Posted on 04/13/2009 7:40:19 AM PDT by SmithL
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal seeking a new trial for death-row inmate and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Earlier, a lower court rescinded Abu-Jamal's death penalty, which prosecutors have asked to be reinstated. Meanwhile, as the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, last week's ruling "virtually guarantees that the internationally known death-row inmate will never be freed."
Perhaps there were tears shed in Paris, where he is an honorary citizen and where the suburb of St. Denis named a one-way street "Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal" in 2006. But I see it as a sign of healthy change that in America the ruling went largely unprotested.
Call it progress. Being convicted for killing a police officer has lost the cachet it once had for the far left
...Consider that Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, introduced a House resolution honoring the four Oakland officers. She once signed a letter against Abu-Jamal's execution. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution naming a day in Abu-Jamal's honor. Ditto the European Parliament. The anti-Iraq war group Not in Our Name proudly advertised Abu-Jamal's endorsement as one of its celebrity signatories - unbothered by the prospect of dubbing a cop killer as a committed peacenik. Writer Alice Walker likened Abu-Jamal to South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Oakland schools scheduled a Mumia teach-in for January 1999 - although it was mostly derailed after a sniper shot Oakland Officer James Williams Jr., whose funeral was held on the same day. The teach-in lesson plan had referred to Abu-Jamal not as a cop killer, but as a "political prisoner."
...But the evidence was overwhelming. A jury - and not all the members were white as it included two African Americans - convicted Abu-Jamal
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Antioch didn’t really go all the way under. They just need a year or two to de-louse the dorms and clean up faculty STDs.
Yeah, I know, they have that MacGregor online diploma mill running. Everytime I drive thru Yellow Springs, Antioch is dead. Wish Mumma was too after what he did to than police officer.
AMEN to that. Cop killers are the should be gone before dawn.
He's been Abu-Jamal's torch-bearer for a long time.
He’s on that Revolutionary Communist Party/”World Can’t Wait” list of endorses I included in my post. As is Mumia himself.
He's been Abu-Jamal's torch-bearer for a long time.
Gotcha! Sorry. In any case, Ed Asner IS on that Revolutionary Communist Party/World Can’t Wait list of endorsers.
Maureen Faulkner continues to be victimized almost twenty-eight years later. Every type of leftist creep lionizes this guy. It's disgusting.
Wait a minute... Abu-Jamal IS Mumia. So why did you post the same thing again?
Never mind... I should have checked the board again before posting. :)
Yes, I have my “Fry Mumia” T-Shirt, a grift from Doctor Raoul.
So I recall -- it made me smile when I saw you wearing that!
I don't think Doc has a single friend whom he hasn't gifted in some way -- he is responsible for my gray Army jacket. And his generosity to the wounded is legendary. But I digress...
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