If you were one of the strategists for the most powerful few would you want the “left” and “right” throwing rocks and insults at each other? Isn’t that a key to how the few are able to rob, dominate and enslave the many?

While I understand your anger at cops who have abused their power and those who have killed innocent people and those who have unfairly targeted minorities, I don’t think you will win over any converts by calling them “pigs”.

You may not agree, but I think that those that just pulled off the greatest heist in the history of civilization with their banking fraud and consequent $700 billion to $7 trillion? “bailout” reward are pleased when working people on the “left” and “right” fight while these people on the TOP laugh all the way to their Swiss bank accounts.

Like you, I sometimes disagree violently with what is posted here. Like you, I have the right to add a post. However, you have no right to use vile epithets to make you opinions. If you have something to say it. If all you have to do is spew insults do it somewhere else. As they say profanity is a sign of a damn small vocabulary.

As for the rest of you cop haters, so sorry that you were spanked by Johnny Law sometime in the past. I’m sure you deserved it you whiny liberal jackasses. For every corrupt cop, there is a corrupt politician, a corrupt priest and a corrupt journalist. Are you listening HANS BENNETT? Find a new poster boy for your crusade against the death penalty. There is a psychological term that applies to you and your cronies. It’s called cognitive dissonance and basically it means that regardless of how insane your belief may be (The belief that Mumia didn’t kill Officer Faulkner) you will remain true to the cause because you have devoted so much time and energy to it. In your “studies and research” you have tried to acquire new information or beliefs that cause the dissonance to be reduced. In the long run you are only fooling yourself. I thank God you represent the smallest percentage of the population who hold your beliefs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/22/144845/11/120/676195

On a side note, I noticed that when I was going to call refer to Mumia Abu Jamal (Wesley Cook) by his chosen name, that I realized that this unusual and self-given name could make it harder for many Americans to relate to him as a regular person and “one of us” and easier to objectify this fellow human as a joke.

It is this army of haters that right wing strategists have cultivated for decades with their wedge issues, successfully getting ordinary Americans, that are all exploited by the few, to fight each other rather than fight the crooked bankers, the military industrial complex and corporate monopolists that screw us all over. We also have haters on the left that have taken the bait to fight middle class anti-abortionists and anti-gays etc. rather than working to unite with them on common issues to fight the more powerful exploiters that oppress us both.

http://www.dailykos.com/user/HansBennett

Yes, in the tradition of Marc Cooper (from The Nation and Mother Jones) several of the liberals at DK, just start frothing at the mouth in hatred, and shout their typical mantra “good cause wrong person.” Lately, too, these folks are indistinguishable from their right wing equivalent, because while they’ll usually say “I don’t support the death penalty, but Mumia’s a piece of sh#t, so I hope he rots in his cell”, they are now bringing out the all too familiar “Fry Mumia” slogans.

Mumia’s case and the support movement are basically just as blacklisted by the liberals (and even some radicals/revolutionaries) in the so-called “alternative media” as they are by the mainstream media and the right-wing. Of course, this makes me only want to fight harder, but it is despicable, and certainly one of the reasons he is still locked in a cage today.

Many police officers are also in the military reserves and have been sent to Iraq and had their stays of duty extended repeatedly. They were also denied proper armor while billions of dollars were given to Cheney’s company Halliburton in no-bid contracts for crappy quality services for our troops. Many of these cops have died in Iraq.

Many of us believe that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (even Bush has admitted this) and that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. (The hijackers were reported to be Saudis, as was Osama bin Laden.) We therefore believe that Bush sent numerous police officers to die in Iraq on false pretenses and that this is tantamount to murder.

Should we call for the death penalty for Bush and any of his co-conspirators in sending these cops to war on false pretenses?

Dave Lindorff wrote a good article about that (written before the retraction): http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10172003.html

Thanks for all the comments folks. I’m glad the article caught your eye.
If interested, these new reports just came in from

Austria:

http://phillyimc.org/en/report-viennese-events-solidarity-mumia-abu-jamal

England (at the House of Commons!):
http://phillyimc.org/en/british-parliamentary-showing-prison-my-whole-life