Shocking new documents detail DOJ’s reasons for releasing Marxist bomber

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Buck also helped convicted cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, also known as Assata Shakur, break out of prison in 1979.

She was serving an 80-year sentence, and her full sentence would have kept her incarcerated until Jan. 31, 2061.

“The prisoner testified that she acknowledges that she was ‘on off track’ on her previous views of violence,” reads part of one document citing Buck’s statement to parole officers. “She understands now that the end can never justify the means. She has sorrow and remorse for her actions.”

Victim advocate Tina Trent argues that, in the public arena, there’s no substantial proof whatsoever showing Buck learned her lesson, changed her views or showed remorse other than what she told U.S. Parole Commission officials in the Bush and Obama administrations. Trent points to what Buck wrote while incarcerated as the only real evidence of whether or not she changed.

“Marilyn Buck, whose writing seethed with hatred towards white Americans, who planted bombs, staged jailbreaks, participated in the murder of policemen, and showed no remorse for any of her actions, transformed herself from a terrorist into an ‘AIDS educator,’ ‘literacy teacher’ and ‘celebrated poet,’ largely by expressing her alleged victimization at the hands of a corrections system that was, in reality, protecting the public from her,” Trent wrote in a 20-plus page report on this topic, adding that, “her publications from 2003 until her death contain no evidence of remorse and no acknowledgement of responsibility for murder.”

Trent said Buck’s writings show she continued to have the same political beliefs, regardless of what she told the U.S. Parole Commission.

On Sept. 11, 2001, for example, Buck wrote a poem on her perceptions of the al Qaeda terrorist attacks and what she expected to happen next. After asking in her Sept. 11 poem, “do chickens come home to roost?” Buck wrote that she, a “political prisoner can conceive why” the terrorists attacked the United States, qualifying that with a line, “but comprehension is not complicity.”

An excerpt from Buck’s Sept. 11 poem on what she expected to happen next:

a Muslim sister whispers
they will blame the Muslims)

I know
many will feed the eagle
the Palestinians?
(Palestinians are always suspect)
Muslims?      Arabs?
many will die red upon the land

I can’t comprehend
men who commit suicide
taking civilians with them
(a u.s. postal worker
Columbine high school boys
a man at McDonalds
all-American suicide killers)

civilians
used as warheads
I shudder and walk away
from death
to my cell

Trent also said Buck’s continued claims that she was a “political prisoner” show she never learned her lesson.

Buck wrote for the socialist Monthly Review in 2004 about how, “prison has always been the final gate in the repressive apparatus of a state.” Buck said the “prisoner is, with few exceptions, always a scapegoat and considered a deviant” and called prison a “class weapon” and a way to “control ‘alien’ populations.”

“In the United States, these ‘alien’ populations are formerly colonized peoples — former slaves, Native Americans, Latin Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders — and they have all too often been considered the internal enemy,” Buck wrote. “They are the people most needing control and are therefore the majority of those locked down in U.S. prisons.”

Kincaid said these kinds of writings show Buck “never had any remorse or regret for her terrorist record.” He worries what kind of impact Buck’s victory will have in the long run in the eyes of other socialist and radical left-wing movements. “Buck’s release served as a rallying point for the terrorist networks that include Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn,” Kincaid said.