However, prosecutors dropped those charges in 1990 as part of a plea deal involving other suspects in the bombings. Kerr, Andrew. [13], After college, Rosenberg worked as an anti-drug counselor and continued to be involved in anti-war and anti-racism movements.
Officials cited by The New York Times at the time of the commutation included then-New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, who had escorted Rosenberg to and from her trial, and Rockland County union police official David Trois. Fox News, “Obama Ambassador Under Fire for Comments on Anti-Semitism,” December 2, 2011, Updated December 23, 2015. November 1985. Bombs were also planted, but did not detonate, at several sites in New York: the FBI’s office in Staten Island, the Israeli Aircraft Industries building, the South African consulate and the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Walter, Scott.
Rosenberg’s prominent position within Thousand Currents is clear, as are that organization’s close links to the Black Lives Matter Global Network (and thereby the broader Black Lives Matter movement).
Mary Grabar, “Jerry Nadler’s ‘family’ values,” RealClearPolitics, May 22, 2019. “4 Indicted by U.S. in Escape of Joanne Chesimard in ’79.” Rosenberg was tried and convicted on the following charges: “Conspiracy to possess unregistered firearms, receive firearms and explosives shipped in interstate commerce while a fugitive, and unlawfully use false identification documents …; possession of unregistered destructive devices, possession of unregistered firearm (two counts) …; carrying explosives during commission of a felony … ; possession with intent to unlawfully use false identification documents…; false representation of Social Security number, possession of counterfeit Social Security cards.”.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Rosenberg was involved in the May 19th Communist Organization, a terrorist group that was behind multiple bomb attacks. The Daily Caller. Aaron Morrison, “Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation establishes $12M grant fund,”.
BillOReilly.com.
In the summer of 2020, amid a new wave of nationwide protests over racial injustice and police brutality, readers inquired about the accuracy of online articles and social media posts that claimed a convicted terrorist sat on the board of directors of a left-leaning organization that provides fundraising and administration services for the Black Lives Matter movement. Accessed June 25, 2020.
Fox News' Tucker Carlson broke the story. The group splintered due to factional interests, and at least one faction’s leadership led to the creation of the terrorist group Weather Underground.
December 8, 2004. PEN American Center, “Susan Rosenberg.” Accessed June 24, 2020. I talked about the political ethos of the 1960s and how it had led me and my associates into thinking our activities were acceptable. She describes seeing police strike and arrest protesters who “raised a North Vietnamese flag on the Justice Department building,” and release tear gas. According to Nadler, he was told that Rosenberg was “still in contact with some of her terrorist friends from the outside” and that the Bureau of Prisons was concerned that her armed entourage would be targeted by those associates. 28 June 2020.
A Literal Communist Terrorist! I detailed how sorry I felt now, how I accepted responsibility for my past actions, and how I would never commit any crimes again. A little background research can go a long way towards avoiding the making of embarrassingly inaccurate accusations. [6], From 2016 to 2020, Thousand Currents became one of America’s most influential racial and social change organizations because it is Black Lives Matter Global Network’s fiscal sponsor. In November 1984, she was arrested in Cherry Hill, New Jersey after police said she and an associate, Timothy Blunk, were found transferring 740 pounds of explosives, an Uzi submachine gun, an M-14 rifle, a rifle with a telescopic sight, a sawed-off shotgun, three 9-millimeter handguns and boxes of ammunition from a car into a storage locker.
Thousand Currents, Board of Directors. “A Terrorist’s Ties to a Leading Black Lives Matter Group.” In her memoir, Rosenberg wrote of her 1984 arrest in New Jersey that “there was no immediate, specific plan to use the explosives” with which she and Blunk were caught. Accessed June 25, 2020. As recently as June 24, the date on which the Capital Research Center published their report, the Thousand Currents website listed Susan Rosenberg as vice chair of the organization’s board of directors, describing her as a “human and prison rights advocate and writer.” The entire “board of directors” page has since been removed from the site. Archived from the original date of June 16, 2020. Those posts and articles were largely based on a June 24, 2020, report published by the right-leaning Capital Research Center, which carried the headline “A Terrorist’s Ties to a Leading Black Lives Matter Group.” The report went on to state that: Some conservatives have begun speculating the unrest in American cities — even as late as Monday night in Washington, DC as “protestors” unsuccessfully worked to tear down a statue of Andrew Jackson and set up an autonomous zone across the street from the White House — may in part be an attempt to affect the upcoming presidential election, with the chaos and violence intended to make it as difficult as possible for Donald Trump to win a second term. One basis upon which one might reasonably describe a person as a terrorist is if they have been convicted of terrorist offenses.
Even if Black Lives Matter it self was seemingly unblemished, being controlled by way of a literal convicted terrorist, should make everybody concerned. Black Lives Matter,” Kerik said.
“It’s Time for Congress to Make Domestic Terrorism a Federal Crime.” She was suspected to be involved with the 1981 Brink’s Robbery that resulted in the death of a guard and two police officers, and was also sought after in connection of the prison escape of Assata Shakur, a murderer and leader of the BLA.Rosenberg was jailed for 58 years in 1984 for explosives possession, but was released on January 20th 2001, with her sentence commuted by outgoing President Bill Clinton. In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism.". The 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard (also known as Assata Shakur), a former leader of the Black Liberation Army who had been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey State Trooper named Werner Foerster, The 1976 attempted robbery of an armored car in Pittsburgh, The 1980 robbery of an armored car in Manhattan, Three attempted robberies of armored cars in Danbury, Connecticut, Four attempted robberies of armored cars in Nanuet, New York, in 1980 and 1981. Susan Rosenberg is a convicted domestic terrorist and radical left activist whose youth was spent protesting the Vietnam War and racism in America.
Accessed June 24, 2020. CNN.com, “Clinton’s reprieve of convicted radical stirs anger,” February 15, 2001. Rosenberg’s group “provides the legal and administrative framework” that lets Black Lives Matter “fulfill its mission,” in accordance with their web site.Bernard Kerik, the former NYPD Commissioner, told Tucker Carlson about Rosenberg’s criminal past on his show on Fox News on Wednesday evening.Rosenberg “was a radical revolutionary… and now she’s out. [8] As of June 24, 2020, Thousand Currents had deleted from its website the Board of Directors information listing Rosenberg’s biography. Gross, Jane.
She currently serves as human and prisoner rights advocate and a vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents. Did a ‘Convicted Terrorist’ Sit on the Board of a BLM Funding Body? Several members of the Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army groups were accused of having orchestrated and carried out the violent robbery of a Brink’s armored vehicle at the Nanuet Mall, stealing total of $1.6 million.
In June, the website of right-leaning talk radio host Wayne Dupree posted an article with the headline “Report: Leader of Group Handling ‘BLM Fundraising’ is a Convicted Terrorist Who Carried Out Bombings in NYC and DC.” Similar articles were published by the Daily Caller (an article that was republished by the Western Journal) and on the website of former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly. Raab, Selwyn. “A Convicted Terrorist Sits on Board of Charity Handling Black Lives Matter Fundraising.”
[51], Left-of-center groups like the PEN American Center have praised Rosenberg for her HIV/Aids advocacy while in prison. 21 October 1981.
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