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Maureen Faulkner and Michael Smerconish's book, Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice, available for pre-order on Amazon.com. And whitepower.org. Minus 1
Investors and local officials show off plans for 20,000-seat, $115 million soccer stadium in Chester. And then when everyone from Chester is inside, they will release the bees. Plus 1
City to begin installing 250 police surveillance cameras in high-crime areas next month. In other news, 250 high-crime areas will shift to new locations next month. Plus 2
UPenn's fundraising drive calls for $3.5 billion to construct green space, a nanotechnology center, a neural/behavioral sciences building and a center for advanced medicine. And a God cage. Plus 7
Philadelphia Theatre Company's $30 million Suzanne Roberts Theatre opens at Broad and Pine. "What is tai chi?" remarks Roberts at the opening ceremony. "What is chai tea? Why am I here?" Plus 5
Feared staph outbreak at Germantown school turns out to be isolated to single student. More like a Steph infection. Stephanie, go wash your hands. Plus 1
"A Call to Action" rally draws close to 10,000 volunteers to Liacouras Center. Plus 10
Chicago Bears best Eagles, 19-16, with last-second touchdown drive. Ha ha, honky head coach. Minus 3
Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson announces retirement after 43 years of service. Heckuva job, Sylvie. Plus 9
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And is the FRY MUMIA crowd ever racist! Back in April was one of the most shameless displays of that I'd seen in a while. NYPD Klan Kops talking about "Frying Mumia on the Rotisserie"? I wrote about it for the SF Bay View Newspaper:
http://www.sfbayview.com/20070508115/News/Front_Page/Tyrants_hate_free_speech_.html
...This is an important time for Mumia. While we wait on a Third Circuit ruling, a new film just premiered today in London and Rome, about Mumia (for more see www.phillyimc.org) and this film features explosive new crime scene photos that the 1982 jury never saw. They show police moving Faulkner's hat and Officer Forbes mishandling both Faulkner's and Abu-Jamal's guns, by holding them both in his bare hand! Check these photos out! Because the local media has refused to acknowledge their existence, They can only be viewed at the Journalists for Mumia website: Abu-Jamal-News.com
Photoshop.
Even if your fake picture was correct, then why didn't Mumia's band of lawyers notice this in the last 25 years?
How does it explain Mumia's gun's bullets in Officer Faulkner?
How does it explain Mumia stating at the hospital "I shot the Mother F***er and I hope he dies?"
Why hasn't Mumia claimed he didn't do it?
Why doesn't his brother testify that he didn't do it?
Lotta questions for you to work on, Hansy.
And as to The Bell Curve, nice way to slander the widow of a fallen cop. When you have to make up your own "facts", it's often an indicator that you're wrong.
For now, I want to stick to the issue of the photo of Officer Forbes. Your argument is baseless and fraudulent. He is clearly holding two guns in his hand, and the "circled area" shown in the photo, specifically highlights the area, which shows both triggers. There is no way that you can deny that. (Once again, the true test is for readers to look themselves at the photo, and then share what they think)
This photo is serious business, and I have statements from lead attorney Robert R. Bryan, and local journalists Dave Lindorff and Linn Washington. The premiere of the new British film "IN PRISON MY WHOLE LIFE" now lends further credibility to the photos.
By the way, I find it interesting that you didn't seem to troubled by the "Fry Mumia on the Rotisserie" mentality that I documented in my SF Bay View article. Do you really defend that overt racism among the police?
I'm sure you don't want to address any of the other questions pertaining to his guilt, because you don't have any answer for them.
Per the "overt racism" among the police, how do you explain 44% of the force being minority?
You have raised several issues and this is a "limited space" forum, so I would like to stick to the issue of the openly white supremacist FRY MUMIA lynch mob. If you respond to this first, I would then be happy to talk about eyewitnesses, ballistics, and the alleged "hospital confession" that took cops 2 months to remember.
Regading racist cops, I was not referring to the police force as a whole (an entirely separate discussion). I was specifically referring to the intimidation campaign launched by many cops in April in both New York City and Philadelphia, where, on the "NYPD Rant" website, police officers flaunted their violent urges and their racist blood lust, where proclaiming among other things, one post said: “I’m waiting for Mumia to be well done on the rotisserie.” Also DeLacy Davis (a featured speaker at the April 24 Mumia event in Philly) of Black Cops Against Police Brutality reported numerous death threats from other police, comparing police behavior to the KKK's intimidation tactics. For more details about this, here is my article from The SF Bay View Newspaper:
http://www.sfbayview.com/20070508115/News/Front_Page/Tyrants_hate_free_speech_.html
What do you think of this? Is this acceptable behavior? Does it trouble you at all that police would so shamelessly flaunt these despicable views?
I will leave it for you to answer this question about this white supremacist attitude among the FRY MUMIA lynch mob. However, I will include here a link to an article I wrote about the 2 new accounts of the alleged "hospital confession."
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/948/
And while the pro-Mumia devotees love to pull the raise card in absence of any real evidence of Mumia’s innocence, it is they who have consistently surrounded themselves and courted actual hate groups.
The New Black Panther Party for example, has long been a presence in the Mumia movement. It is a group that is explicitly anti-Semitic, and spews all kinds of retrograde hatred towards anyone who disagrees with them, including other African-Americans.
Another “hate group” that has long been a fixture of the “free mumia” cult is the Nation Of Islam. These are but two examples, but what should be noted is that instead of denouncing these groups, the mumia people provide them a platform from which they can spread their bigotry.
And while the “fry mumia on the rotisserie” is obviously an ugly sentiment, it is not inherently racist. Nor is opposition to the Mumia agenda inherently bigoted. It is shameful that the “mumia devotees” have attempted to make one’s position about Mumia a kind of racial litmus test and I think it demonstrates rather clearly who it is in this scenario who are exploiting and fermenting racial discord.
As someone who spent years in the midst of the “mumia” movement, I know first hand that it is a movement that thrives upon racism and when it cannot find real racism (and often it is not there to be found), they simply make it up.
On the other hand, I think it rather obvious that people hate Mumia because of the fact that he shot a man in the back and than as that man lay helpless on the ground blew his brains across the sidewalk, not because of the color of his skin.
If there were a white cop-killer with thousands of fans from around the world practically making him a deity, I am sure there would be some rather choice comments about wanting that murderer to “fry” as well.
Tyrants Hate Free Speech, by Hans Bennett, SF Bay View Newspaper, May, 2007
“I received nothing less than 10 or 15 death threats over the last four weeks from so-called Philadelphia police officers. I assured them that I would show up today, so they would have an opportunity to kill me. They’ve intimidated and scared folks. They’ve done what the Ku Klux Klan has always done in America: terrified Black people, poor people, immigrants and good white people” into stepping down and not confronting racism, declared Sgt. DeLacy Davis, of Black Cops Against Police Brutality.
Davis was speaking at an April 24 event in Philadelphia organized by supporters of Black death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. Widely considered to be a political prisoner, Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial that Amnesty International has declared a “violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty,”
Hundreds had gathered in Philadelphia on April 24 to celebrate Abu-Jamal’s birthday and to publicize his upcoming oral argument before the federal 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on May 17.
The event was met by a counter-demonstration of over a hundred plainclothes police officers – a culmination of recent intimidation tactics by the Fraternal Order of Police, who have long been key opponents of a new trial for Abu-Jamal.
Condemning both the police counter-demonstration and the death threats he had reported, Sgt. Davis passionately declared that “the behavior and tactics” he had observed from police outside was “exactly” what he had witnessed from the Ku Klux Klan. “It is that intimidation factor that we have to address and deal with.”
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Bikers backing the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police held a counter protest on Mumia’s birthday.
Other guest speakers on April 24 criticized the recent FOP intimidation. Emphasizing the long history of resistance to U.S. racism, Philadelphia journalist Linn Washington told the crowd that “this struggle today around Mumia is not new.”
Washington then cited the 19th century Black journalist and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, who observed, “Tyrants hate free speech.” Pointing to the large police counter-protest outside the building, he asked, “If the evidence against Mumia is as overwhelming as it is claimed to be, why is there such a shrill reaction” to someone questioning the evidence?
In his column written the previous week in the Black Philadelphia Tribune newspaper, Washington documented how the April 24 event had to change locations after police intimidation of the previous Clef Club venue. He wrote that the “anti-Abu-Jamal barrage of emails and telephone calls unleashed on the Clef Club included declarations perilously close to terroristic threats.”
Earlier that month, an April 15 hip hop concert and fundraiser for Mumia organized by youth in New York City was also forced to relocate when police intimidated the owner of the Remote Lounge. The Amsterdam News, the venerable Black Harlem-based paper, reported that “after receiving 16 citations, thousands of dollars in fines and allegedly malicious threats, the night club owner canceled the concert, two days before the scheduled event.”
Acting as the NYC Free Mumia Coalition’s legal representative, attorney Michael Tarif Warren later declared at a press conference outside City Hall that “the police engaged in a conspiracy to close this event to prevent a worthy cause.” Quoted by Amsterdam News, Warren called for “a fair hearing to air the legal improprieties” of the NYPD.
Comments posted by police officers on the infamous NYPD “RANT” blog website detailed the intimidation campaign. One post stated, “This f--ker should be dead, we should ruin this event and make life miserable for every f-ing Hollywood liberal scum liker that shows up, fry Mumia.”
Other posts threatened to send the violent Hells Angels motorcycle gang into the Remote Lounge, set up road blocks, send in undercover police, lure people with prostitutes, write up tickets, throw citations on the club and more.
After the event was forced to relocate, an April 15 thread on the “RANT” site was titled “NY Mumia Hip Hop Benefit Rally Gets Bitch Slapped.” One post under the name “Philadelphia Police Highway Patrol” said: “A sincere thank you to all of my NYPD brothers and sisters. You men and women are truly the best!”
Several other posts continued to boast of their actions with comments like “good job guys , f--k you mumia you dirty savage,” “I’m shocked, amazed, and feel a warm glow! Great work. Outstanding!!!,” “16 citations - and guess what the hits are gonna keep coming you f--k wad,” “Does anyone sell Mumia targets, so I can keep his cause alive in spirit?”
Another wrote: “Everything I know about islam I learned on 9/11.”
One post used imagery that explicitly drew the connection to the brutal history of U.S. lynchings, where Black victims of racist white mobs were literally burned alive, stating that “I’m waiting for Mumia to be well done on the rotisserie.”
Yet another post used the racist “Sambo” dialect attributed to African Americans for so many years in mainstream culture: “OH SNAP!!! da venue be changed? i hopez publik transpotation be making itz way ova dere fo me!”
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Don't believe me, check out the text from the NYPD Rant blog here:
http://freemumia.com/mumia9112.html