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Ithaca HS Graduation Features Murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal
The Ithaca Journal ^

Posted on 06/25/2002 4:09:54 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

ITHACA -- They sang, they danced, they played cello and the bongos in a true alternative graduation ceremony. But the multi-talented seniors at the Alternative Community School also celebrated their commitment to justice, equity and compassion at commencement Monday night.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abujamal; academialist; acs; alternativeschool; barfalert; blackshirts; copkiller; donutwatch; enviralists; green; ithacais; killmumia; landgrab; napalminthemorning; thecityofevil; wot
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To: ArmoredCav
Nice!!...I concur.
61 posted on 06/25/2002 12:24:42 PM PDT by wardaddy
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To: tinacart
I went to one of those schools in 1971. My talent was being antisocial and getting kicked out of "regular" public school.

An excellent point. I am told that the Ithaca Community regularly sends its juvenile delinquents and other "troubled" youngsters to this school in lieu of a "juvvie hall" or residential treatment facility. Sadly, they blend right in to the chaos.

62 posted on 06/25/2002 12:26:36 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: All
Ithaca, bezerkly of the east.
p.s. mumia is'nt going to "fry", unfotunantly, that time has come and gone
63 posted on 06/25/2002 12:32:14 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mumia isn't just any old murdered.........he is a cop killer and your title could have reflected this important fact.......ie Ithaca HS Graduation features [ Cop Killer ] Mumia
64 posted on 06/25/2002 12:32:55 PM PDT by vooch
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To: bigeasy_70118
....including, I suspect, several years of graduate school, and not have to worry about jobs for quite some time.

Okay then.

Let me rephrase the question. What are these kids going to do in ten years when all the Starbucks barrista positions are filled?

Maybe they can get jobs building Homeland Defense shotguns and other weaponry at the Ithaca gun works?


65 posted on 06/25/2002 12:37:51 PM PDT by archy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Beyond the outrage of honoring convicted murderer Jamal at the graduation, note that "one of the requirements for graduation from the Alternative Community School is to 'understand bias and take action to eliminate it.'"

If theres one thing, beyond anything Ive always disliked its liars.

Its pretty disgusting but not suprising that embittered left wing academics and groups are willing to manipulate and abuse the most innocent in society for their own sick ends, this time its schoolkids.

Left wing ideologies are self-fulfilling cultural suicide pacts and self-hatred prophecies that teach people to hate themselves when they should be learning to empower themselves.

66 posted on 06/25/2002 12:39:03 PM PDT by cascademountaineer
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To: archy
BTW, Ithaca Guns are no longer made in Ithaca.
67 posted on 06/25/2002 12:43:04 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
BTW, Ithaca Guns are no longer made in Ithaca

Shhh. Don't give it away. Wait until all the grads trundle down to the plant to put in their applications, only to find the plant isn't there....

-archy-/-

68 posted on 06/25/2002 12:51:58 PM PDT by archy
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To: archy
Shhh. Don't give it away. Wait until all the grads trundle down to the plant to put in their applications, only to find the plant isn't there....

PUH-leez...if the plant was here these kids would have been down there protesting it every day since Kindergarten as part of their curriculum.

69 posted on 06/25/2002 12:59:59 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: archy
Shhh. Don't give it away. Wait until all the grads trundle down to the plant to put in their applications, only to find the plant isn't there....

PUH-leez...if the plant was here these kids would have been down there protesting it every day since Kindergarten as part of their curriculum.

70 posted on 06/25/2002 1:00:04 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: YourAdHere
Do my tax dollars support this bull(modell)?
Proposed [fill in the state name] legislature bill:

No public school or school accepting public funds may allow any person with an undischarged felony sentence to address all or part of their student body, except as part of a voluntary class regarding crime and punishment.

-Eric

71 posted on 06/25/2002 1:08:18 PM PDT by E Rocc
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
PUH-leez...if the plant was here these kids would have been down there protesting it every day since Kindergarten as part of their curriculum.

Well, okay, then I guess a job at the Ithaca plant is out. But I guess they could try *here*....

-archy-/-

72 posted on 06/25/2002 1:14:53 PM PDT by archy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The author of "Life from Death Row," "Death Blossoms" and "All Things Censored" recommended that students read Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities"

I loved seeing this. Kozol, beloved by the liberal media, has never let a fact or two stand in the way of his "social justice" agenda. He chronicles the stories of kids in the ghetto that are indeed tragic. But government is sometimes the solution, more often the problem, and sometimes irrelevant. Kozol is hellbent on proving it's always the solution, and his exploitation of these people's stories is shameful.

73 posted on 06/25/2002 1:41:39 PM PDT by PianoMan
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I think this is clearly a school which practices UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES and TEACHES TERRORISM!This school and it's graduates should be investigated,have it's phones bugged and it's leaders followed.
74 posted on 06/25/2002 2:29:32 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: YourAdHere
Most certainly,your,mine and everyone else.This country has gone compltely over the edge and it may take some form of revolution or something worse to bring it back to its senses.We have become so PC I believe mother nature is even out of kilter!
75 posted on 06/25/2002 2:33:11 PM PDT by gunnedah
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To: cascademountaineer
When I was in college at Cornell, back in the 1980s, this school used to regularly take its students (as young as 11) up to campus to participate in the then-de riguer causes, such as Nuclear Disarmament, South African divestment and stopping aid Nicaraguan contras.

Once I went up to the teacher to complain that it was improper to use children like that as pawns in a political cause and two of the little darlings graphically told me to go commit an act of intimacy upon myself.

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76 posted on 06/25/2002 3:40:37 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Is Bessie the Cow their mascot or is there some other reason for the dopey cow on their home page?
77 posted on 06/25/2002 4:13:23 PM PDT by constitutiongirl
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To: cascademountaineer
Im not sure who's worse. Mumia or his Jim Jones like group of followers.

His followers.

(a)There are many more of them than him
(b)They'll be here long after he gets the needle.

78 posted on 06/25/2002 4:28:53 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: constitutiongirl
From their website:

For this, we turn to our beloved principal Dr. Dave (Doctor David Lehman to you) who has been with ACS since when dinosaurs walked the Earth (well, maybe not that long.) He tells us that the ox was chosen because wherever Babe the Blue Ox went, he left enormous footprints in the snow (if you will remember, Babe was Paul Bunyan's companion) and we intend to leave enormous footprints in the community. I guess. Plus early ACSers prounounced our initials as "ox". Anyway, as you will see above Babe is portrayed in blue and white, our school colors. He really isn't that big a deal. We just thought we'd mention it.

And here I thought it was to symbolize all of the BULL that they are clearly slinging.

79 posted on 06/25/2002 4:54:54 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
That's the wussiest looking ox I've ever seen. Maybe the image of a real ox would have been too patriarchical, masculine, strong and overbearing, so they settled with passing off a dairy cow.
80 posted on 06/25/2002 6:04:34 PM PDT by constitutiongirl
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