Mumia Abu-Jamal - A Bright Shining Hell

This is off the book "All Things Censored"
Self-made video...
forgive me for any mistakes...



Imagine.
Imagine living, eating, sleeping, relieving oneself, daydreaming, weeping—but mostly waiting, in a room the size of your bathroom.
Now imagine doing all those things—but mostly waiting, for the rest of your life.
Imagine waiting—waiting—waiting—to die.
I don't have to imagine.
I "live" in one of those rooms, like about 3,000 other men and women in thirty-eight states across the United States.
It's called "death row."
I call it "hell."
Welcome to "hell."
Each of the states that have death rows have a different system for their "execution cases," varying from the relatively open to the severely restrictive.
Some states, like California and Texas, allow their execution cases work, education, and or religious service opportunities, for out of cell time up to eight hours a day.
Pennsylvania locks its "execution cases" down twenty three hours a day, five days a week; twenty-four hours for the other two days.
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles, I repeat:
Welcome to hell.
A hell erected and maintained by human governments, and blessed by black-roped judges.
A hell which that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them.
A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families.
A white, rural Hell, where most of the caged captives are black and urban.
It is the American way of death.
Contrary to what one might suppose, this hell is the easiest one to enter in a generally hellish criminal justice system. Why? Because, unlike any other case, those deemed potential capital cases are severely restricted during the jury selection phase, as any juror who admits opposition to the death penalty is immediately and automatically removed, leaving only those who are fervent death penalty supporters in the pool of eligible jurors.
When it is argued that to exclude those who opposed death, and to include only those who supported death, was fundamentally unfair, as the latter were more "conviction-prone," the United States Supreme Court, in a case titled Lockhart v. McCree, said such a claim was of no constitutional significance.
Once upon a time, politicians promised jobs and benefits to constituents like "a chicken in every pot," to get elected. It was a surefire vote getter.
No longer. Today the lowest-level politico up to the president use another surefire gimmick to guarantee victory:
Death. Promise death, and the election is yours.
Guaranteed. Vraiment.
A "Vote for hell" in the "Land of the liberty," with its over 1 million prisoners, is the ticket to victory.

From death row, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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[bebotzar]

are you serious dude... do you have any idea what the cops did in those times?

Even if he was completely completely guilty and he murdered that cop in cold blood(which I doubt).. it was nothing compared to what the police did to his people.

[rethedred]

FREE MUMIA!!!

thx for the post bro

[subikkon]

Probably shouldn't have murdered a cop... Just sayin'

[Moses74670]

I love you brotha MUMIA

[Tommy5297]

dont do the crime if you cant take the time

[LURK]

Where are you getting the actual audio?



[jimmyjoeh2o]

One way or the other this man will walk in the light one fine day!

[Checo384775]

stay strong but what do i know i am a 15 year old i have no idea what you are going through. long live world wide revolution.

[LionEntity]

It's about time they freed this magnificent human being from incagement.

[huntsman0603]

Thanks so much for posting this!!!!!!