BULLIES OF BABYLON
[col. writ. 3/7/14] © ’14 Mumia Abu-Jamal
The U.S. Senate rejection of U.S. Department of Justice nominee, Debo Adegbile for the post of head of that agency’s Civil Rights Division is, more than anything, the triumph of fear and lies over reason and fact.
Adegbile, by all accounts, is an able, skilled litigator, who had been an exemplary candidate for the post.
But the Broad Street Bullies (a/k/a the FOP [Fraternal Order of Police]), had other ideas, and they didn’t let truth get in their way. In a mad attempt to hurt me, they slimed a man whom they neither knew, nor cared to know – moreover, they soiled their own constitution –y’know, that document they swore to obey, honor and protect.
For it is bitter irony that the man nominated for the nation’s highest civil rights post, was himself denied the civil right of due process, and the human right of self-defense. And this is so simply because he dared to do what defense lawyers are legally and constitutionally required to do- defend their clients.
For this, he was spat upon by vile men. For this, he was denied, by a raft of lies.
What do you call a country where cops decide who will be judges, prosecutors and government officials?
We call it a police state.
And the greasy politicians who are paid to support this path, who, too, swore on the constitution, only to shred it, will usher in an era that will, inevitably, turn on them.
The late Albert F. Sabo (my trial judge, BTW), a judge who was so biased that he became and embarrassment on the bench, was a Life Member of the FOP.
The judges of the PA Supreme Court, announced proudly that they accepted support and money from the FOP (they called it campaign contributions, of course.)
And whether bought or bullied, this millionaire Congress, who now have 10% support for defending the 1% of wealth, have sold what remains of their souls to the highest bidder.
We need to cut out the middle-man and just past a giant $ dollar sign to the podium and background of Congress –for they are for sale.
What they have shown is – you get what you pay for.
–© ‘14maj