Mumia defense office burglarized

[IndianaGreen]

I wonder if the FBI is back to doing the dirty tricks they did under Hoover...

Mumia defense office burglarized
Author: Barbara Jean Hope
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 11/26/03 09:37

PHILADELPHIA – On Nov. 19 the office of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ) here was broken into by burglars. A spokesman for the ICFFMAJ says it was “an apparent political burglary.” The political burglars took the group’s computers, files and databases, but no other items of monetary value were taken.

A similar break-in at the same ICFFMAJ office occurred in June 2000, when lists of financial donors were stolen but nothing else.

Mumia Abu-Jamal, a progressive African American journalist, has been in prison for over 20 years, most of that time on death row. His lawyers and supporters say he was wrongfully convicted in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

From the age of 15, when he was the communications secretary for the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was a target of the FBI’s antidemocratic COINTELPRO program. He has also been the target of right-wing, racist police harassment.

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/4457/1/191/

[solinvictus]

1. Mumia

He's the wrong poster boy against the death penalty because he's guilty as sin. I have no sympathy for him.

[0rganism]

2. Hey, in case you didn't notice, it isn't about Mumia's guilt or innocence

This is about the office of Mumia's defense team. It was burglarized. The FBI used to do this to political enemies on a routine basis during COINTELPRO operations.

Can you stick to the topic, or are you blinded by hate?

[not systems]

3. I would guess...

blinded by hate.

Mumia really brings out the haters.

Last time some of the Mumia haters got tomb stoned for
their hysterical ranting.

This is really likly to be the type of political thing
you describe it seems to be becoming more common.

People are often blind when bad things happen to people
they can objectify as unworthy of basic rights.

[roughsatori]

4. That was quite the non-sequitor

If one is against the death penalty then there is no "wrong poster boy" for the death penalty--and in this case the "boy" is a "man."

I am against the death penalty in ALL cases, even for capital criminals such as Bin Laden and Bush*.

[Terwilliger]

5. This has nothing to do with the death penalty

He shouldn't even be in prison

[TexasMexican]

7. why not?

he killed that cop.

[AndyTiedye]

6. That Made Him the Right Poster Boy for the Wingnuts...

...who would like to do the same thing to us, once they get away with doing it to Mumia's lawyers.