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TORONTO (AP) - A suspected former Black Panther member accused of shooting a Chicago police officer more than 35 years ago was ordered extradited to the United States Friday. Court officials said Joseph Pannell, a former Toronto library worker who spent more than two decades living in Toronto, allegedly shot when he was 19 and a member of the black militant group. After the Toronto court ruling, Pannell's wife and four children stood in protest outside the downtown U.S. Consulate. "We all have bleeding hearts right now, but this is not over," said Pannell's wife, Natercia Coelho. She said they...

Today on the FreeRepublic Hour on Rightalk Radio, my guest was Joe Connor. Joe's dad was killed in an FALN bomb blast at Fraunces Tavern in 1975. Among the people we discussed were Bill Clinton, who pardoned FALN terrorists to help his wife, William Morales, FALN chief bombmaker being protected by Fidel Castro, and Joanne Chesimard, a cop-killer who is also being protected by Castro. The Bush-hating and despicable women from Code Pink, the group harassing wounded soldiers and families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center every week, will soon be off to visit their pal Fidel in his island...

So .. Louie-the-Lip has stepped forward to charge that white devils actually blew a hole in the New Orleans levee just so that they could flood out blacks. Yeah ... sure they did. And remember, Old Louie has traveled to space too. Yet the media continues to pay attention to this race pimp. This reminds me of Jesse Jackson ... another world class race warlord. In 1993 there was severe flooding in South Georgia. When I say severe ... I'm understating the situation. Several towns and cities were virtually under water. So ... here comes Jesse Jackson to tell the...

John McWhorter is right to say that we ought to pause and remember the Watts riots of 40 years ago and ponder their implication for America's present and future ["Burned, Baby, Burned..." FR post here]. I take strong issue, however, with the conclusions he draws from his review of the events in Watts and South Central Los Angeles in 1965. I think the difference between McWhorter and me arises in large measure from our profoundly different perspectives on the event. He writes that he was born two months after the riots occurred and that his conclusions are based on his...

On July 1, Oakland took possession of two properties that housed two viable businesses -- Revelli Tires and Autohouse, which provided the livelihoods of John Revelli and Tony Fung -- by eminent domain so that a private developer can build apartments in the redevelopment zone. On Aug. 1, Oakland took possession of a parking lot about one block away -- on which owner Alex Hahn says he wants to build housing -- so that Sears can relocate its Auto Center on that lot. If you had to re-read the above paragraph, it is because this story makes no sense. Oakland,...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Former Black Panthers are hoping the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" will help their nonprofit organization market a new product - hot sauce. The Huey P. Newton Foundation, named for the co-founder of the 1960s militant group, is seeking to trademark the phrase that for many brings to mind the racially charged 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles that left more than 30 people dead, at least 1,000 wounded and hundreds of buildings in ashes. The new line of hot sauce, called "Burn Baby Burn: A Taste of the Sixties Revolutionary Hot Sauce," is aimed at "anyone...

An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare...

former captain of the Black Panther Party, who was convicted of killing a park ranger near San Francisco 31 years ago, has been granted parole, though law enforcement officials made a last-ditch attempt Wednesday to block his release. Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr., 59, is expected to walk free from a federal prison in Coleman, Fla., on June 21, according to officials at the U.S. Parole Commission. "If he gets into trouble, he could be kept in," said Tom Hutchison, a spokesman for the Maryland-based Parole Commission. But most inmates close to their release date, he said, "just bide their...

Infuriating law-enforcement organizations and his colleagues, a City Council member, Charles Barron, introduced a resolution yesterday urging clemency for a convicted and escaped cop-killer, Assata Shakur, formerly known as Joanne Chesimard. On May 2, 1973, Chesimard was involved in a roadside shoot-out with New Jersey State Police after the vehicle in which she and two companions were traveling was pulled over because of a malfunctioning taillight. During an exchange of gunfire, a New Jersey state trooper, Werner Foerster, was wounded. Chesimard, then a member of the Black Liberation Army and the Black Panther Party, was convicted of first-degree murder in...

Remembering The Zebra Killings By James Lubinskas FrontPageMagazine.com | August 30, 2001 MOST SERIAL KILLINGS in America take on a life of their own through movies, books and documentaries. The crimes of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and The Son Sam are still well remembered years after they committed. Yet there is one set of serial killings that been almost completely forgotten and is rarely mentioned popular culture. The Zebra Killings occurred in the Francisco bay area between 1972 1974 and left 71 people dead. They were dubbed the Zebra because of the radio channel used the police investigating the case...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush was arrested Thursday during a protest rally at the Sudanese embassy accusing the government of the African nation of practicing genocide. Rush was led away in handcuffs by U.S. Secret Service officers to a police van after having blocked the embassy's entrance while shouting, "Power to the people! Power to Sudan!" Within 30 minutes, the Chicago Democrat was released from a Metropolitan Police Department station on $50 bond, said the congressman's spokeswoman, Tasha Harris. Rush was booked on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly, Secret Service spokeswoman Ann Roman said. Earlier this week, Rep....

Cheerleaders for TerrorismBy Erick StakelbeckFrontPageMagazine.com | June 17, 2003 Two groups whom Islamic terrorists can count on for sympathy and support are radical lawyers and their counterparts in American law schools. Lynne Stewart is a hero of the National Lawyers Guild and a sought-after campus lecturer. While out on bail under indictment for colluding with a terrorist leader, she has been a sought-after speaker for law school audiences who relish her attacks on Attorney General John Ashcroft as a modern-day fascist and on her country for its imperialist and racist policies. Stewart made national headlines in April 2002 when she...

Editor, the Tribune: I remember when my mother said Santa wasn’t real. Mel Gibson’s "The Passion of the Christ," I suspect, will make some people experience the shock again. Gibson inaccurately depicts Jesus as European, with straight hair and blue eyes. This is a greater distortion than Elizabeth Taylor’s role as Cleopatra. Long before Hollywood, sculptures and writings portrayed many gods as black, with African features. Buddha had woolly hair with tight curls or cornrows. India’s Krishna means "black" in Sanskrit. Islam’s Muhammad was "bluish" in color with "frizzy" hair. His grandfather was "black as the night." Moses was black,...

Black panther ‘sightings’ likely to be mountain lions. Over the years there have been numerous sightings of large cats in Bee County. Among those sightings are some of black panthers; however, wildlife experts are unanimous and emphatic when they say “no such animal exists.” From a Jan. 10, 2004, sheriff’s report, “A resident of the 3100 block of CR 406 reported a ‘beautiful, big, black panther in a wooded area’ near her home.” In the spring of 2003, a sheriff’s deputy reported a “large black cat” crossing the road in front of his vehicle while on patrol. According to Michael...

EATONTON, GA (AP) -- After months of unorthodox tactics and protests by followers dressed as Egyptian pharaohs, mummies and birds, Nuwaubian cult leader Malachi York's child molestation case finally heads to trial Monday. And officials are doing all they can to keep the courtroom from turning into a circus. "It's like living in bizarro world," said Frank Ford, an attorney who has argued with the Nuwaubians in court. "They cannot stand being told no, and they cannot stand being ignored." York, who moved the quasi-religious United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors from New York to a central Georgia farm in 1993,...

More than 30 years after they first went into battle, the leaders of America's Black Panther movement are mobilising again. This time their enemy is not the white establishment but a black radical group they claim is tarnishing their name. Surviving members of America's first armed black revolutionary group, led by one of its founders, Bobby Seale, now 65, are suing a Texan group called the New Black Panther Party on the grounds that its politics are too extreme. On television, the party's leader described the September 11 attacks as revenge for America's "sins against the people of the Earth"....

Media Credit: Joe Bonnot In a collaborative effort by the Students for Wymyn and Gender Studies (SWAGS), the American Humanics Student Organization and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, Dr. Angela Y. Davis spoke on campus last week Davis' career as an activist began in 1968 at the University of California-San Diego, where she became a member of both the Communist Party and the Black Panthers. For this, she was fired as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California-Los Angeles. Things didn't get much better for Davis either. In 1970, she appeared on the FBI's Ten Most...

A Panther’s Trial By Jamie Glazov The current Atlanta murder trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is another vindication of David Horowitz’s critical assessment of Panther criminality. continue…