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Call The Parole Board This Monday For The MOVE 9
Ona Move everybody ! This past week our brother Eddie Africa was denied parole by The Penn. Parole Board. The Parole Board citing the reasons lack of remorse, failure to show responsibility, nature of the crime . The same excuse they have been using the past five years with the MOVE 9 at these parole hearings and with political prisoners across the country.
The MOVE 9 are innocent and we are not gonna sit back and allow our family to be illegally held hostage by the Penn. Parole Board.We are holding these legalized misfits these legalized terrorists accountable. Call the Parole Board this Monday 11/18 at (717) 772-4343 and demand the release of The MOVE 9.The past two Mondays have been a success so let’s keep the pressure on.
Ona Move
Mona, Orie, Ann
For more info
Ona Move for the Move 9
http://move9parole.blogspot.co.at/
The Petition
Chairman Catherine C. McVey
Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole
Attn: Inmate Inquiry
1101 South Front Street, Suite 5300
Harrisburg, PA 17104
Dear Mrs. McVey,
Please parole Chuck, Debbie, Delbert, Eddie, Janet, Janine, Mike, and Phil Africa this year. They have not caused any major disciplinary problems during the past three decades. They have spent most of their lives in prison; please allow them to be a part of, and contribute to, society as free citizens.
There are many around the world, who have different reasons for supporting parole for these eight prisoners.
–The sentencing judge stated publicly that he did not have the faintest idea who shot the one bullet that killed Officer Ramp. Nine people cannot fire one bullet.
–Many supporters of parole feel that Officer Ramp was actually shot by police „friendly fire,“ because it would have been ballistically impossible for MOVE to have shot Ramp, who was across the street from MOVE\’s house. These supporters believe that because of MOVE\’s position in the basement, bullets coming from there would have had an upward trajectory, yet the medical examiner testified that the bullet entered Ramp\’s \“chest from in front and coursed horizontally without deviation up or down.\“ Even the authenticity of official ballistics are in dispute. At a pre-trial hearing, in open court, the Judge allowed the prosecutor to literally use a pencil and eraser to change the medical examiner\’s report to conform with the medical examiner\’s testimony about the bullet\’s trajectory.
This theory about the bullet\’s trajectory could have been tested, but MOVE\’s house was illegally demolished that very day, and police did nothing to preserve the crime scene, inscribe chalk marks, or measure ballistics angles. A few days before, a Philadelphia judge had signed an order barring the city from destroying the house, but this order was violated. In a preliminary hearing on a Motion to Dismiss, MOVE unsuccessfully argued that destroying their home had prevented them from proving that it was physically impossible for MOVE to have shot Ramp.
–Yet, other supporters of parole cite the average 10-15 year sentence given for third-degree murder. MOVE prisoners have now served 2-3 times this sentence. Isn\’t 30 years enough Merle Africa, who has died in prison, and these surviving eight have already paid a terrible price for what happened on that day.
Lastly, We are concerned about optional stipulations that the Parole Board may require, which we feel are unfair, and which many legal scholars argue are a violation of First-Amendment rights. In the past, as a condition for parole, MOVE prisoners have unfairly been required to renounce MOVE and their deeply held religious beliefs.
We are also concerned about two other possible stipulations.
First is the \“taking responsibility\“ stipulation, which basically asks a prisoner to admit guilt in order to be granted parole. These eight MOVE prisoners have always maintained their innocence, so it is unfair to require this of them.
Second is the \“serious nature of offense\“ stipulation. MOVE spokesperson Ramona Africa feels that this is illegal „because the judge took this into consideration and when the sentence was issued, it meant that barring any misconduct, problems, new charges, etc. this prisoner was to be released on their minimum. To deny that is basically a re-sentence.“
Please do not require these optional stipulations.
We do ask that you please grant parole to these eight prisoners so that, after 30 years, they can go home to their families.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/move9parole/
On a move – website of move organization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3BzrSVK0g
| Die Move 9 | |
| Die MOVE9 sind unschuldige Männer und Frauen, die seit 1978 im Gefängnis sind. Jede(r) von ihnen wurde zu 30 100 Jahren für den Mord an den Polizisten James Ramp während eines massiven Polizeiangriffs auf den Hauptsitz der MOVE in Powelton Village, Philadelphia. Officer Ramp wurde von einer einzelnen Kugel getötet, als er und ungefähr 40 andere Polizisten, ihre Waffen abfeurend, das Haus der Move stürmten. Die anschließende Autopsie zeigte, daß die Kugel, die Officer Ramp tötete, einen von oben nach unten gerichteter Verlauf hatte; alle Mitglieder der MOVE befanden sich im Keller, unter Officer Ramp, was bedeutet, wäre er von einer von ihnen erschossen, denn hätte die Kugel einen umgekehrten Verlauf gehabt. Außerdem, konnte nicht gezeigt werden, daß die tödliche Kugel zu einer Waffe der MOVE paßte, und auf keiner der Waffen, die die Polizei angeblich im Keller fanden, fand man Fingerabdrücke. In einer gemeinsamen Philadelphia Polizei & FBIOperation sieben Jahre später, tötete eine auf das neue Haus der MOVE abgeworfene Bombe elf Menschen, darunter fünf Kinder, und setzte etwa 60 umliegende Häuser in Brand. … |
http://www.mumia.de/doc/background/misc/move001.html
Free the Move9 – Fb
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-the-MOVE-9/435412386474163
The Move 9: Ona Move everyone (Heinz Leitner)
http://www.labournetaustria.at/the-move-9-ona-move-everyone-heinz-leitner/