Romanticizing bloodshed, one would think, is not a very admirable thing to do, but the radical Left seems to have a penchant for it, from Che Guevara to chants of “pigs in a blanket” and from the Weather Underground to the Symbionese Liberation Army. Its latest case of glorifying such a troubling figure is Assata Shakur, the Black Panther dropout, Black Liberation Army gunwoman, convicted cop-killer, prison escapee, and enduring icon of “resistance” who died late last month in Havana at 78. Perhaps even more disturbing than the trail of violence she left in her life has been the trail of tributes that have greeted her death.
Born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York, raised partly in the South and
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