilities in Portland.

Show me the Democrats taking Trump’s cues and cracking down on urban crime in the cities they control so that Trump doesn’t have to attempt to federalize law enforcement. He can’t, of course, like he could in Washington, D.C., though red state governors could invite the feds to cities like New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, and St. Louis to put an end to the rampant criminality there.

There are some Dems not so stupid as to realize the public is sick of criminality, particularly in population centers when it makes them unlivable, and they are attempting to distance themselves from the criminals.

But not many.

Though to their credit, most of the sitting Democrat House members weren’t as stupid as Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, and Yvette Clarke, who put themselves in the spotlight by rejecting an awfully anodyne resolution honoring Kirk as a patriot and rejecting political violence, and then slobbering all over Joanne Chesimard.

Clarke went so far as to post on X: “As we face the great fight for freedom of our day, may we find strength and purpose in these enduring words from Assata Shakur. If there is a single truth in this world, it is that Assata died a free woman. May she rest in power and paradise for all eternity.”

The Rest In Power thing isn’t a new slogan for the hardcore Left. We heard it a lot after St. George Floyd of Fentanyl died. But it’s older than that. It was first used after a graffiti artist in Oakland was killed in a robbery, and then it was used after Trayvon Martin got himself killed by George Zimmerman as he was beating the latter’s brains out on a sidewalk.

Then with Michael Brown.

Now it’s used every time somebody the Left likes dies, particularly if they’re a criminal or a violent revolutionary.

And the Left doesn’t quite get what a self-own it is.

Because to rest in power rather than in peace is a very anti-Christian, anti-civilizational wish. Christians, who recognize that, as Jesus said, his kingdom is not of this world, aspire to join our Creator in heaven where there is no strife or fight left — and thus no need for power.

And with that aspiration, and the knowledge that God’s grace is what makes it possible for sinners such as we are to gain access through the Pearly Gates, we can recognize the imperfections of this world and focus on living the best and most morally justifiable life possible within its confines before moving on to the next.

If you’re trying to rest in power, you have no use for any of that. To rest in power means to be a martyr to the cause of continued struggle and strife that this imperfect world would be made perfect.

Not by the grace of God, but by the power of the revolution.

There is no peace in that. There is victimization and theft and warfare, and it’s justified by making heroes of the worst, most demonic people available.

Like the massive brute who attacks a neighborhood store owner in order to steal a box of Swisher Sweets, and then gets himself killed trying to take the gun away from the policeman called to the scene.

Or a career criminal drug addict with a record of violent crime, including holding a knife to the belly of a pregnant woman he was robbing, who took triple the fatal dose of fentanyl before attempting to pass a fake $20 bill and had the police called on him as a result, and expired as those policemen were attempting to subdue him so he could be processed at the precinct.

Or a revolutionary low-life who set off on a crime spree that got people killed and then refused to pay for her crimes, instead allowing herself to be a pawn of one of the world’s most repressive, cancerous regimes.

They’re resting in power, all right. The power of Hell.

That’s where Joanne Chesimard is. And it’s where Yvette Clark, Ayanna Presley, and Summer Lee seem to be happily headed thanks to their utter lack of grace, civility, or class.

A Democrat Party even remotely willing to uphold the foundations of our republic would be horrified at leaders such as these. We have no such party.

As such, it can’t be allowed to rest anywhere near power. Let’s act accordingly.

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