When I filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate to remove Eric Swalwell from the California governor’s race for failing to meet the state’s five-year residency requirement, I expected a legal response.
Instead, Swalwell responded on Twitter by calling me a “MAGA idiot.” That insult prompted me and my great researcher, Shannon Knutsen, to take a closer look at his past — specifically, his college writings.
On December 3, 1999, while a student at Campbell University in North Carolina, Eric Swalwell published an opinion column in the student newspaper titled “U.S. Political Prisoners: A Cry for Justice.”
Writing under the moniker “Eric Swalwell, The Radically Poetic,” he concluded the piece with a blunt demand: “America, it’s time to wake up. Free Peltier. Free Abu-Jamal. Free all political prisoners.”
Leonard Peltier was convicted in 1977 of murdering two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted in 1982 of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
These are not symbolic cases or minor offenses – these were brutal killings of law-enforcement officers.
Yet in his editorial, Swalwell elevated both men as “political prisoners,” casting doubt on their convictions and framing them as victims of systemic injustice.
Rather than grappling honestly with the gravity of murdering law-enforcement officers, Swalwell’s article sanctified convicted cop killers as heroic symbols of resistance.
That rhetoric is not accidental. It echoes the moral inversion perfected by 1960s and 1970s extremist movements such as the Weather Underground, which openly championed armed struggle and portrayed police officers as expendable agents of oppression.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
