Death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal made honorary citizen of Paris [FRANCE ALERT]

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[nwrep]

US death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal honorary citizen of Paris by the Mayor of Paris, above

Death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal made honorary citizen of Paris

Sunday October 5, 1:49 AM

The city of Paris made an honorary citizen of celebrated US death row inmate and black activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, sentenced to die for the 1981 murder of a white Philadelphia policeman.

It is the first time Paris has bestowed the honor since Pablo Picasso was made honorary citizen in 1971, Socialist mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe told an audience of 200 people, taking the occasion to attack the "barbarity" of the death penalty.

Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther civil rights activist and journalist who has maintained his innocence, had his death sentence overturned in December of 2001 but that decision is currently on appeal.

In attacking the "barbarity called the death penalty," the mayor said "as long as there is a place on this planet where one can be killed in the name of the community, we haven't finished our work."

Raising his fist in a sign of solidarity, Delanoe then shouted "Mumia is a Parisian!" as the crowd of mostly-leftist activists cheered and applauded.

Black activist Angela Davis, a former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, hailed the "profound sense of humanity" of Abu-Jamal, attacking American "unilateralism" and racist attacks against immigrants.

The movement to free Abu-Jamal "takes on a new sense in face of American unilateralism, the aggression against the Iraqi people and the racist attacks against immigrants which can only further gnaw away at the vestiges of democracy in the United States," Davis, a professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz, said.

Abu-Jamal, sentenced to death 21 years ago for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, has always insisted he was innocent, and scores of movements and organizations have sprung up around the world in his defense.

His opponents view him as an unrepentant murderer.

His case has provoked particularly vivid debate in France, which abolished the death penalty in 1981. French school children are required to study the case as part of their education.

[breakem]

mumia.org if you can stand it

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

no less than five witnesses

FRY MUMIA BTTT

[prisoner6]

Good, sez I! Now let's send him there on the implicit condition that he spend the rest of his life in that city. let the French Police - hehehehehe - take a few hits from the bustard.

prisoner6

[etcetera]

"Mumia is a Parisian!"

That's supposed to be an honor?

[91B]

Jeez-what do people want? Jamal was found about 10 feet from Faulkner with a bullet from Faulkner's pistol in his chest. The scumbag stood over Faulkner and blew his brains out, but none of the idiot lefties care. To them Faulkner was a "pig" who got what he deserved.

[jpthomas]

The state of Pennsylvania has pursued the death penalty in this case from the get-go. The death penalty was upheld all the way to the state supreme court. It was a federal judge who overturned his death sentence. See my post #31.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"Mumia is a Parisian!"

How nice. We will ship them the body COD.

[Rome2000]

Socialists should be lined up aganist a wall and shot.

They are a clear and present danger to the civilized world.

[OldFriend]

The america hating leftists consider moo-mia a political prisoner.

[OldFriend]

The question is why the state of pennsylvania allows this murderer to make video commencement speeches at colleges around the country.

[Junior_G]

French school children are required to study the case as part of their education.

They saved the most disturbing sentence for last. If that twisted love of a cop-killer is being fed to French children as part of their education requirements, there is truly no hope for that nation. France's only reason to exist these days is to oppose America in every way possible. Supporting people that kill American policemen is just one of those ways (every little bit counts).

[Drango]

FRY MUMIA.

Nuke Paris.

[Flightdeck]

I've always kind of been curious about this case; is this guy innocent or not?, but never got around to learning about it. So after reading this thread, I finally did the obligatory internet research, went to two pro-mumia sites: mumia.org, and freemumia.com, and danielfaulkner.com. I read pretty much everything everybody had to say on all three sites. Well, the jury was out for about two seconds:
1.) This worm is guilty as sin
2.) Liberals are a bunch of godless, stupid, ignoramuses
3.) French socialists are subhuman

[Colorado Doug]

I guess we need to adopt a Frenchman or two. How about:
A) Baron Gilles de Rais
B) Maurice Papon
C) Bertrand Cantat
D) Carlos the Jackal

I nominate the Baron, posthumously, one of Frances first serial killers who killed hundreds of Frenchies. I think while we are at it, Denver needs to dump their french "sister city"

[perfect stranger]

bump

[Flightdeck]

oddly enough, I'm still not comfortable with the death penalty. And I'm a republican from Texas!

[reagan_fanatic]

Good grief.

The next thing you know the French will state that Hitler was just another mis-understood Austrian...

[exDemMom]

Yet, oddly, even in France where the death penalty has been abolished courtesy of their recent "enlightenment," it is still a capital crime to kill a police officer.

I have always loved the French people and society, but now I look at them and wonder, have they collectively gone off their rockers? Or is it the French press making them look like they have? (Media bias being an international phenomenon.)

[Uncle Meat]

Death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal made honorary citizen of Paris

Well good.They won't mind him moving there and killing their cops then.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If those french wimps don't get right, we
won't help when Algeria takes them over.