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Mumia Must Die - CrimeNe.ws
Every once in a while I post about convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu-Jamal and the ludicrous following he has. Thanks to this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer I have been made aware of a much better blog that's not only about the insanity about the Free Mumia movement but also the terroristic cult, The MOVE Organization, that supports Mumia. If you lived in the Philly area in the 70's and 80's you know exactly who I'm talking about.
The blog's author, Tony Allen, knows something about MOVE as he spent roughly a decade within their circle.
So go to and get an inside look at the most infamous criminal organization in Philadelphia history.
The 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee of Philadelphia, representing the Germantown area, retained a French attorney and filed criminal charges against the French cities of Paris and Saint-Denis last Thursday in connection to the case of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Paris awarded Abu-Jamal honorary citizenship in 2001 and Saint-Denis, a suburb near Paris, named a street after him this year.
Ward Chairman Peter Wirs allege that these actions violate Article 28, Section 2 of the French Penal Code, which impose a five year imprisonment and fine of € 45,000 to anyone who publicly "have glorified the perpetration of a crime" such as murder.
"All the other politicians were talking the talk, but not getting anything done.
I'm from the old school. I'm gonna walk the walk and get this resolved," Wirs said.
The French Communist Party denounced the 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee in their newspaper, L'Humanite, calling the lawsuit a "provocation" that would not dissuade the socialist elected officials of Saint-Denis or cause them to "change their mind since they are defending the values of democracy, the struggle against the death penalty and are willing to act so that there is no more political prisoners in the USA.
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"This is just a fundraising gimmick for them. They keep telling supporters that he's gonna die at any moment. He's not even on death row," Wirs added, noting District Judge William Yohn's 2001 decision overturning Abu-Jamal's death sentence, but not his conviction.
Wirs said French journalists gave him unconfirmed reports that the French Communist Party intends to burn him in effigy at an upcoming rally.
Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted for shooting police office Daniel Faulkner on Dec. 9, 1981 at a traffic stop at 12th and Locust streets in Philadelphia.
Wirs said that after 25 years, justice is required to be served and the Faulkner family deserves closure.
Peter Wirs is my new hero. He's cutting through all the B.
S. and trying to beat the French Government with their own laws. It would be great if someone actually went to jail for the adulation of a convicted cop killer but I know it probably won't happen.
Now if Peter Wirs could get Mumia put back on death row I'd move back to Philly just so I could vote for him.
I've been trying to keep this blog as apolitical as I could, but sometimes that's just not possible. This is one of those times.
It seems that the "honorable" member of the House of Representatives from that bastion of civility that is Detroit, Rep. John Conyers, is the highest ranking political official that is trying to get convicted cop killing scumbag, Mumia Abu-Jamal, freed.
* Conyers is the highest ranking politico working to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted murderer of a Philadelphia police officer. Conyers has been a National Executive Board member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), which was created as a Soviet front and still embraces its Communist heritage.
And this is the man who is going to head the House Judiciary committee? Scary.
I feel sorry for you if you're one of his constituents. Because it seems that your tax dollars are going to the support of a convicted cop killer. I don't know about you but I'd rather have my tax money going to the family of the slain officer Daniel Faulkner.
Or since you live in the home of urban decay maybe the money would be better allocated to a better police force. But hey, you voted for him. Over and over and over again.
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky has some for the governments of France since one of them decided to name a street after convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu-Jamal...
• Renaming Place de la Concorde, the largest public square in Paris, to honor girlfriend-killer/unicorn/all-around-health-hazard Ira Einhorn. As a further tribute to the former hippie planetary enzyme, they should order it never to be cleaned by the streets department.
• A small plaza adjoining Rue Abu-Jamal should commemorate the groundbreaking work of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
A statue in the center in the shape of a mailbox would be a nice touch.
• The market district known as the "belly of Paris," Les Halles, must be reflagged as the Gary Heidnik District, to honor the financial wizard/dungeon-master/cannibal.
• The Eiffel Tower should be rededicated to the memory of Timothy McVeigh, to "honor" the "freedom fighter" who blew up the Alfred P.
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.
• Rename the Bastille as Holmesburg.
has a section of his site called The Blogroll Of Evil.
It's a list of links that go to bloggers that have killed like Joseph Edward Duncan III and Kevin Ray Underwood. Well I might start my own of .
It turns out that two of Philadelphia's most notorious killers are blogging by proxy.
Both Ira Einhorn and Mumia Abu-Jamal have blogs that they are able to post to through friends on the outside.
Unfortunately their victims, Holly Maddux and Officer Daniel Faulkner respectively, don't have the luxury of blogging. The dead can't blog.
Like you needed another reason to hate the French Government. First they refuse to hand over convicted killer until we promise not to execute him. Then some French municipalities talk about naming a street after known terrorist .
And not only did the city of Paris make convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal an honorary citizen, now a Paris suburb is naming a street after him...
A street in a Paris suburb has been named in honor of Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
"In France, they see him as a towering figure," said Suzanne Ross, co-chair of the Free Mumia Coalition of New York City, who was part of an April 29 ceremony to dedicate the Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal in the city of St. Denis.
Ross said the street is in the town's Human Rights district, which includes Nelson Mandela Stadium.
Abu-Jamal, a former radio reporter and member of the Black Panther party, was sentenced to death in 1982 for the shooting of 25-year-old Daniel Faulkner. He has maintained his innocence.
His writings and taped speeches have made him a cause celebre among Hollywood activists, foreign politicians and some death-penalty opponents who believe he was the victim of a racist justice system.
Comparing Abu-Jamal to Nelson Mandela is like comparing Hitler to Gandhi. Again I say the governments of France must be living in some .
As expected Maureen Faulkner, the widow of slain officer Daniel Faulkner, had this to say...
Faulkner's widow, Maureen, called the street dedication "disgusting" and urged Philadelphia residents planning a visit to Paris this summer to cancel their trips. In 2001, the Paris City Council made Abu-Jamal an honorary citizen.
"This is so unnerving for me to get this news," Faulkner said from Los Angeles, where she lives. "It's insulting to the police officers of Philadelphia that they are naming a street after a murderer."
The only road that should be named for Abu-Jamal is the one that leads to the execution chamber.
As always it was your pleasure.
This is a great opinion piece about how three Philly cops actually had to protect protesters on the steps of city hall who were there in support of Mumia Abu Jamal, a convicted cop killer...
But take a recent protest at City Hall to free cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. There were about 30 protesters on the northeast apron asking rush-hour drivers to honk in support of freeing their poster boy. No problem there, it's their First Amendment right.
They had every right to be there, just like I would have every right to be there and hold a sign asking motorists to honk if they wanted protesters to walk in front of a bus, use deodorant or stick their signs where the seat belt digs into when you're making out in the back seat.
I understand the freedoms we have to protest things we don't like or don't agree with or think are unjust. What I don't understand is that three police officers had to stand there and protect the Mumia posse as they chanted for the freedom of a man who was tried and convicted of killing police officer Daniel Faulkner.
Talk about slap-in-the-face kind of work.
Unfortunately you can't protest to have Officer Daniel Faulkner brought back from the dead. Tom Morello, guitarist for Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine, and Serj Tankian, lead singe of System of A Down, are going to be conducting an interview with convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu-Jamal. They'll be doing it for their radio program Axis of Justice. Great, some more misguided celebrities giving this scumbag a platform to spew his lies. This is what especially kills me.
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Morello's former band, Rage Against The Machine, along with the Beastie Boys, Sting, Mos Def and other artists have spoken out in Abu-Jamal's defense or raised money for his legal efforts.
That's just great isn't it? All these musicians raising money for a convicted cop killer. Yet where the musicians and celebrities that are raising money for the family of Daniel Faulkner? You know, the guy that scumbag Abu-Jamal killed. Where are the fundraisers? Where's the celebrity support for the true victim?
Where's the over-inflated sense of self worth in trying to get a guilty man punished?
Check this out. Convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu Jamal's latest shyster is giving a speech at some college or another.
I find a couple passages of the announcement quite compelling...
As a special addition, Mumia Abu-Jamal will address the audience on his campaign for freedom and justice. An outspoken black journalist imprisoned since 1982 after his conviction for the killing of a white police officer, Mr. Abu-Jamal has continued writing and speaking out on social justice issues. He has always maintained his innocence. Mumia currently serves as a Jailhouse Lawyer National Vice President for the National Lawyers Guild. He was awarded an honorary citizenship from Paris in 2003 and organizations including the NAACP, Amnesty International, and the California Labor Federation have called for a new trial in his case.
Isn't it great how they portray a convicted cop killing scumbag as a hero? What an ironic twist of fiction. Hold on a sec...What?
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.They're serious? Well damn.
That's just sad that these people are trying to get a convicted cop killer released. Then I guess that would explain this..
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Robert R. Bryan will be introduced by Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Mr. Meeropol is the Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, an organization that has provided support for Mumia's children. Mr.
Meeropol's memoir An Execution in the Family was published on the 50th anniversary of his parents' executions. Previously, he and his brother co-authored We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Mr.
Meeropol's introduction will outline a persuasive case linking the tragic execution of his parents and the McCarthy era with Mumia's imprisonment.
That's right. Abu-Jamal's family is being supported by the son of convicted and executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
I guess there really is honor among felons.
Yet Office Daniel Faulkner is still dead. Executed by Abu-Jamal without the luxury of a trial or college seminars in his honor, or a rash of celebrities supporting him.
Makes me feel like the universe is being controlled by this guy...
Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Officer Daniel Faulkner who was killed by convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu-Jamal, is returning to the Philadelphia area to speak to a South Jersey group that raises funds for the families of slain and injured police, fire, and emergency workers. She still speaks of the pain she has over her husband's death..
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Maureen Faulkner, who turns 50 this year, has lived half her life since her husband, Daniel, a Philadelphia police officer, was shot dead in December 1981.
Sometimes a song can do it, sometimes news about the appeal efforts of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former radio journalist convicted of the killing.
Others times, she breaks down crying for no reason at all.
"When someone you loved so dearly is murdered so brutally, it stays with you forever," she said yesterday. "You can never get over it.
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Faulkner, a graduate of Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, moved to California after Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death in 1982 for her husband's killing. She had been married only a year.
She began lobbying for Abu-Jamal's death warrant to be signed in the mid-1990s after his social commentaries were published in a book titled Live From Death Row.
Faulkner remains committed to seeing him put to death.
"I sat through the trial, and I was there for the testimony from the eyewitnesses who talked about Mumia bending down and shooting Danny in the head," she said. "As much as his supporters try to twist the truth of what happened, the fact is that he murdered Danny.
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Faulkner has not been back to the Philadelphia area a little more than four years ago, when she attended the unveiling of a memorial plaque at 13th and Locust Streets, the intersection where her 25-year-old husband was shot.
She has no plans to stop by the site, but will visit his grave at Glenwood Memorial Cemetery in Broomall.
Yet the cop killing scumbag that is Mumia Abu-Jamal is still breathing and being treated like a damn hero. As long as he remains alive there is no justice. Who would have thought? An actual informative and entertaining piece from the Huffington Post.
Then again it is from Michael Smerconish whose work I've previously enjoyed in the Philadelphia Daily News.
Anyway it's a great piece about the similarities between the case of Tookie Williams and the never-ending saga of convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu Jamal. And it especially looks at how it affects Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Officer Daniel Faulkner who was killed by Mumia Abu Jamal.
“These weeks have been very emotional for me because people have been bringing up Danny’s case out hear in California,” she told me. “Last week I was driving home from work and a talk radio station was discussing Williams and Abu-Jamal, and there was Mike Farrell, saying many of the same things he has said in Danny’s case. I just pulled over and started crying. It’s been 24-years, and I am a strong woman, but it was emotional to hear it once again.”
“I feel as though justice was done to this man who has never actually said he murdered these individuals, he denied it, he never apologized and it’s a sad thing for the families, but at least they have peace,” she said.
She was referring to the sort of peace she still seeks.
Now that the attention is off of Tookie maybe the Pennsylvania courts will get around to reinstating Mumia's death sentence and hopefully give Maureen Faulkner the peace she deserves. You've got to be kidding me. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear yet another appeal from convicted cop-killing scumbag Mumia Abu-Jamal. Why?
This guy gets more appeals than the Chiquita Banana lady.
The appeals court said Tuesday it will consider Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors illegally removed blacks from the jury pool, that a prosecutor gave an improper summation to the jury, and that the judge in a previous appeal was biased.
Seriously how many appeals can this guy get? And he gets to appeal because of a previous appeal. It's been 24 freakin' years since this scumbag killed Officer Daniel Faulkner. It's been almost 2 1/2 decades.
Daniel Faulkner didn't have the luxury of 2 or more decades worth of appeals. Mumia Abu-Jamal shot him on the spot. It's bad enough some assclown judge overturned his death sentence back in 2001.
If anything should be appealed it's that decision.
This scumbag should have been executed years ago. It's time for someone in the courts to actually stood up to this scumbag, reinstate his death sentence, and terminate his appeals.
You know, I wasn't going to jump on the whole Cindy Sheehan thing but when my least favorite convicted cop killing scumbag, Mumia Abu Jamal, has something to say about it I'm on it like Michael Moore on a turkey leg. For the most part it's the usual leftist rhetoric but as usual I have a part of his "article" that I have a serious problem with..
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Cindy Sheehan has every right to be in Crawford and every right to protest the bogus war that snatched the young promising life of her son, Casey. She knows as thousands of other mothers and fathers have come to know that their sons and daughters did not die to bring democracy. Their lives were lost to insure the wealth and maintenance of princes, kings and presidents, of corporate directors of Halliburton, of the rights of the elite, not the working many.
Oh really? So tell me what did Daniel Faulkner die for? You know him. The guy you shot and killed. The man who your bullets were found in his body.
The man whose wife you made a widow 25 years ago. Did he die to insure the wealth and maintenance of princes, kings and presidents, of corporate directors of Halliburton, of the rights of the elite? No he died because you killed him.
He died for just doing his job. He died because he pulled your brother over for going the wrong way on a one-way street. Your entire following and celebrity was built on the blood of Daniel Faulkner.
Now who is taking advantage of the working man?
I can't wait for your death sentence to be re-instated. One less cop killing scumbag in the world.
Rot in hell.
And Cindy Sheehan, you’ve been endorsed by a cop killer. How does that make you feel?
This is the latest bout of verbal masturbation from convicted cop killing scumbag Mumia Abu Jamal. Now he's complaining about the American prison system. Go figure.
He has the nerve to say this...
I write to you as one of over 2 million men, women and children encaged in America's gulags, the fastest growing public housing development in the United States.
It is interesting that the nation which boasts the most about freedom and democracy is one of the world's most rabid incarcerators.
No, it's because of assclowns like you that abuse these freedoms that there are people in prison. You want to stay out of prison? Here's a tip. Don't break the law.
And especially don't kill cops.
Normally I save the scientology bashing for but this time I have yet another bone to pick with French government..
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THE Paris city hall has pledged not to make US actor Tom Cruise an honorary citizen - because of his membership of the Church of Scientology.
In a debate late yesterday, the Socialist-controlled municipal assembly approved a resolution "never to welcome the actor Tom Cruise, spokesman for Scientology and self-declared militant for this organisation".
But do you know who is an honorary citizen of Paris? Convicted cop killing scumbag .
While I agree with them that Tom Cruise is nothing more than a cult recruiter it makes no sense to reject him as an honorary citizen but it's fine to make a cop killer one.
You can't be an honorary citizen if you have wacky religious beliefs but kill all the cops you want. Nice message you're sending. Then again maybe they were afraid that Tom Cruise would ascend on Paris with an army of Scientologists and they'd have no choice except to surrender.
As always it was your pleasure.
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