THE ICCFMAJ TRUTH VS. THE FOP STORY

9/17/99

The September 13, 1999 message from the National Secretary, Jerry Atnip titled: "The FOP STORY," is just that, a story ... A LIE! ... So we can all rest easy, because before we even get into the context of the script, we know not to take anything we read in this story seriously. The shame of it all is that the American public, and all other people outside of America, reading the FOP story have to continuously be bombarded with this same old racist, hate-filled propaganda, this Ku Klux Klan rhetoric (coming at you live from the grand ole lodge down in Mobile, Alabama). Do we really need to say more? Every intelligent, fair-minded, thinking person in America knows that the score is here; this is a vigilante call-to-arms of all racist cops and Southern good ole boys, under the guise of seeking justice for Daniel Faulkner, to justify attacking and killing another Black man, namely, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Jerry Atnip doesn’t love Daniel Faulker (he admitted he hardly even knew him. To quote him, "Danny, we hardly knew you"), but he does hate Black people, and him and his cronies have no qualms about prostituting Daniel Faulkner, even in death, if it serves their racist, murderous agenda. The FOP doesn’t want Daniel Faulkner’s murderer to be caught and brought to justice, they already have Mumia, and they want Mumia’s blood, and that’s obvious. They keep referring to this "fair trial," trying to hide behind these words to convince the public to agree with them. That Mumia deserves to die because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he’s guilty, another lie, just add that one onto all of the rest. The FOP can’t prove Mumia is guilty of killing Officer Faulkner just because Mumia went to trial and was so called found guilty:

The trial was not a fair one, and the jury not an impartial jury of Mumia’s peers.

The FOP story is slanted to say the least, they paint a picture of Daniel Faulkner that’s so squeaky clean, it sparkles like a brand new penny, but if we’re to believe all they’re saying, then we would have to believe that Officer Faulkner was a saint who walked around with a halo over his head; but how can that be true, when at the "murder trial", the trial the FOP swears by, certain witnesses claimed Faulkner solicited prostitutes, was involved in drugs, police brutality, and abused and misused his authority as a police officer. The FOP goes on to say that Daniel Faulkner "left high school prior to graduation". Well, to most of us that’s just a nice way of saying that he was a high school drop-out, and in 100% of the incidents of school drop-outs, when it involves Blacks and Minorities, its not seen as something nice at all. On the contrary, these people are usually seen as mal-adjusted, social misfits. However, the FOP uses this candy-coated language when it refers to Daniel Faulkner dropping out of school, trying to convince us that while he may have dropped out of school, he did it very nicely; and that he absolutely had none of the problems that generally go along with this type of behavior. Do they really think people are so blinded by the title, Fraternal Order of Police, that we can’t see the truth of what’s going on? They’re saying Daniel Faulkner truly represents the best tradition of America, and that’s sad, because despite the fact that we really are not trying to malign Faulkner’s character, if the testimony at Mumia’s so-call fair trial is to be given any credence (which the FOP says it should) then how can we overlook the "dark side" of Faulkner’s character that was exposed during Mumia’s trial, and just swallow this FOP story that he was all goodness and light? Daniel Faulkner is not a symbol, he’s a victim of the society that spawned him, a casualty, an unfortunate man who’s life was wasted because he allowed himself to be misled by standards. Call it law enforcement, criminal justice, call it whatever you will, but being a cop is a dangerous job, and just for the sake of clarity, not to be facetious, we have to admit it does bring to mind that old adage, "live by the sword die by the sword." Only in this case we’re talking about a gun, a modern day sword. The question is, however, was the gun that killed Officer Faulkner, Mumia Abu Jamal’s or somebody elses? We’re saying besides Mumia, Officer Faulkner and the killer, nobody really knows, because Mumia may have went to trial for the crime, but he’s consistently maintained his innocence and he was never proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt, or even a reasonable doubt—the trial was a farce, the jury partial as hell, and not towards Mumia, the testimony, at best, shaky and unclear (after the trial, several key prosecution witnesses came back recanting their testimonies, stating they were threatened and coerced by the cops into saying they saw Mumia kill Officer Faulkner).

Everything aside, such as the FOP story vs. The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the effort to save Mumia’s life as opposed to the obsession with his death, the search for the truth in this matter, rather than railroading Mumia to the gas chamber, all of this aside, the demand for a new trial for Mumia is still a valid demand, therefore it stands.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent of the crime of killing Officer Daniel Faulkner. The trial he was subjected to was a gross travesty of justice and one more blight, among many, on the character of the American Courts, which is ultimately a blight on America itself (recall Waco, Texas, 1993, The Move Organization, 1985).

The ICFFMAJ is calling for justice, a fair trial for Mumia, there’s nothing wrong with that. The FOP needs to examine itself, and the public should observe, because their obsessive opposition to Mumia having a new trial is very telling. At this point, we feel its safe to say that the FOP’s inactions in regards to finding the real murderer and seeking justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal, is not helping their credibility, on the contrary, it is in fact destroying it. For future generations to come this paragraph in FOP history will be known, not as the FOP’s cause celebre, but as the FOP Debacle!

Finally, let’s just sum it all up and see what conclusions we come to: One word keeps coming up, conspiracy! After carefully reading "The FOP Story," then recalling the experience of all these years of hard struggle to save Mumia’s life, despite nothing but threats and opposition from the FOP, after the blatent governmental collusion to sabotage any efforts on our part to free this innocent man, and the outrageous "trial" that railroaded him to prison and the death penalty, the only word to describe this mess is conspiracy. A conspiracy so foul you can almost smell it, taste it; and The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal do indeed smell conspiracy in the air, not justice!

Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, he’s an innocent man. Stop prostituting the death of Daniel Faulkner, let this man rest in peace, find the real killer!

INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FAMILY AND FRIENDS
OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
CONTACT: 215-476-8812

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