Venerating Cop-Killers By Mark D. Tooley

Always determined to prove that America is the center of global injustice, the Religious Left is now championing the cause of 8 former Black Liberation Army (BLA) militants who face charges for having killed a San Francisco area policeman in 1971. The Marxist BLA was an offshoot of the Black Panthers, whom it deemed too moderate, and is believed to have assassinated 13 police officers during the early 1970's in a deliberate terror campaign.

Hailed the militants as persecuted martyrs, a World Council of Churches (WCC) press conference in New York recently demanded the immediate release of the so-called "San Francisco 8." A WCC official gravely intoned: "The time has come to set free those who have been bound. The case of the SF8 requires all of us to come together, and take an active stand for justice for all U.S. political prisoners."

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