American Dream wrote:Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this: I have some sympathy for what I imagine Mumia did, even though I would never endorse the idea of killing cops as a general principle.
Given that Mumia saw many of his comrades in the Black Panther Party taken out by corrupt activities on the part of the feds and local police- whether by murder or unfair convictions,- I can understand what I think he might have done. He stumbled upon police officers seizing his brother, handcuffed on the street corner and if he reached under the seat of his cab, grabbed his gun and used it impulsively, I think I can understand why.
This doesn't mean what he may have done was right, nor does it mean that I encourage people to kill police officers or any other human beings- I don't- but it does mean that they threw the book at Mumia for what are probably political reasons, and through a (seemingly) unfair process. But I can understand why you'd be frustrated with lazy idiots who repeat totalistic arguments that they heard from somebody else, without bothering to really think about them...
Funny, I just went downstairs to grab a smoke, I was just thinking that same thing: I get why this guy was so angry, who knows how many times he'd been pulled from a car, beaten, abused, how many times his neighbor's homes were warrantlessly broken into by police (I just witnessed one of those the other day, no shit), etc, etc. so I can understand his frustration.
thats the movie Fight Club should have been.
