[Huber]

We should take the mayor at his world and assume that he is metaphorically commenting on the ultimate meaning of secular humanism and its epicenter, Paris. What he means is that without God, Paris = death row (only with more lights (assuming the utility workers aren't striking)) /sarcasm.

[BillF]

FRY MUMIA!

[cookcounty]

"His opponents view him as an unrepentant murderer. "

No, a jury of his peers viewed him as a murderer. That he is unrepentant is obvious to any human with a brain.

[OldFriend]

This scum pig mumia gives commencement speeches around the country at various leftist colleges. He makes his speech via video from his prison cell.

Can anyone tell me why Pennsylvania allows such a travesty. And why colleges in the United States would choose him for a commencement speaker.

THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM

[wolficatZ]

L'Islam pour Paris

[genefromjersey]

Uh...perhaps they would do us the favor of guillotining the S.O.B.
That would work.

[prisoner6]

Good, sez I! Now let's send him there on the implicit condition that he spend the rest of his life in that city. let the French Police - hehehehehe - take a few hits from the bustard.

prisoner6

[etcetera]

"Mumia is a Parisian!"

That's supposed to be an honor?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"Mumia is a Parisian!"

How nice. We will ship them the body COD.

[Rome2000]

Socialists should be lined up aganist a wall and shot.

They are a clear and present danger to the civilized world.

[Junior_G]

French school children are required to study the case as part of their education.

They saved the most disturbing sentence for last. If that twisted love of a cop-killer is being fed to French children as part of their education requirements, there is truly no hope for that nation. France's only reason to exist these days is to oppose America in every way possible. Supporting people that kill American policemen is just one of those ways (every little bit counts).

[Colorado Doug]

I guess we need to adopt a Frenchman or two. How about:
A) Baron Gilles de Rais
B) Maurice Papon
C) Bertrand Cantat
D) Carlos the Jackal

I nominate the Baron, posthumously, one of Frances first serial killers who killed hundreds of Frenchies. I think while we are at it, Denver needs to dump their french "sister city"

[perfect stranger]

bump

[reagan_fanatic]

Good grief.

The next thing you know the French will state that Hitler was just another mis-understood Austrian...

[exDemMom]

Yet, oddly, even in France where the death penalty has been abolished courtesy of their recent "enlightenment," it is still a capital crime to kill a police officer.

I have always loved the French people and society, but now I look at them and wonder, have they collectively gone off their rockers? Or is it the French press making them look like they have? (Media bias being an international phenomenon.)

[Uncle Meat]

Death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal made honorary citizen of Paris

Well good.They won't mind him moving there and killing their cops then.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If those french wimps don't get right, we
won't help when Algeria takes them over.

[wizardoz]

OH GOODIE!! Now we get to execute a Frenchman!!

[DarthMaulrulesok]

To my fellow FReepers:

I cannot of course speak for anyone but myself, but for me personally THIS is the straw that breaks this particular camel's back! Differences on foreign policy are how the game of nations is played and though I may not like it I can understand a French tendency to favor their own self interest first (even if I think, as I do, that they were utterly wrong to oppose operation Iraqi Freedom).

Giving aid and comfort to a cold-blooded killer of policemen is beyond the pale, and an indication that a significant element of French opinion considers criminals better than citizens. Very well. If the French no longer have a sense of shared values with us, let us face that fact squarely.

Perhaps it is time for at least a temporary parting of the ways. It is noteworthy that so far MONGOLIA is proving a more reliable ally than France, so perhaps we should start treating the French like the unfriendly neutral they apparently wish to be.

[weegee]

I was of the understanding that Mumia's death sentence has already been commuted to life (he isn't on death row any more). This happened in December a year or 2 ago.

Anyone have the details? I won't bother to look.