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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2007 12:04:22 GMT -6
The Organization, Educators For Mumia Abu-Jamal is sponsoring a "Teach In" on Mumia’s case on October 26th at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The title of the cop-killer, pity party is ironically titled "Mumia Abu-Jamal: Scholars Review The Case" It is scheduled from 3:30pm to 5:00pm, and while I don’t yet have the exact location I will post it as soon as I do.
The official school sponsor of the pro-Mumia event is the "Dissent-In-America Teach-In" program that is run by Professor Ralph Young of Temple University. Perhaps, Professor Young will offer as an introduction to the pro-Jamal forum, an explanation as to how shooting a Police Officer in the back has anything to do with dissent. But I doubt it.
Professor Young as you might expect, is a far-left extremist who uses his classroom as a bully pulpit to indoctrinate his students with his agenda of thinly veiled anti-Americanism. His class has been described as not being so much about dissent as it is "an immersion in radical politics" that is explicitly designed to convert students into adopting Young's corrosive agenda as their own.
While there is a strong argument to be made for studying dissent in a multitude of forms, Young’s examples are of those who sought largely to destroy America. Clearly, this makes his class much more about celebrating treason than it is about teaching dissent. Which explains his support for Mumia, whose "anti-system", MOVE inspired brand of cultish nihilism, is treason in it’s most extreme and vulgar form.
While Young is the sponsor, two other Professors are slated to actually run the "teach-in". Interestingly enough, they have to be bused in from out of town. Perhaps because the Professors in Jamal’s hometown of Philadelphia, committed leftists as they may be, are not so naive as to be pulled into Mumia’s faux cause.
Professor Johanna Fernandez is from Baruch College in New York City and when she is not stumping for Mumia with other "Free Mumia" professors, she is writing hagiographies on behalf of streets-gang-turned-political-gangs like "The Young Lords". Like her hero Jamal, she also has worked to revise the bloody history of the dictatorial Castro regime in Cuba. She was member of The International Socialist Organization. The ISO, if you don’t know, is one of many crypto-Marxist groups that latch onto whatever cause is fashionable, in this case Mumia, in order to lure people into their little cult.
The other Professor on the deception agenda is Professor Tameka Cage who hails from the University of Pittsburgh. In an essay dedicated to Jamal, Professor Cage calls upon her fellow educators to place Jamal amongst great African-American leaders like Martin Luther King. She argues that "We must add to the list of great revolutionary-activists the name, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Let us rewrite and supplement our textbooks now. Let us historicize Mumia now. Let us incorporate Mumia’s life into our syllabi now. It is time for educators around the country and the globe to use our influence to make ourselves, and our students aware that there is greatness among us in Mumia Abu-Jamal.
In her rambling, homage to the convicted murderer, Professor Cage, cannot even bring herself to mention Police Officer Daniel Faulkner’s name, let alone bother arguing that Mumia did not shoot him.
This is of course, the latest fad in the Mumia cause, to merely assert that his situation is one rife with injustice and that no matter what else happened, that he is a victim of bigotry. In this way of appealing to emotion, identity politics, and white guilt, the debate about Jamal’s case need not even be had. The whole situation is diverted from one about whether or not the man on death row for killing Officer Faulkner is in fact the real killer, to a broader critique of American racism, class warfare, and a whole host of issues that are designed to inject the "Free Mumia" debate with extraneous complexities as a means of obfuscation.
All the rhetorical beating around the bush is done with the explicit intent of keeping people from asking the simple questions. There are plenty of these questions to be answered, for example. If Mumia is so innocent, than what was he doing with a bullet from the dead officers gun lodged in his abdomen as his own gun lies next to him with all of the bullets fired?
Ask that question at the "teach-in" and get prepared to be subjected to a whole litany of purported police abuses going back to the mid-sixties, a lesson in the COINTELPRO programs run by the FBI, or perhaps the myth about Jamal’s crusading journalism prior to his murder of a Philadelphia Police Officer in the back, but don’t expect a viable explanation, or to be directed towards trial transcripts. That is because in Mumia-world, innocence or guilt does not matter, as author and the godfather of the far left himself, Noam Chomsky, recently noted..
It comes as no surprise to me that none of the Professors participating in this event have a background in criminal justice or the law. Nor should anyone expect that the Faulkner side of the equation be given a voice or equal time. Why should Jamal's devotees let a little impediment like the facts of the case get in the way of their revisionist history?
Being that I spent so many years as a Jamal supporter myself, I have a fairly good understanding of how the "movement" employs "group-think" as a means of keeping otherwise intelligent, rational people, from accepting the obvious fact that all of the evidence proves well beyond a reasonable doubt that Mumia Abu-Jamal murdered Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
The thinking goes something like this. "Mumia is a good leftist, as are the professors, if you want to be a good leftist too than you should support Mumia. If you are upset about the aftermath of Katrina, support Mumia, don’t like the war, support Mumia, hate Republicans or Democrats, free Mumia, want to put down the prison-industrial-corporate media conglomerate-military complex that rules the world, than you’ve gotta free Mumia. You don’t have to think or investigate this case on your own, we have done that for you. And if you happen to decide that you don’t want to free Mumia, than you are a racist who wants an innocent black man to die. This is because your support of Mumia is the litmus test upon which your political purity is tested."
And as anti-intellectual as this train of thought goes, thousands of people across the world who ought to know better have fallen into it's trap, caught up in the image of Mumia, the misconceptions about what he stands for, the romanticism that surrounds him, they have surrendered their critical faculties in exchange for acceptance. It is truly a sad testament to the left's inability to recognize things for what they are as opposed to what they want them to be.
This "teach-in", like all of the other Mumia inspired nonsense that has preceded it, is little more than pre-school politics disguised as a legitimate cause, run by people portrayed as freedom fighters, who in actuality are little more than cynical opportunists who have a knack for marketing the Mumia brand.
The Professors who are defiling academia by bringing this event to a classroom near you are substituting indoctrination for education, and it is the students, their parents, and you the taxpayer, who gets to foot the bill.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2007 22:34:29 GMT -6
Planning to attend?
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Post by Lotus Flower on Oct 7, 2007 22:42:45 GMT -6
Creaming your pants hoping for a glimpse, aren't you?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 14:29:54 GMT -6
Creaming your pants hoping for a glimpse, aren't you? Sorry..I'm married. Since you took the pains to inform the board, I figured you and/or some of the ghouls here would go and disrupt things. I could personally care less what you look like.
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Post by Bull on Oct 8, 2007 14:46:33 GMT -6
Why does it seem that all of SDL's comebacks are on par with the 13 year old mind?..... If we say green, he sayd red. We say purple, he says yellow, blue - orange, black -white..... doesn't he have an xbox to keep his attention?
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Post by Lisa on Oct 8, 2007 14:53:56 GMT -6
Why does it seem that all of SDL's comebacks are on par with the 13 year old mind?..... If we say green, he sayd red. We say purple, he says yellow, blue - orange, black -white..... doesn't he have an xbox to keep his attention? According to him, he's 50. Didn't he say he was 16 in 1973? Maybe he's just anti everything. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 20:46:47 GMT -6
Why does it seem that all of SDL's comebacks are on par with the 13 year old mind?..... If we say green, he sayd red. We say purple, he says yellow, blue - orange, black -white..... doesn't he have an xbox to keep his attention? According to him, he's 50. Didn't he say he was 16 in 1973? Maybe he's just anti everything. ;D I just turned 51 yesterday. Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 8, 2007 20:55:31 GMT -6
According to him, he's 50. Didn't he say he was 16 in 1973? Maybe he's just anti everything. ;D Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. Expelled that is funny, you really need to read your history sometime. I have an idea you can go to VN and spread your crap there, see how the heroic NLF treats you and your kind. You do know what they did to teachers, preachers, college professors and any other educated person they caught don't you. Of course since you continually prove you are not very educated you are safe in that respect, but they do not take kindly to those who think differently than they do either so have a nice trip.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 8, 2007 20:58:05 GMT -6
According to him, he's 50. Didn't he say he was 16 in 1973? Maybe he's just anti everything. ;D I just turned 51 yesterday. Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. I know you are not very sharp but she was not saying you are not the age you claim. You need to read, you can read can't you. If so read bull's post just before hers.
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Post by Lisa on Oct 8, 2007 22:14:50 GMT -6
According to him, he's 50. Didn't he say he was 16 in 1973? Maybe he's just anti everything. ;D I just turned 51 yesterday. Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. Are you insane?
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Post by rosebud on Oct 9, 2007 0:42:45 GMT -6
I just turned 51 yesterday. Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. Are you insane?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 0:43:19 GMT -6
Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. Expelled that is funny, you really need to read your history sometime. I have an idea you can go to VN and spread your crap there, see how the heroic NLF treats you and your kind. You do know what they did to teachers, preachers, college professors and any other educated person they caught don't you. Of course since you continually prove you are not very educated you are safe in that respect, but they do not take kindly to those who think differently than they do either so have a nice trip. Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you?
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Post by rosebud on Oct 9, 2007 0:45:10 GMT -6
Expelled that is funny, you really need to read your history sometime. I have an idea you can go to VN and spread your crap there, see how the heroic NLF treats you and your kind. You do know what they did to teachers, preachers, college professors and any other educated person they caught don't you. Of course since you continually prove you are not very educated you are safe in that respect, but they do not take kindly to those who think differently than they do either so have a nice trip. Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? It seems to me you enjoy winding people up to get a reaction. Attention seeker I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 0:45:22 GMT -6
I just turned 51 yesterday. Therefore that would mean I turned 16 in the fall of '72, which means for most of 1973, I was 16. Example: when the US finally got expelled by the heroic NLF in the spring of '73...I was 16. Nice try, tho. Are you insane? Hardly I don't even look like Dick Cheney or Richard Nixon or Six Gun Ron...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 0:48:30 GMT -6
Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? It seems to me you enjoy winding people up to get a reaction. Attention seeker I guess. I just like refuting fallacies, that's all. Inherited from my grandmother aka "Molly the Red"
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Post by zd3925 on Oct 9, 2007 7:19:49 GMT -6
Looks like another pinballs in the making.
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Post by Californian on Oct 9, 2007 7:47:53 GMT -6
I'm curious. Can someone please define for me exactly what a "Teach-in" is?
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 9, 2007 8:19:43 GMT -6
Expelled that is funny, you really need to read your history sometime. I have an idea you can go to VN and spread your crap there, see how the heroic NLF treats you and your kind. You do know what they did to teachers, preachers, college professors and any other educated person they caught don't you. Of course since you continually prove you are not very educated you are safe in that respect, but they do not take kindly to those who think differently than they do either so have a nice trip. Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? Nice picture have you read his memoir's. You must have sent a lot of box tops in for that history degree if that is the best you can do. The NVA did not have many left after we shot them all down, didn't your history books tell you that. We did though bombed the crap out of them, should have invaded as well, but CS like you and yours made the CS politicians give up while we were winning. Cowards all. The NVA were fine troops and I had a lot of respect for them, I have none for the NLF and less for the US hippies and US media that supported the NLF.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 9, 2007 8:27:12 GMT -6
It seems to me you enjoy winding people up to get a reaction. Attention seeker I guess. I just like refuting fallacies, that's all. Inherited from my grandmother aka "Molly the Red" "It is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". You have certinaly removed all doubt enough times. You have proven how many times you can spout a lie that is true. Molly the Red did't she work the red light district in New York?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 10:37:55 GMT -6
Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? Nice picture have you read his memoir's. You must have sent a lot of box tops in for that history degree if that is the best you can do. The NVA did not have many left after we shot them all down, didn't your history books tell you that. We did though bombed the crap out of them, should have invaded as well, but CS like you and yours made the CS politicians give up while we were winning. Cowards all. The NVA were fine troops and I had a lot of respect for them, I have none for the NLF and less for the US hippies and US media that supported the NLF. I think this was Bush's division during 'Nam.. Shame us hippies helped end the ILLEGAL and UNDECLARED war against the heroic Vietnamese people, eh? Never did answer my question. Did North Vietnam ever attack the US? Did my history books and the "US media" not mention it?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 10:39:00 GMT -6
I'm curious. Can someone please define for me exactly what a "Teach-in" is? A seminar
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 10:47:44 GMT -6
I just like refuting fallacies, that's all. Inherited from my grandmother aka "Molly the Red" "It is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". You have certinaly removed all doubt enough times. You have proven how many times you can spout a lie that is true. Molly the Red did't she work the red light district in New York? If you think that's going to *deleted* me off, I hear worse at the anti-war demos I go to. Nice try. My bubbe was a union leader in Boston in the 1910s-1920s. She used to get arrested on a weekly basis..almost deported twice.. And if she had heard you refer to her like that..she would have given you such a frosk in pisk...
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Post by Californian on Oct 9, 2007 22:47:30 GMT -6
I'm curious. Can someone please define for me exactly what a "Teach-in" is? A seminar Isn't the word "seminar" kinda un-PC on the campii these days? Aren't they supposed to be "ovulars" now?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 22:54:21 GMT -6
Isn't the word "seminar" kinda un-PC on the campii these days? Aren't they supposed to be "ovulars" now? Didn't make the cut for open-mic night, did you...
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Post by Californian on Oct 9, 2007 23:03:59 GMT -6
Isn't the word "seminar" kinda un-PC on the campii these days? Aren't they supposed to be "ovulars" now? Didn't make the cut for open-mic night, did you... I just thought "ovular" might be more specific to your own case, since you seem perpetually on the rag.
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Post by RickZ on Oct 10, 2007 8:23:27 GMT -6
Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? In other words, you're a f*cking degreed idiot.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 10, 2007 8:35:32 GMT -6
"It is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". You have certinaly removed all doubt enough times. You have proven how many times you can spout a lie that is true. Molly the Red did't she work the red light district in New York? If you think that's going to *deleted* me off, I hear worse at the anti-war demos I go to. Nice try. My bubbe was a union leader in Boston in the 1910s-1920s. She used to get arrested on a weekly basis..almost deported twice.. And if she had heard you refer to her like that..she would have given you such a frosk in pisk... I am sure you do hear worst at the anti-war rallies, your side does have a bit of a potty mouth. I see she did work the red light district, she was just there to orginize them of course she was a star member. Nothing to be ashamed of for a commie. I would not try to *deleted* you off, no need you stay that way.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 10, 2007 8:37:48 GMT -6
"It is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt". You have certinaly removed all doubt enough times. You have proven how many times you can spout a lie that is true. Molly the Red did't she work the red light district in New York? If you think that's going to *deleted* me off, I hear worse at the anti-war demos I go to. Nice try. My bubbe was a union leader in Boston in the 1910s-1920s. She used to get arrested on a weekly basis..almost deported twice.. And if she had heard you refer to her like that..she would have given you such a frosk in pisk... I am sure you do hear worst at the anti-war rallies, your side does have a bit of a potty mouth. I see she did work the red light district, she was just there to orginize them of course she was a star member. Nothing to be ashamed of for a commie. I would not try to *deleted* you off, no need you stay that way. I did answer your question, you just were not sharp enough to understand it. So I will be a little more specific for you. No they did not invade the US and we did not invade North Vietnam either. We did bomb the crap out of it though.
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Post by D.E.E. on Oct 10, 2007 8:43:11 GMT -6
Nice picture have you read his memoir's. You must have sent a lot of box tops in for that history degree if that is the best you can do. The NVA did not have many left after we shot them all down, didn't your history books tell you that. We did though bombed the crap out of them, should have invaded as well, but CS like you and yours made the CS politicians give up while we were winning. Cowards all. The NVA were fine troops and I had a lot of respect for them, I have none for the NLF and less for the US hippies and US media that supported the NLF. I think this was Bush's division during 'Nam.. Shame us hippies helped end the ILLEGAL and UNDECLARED war against the heroic Vietnamese people, eh? Never did answer my question. Did North Vietnam ever attack the US? Did my history books and the "US media" not mention it? You hippies did little to help the VN people after we left, I guess you did not care how many millions of people were murdered by your hero's of the NLF did you. Your proof it was illegal? The heroic people of VN who murdered millions of their own, those heroic people? I do keep forgetting you prefer murderers over innocent people. The picture you posted was actually the recruiting poster for hippies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2007 11:34:18 GMT -6
If you think that's going to *deleted* me off, I hear worse at the anti-war demos I go to. Nice try. My bubbe was a union leader in Boston in the 1910s-1920s. She used to get arrested on a weekly basis..almost deported twice.. And if she had heard you refer to her like that..she would have given you such a frosk in pisk... I am sure you do hear worst at the anti-war rallies, your side does have a bit of a potty mouth. I see she did work the red light district, she was just there to orginize them of course she was a star member. Nothing to be ashamed of for a commie. I would not try to *deleted* you off, no need you stay that way. No..she worked in the garment industry...sorry to bust your bubble
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