The Case OF MUmia Abu-Jamal

The short front page article published in Rioter's Block number 4 is one of the few most controvertail peices to have been published in the papaer. I heard nand spoke to many people who where convinced of Mumia Abu-Jamal's guilt. In the view of the evidence and contexxt in which Mumia was tried i beleive it will be virtually impossible to determine his guilt. However, wether or not he shot the police man Falkner is not the real issue here. It is to igbnore the real forces at work int he USA than to think that it is the execution of a potentially innocent man. This occurs all the time in America and will coninue so lon gas the system exists. No, what is really at stake here is freedom. The reasomn Mumia Abu-Jamal's case is so important is that it examplifies the way the US government works. Is it a coincidence that Mumia Abu-Jamal had beena prominent Black Panther since he was 13? Is it a coincidence that he was one the most articulate and outspoken Panther of his generation? Is it also a coincidence that the FBI had a program aimed at silencing and disrupting the activities of the Black PAnthers, inimidating, black -mailing and atticking members of the Black Panther Party?
All of this does not prove Mumias innocence. However it does to a large extent question the integrity and objectiveness of the overwhelingly white American government. An argument i have heard many times is that insitutionalised racism has disapeared from the glorious United States of AMerica. This is an aboniable misconception. I have heard people assert that the USA is a free country and that is just not the way things are done anymore: ISnt it? HAs the US government abandoned the old mobster gangland tactics for freedom and equality for all
? Then what is going on at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay? Torture, extortion and harrassment in an illegal prisoner camp that defies all conventions and treaties.If they do it abroad, is not the next logical step as to assume that they do it at home? That to silence their opponents they would resort to imrisoning them, threatening the oppnents' lives? Did an illustrious historian not once said "Foreign policy is just an extention of domestic policy".
I ask all these questions of the USA not because i love that glorious country, not because i beleive it is grreat democracy that ought to be defended from the evil men that direct it. I ask these questions of the USA specifically because it is the greatest Power the world has ever seen, extending control over many aspects of daily life through out the world. Thus it is this country that must be brought down in order for the Revolution to succeed. Once the US is toppled all other countries should turn to the ideas of Marx as they are freed of their anglo-saxon, WASP forged cultural and economic chains. This is why we must compile evidence in order to undermine the USA's credibility in the eyes of the world. this should not be difficult to do as the list o fthe USA's crimes extend back to its conception over 200 years ago. However it should be done.