[Ppnews] Leonard Peltier & Mumia Abu-Jamal: Justice Barometers of Our Soul

[Political Prisoner News]

Friday, September 18, 2009

http://freepeltiernow.blogspot.com/2009/09/leonard-peltier-mumia-abu-jamal-justice.html


<http://freepeltiernow.blogspot.com/2009/09/leonard-peltier-mumia-abu-jamal-justice.html>Leonard 
Peltier & Mumia Abu-Jamal: Justice Barometers of Our Soul

Welcome to the United States of America, the land 
of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge.

Intense economic and race war in fact continues 
unabated in this nation unabashedly fostered, 
sadly, by U.S. President Barack Obama, who is 
himself the aloof and blissfully oblivious target 
of increasing racial bigotry. What a terrible 
irony! It is stunning, but no accident, how the 
obvious is repeatedly missed by so many in 
‘America.’ The details in the cases of U.S. 
political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard 
Peltier make this abundant arrogance, hypocrisy, 
and dangerous obliviousness that is so prevalent in this land - crystal clear.

Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal however, are 
so much more than political prisoners in 
‘America.’ Their three decades-long wrongful 
imprisonment represents the very heart and soul 
of ongoing hypocrisy, racism, and growing 
injustice in this nation. Mumia Abu-Jamal and 
Leonard Peltier are not simply names to banter 
about. As with many other political prisoners in 
this country, these two cases represent the 
collective barometer that indicate the utter and 
dismal failure of the judiciary and politicos of 
this nation to “change” their ways and come to their human senses.

Leonard Peltier, a former head of the American 
Indian Movement (AIM), and Mumia Abu-Jamal, a 
former leader in the Black Panther Party (BPP), 
both demonstrated the unmitigated audacity to 
stand up for unfettered justice - which is in 
reality the ultimate sin in this nation. They 
both were falsely accused of having killed police 
agents of repression and they both had enormously 
crucial and important evidence suppressed by 
government prosecutors in their skewed, so - 
called free and democratic trials here in the 
empire’s corporate ‘America.’ They both were (and 
continue to be - even in prison) the targets of 
local, state, and federal authorities - to be 
discredited, kept imprisoned, and if possible - ultimately murdered.

The crux of the Leonard Peltier case is not only 
the government subterfuge and concomitant 
suppression of crucial evidence, but also the 
legitimate sovereignty rights of Indigenous 
peoples collectively on this continent. 
Indigenous sovereignty rights is something that 
the U.S. Government and much of the collective 
psyche of this country has studiously avoided, 
refusing to honestly and fairly address for over five hundred years.

Likewise, the crux of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case is 
not only the government subterfuge and 
suppression of crucial evidence, but the audacity 
of Mr. Abu-Jamal to, as a human rights activist 
in word and deed, boldly expose the economic and 
racist hypocrisy of the U.S. Government, in his 
quest on behalf of the collective human rights of people here and abroad.

For thirty years now the corporate U.S. so - 
called ‘news’ media has used, and continues to 
use, a combination of falsehoods, omissions, and 
obfuscation to perpetuate this despicable outrage 
against Mr. Abu-Jamal and Mr. Peltier. Thus is 
this outrage also continually perpetrated against 
us - the majority of peoples in this nation and 
on this planet; not only pertaining to the 
Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal cases of 
injustice but also as pertains to the daily 
corporate media onslaught of distraction and 
disinformation in general both nationally and 
internationally. Make no mistake about this!

Leonard Peltier recently very clearly and quite 
correctly wrote that “now” he is Barack “Obama’s 
political prisoner.” Indeed he is, as is Mumia 
Abu-Jamal, just as the bloody wars in 
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere are 
now Obama’s wars. Stop the intellectual 
masturbation and get real - people! These two 
political prisoners represent the barometers of 
our very souls. Indeed, until we ourselves 
uncompromisingly change it, we are all the 
emotional and information prisoners of this 
present economic, social, and political 
Republicrat [i.e. Republican and Democratic 
Party] nonsense on the road to certain national and global disaster.

Whether we view our primary concern as being 
obtaining universal single payer health care, 
over-all social & economic justice, labor union 
busting, the environment, housing, increasing 
unemployment, or the ongoing U.S. bloody wars 
abroad, etc., the cases of Leonard Peltier and 
Mumia Abu-Jamal encompass all of these important 
concerns. Think about it! They are all linked and 
intertwined. We must understand this.

Our Mother Earth cannot continue to exist without 
social / political (including environmental) and 
economic justice and real change, and we cannot 
continue to exist without our Mother Earth. It 
doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a Harvard graduate to understand this.

In the spirit of ‘Crazy Horse’ and with the 
determination of all justice loving people; spit 
out the poisonous political ‘Kool’ Aid and fight 
hard to make our hopes and dreams become reality. 
As we do this, let us actively remember Leonard 
Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal, for in doing so we 
remember and honor the very best in ourselves. 
Onward then sisters and brothers! Onward
 There remains much work to be done.

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<http://www.blackcommentator.com/>BlackCommentator.com 
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veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former 
Minister of Interior of the Republic of New 
Africa, a former political prisoner and the only 
American to have successfully self - authored his 
civil/political rights case to the United Nations 
under the International Covenant on Civil and 
Political Rights. In connection with his 
political organizing activities in opposition to 
voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed 
in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, 
formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. 
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No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century 
Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel 
[Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click 
<http://www.struggle-and-win.net/13201/43480.html>here 
to read excerpts from the book). Click 
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