Resolution Seeking U.S. Government Records On Tupac Introduced
By Nolan Strong
Date: 11/7/2005 1:30 pm
Georgia House of Representative member Cynthia McKinney (D) has introduced House Resolution 4210, a new bill that calls for the United States government to release all documents it has collected on slain rapper, Tupac Shakur.
Like many, McKinney believes the government was monitoring the rapper when he was gunned down on the Las Vegas strip in 1996 after attending a Mike Tyson fight.
Tupac was shot on Sept. 7, 1996 as he rode in the passenger side of a BMW driven by Death Row CEO Marion “Suge” Knight, who suffered minor wounds.
The rapper died seven days later from multiple gunshot wounds, sparking conspiracy theories that ranged from a hip-hop rivalry, to a gang hit, to government conspiracies.
HR 4210 calls for “the creation of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection at the National Archives; and a second repository at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain, Georgia.”
The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center in Stone Mountain opened Jun. 11, 2005.
The multi-million dollar facility’s construction was spearheaded by Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, and was mostly funded by royalties received from the deceased rapper’s albums, DVD’s and film projects.
Tupac’s godmother, Assata Shakur was also a member of the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army.
In a controversial trial and ruling, Assata was convicted of shooting a state trooper and spent six years in prison.
She escaped the prison’s “deplorable conditions” in 1979 and in 1984, fled to Cuba, where she was shielded from prosecution by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
She was recently placed on a government terrorist watch list and the United States government recently announced a $1 million reward for her capture.
In Sept. 2005, McKinney announced her plan for the Tupac Shakur resolution at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference at a workshop titled "Countering Culture: COINTELPRO Attacks On Political Musicians."
The bill is modeled after McKinney’s 2002 HR 5762, which calls for the “expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the life and assassination of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.”
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I don't think it's congress' job to "solve terrorism." They are in charge of spending our tax money. And why does the gov't have secret files on Tupac? Who else are they monitoring?
Sure, there are other files that should be released in addition to Tupac's, but what are there, like, 435 congressmen? Not all of them are going to have good ideas all the time. They're just showing up to work like I'm going to. Hopefully they won't be ten minutes late like I'm going to.
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I don't know. That man has had more albums out since he 'died' than he had while he was 'alive'. I've always had a little more than a small suspicion that he wasn't really killed. *shrugs, because either way, she couldn't possibly care very much less*
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Was Tupac shot from a grassy knoll?
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I don't know. That man has had more albums out since he 'died' than he had while he was 'alive'. I've always had a little more than a small suspicion that he wasn't really killed. *shrugs, because either way, she couldn't possibly care very much less*
Yeah, but if you listen to the quality of the lyrics, it's pretty clear that there's a limited supply of them, and they're currently scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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I bet that Tupac is living in a basemente under the Pentagon with a studio where he recordes all those after life albums
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I really like Cynthia McKinney, but I think she's wasting a lot of time and money on this.
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NaiveAndTrue wrote:
I don't know. That man has had more albums out since he 'died' than he had while he was 'alive'. I've always had a little more than a small suspicion that he wasn't really killed. *shrugs, because either way, she couldn't possibly care very much less*
I've never really bought that arguement. There are quite a few artists who, if they died, could have albums of new material released for decades upon decades.
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WhiteRider wrote:
NaiveAndTrue wrote:
I don't know. That man has had more albums out since he 'died' than he had while he was 'alive'. I've always had a little more than a small suspicion that he wasn't really killed. *shrugs, because either way, she couldn't possibly care very much less*
I've never really bought that arguement. There are quite a few artists who, if they died, could have albums of new material released for decades upon decades.
It's an 'argument'?? Neato. I thought I was just making it up.
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Didn't he make a lot of public comments against Bush 41 and how he would kill him if the chance arose? I wouldn't be surprised in the least of the government kept files on him after hearing that.
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