Has anyone else heard about this? I was watching the O'Reilly Factor the other night and they were talking about this guy that France has made an honorary citizen. This guy killed a Philadelphia police officer. This is an outrage. Also, clowns like Susan Sarandon have come forward to defend this guys innocence. But as they said last night, he has got guilty stamped on his forward...This is ridiculous, France needs to get its act together...
Mumia did it. Even his most die-hard supporters, like Michael Moore, admit that he did it. I will never understand why the anti-death penalty, black radicalism crowd hitched their wagon to him. I've heard all kinds of theories as to why, so I don't know. But logic would follow, that if you're going to crow on about how America's legal system is full of injustice, you might want to start with a man who was treated unjustly in the first place. A lot of cool facts about the case that you won't hear from the "Free Mumia" nuts can be found here. www.danielfaulkner.com
That patently false lie has been debunked so many times in so many different ways that they now don't even cling to that, at least most of them don't. Instead, they now scream that he didn't get a fair trial, when the court transcripts clearly show otherwise.
Ah, OK...I'm a few years behind the curve on that case. I ahdn't heard anything about it in several years. Is Amnesty International still backing him? They have a degree of credibility because they always call out North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, etc. for human rights abuses.
I watched a show on him a while back and this guy did it. Bitches like Susan Sarandon like to latch on to worthless causes and back them. She is an idiot as is her "partner" Tim Robbins...
Don't get me wrong. AI does a lot of good work with human rights. They are really passionate about being a voice for the voiceless, they will point out human rights issues that no one else will raise a voice for, and they never quit screaming until sombody does something about it. Most of the time, a good group of folks whose heart is in the right place. That said, AI, like any other group, and the people in AI have a political agenda. They are not exactly chummy with the U.S., nor do they wish to be. The U.S. does not have a perfect human rights record, I'll be the first to admit that. But sometimes, it seems to me that AI goes out of their way to take cheap shots at the U.S., especially over the death penalty and the way we've waged the War on Terror. Just once, I would like to see them acknowledge the fact that when it comes to guaranteeing individual human rights and democracy, the U.S., is the best, most free country in the world, and, while we're not perfect, we're one of the few nations that is trying to be perfect. AI also seems sympathetic to global leftism and socialism, in my opinion, and also does not seem very friendly to Western religions. In the past few years, I've seen them going really soft on communist countries like Cuba, China, and Vietnam (only the WORST leftist regimes, like North Korea, get overly criticized), and Islamic thug-ocracies (excuse me, theocracies) like Iran and Uzbekistan, while at the same time hammering Israel and the United States over Guantanamo Bay and the Israeli's legitimate efforts to defend themselves against murderous homicide bombers. They don't shine a light on Islam's vicious persecution of other religions at it's periphery. One situation you never hear about from AI; the absolutely horrifying genocide of Christians that continues to go on in the Sudan. The Islamic regime in the Arab North has waged a 20 year war of enslavement, torture, rape, and mass killings against the predominately black Christian South. The death toll is in the millions. Yet this does not get AI's attention, and our State Dept. has only given the Sudan a slap on the wrist for it. Both the U.S. Govt. (and all it's parts) and AI only seem to crow about human rights when it fits their greater agenda, whatever that may be at a given moment. I can understand AI's quest to stamp out the death penalty in the West (although I don't agree with it). But there really are a whole lot more pressing issues with human rights going on in the world than whether or not some depraved serial killer is getting what he deserves at Angola or Huntsville, Texas. And our State Dept. needs to wake up and realize some of our friends (Saudi Arabia) are not nice people.
