Current Events > A convicted terrorist sits on board of handling charity for BLM donations

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https://www.citizensjournal.us/a-convicted-terrorist-sits-on-board-of-charity-handling-black-lives-matter-fundraising/

Thousand Currents, the California-based charity that manages fundraising operations for the national arm of Black Lives Matter, includes on its board a convicted terrorist whose sentence was commuted by former President Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
Susan Rosenberg was identified as the vice chair of the Thousand Currents board of directors on the charitys website until Wednesday when the page was taken down after the conservative think tank Capital Research Center detailed her involvement with a communist terrorist group that had carried out bombings in New York and Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s.

Rosenbergs involvement with the May 19 Communist Organization, which carried out its bombing campaign to create a contrast to former President Ronald Reagans Morning in America campaign promise, earned her a spot on the FBIs Most Wanted List, according to The Washington Examiner. She was arrested in New Jersey in 1984 while unloading 740 pounds of stolen explosives and a sub-machine gun from a truck.
Rosenberg was released from prison in 2001 after having her sentence commuted by Clinton, serving 16 years of her 58-year prison sentence.

U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White lobbied aggressively against Rosenbergs commutation at the time, noting that she had allegedly been one of the getaway drivers in the 1981 Brinks robbery, which resulted in the deaths of two police officers and one security guard. Rosenberg was charged with crimes in the robbery, but those charges were dropped because she was already in prison, The New York Times reported.

Rosenberg was also identified as a member of the Thousand Currents board of directors in the charitys Form 990s submitted to the IRS for its 2016, 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, indicating that the former terrorist has been involved with the group for the entirety of its fiscal sponsorship arrangement with Black Lives Matter Global Foundation, which began in 2016.

Financial statements prepared by Thousand Currents reveal that 83.3% of BLM Global Foundations total spending during its 2017, 2018 and 2019 fiscal years was spent on travel, consulting and payroll, while only about 6% was put toward grants to outside organizations such as the local BLM chapters, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.

BLM Global Network Managing Director Kailee Scales told the DCNF the figures do not reflect, for example, the in kind support for chapters and fundraising directed to chapters and programmatic assistance to chapters, that would not show up as direct grants on the audited financials.
In addition to removing the page on its website disclosing Rosenberg as a member of its board of directors, Thousand Currents also took down a page that had disclosed financial information for the charity such as audits and Form 990s dating back to 2005.

Thousand Currents did not return the DCNFs request for comment.
BLM Global Network has raised a substantial sum of money since the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died on May 25 in Minneapolis police custody.
In recent weeks the group has announced grant funds totaling $12.5 million after raising more than $1.1 million in donations since Floyds death. The average donation to BLM Global Network clocked in at $33, The Associated Press reported.

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what a surprise

Why was she pardoned?

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...for a communist organization.

My God are they redirecting funds back to Cuba?

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tc do you live in ventura? i'm in SB.

Alteres posted...

Why was she pardoned?

Clinton probably figured it was ok to get a BJ once he was out of office

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MLK did time in jail and was a convicted felon.

Poop2 posted...

tc do you live in ventura? i'm in SB.

California? Nah I have in FL.

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how the hell do people just read articles like this and believe them?

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averagejoel posted...

how the hell do people just read articles like this and believe them?

i live in the area and i've never heard of it.

So what was the 'Communist Organization' that she was apart of and how was it a 'Communist Organizations'', and also what qualifies as a 'Communist Organization?'

Now for certain I agree that she was a terrorist. I just am going by the little information posted in the original topic post. It doesn't say what communism she was involved in.

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Genesis_Angeal posted...

So what was the 'Communist Organization' that she was apart of and how was it a 'Communist Organizations'', and also what qualifies as a 'Communist Organization?'

Now for certain I agree that she was a terrorist. I just am going by the little information posted in the original topic post. It doesn't say what communism she was involved in.

They're an evolution of the Weather Underground

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Oh boy conservatives inventing more reasons to hate BLM

"BLM is a bunch of radical communists!"

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After further looking into the 'Communist Organization' claim, I have found her not to be involved ever in any communism. America just labeled her and the organization's that she was apart of as communist. Even though no communism could be found at all. Look it up. Terrorist for sure for attempting to blow and shoot shit up, but definitely not a communist.

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

They're an evolution of the Weather Underground

But where is the communism in any of those groups?

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Bruh do they have to be directly linked to Lenin or Mao to be communist? What the fuck does communism even mean to you?

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Other hilarious articles from this outlet:

https://www.citizensjournal.us/is-america-starting-down-the-path-of-nazi-germany/ (BLM protesters are Nazis.)

https://www.citizensjournal.us/another-giant-of-science-has-passed/ (Death of heroic climate change denier.)

https://www.citizensjournal.us/mr-president-its-time-to-investigate-george-soros-for-funding-domestic-terrorism/ (George Soros is behind every bad thing ever.)

They also apparently have an amusing editorial policy of calling Corona "the CCP virus."

Remember to always apply basic scrutiny to media outlets.

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Blue_Dream87 posted...

Bruh do they have to be directly linked to Lenin or Mao to be communist? What the fuck does communism even mean to you?

Look up communism and then look up the groups she was apart of ideology.

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Doom_Art posted...

Oh boy conservatives inventing more reasons to hate BLM

"BLM is a bunch of radical communists!"

A guy on reddit tried to tell me that earlier, while also repeatedly asking me what I wanted as a black person from white people even though I told him multiple times I am white lol.

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Nevermind I found the communism.

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Genesis_Angeal posted...

Look up communism and then look up the groups she was apart of ideology.

Yes, she came from a group based on the leadership and teachings of communist organizations and Bill Ayers, a self proclaimed communist.

Like are you familiar with the new left movement at all?

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To me, it's not a big surprise that someone who was excessively sentenced and kept in prison conditions so bad they actually shut it down would be part of a movement against police and the carceral state.
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wtf someone tagged up her Wikipedia article apparently? When I did a search for her, this excerpt came up - Susan Lisa Rosenberg is a domestic terrorist who tried to overdraw the Regan election under the pretence of race inequality

But that's not on the actual page.

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I find it funny that people would call her a communist and a racist, when the president openly had white supremacists in the white house.


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Blue_Dream87 posted...

Yes, she came from a group based on the leadership and teachings of communist organizations and Bill Ayers, a self proclaimed communist.

Like are you familiar with the new left movement at all?

Not familiar with the new left movement. But yes I found the communism. I looked a little deeper.

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Also interesting to note, Wikipedia states that Susan Rosenberg is sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison break of Assata Shakur, who's on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list, and the BLM founders state that Assata Shakur is one of their heroes. I have to look into that more.

averagejoel posted...

how the hell do people just read articles like this and believe them?

I mean, you can easily do the research yourself and see if the information is accurate. Takes only a few minutes. I checked the Thousand Currents website and a lot of their pages either don't exist or loop back to the home page. When you do further research into their Board of Directors listing or expenditures, those are missing as well.

BornIn1142 posted...

Remember to always apply basic scrutiny to media outlets.

Agreed, I always take things with a grain of salt when it comes to information from websites, especially in these modern times with the giant companies like New York Times, FOX and CNN. However for this particular article, there's definitely more than one outlet that's reporting the same thing. And like I said in my above paragraph, you can easily do the research in a few minutes and find out if the information in the article is the same as what you find from your research.

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