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Leonard Peltier & Mumia Abu-Jamal: Justice Barometers of Our Soul</a>
</b></h3><font size=3>Welcome to the United States of America, the land
of hypocrisy, denial, and subterfuge.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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!<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Source URL:
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http://www.blackcommentator.com/342/342_kir_peltier_abu_jamal.html</a><br>
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<i><a name="evtsta0887392865"></a>
<a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/">BlackCommentator.com</a>
Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a 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.
For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887392865?ie=UTF8&tag=blackcommenta-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0887392865">
Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and
Thinker</a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click
<a href="http://www.struggle-and-win.net/13201/43480.html">here</a> to
read excerpts from the book). Click
<a href="http://www.blackcommentator.com/contact_forms/larry_pinkney/gbcf_form.php">
here</a><a name="evtsta0887392865"></a> to contact Mr. Pinkney. <br><br>
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