The Cornell American
Time to Fry Mumia
American reporter jousts with street person over cop killer’s fate.
By: Billy McMorris on April 17th, 2005 at 3:19 PM
Just when you think the public is tired of the Mumia Abu-Jamal case, leave it to a homeless-looking bum to rekindle the fire. At least this was the case on Ho Plaza, where recently a nomadic man made a seemingly-unprovoked scene by carrying around a “Free Mumia” sign. It’s a good sign your cause is worthless when a random homeless guy begins to carry your banner. This is especially true when that banner is based on freeing a convicted cop-killer.
Of course I am talking about everyone’s favorite cop-killer, Wesley Cook. This particular dreg on Ho Plaza, along with the many like him, believes that Mr. Cook is the symbol of injustice in the American justice system.
These people look back at the night of December 9 1981 and feel outraged. However, their outrage is not directed at the man who murdered Officer Danny Faulkner. These people are outraged that the murderer was apprehended. These people are outraged that the “racist white cop” actually got a shot off before Wesley Cook could violently end this hard working police officer’s life. And why not; this blatant racist was trying to give Wesley’s brother a traffic ticket.
However, Wesley was much smarter than that. Instead of calling a spade a spade and telling the truth, Wesley took the seedy route in order to draw the support of leftists across the United States. So here is Wesley Cook’s guide to twisting the public to believe that you are not a cold blooded killer, when it is blatantly the case.
First: Change your name to something African-sounding; that way you appeal to those liberals, who hate white man’s names like Wesley. Once your name sounds something like Mumia Abu-Jamal, liberals will immediately fall in love with you. Stand defiantly when someone tries to refer to you by your real name. If you drop lines like “Wesley Cook is my slave name,” people will not realize that Wesley Cook is the name your mother and father gave you. Instead, people will sympathize with you, and truly believe that honky oppressors gave you that name.
This will show everyone that even after over one hundred fifty years you are still suffering from the hardship that your ancestors endured under slavery. Once you get a cool sounding name, leftists will like you better. People will think you stand for something aside from shooting a cop in the back and brutally firing four more shots into his face while he is lying on the ground.
Second: Identify yourself as the victim of racism and injustice. After all, this cop was white; he must be a racist. Not only that, but his name is Danny Faulkner; that name sounds racist enough. People will sympathize with you instead of his grieving wife and children. Once you insist the cop used racial slurs, people will really like you. In fact, they will like you so much that they will be blinded by the fact that this officer never had the chance to say anything to you, aside from when he was immobilized on the ground begging for his life. People will forget about the cop with the wife and kids and start to think of him as the white devil oppressor who stripped you of your innocence.
Third: Once several eyewitnesses identify you as the killer and the jury realizes that the gun used to kill Officer Faulkner is licensed to your name, say it was your dead brother. After all, he will not feel the effects of you snitching him out. Once you realize that any reasonable person could see through the name change, as well as the racist cop twist, appeal to the radical left and homeless men. Make sure you do this after your brother is dead. If you don’t, he might come out and tell the truth.
Now after looking at the facts of the case, one might wonder how anyone could buy this garbage. And it is not just crazy homeless guys, it is academia as well. This might not surprise some people, who hold the rhetoric of both in the same regard. However, to those who do not know, the answer is pretty simple. Ann Coulter said it best: “The only cop liberals ever liked was the one from the Village People.”
Wesley Cook is only the poster-boy for the left’s blatant hatred towards police officers. One could look at any incident involving police officers and minorities to see which side they choose. Anytime a cop puts a minority to the ground, he is a racist in the left’s eye. However, anytime a cop is killed by a crack dealer, even if that particular cop was a minority, no one hears a peep out of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson and his shakedown artists.
So why this bitter contempt for police officers? How do these politicians keep justifying every police murder as a product of their environment? They do not have to. Their constituency of supporters is the same people who love Wesley Cook and hate Daniel Faulkner. It is only conservatives or families of police officers that ever mourn the death of an officer shot and killed in the line of duty. This is because conservatives do not just become members of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association to get out of tickets.