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RandallFan
12-21-2014, 04:33 PM
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is urging President Obama to demand that Cuba return convicted police-killer Joanne Chesimard before he proceeds with efforts to improve diplomatic relations with that country.

Chesimard was found guilty of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 before escaping from prison and fleeing to Cuba. The 67-year-old Chesimard has since been provided safe haven by the Cuban government.





“Cuba’s provision of safe harbor to Chesimard by providing political asylum to a convicted cop killer … is an affront to every resident of our state, our country, and in particular, the men and women of the New Jersey State Police,” Christie wrote. “I urge you to demand the immediate return of Chesimard before any further consideration of restoration of diplomatic relations with the Cuban government.”



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/21/christie-tells-obama-demand-return-police-killer-chesimard-to-begin-cuba-talks/

Suzanimal
12-23-2014, 01:35 PM
Cuba says it has a right to grant asylum to US fugitives


HAVANA (AP) — Cuba said Monday that it has a right to grant asylum to U.S. fugitives, the clearest sign yet that the communist government has no intention of extraditing America's most-wanted woman despite the warming of bilateral ties.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has urged President Barack Obama to demand the return of fugitive Joanne Chesimard before restoring full relations under a historic detente announced by Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro last week.

Chesimard was granted asylum by Fidel Castro after she escaped from the prison where she was serving a sentence for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 during a gunbattle after being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Asked if returning fugitives was open to negotiation, Cuba's head of North American affairs, Josefina Vidal, told The Associated Press that "every nation has sovereign and legitimate rights to grant political asylum to people it considers to have been persecuted. ... That's a legitimate right."

"We've explained to the U.S. government in the past that there are some people living in Cuba to whom Cuba has legitimately granted political asylum," Vidal said.

"There's no extradition treaty in effect between Cuba and the U.S.," she added.

In a letter to the White House made public Sunday, Christie said Cuba's asylum for Chesimard, who has changed her name to Assata Shakur, was "an affront to every resident of our state, our country, and in particular, the men and women of the New Jersey State Police, who have tirelessly tried to bring this killer back to justice."

Later Monday, during a live interview with a local television anchor, Christie responded to Vidal's statement that Cuba has the right to grant to political asylum to those who have been persecuted.

"So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world — certainly much more just than anything that's happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers. She is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted," he said.

He added, "these thugs in Cuba have given her political asylum for 30 years. It's unacceptable."

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http://news.yahoo.com/cuba-were-open-every-part-obamas-detente-191506390.html

AngryCanadian
12-23-2014, 01:48 PM
Why does Christie have to open his mouth?

CaptUSA
12-23-2014, 01:54 PM
Why does Christie have to open his mouth?

Because there's no faster way to get the donuts into his belly?

(Oh, we could do this all day!)

phill4paul
12-23-2014, 01:54 PM
an affront to every resident of our state, our country

Not me..so shut your pie hole.

jjdoyle
12-23-2014, 02:01 PM
"in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world".
Is it without question? I guess if you are part of it, you can say so?

Found this that could be used:
http://www.ibtimes.com/united-states-justice-system-falls-behind-other-high-income-nations-charts-1560167

presence
12-23-2014, 02:46 PM
http://www.38thnotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/assata-shakur.jpg




Her lawyer made a statement on Democracy Now 6/2013, tube here:

http://www.38thnotes.com/2013/06/05/assata-teach-in-tell-and-learn-the-real-story/



In short, he presents that she has been charged over and again for things that she has been acquitted by juries for; "targeted by cointelpro illegal FBI action" as a unsavorty political activist.

The 1973 "cop killing" she was shot in the back during a shootout, with her hands up, she was unarmed and never shown to have fired a shot.
She's accused of taking a gun away from a downed officer and shooting him while he was down after she was hit herself in the clavicle.


Chesimard/Shakur is godmother of rapper 2Pac Shakur

otherone
12-23-2014, 08:36 PM
Christie wrote. “I urge you to demand the immediate return of Chesimard before any further consideration of restoration of diplomatic relations with the Cuban government.”

Maybe if Christie drives to Miami he can capture her in his gravitational field.

Schifference
12-23-2014, 08:47 PM
Maybe the US should send all people that have attained US asylum back to the countries that want to prosecute them. Maybe we should close GITMO. Maybe the US should demand that people that are held for years in jail without being charged for crimes should be released.

Occam's Banana
12-23-2014, 09:01 PM
Why does Christie have to open his mouth?


Because there's no faster way to get the donuts into his belly?

(Oh, we could do this all day!)

Fat Bastard ...

http://i.imgur.com/9NYOIdz.png

enhanced_deficit
12-23-2014, 10:33 PM
Unless he had also called for extradition of Samuel Sheinbein when he was hot air balooning in the only non-racist democracy in mideast paid for by foreign lobbies, he is showing severe double standard.


Sheinbein, 33, was a 17-year-old high school student in 1997 when he and a friend killed another teenager, used a power saw to cut off the victim’s arms and legs and wrapped the torso in trash bags. Then, with detectives on his heels, Sheinbein fled to Israel, where he was able to fend off extradition.

http://tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/christiebig40.jpg

RPtotheWH
12-24-2014, 05:40 AM
I didn't know they had special yamakas for Governors. What a clown