Mumia Abu-Jamal's Court Case Hits Fast Track : lvimc

WHICH murderer? The one in the White House? The ones in the Pentagon? The CIA?

No, I'm guessing yo' ignant ass is referring to Mumia. Well, he didn't do it--any more than Rubin Hurricane Carter did ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter

http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2003/11/05/scorched_earth/fear_no_evil/fearnoevil.txt

In the Oct. 16 issue of Workers World (a competitor of People's Weekly World), 1996 and 2000 U.S. presidential candidate Monica Moorehead wrote the following: "On Oct. 4th, death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was made an honorary citizen of Paris during an award ceremony. ... Former U.S. political prisoner Angela Davis accepted the award on behalf of Abu-Jamal. ...

"The socialist mayor of Paris ... raised his fist in the air and chanted, 'Mumia is a Parisian!'

"Throughout [France's] school system, students are required to study the case of Abu-Jamal."

Well, I'll be dag-nabbered! Now, as I understand it, Abu-Jamal's attorneys have taped sworn testimony from Arnold Beverly, who passed a lie-detector test while confessing that he killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. Even though physical evidence and witness testimony backs this confession up, Mumia's still in the penitentiary -- with health problems, no less.

At a meeting held by the Coalition to Prevent the Erosion of Human Rights, I met a local Frenchman named Philippe Bouhourdin. When I recently asked him what he thought about his country honoring Abu-Jamal, as it did Pablo Picasso in 1971, he compared Abu-Jamal to Captain Alfred Dreyfus (the sole Jewish member of France's general staff in 1894, who was falsely accused of being a spy). "It's the 21st century," Bouhourdin said, "and I feel that somehow we are regressing and living in a barbaric time."

Bringing this full circle, Packard wrote that "about 450,000 at most have committed violent crimes," while the war on drugs is responsible for the remaining 1.6 million people in American prisons. In contrast, Alan Travis of the U.K.'s Guardian stated that China had 1.43 million in its prisons last year.

So the "Land of the Free" locks up more folks for drug violations than an overpopulated, Stalinist regime has in its entire prison system.

... at last count, America now has TWO million folks in its prison system and still outpaces China ... the reason why the left is predominantly white is because people of color don't feel as though white leftists will stand by them in times of trouble. If y'all continue to delude yourselves into thinking that a problem (as in whoever the fuck "nonya" is--the one who wrote that last, racist comment) can ever be solved by hiding from it, your political meetings will continue to look like mayo on whitebread. Ghandi and Dr. King may have been pacifists, but they sure as hell weren't masochists. Quit acting like the Eloi from H.G. Wells' The Time Machine! I won't be around forever--who'll fight off these right-wingers then ..?