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Sometimes, I really do believe the inmates are running the asylum.

Up until today, I had never heard of Joanne Deborah Chesimard, AKA Assata Shakur, the convicted cop killer who escaped to Cuba. It is truly sad that the way I have learned about her is through an article on the news that the City College of New York has named a building in her "honor."

From FoxNews:

The Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center on the third floor of CCNY's North Academic Center was named in 1989 for Shakur, convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, and Morales, a former member of FALN, which is a Puerto Rican liberation group that claimed responsibility for a rash of bombings in New York in the mid-1970s.

It goes to show that in New York City, if you are a cop killer or a terrorist, you can get a building named after you. Tax-payer be damned!

Students at the school have been reported as saying that they believe her to be a hero.

At least law enforcement agencies are outraged.

"We use tax dollars to support an institution that indemnifies a cold-blooded terrorist?" Dave Jones, president of the New Jersey State Troopers Fraternal Association, told the Daily News.

"She's a cowardly, cold-blooded convicted murderer who's part of a murdering sect," he told the newspaper. "She's no different from those people who flew those planes into those towers and destroyed all those innocent lives."

Jones is right…there is no difference between Morales, who is also living in Cuba, and Shakur and the terrorists that brought you 9/11. Except maybe the scale of their crimes.

What I would like to know is why name buildings after such criminals as these rather than honoring the many officers, firefighters and other courageous folks that sacrificed their lives on 9/11? Perhaps they should have named it the Ganci/Feehan/Judge Community Center in honor of Fire Department Chief Peter Ganci; First Deputy Fire Commissioner William Feehan; and Father Mychal Judge, the department's chaplain.

Sadly, we live in an age where our children are brainwashed into believing that the bad guys are the ones who should be honored and remembered, not those who have lost their lives saving others.

One last quote from the piece sums it up:

"If it had nothing to do with killing the cop, it's alright," he said. "You have to think why she did it, cause cops are known to mess with some people, you know. If she had a reason to do it then I have no problem with it."

That was Sophomore Carlos Badilla, 20, of the Bronx.

She killed a cop, in cold blood, you moron!

Of course, the college administration claims that they had nothing to do with the name selection, and stand by the BS argument that it is to facilitate discussion, and there are no plans to rename the center. Yeesh!

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