Some people just never quit. Mumia Abu-Jamal’s supporters are at it again. Not content that their cop-killing poster boy and hero will never be executed for the brutal murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, they’re now on a new crusade.
“Demand that Mumia Abu-Jamal be transferred to general population,” trumpets an email sent jointly by the International Action Center — an organization founded by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark in 1992 — and another organization. Its name?
“Millions 4 Mumia.”
I’ll pause here while you recover from your peals of laughter.
There may indeed be “millions for” America’s most renowned cop killer, but I tend to doubt it. A more appropriate name might be “Minions 4 Mumia.”
One thing about these lefties: They tend to think their paltry numbers are in the millions.
Let me take you back to the summer of 2002. The “Millions for Reparations” rallied right here in Washington, D.C. Only problem was, a piddling few hundred showed up at the rally, if that many.
The goal of those advocating reparations was to pressure Congress — and guilt-trip the rest of the American public — into paying black Americans reparations because their ancestors were held as slaves. Those of us who criticized the movement said reparations payments would never happen. It turns out we were right.
Now here’s one thing of which you can pretty much rest assured: Each and every one of those piddling hundreds who attended the “Millions For Reparations” rally also believe, in their hearts and souls, the Abu-Jamal didn’t kill Faulkner. That just proves what a fantasy world these lefties live in.
Here are the basic facts of Faulkner’s slaying. He stopped a car driving the wrong way on a Philadelphia street early on the morning of Dec. 9, 1981. That man was identified as Abu-Jamal’s brother.
Some kind of confrontation ensued between Faulkner and the man he stopped. Abu-Jamal, according to witnesses, ran over and shot Faulkner, who was able to turn and fire at least one shot at Abu-Jamal, wounding him.
So here’s what Philadelphia police found when they arrived on the scene: one dead cop, with at least one round fired from his service weapon; a wounded Abu-Jamal, who had a gun with all but one round fired from it.
Here’s what the Minions 4 Mumia would have us believe: Philadelphia police were supposed to arrive at this scene and look for a suspect other than the wounded man with all but one round spent from his gun.
Those minions have been trumpeting Abu-Jamal’s innocence for years. Now, they want to take things a step further. They don’t just want Abu-Jamal transferred to the general population.
They want solitary units and restricted-housing units — the only place in prisons to put hard-core, incorrigible inmates — shut down.
“Torture blocks,” the minions call them. The phrasing just reveals the extent of the fantasy world the minions inhabit: They believe every prison inmate in the United States is a victim. That includes even the vicious, brutal ones like Darrell Brooks.
You may never have heard of Brooks. He’s a black man who will never be hated by other black Americans as much as, say, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whose sin is that he doesn’t think the way most black Americans think he should think.
But at least Thomas never killed anybody.
On Oct. 16, 2002, Brooks kicked in the door of an East Baltimore family and threw gasoline inside. Then he torched the house. Carnell and Angela Dawson — and their five children — perished. Their crime? They didn’t want drug dealers dealing drugs in front of their house.
Those Minions 4 Mumia need to re-evaluate who America’s real victims are.
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
