> Um... maybe I ought to make myself clearer. There's no way that anyone
> could regard MOVE as "speaking truth to power," whatever that phrase
> means. It might be tempting to compare MOVE to, say the Panthers, but a
> closer comparison'd be to the Branch Davidians or an armed
> white-separatist compound. MOVE was a dopey, simple-minded cult, led by
> a severe psychotic, whose actions against its neighbors practically
> _invited_ a severe police crackdown. At the time of his arrest, Mumia's
> involvement with MOVE had probably damaged his own judgment as much as
> it had damaged his journalism career.
I didn't say that MOVE was speaking truth to power. I said that Mumia was speaking truth to power as a radical journalist. MOVE may have been a weird cult, but the authorities have a way of overreacting to stuff like MOVE. Just look at what happened in Waco.
I think that it is irresponsible to suggest that MOVE's actions invited a police crackdown. The police don't typically drop bombs on houses for noise complaints.
>> And like Leonard Peltier's case, you have to wonder if Mumia was also
>> sacrificed in order to deflect attention from the City of
>> Philadelphia's embrassing attack on MOVE.
>
>
> There were two such attacks. One was in the late 1970s, which resulted
> in a violent shotout which left a lot of people dead, and the notorious
> bombing in the early 1980s. Mumia was in prison by the time the second
> one happened.
Nevermind that theory.
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