Re: Mumia Abu-Jamal, & Police Enmity

[David Klepser Patterson <dkpp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding the jack-booted police and their evil ways, it is interesting to
consider how closely the opinions of Alfred, Jerry, and Matt parallel, or
collapse into, the opinions held by far-rightest militia members in the
U.S.  That said, shall we begin a thread for the defense of Mr. McVeigh?
He "got some cops," eh Alfred?

And Matt, regarding the exemplary Stalinist reasoning displayed in your
post of the 5th of June: If you're willing to sacrifice cops for the
revolution, who else are you willing to sacrifice?  Everyone in uniform?
With a badge?  EMS technicians who try to _save_ cops, and others, when
they've been shot?  Doctors?  Would you shoot a cop yourself?  Under what
conditions?

Would you shoot a Marxist who tried to defend a cop?

Have you ever dialed 911?  Do you live in the center of a city?  If your
children were being attacked by a violent criminal, would you dial?  Do
you believe that criminals, by virtue of reasons other than political,
exist (or should the word _criminal_ always take quotation marks)?  Would
you consider my green grocer who was recently shot dead in the course of a
"robbery" to be the victim of an "economic freedom fighter"?

A second interesting observation: those who wish the most violent, complete,
and sudden overthrow of late global capitalism seem to be the least
willing, or able, to realistically consider the precise ramifications of
their wishes.

In this way do individuals with such sensibilities parallel another social
group, one defined by its members' age and mental capacity.  From whom
else (other than "tough" stars of Hollywood "action movies") would you
expect to hear the words "Even a nice pig is still bacon-in-waiting"?

And so the discussion surrounding the urgent and serious matter of a man's
life has degenerated into (in the accurate formulation of Rob) a "Marxism
of the playpen."  The chat rooms for youngsters on AOL are to your
right....

David Patterson
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
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