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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A Jaguar down the street had a black background bumper sticker with white letters "FREE MUMIA!"
One night, I magic marker colored in the "e"s then used white out to add a "y." But I wouldn't fuck with the tires.
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"Free Mumia" is just about tantamount to saying "Idiot on Board." How the movement managed to jump from "Mumia should not have gotten the death penalty" to "Free Mumia" is a lesson in just how effective changing semantics in the midst of a furious movement can change the whole issue without anyone noticing.
The original movement to get him off death row was based on the idea that he was acting in self defense, acknowledging that he shot the cop while the cop was shooting at him, which the evidence suggests. It also focused on the facxt that his trial was really somewhat a farce, presided over by a hanging idiot named Judge Sabo, who is widely considered one of the dumber and most aactivist judges to ever take the bench in this town. The original Mumia folks fought with real evidence. This new "Free Mumia" crowd has floated the theory that a third party shot the cop, but it hasn't been able to substantiate the claim.
I personally think there's no premeditation based on what I've read and that he deserves to do life. But freeing him? Come on... these 16 year olds need to put down the RATM records and get a grip.
