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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (63733)	1/8/2012 2:04:51 PM
From: Oblivious	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Fraternal Order of Police's (FOP) Boycott for Daniel Faulkner Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner was brutally gunned down on December 9, 1981. His killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death for his crime. In late 2000, several high-profile personalities got behind the cause of a retrial for Abu-Jamal, claiming he was not given a fair trial. Outraged, the Fraternal Order of Police called for a boycott of all products and work associated with those who support Daniel Faulkner's convicted killer. At the recent National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) conference in Alabama, the delegation in attendance vote unanimously to begin a boycott of persons, products and companies associated with the supporting of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. The act was an especially brutal and sadistic murder that still haunts the family, friends and coworkers of Officer Faulkner. ("The New York Shields" presented Officer Faulkner's family a Medal of Valor at their 1999 Police Memorial Breakfast). Convict Abu-Jamal has written a book, "Live from Death Row," and attempted to place himself in a celebrity status as a result of his CRIMINAL behavior. Others have supported his pathetic attempt to gain stardom and freedom, all the while spitting in the face of Officer Faulkner, his family and every single law enforcement officer in the United States. The F. O. P. has announced the formal boycotting of the following: 1. Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Products (donators to a defense fund for the killer). 2.Deceased actor Paul Newman's products (an outspoken supporter of the killer). 3. Actress Susan Sarandon (supporter of this convicted killer). 4. Filmmakers Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and John Landis supporters of the killer). 5. Writers Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates (supporters of the killer). 6. Supermodel Naomi Campbell (supporter of the killer). 7.. Musicians Sting, Rage Against the Machine, Beasty Boys, David Byrne and Michael Stipe of REM, supporters of the killer). 8. The Backstreet Boys who are performing "free" benefit concerts for the killer's defense fund. One of their "benefit concerts" scheduled for Baltimore, MD had to be canceled when Baltimore police officers refused to work the overtime shifts for security at the concert. As you may not know, a tape recorded statement made by this heinous convicted killer and was played at the graduation commencement ceremony of Evergreen State College in the state of Washington in June 1999. This resulted in over 800 graduates walking out and another two dozen turning their backs during the killer's three minute diatribe. The F.O.P.'s position is getting widespread coverage in the media, as well it should. The members of the New York Shields stand with our fellow brothers across this country in strongly supporting this boycott and honoring the memory of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. We urge you to participate in this boycott and request that you pass this e-mail on to your coworkers, partners, family and friends. We must stand together against this brutal murderer. Please do your part and pass this important message along to your friends. Call your local grocer and tell them about Ben & Jerry's support of a cop killer. =

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (63733)	1/11/2012 3:03:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Re: "You know what I meant." No... really I DON'T because it DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE and it ISN'T TRUE. What is true I wrote: EVERYONE has 'slave ancestors' if you just go back far enough in history. (Now if you had said something like 'I only care about slavery in the last 400 or 500m years'... or 'I only intended to reference slavery in certain particular parts of the world, i.e., this, this, this....', well that might have been a different matter.) But, you didn't say anything like that.