Beck Confronts President Obama and Valerie Jarrett On Green Jobs Czar Van Jones Communist Organizer and “Truther”!

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Glenn Beck exposes Color of Change co-founder Van Jones

Van Jones “It’s Not Too Late”

GREEN JOBS NOT JAILS – The Third Wave of Environmentalism

Van Jones and Power Shift: The Blooper

Van Jones: Ethanol raises food prices, hurts the poor

Glenn Beck 20090903 Part 1/5

Glenn Beck 20090903 Part 2/5

Glenn Beck 20090903 Part 3/5

Glenn Beck 20090903 Part 4/5

Glenn Beck 20090903 Part 5/5

Fox SR Panel Van Jones Gone by Monday

Glenn Beck surprised me tonight.

He ripped the mask off President Obama and connected him directly to Van Jones though Valerie Jarrett.

Beck revealed that President Obama and his chief advisor and close friend Valerie Jarrett knew about the highly questionable background and past of Green Jobs Czar or Commissar Van Jones, an admitted Communist and community trouble maker.

Van Jones must now submit his resignation.

Otherwise, President Obama must throw him under the bus and run him over.

The FBI must explain how Van Jones got through the vetting process or more likely were over-ruled by President Obama.

The CIA good ol’ boy network must be chuckling.

If this is how the FBI does background checks of high ranking Obama administration political appointments, one must wonder how they will interrogate terrorists and bombers?

Serious consideration must also be given to cancelling the President’s plan to talk to students in Government schools next week.

Many parents are refusing to send their children to government schools next Tuesday.

They do not want their children to be indoctrinated by Big Brother Barack’s many lies about taxes, cap and trade energy tax, and so-called health insurance reform.

These parents have vivid memories of their children coming home from govenment schools after seeing Al Gore’s hysterical alarmist movie, An Inconventient Truth, on global warming.

20/20 – Is there really a global warming consensus?

This movie was subsequently shown to be based on government funded junk science of computer climate model projections that have been proven to be wrong when compared to actual empirical observations.

Global Warming Emerging Science and Understanding Part 4 – Dr. Coffman

Al Gore Snowjob

Professor Fred Singer on Climate Change Pt 1

Professor Fred Singer on Climate Change Pt 2

No more snow jobs or green jobs from the progressive radical socialists lead by President Obama.

There are now between 15,000,000 to 25,000,000 million people looking for a full time job in the United States.

More Americans are now looking for a job than the 13,000,000 Americans that were looking for a job during 1933, the worse year of the Great Depression.

The current unemployment rates for August 2009 were 9.7% the official or U-3 rate and 16.8% the real or U-6 rate.

For blacks and hispanics the official unemployment rate was 15.1% and and 13.0% respectively!

For recent veterans the rate exceeds 10%!

The unemployment rate will exceed 10% in October and is expected to exceed 13% in 2010 before starting to slowly decline in the latter part of 2010.

The economy is continuing to losE jobs and is expected to do so for at least another nine to twelve months.

The bailouts and stimulus packages together with the expectation of rising Federal taxes are a failure in creating new jobs and reducing the unemployment rates.

The Bush recession of 2008 is turning into the Barack Depression of 2009 and beyond.

Market Update 09/04/2009: U.S. Unemployment Rises

In-Depth Look – US Jobless Rate – Bloomberg

Unemployment rate for Veterans over 10%

Unemployed Hits 26 Year High

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Series Id: LNS14000000 Seasonal Adjusted Series title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate Labor force status: Unemployment rate Type of data: Percent Age: 16 years and over
1999	4.3	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0
2000	4.0	4.1	4.0	3.8	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	3.9	3.9	3.9	3.9
2001	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.4	4.3	4.5	4.6	4.9	5.0	5.3	5.5	5.7
2002	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.9	5.8	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.7	5.7	5.9	6.0
2003	5.8	5.9	5.9	6.0	6.1	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.1	6.0	5.8	5.7
2004	5.7	5.6	5.8	5.6	5.6	5.6	5.5	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.4
2005	5.2	5.4	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.0	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.0	4.8
2006	4.7	4.8	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.4
2007	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.8	4.7	4.9
2008	4.9	4.8	5.1	5.0	5.5	5.6	5.8	6.2	6.2	6.6	6.8	7.2
2009	7.6	8.1	8.5	8.9	9.4	9.5	9.4	9.7

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Series Id: LNS13327709 Seasonal Adjusted Series title: (seas) Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of all civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers Labor force status: Aggregated totals unemployed Type of data: Percent Age: 16 years and over Percent/rates: Unemployed and mrg attached and pt for econ reas as percent of labor force plus marg attached
1999	7.7	7.7	7.6	7.6	7.4	7.5	7.5	7.3	7.4	7.2	7.1	7.1
2000	7.1	7.2	7.1	6.9	7.1	7.0	7.0	7.1	7.0	6.8	7.1	6.9
2001	7.3	7.4	7.3	7.4	7.5	7.9	7.8	8.1	8.7	9.3	9.4	9.6
2002	9.5	9.5	9.4	9.7	9.5	9.5	9.6	9.6	9.6	9.6	9.7	9.8
2003	10.0	10.2	10.0	10.2	10.1	10.3	10.3	10.1	10.4	10.2	10.0	9.8
2004	9.9	9.7	10.0	9.6	9.6	9.5	9.5	9.4	9.4	9.7	9.4	9.2
2005	9.3	9.3	9.2	9.0	8.9	9.0	8.8	8.9	9.0	8.7	8.7	8.5
2006	8.4	8.5	8.2	8.1	8.2	8.4	8.5	8.4	8.0	8.2	8.0	7.9
2007	8.3	8.1	8.0	8.2	8.3	8.3	8.3	8.5	8.4	8.5	8.4	8.7
2008	9.0	9.0	9.1	9.2	9.8	10.1	10.4	10.9	11.2	12.0	12.6	13.5
2009	13.9	14.8	15.6	15.8	16.4	16.5	16.3	16.8

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Series Id: LNS14000006 Seasonal Adjusted Series title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate - Black or African American Labor force status: Unemployment rate Type of data: Percent Age: 16 years and over Race: Black or African American
1999	7.8	8.2	8.0	7.8	7.4	7.7	8.7	7.7	8.5	8.4	8.0	7.8
2000	8.2	8.1	7.4	7.0	7.7	7.8	7.7	7.9	7.3	7.3	7.3	7.4
2001	8.2	7.7	8.3	8.0	7.9	8.3	8.0	9.1	8.9	9.5	9.8	10.1
2002	10.0	9.9	10.5	10.7	10.2	10.5	9.8	9.8	9.7	9.8	10.7	11.3
2003	10.5	10.7	10.3	10.9	10.9	11.5	10.9	10.9	11.1	11.4	10.2	10.1
2004	10.4	9.7	10.3	9.8	10.1	10.2	11.0	10.5	10.3	10.8	10.7	10.7
2005	10.6	10.9	10.4	10.3	10.1	10.2	9.2	9.7	9.4	9.1	10.6	9.2
2006	8.9	9.5	9.4	9.4	8.8	8.8	9.5	8.8	9.0	8.4	8.5	8.2
2007	8.0	8.1	8.3	8.4	8.4	8.5	8.0	7.7	8.1	8.5	8.4	8.9
2008	9.2	8.4	9.0	8.8	9.7	9.4	9.9	10.7	11.4	11.3	11.3	11.9
2009	12.6	13.4	13.3	15.0	14.9	14.7	14.5	15.1

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Series Id: LNS14000009 Seasonal Adjusted Series title: (Seas) Unemployment Rate - Hispanic or Latino Labor force status: Unemployment rate Type of data: Percent Age: 16 years and over Ethnic origin: Hispanic or Latino
1999	6.7	6.7	5.8	7.0	6.7	6.6	6.5	6.5	6.7	6.4	6.0	5.8
2000	5.6	5.7	6.1	5.5	5.8	5.6	5.8	5.9	5.8	5.1	6.0	5.7
2001	5.8	6.1	6.2	6.4	6.3	6.6	6.2	6.5	6.7	7.1	7.3	7.7
2002	7.8	7.0	7.5	8.0	7.1	7.4	7.4	7.5	7.4	7.9	7.8	7.9
2003	7.9	7.6	7.8	7.6	8.1	8.4	8.1	7.7	7.3	7.4	7.5	6.6
2004	7.4	7.4	7.5	7.1	7.0	6.6	6.9	6.8	6.9	6.7	6.7	6.5
2005	6.2	6.4	5.8	6.4	6.0	5.7	5.5	5.8	6.4	5.8	6.1	6.0
2006	5.7	5.5	5.3	5.3	5.0	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.4	4.6	5.0	4.9
2007	5.7	5.3	5.2	5.5	5.9	5.6	5.9	5.5	5.8	5.6	5.7	6.2
2008	6.4	6.3	7.0	7.0	7.0	7.7	7.5	8.1	7.9	8.8	8.6	9.2
2009	9.7	10.9	11.4	11.3	12.7	12.2	12.3	13.0

Stop all the shucking and jiving about Green Jobs, Mr. President.

Americans want real jobs with good pay and benefits including an affordable health care insurance plan.

Stop conditioning and indoctrinating our children on the need for public service, more taxes and big government.

Americans want President Obama to take his progressive radical socialist propaganda and peddle it to his own kool aid drinking kids that go to private schools and not in government schools that are already failing in educating their children.

Suggest Big Brother Barack send Van Jones, the soon to be ex-Green Jobs Czar, back to the Berkeley and Oakland schools to peddle his lies about the climate change crisis or myth and the hidden cap and trade energy tax!

Van Jones is right about ethanol, but wrong about man-made climate change, DDT, and alternative energy from wind and solar power being the answer.

For every Green job created more jobs are lost elsewhere as companies flee the United States to countries with cheap labor and cheap energy.

MAJOR REDUCTIONS IN CARBON EMISSIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE MONEY DEBATE: PETER HUBER

Spain’s Green Jobs: How successful have they been?

Robert Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs

The blogs and talk radio shows are all a buzz.

Good Show Glenn!

Three cheers.

Keep it coming.

How sweet it is.

Background Articles and Videos

Obama Advisor Van Jones: Republicans are “Assholes”

Economist John Williams on Real Unemployment Rate–January 2009

Incredible – but true. Green Czar Van Jones signed a petition in 2005 demanding another investigation into 9/11 by the New York Attorney General, concentrating on the lunatic notion that President Bush, at the very least, knew about the attacks of September 11 in advance and did nothing to stop them so he could take the country to war.

Update from Thomas Lifson:

Jones has denied (hat tip: Grant) that he believes or ever believed the statement he signed:

“In recent days some in the news media have reported on past statements I made before I joined the administration – some of which were made years ago. If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize. As for the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.

“My work at the Council on Environmental Quality is entirely focused on one goal: building clean energy incentives which create 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and use renewable resources.”

The “former” communist, black racist, hip-hop nincompoop, who is now so “mainstream” that even some Republicans thinks he’s the cat’s meow, says he didn’t know what he was signing, didn’t read it carefully, and wouldn’t sign it today.

Well of course he wouldn’t sign it today – Obama wouldn’t have given him a job if he’d known about it, right? …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/van_jones_truther_nut.html

Krauthammer: Van Jones Truther allegations “devastating”

By Ed Morrissey

“…What did the White House know about Van Jones’ Trutherism and when did they know it? Charles Krauthammer asks this question and calls the revelation about the Green Jobs Czar “devastating,” much more so than an epithet directed at Republicans that most of us have used at a wide range of people. Does Barack Obama believe that it’s acceptable to have paranoid conspiracists in high-level appointments, or was the White House simply too incompetent to properly research Jones in the vetting process? Because it comes down to those two options, and regardless of what we think of Jones, the blame for him being in the White House falls squarely on Obama (via RedState) …”

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/04/krauthammer-truther-allegations-devastating

For Van Jones, A Week Already Feels Like A Year

by Charles Cooper

“…The Washington Independent has turned up a six-year-old petition Jones signed alleging government complicity in the September 11 terror attacks. This comes just one day after The Hill reported the existence of a video clip recorded in February in which Jones referred to Republicans – and himself – as “a**holes.”

Jones joined the Obama administration in May. He was the founder of a green jobs advocacy organization based in Oakland, Ca.

The online petition, issued in October 2004, demanded an “immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.” The signatories called for an investigation into “incriminating evidence” they said either was ignored or not sufficiently considered by the Kean Commission, which was set up to look into the circumstances surrounding the attacks.

In the video which made the rounds yesterday, Jones is seen responding to a question why Congressional Democrats were not as successful as Republicans in pushing through their legislative agenda. (See below.) …”

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/03/blogs/coopscorner/entry5286699.shtml

Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama & do-it-yourself vetting

By Michelle Malkin

“…Indefatigable blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit dug up the 9/11 Truther record of Green Jobs czar Van Jones — and his research spread across talk radio, the Internet, and to the Glenn Beck show tonight. (Update: Hoft reports that Jones’s Truther proclivities were showing back in 2002).

A slew of bloggers, independent citizen journalists, and conservative activists have done the heavy lifting in exposing Jones’s inflammatory statements and radical ties over the last year — work that only conservative talk radio and Fox News have covered with due diligence. NakedEmperorNews/The BCast earlier today unearthed video of Jones ranting about Marxist “revolution” away from “gray capitalism”– also disseminated across Twitter, talk radio, and Fox News. The open-source “Army of Davids,” as blog pioneer Glenn Reynolds so aptly described it, is doing the job Obama didn’t want Congress to do.

Tonight, the White House is in full denial mode. ABC News reports:

A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement Thursday apologizing for past incendiary statement and denying that he ever agreed with a 2004 petition on which his name appears, a petition calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York Attorney General into “evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur.”

Van Jones, the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is Number 46 of the petitioners from the so-called “Truther” movement which suggests that people in the administration of President George W. Bush “may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”

In a statement issued Thursday evening Jones said of “the petition that was circulated today, I do not agree with this statement and it certainly does not reflect my views now or ever.”

He did not explain how his name came to be on the petition.

Maybe a unicorn, Van’s favorite mythical creature, put it there? …”

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/03/van-jones-valerie-jarrett-barack-obama-do-it-yourself-vetting/

Van Jones: Truther nut

Rick Moran

“…It seems incredible that Barack Obama would appoint someone to manage $30 billion in government money who actually believes the government of George Bush stood by and allowed 9/11 to happen as a “pretext for war.”

Valerie Jarrett

“…Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. She is best known for her role as an advisor to President Barack Obama. Jarrett is a Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration. Prior to that she served as a co-chairperson of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. …”

“…
Advisor to Barack Obama

Jarrett is one of Senator Obama’s longest serving advisors and confidantes and was “widely tipped for a high-profile position in an Obama administration.”[11][12]

“ Unlike Bert Lance, who arrived from Georgia with President [Jimmy] Carter and became his budget director, or Karen Hughes, who was President [George W.] Bush’s communications manager, Ms. Jarrett isn’t a confidante with a particular portfolio. What she does share with these counterparts is a fierce sense of loyalty and a refusal to publicly say anything that may reflect poorly on the candidate — or steal his thunder.[11] ”

On November 14, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama selected Jarrett to serve as White House Senior Advisor and for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs.[13]

Jarrett is one of three Senior Advisors to President Obama.[14] She is Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement,[14] managing the White House Office of Public Engagement (formerly the Office of Public Liaison), Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Chairs the White House Commission on Women and Girls. [15]
…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett

Busted. Van Jones Linked to 9-11 Truther Movement Back in January 2002

“…Yesterday, news broke out that Barack Obama’s communist Green Czar was a 9-11 Truther. The administration much later in the day released a statement saying Van Jones was “not now or ever” involved in the 9-11 Truther movement.

Jones said the petition he signed in 2004 did not reflect his views and that he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to add his name.

Not true.
This article at Rense.com from 2002 links Van Jones to the 9-11 Truther movement at its infancy: …”

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/van-jones-linked-to-9-11-truther.html

THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER | Valerie Jarrett | PBS

How we fight: Obama’s brain – Valerie Jarrett interview

Valerie Jarrett’s Thoughts on Barack Obama

Valerie Jarrett Obama’s secret campaign weapon

Obama’s “Other Half”

Convicted Murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal–From Death Row

mumia_murderer

“…Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954) is an African-American who was convicted and sentenced to death for the December 9, 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.[1] He has been described as “perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world”, and his sentence is one of the most debated today.[2]

Before his arrest he was a member of the black nationalist Black Panther Party, an activist, part-time cab driver, journalist, radio personality, news commentator and broadcaster.

Since his conviction, his case has received international attention and he has become a controversial cultural icon. Supporters and opponents disagree on the appropriateness of the death penalty, whether he is guilty, or whether he received a fair trial.[3][4][5] During his imprisonment he has published several books and other commentaries, notably Live from Death Row.

Since 1995, Abu-Jamal has been incarcerated at Pennsylvania’s SCI Greene[6] near Waynesburg, where most of the state’s capital case inmates are held. In 2008, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the murder conviction, but ordered a new capital sentencing hearing over concerns that the jury was improperly instructed.[7] In April 2009, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal for a new trial, allowing his July 1982 conviction to stand.[7] A separate appeal by prosecutors to reinstate the death penalty has not yet been heard.[8] …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal

Is Obama’s Victory Ours? – Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal interview on prisons

Mumia Abu-Jamal — Viva Fidel, Long Live Fidel

Mumia Abu Jamal on the Wall Street Crash

Mumia on U.S. political parties

MUMIA ABU-JAMAL ON BAILOUT SCARE TACTICS

Mumia Abu-Jamal on Pres. Barack Obama

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“…Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981) was a police officer in the American city of Philadelphia who was shot and killed in the line of duty by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been convicted of first-degree murder for the slaying and sentenced to death. The slaying was the culmination of a traffic stop in downtown Philadelphia, not initially involving Abu-Jamal, which escalated into an exchange of gunfire in which Abu-Jamal was himself shot and wounded by officer Faulkner. Since 2000, the City of Philadelphia has memorialized Faulkner with a street designation and a commemorative plaque. …”

“…Faulkner’s parents were an Irish Catholic couple in Southwest Philadelphia, who produced six children before the birth of Faulkner, their last. Faulkner’s trolley car driver father survived the birth of his youngest child by only five years; after his death following a heart attack, Faulkner’s working mother was left to raise him, with the assistance of the couple’s older children. Faulkner dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate’s degree in criminal justice while serving in the United States Army.^[2] In 1975, he left the Army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in college to earn his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.^[2] He married in 1979. On the evening of December 9, 1981, he was murdered while making an arrest. …”

“…The chain of events started with Faulkner stopping a moving vehicle near the southeast corner of the intersection of South 13th Street and Locust Street in downtown Philadelphia. The United States Court of Appeals, in ruling against Abu-Jamal in 2008, described the killing of Officer Faulkner thus:

On December 9, 1981, between three thirty and four o’clock in the morning, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner made a traffic stop of a Volkswagen driven by William Cook, Abu-Jamal’s brother, on Locust Street between 12th and 13th Streets, in Philadelphia. Officer Faulkner radioed for backup assistance, and both men exited their vehicles. A struggle ensued, and Officer Faulkner tried to secure Cook’s hands behind his back. At that moment, Abu-Jamal, who was in a parking lot on the opposite side of the street, ran toward Officer Faulkner and Cook. As he approached, Abu-Jamal shot Officer Faulkner in the back. As Officer Faulkner fell to the ground, he was able to turn around, reach for his own firearm, and fire at Abu-Jamal, striking him in the chest. Abu-Jamal, now standing over Officer Faulkner, fired four shots at close range. One shot struck Officer Faulkner between the eyes and entered his brain.^[3]

The sequence of events described by the court is disputed by supporters of Abu-Jamal.

Abu-Jamal collapsed nearby and was taken into custody by responding police officers. Daniel Faulkner was pronounced dead the same night. Abu-Jamal was charged with murder in the first degree and convicted of that charge in 1982. …”

“…

His widow, Maureen Faulkner, moved to California. In 1994, upon discovering that National Public Radio planned to broadcast a series of commentaries taped by Abu-Jamal from death row, she began a campaign of her own to counter the “Free Mumia” movement. Since then, she has made numerous public appearances in support of upholding Abu-Jamal’s conviction and death sentence.^[4] In 1999, she visited The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington during its commencement ceremony to protest the selection of Abu-Jamal as one of five commencement speakers. Since as a death row inmate he was unable to attend, the graduates listened to a 13 minute audio recording of his address. On December 9, 2001, she returned to Philadelphia to attend a ceremony honoring Daniel Faulkner on the 20th anniversary of his murder. Five years later, on December 8, 2006, she returned there once again, where she made public comments in which she characterized Abu-Jamal’s supporters as “know-nothings” and praised District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham for steadfastly defending against Abu-Jamal’s many appeals.

In 2000, ten mile long Roosevelt Boulevard was designated the Police Officer Daniel Faulkner Memorial Highway pursuant to an act of the state legislature. (The roadway’s official name is still Roosevelt Boulevard.)^[5]^[6] In 2001, a plaque was set in the sidewalk at 1234 Locust Street to mark the spot of his death.^[7]^[8]

In 2007, Maureen coauthored a book with Philadelphia radio journalist Michael Smerconish entitled Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Pain, Loss, and Injustice.^[9] She describes the work as “the first book to definitively lay out the case against Mumia Abu-Jamal and those who’ve elevated him to the status of political prisoner.”

On April 6, 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Mumia’s original conviction of 28 years ago would stand.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Faulkner

NBC’s Today Show broadcasts new Mumia crime scene photos

“…Police Officer Daniel J. Faulkner
Philadelphia Police Department
Pennsylvania
End of Watch: Wednesday, December 9, 1981

Biographical Info
Age: 25
Tour of Duty: 5 years
Badge Number: 4699

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Wednesday, December 9, 1981
Weapon Used: Handgun; .38 caliber
Suspect Info: Convicted of murder

Officer Faulkner was shot and killed while making a traffic stop.

Officer Faulkner stopped the driver of a light blue Volkswagen at the corner of Thirteenth Street and Locust Street for driving the wrong way down a one-way street. Officer Faulkner had the driver exit the vehicle.

As Officer Faulkner was speaking with the driver, the driver struck Officer Faulkner in the face. Officer Faulkner struck the driver back and attempted to take him into custody. As Officer Faulkner was attempting to subdue the driver, the driver’s brother came running from a parking lot across the street from the spot where Officer Faulkner had the driver of the Volkswagen. While Officer Faulkner’s back was turned, the brother of the driver opened fire, striking Officer Faulkner in the back four times. Officer Faulkner fell to the ground, but was able to return fire, striking the suspect. The wounded suspect was able to fire again as he stood over the fallen officer, striking him in the face.

The suspect attempted to flee but fell to the ground several feet from where he had just shot Officer Faulkner. When back-up officers arrived they found Officer Faulkner mortally wounded and the suspect, murder weapon in hand, laying several feet away.

The suspect, who was a member of the racist group Black Panthers, was charged with murder. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in two separate trials. In December 2001 a federal judge overturned the death sentence and ordered a new sentencing hearing.

Officer Faulkner had served with the agency for 5 years. He is survived by his wife.

The Black Panthers is a racist, radical group that professed the murders of law enforcement officers. Members and former members of the group were responsible for the murders of at least 15 law enforcement officers and the wounding of dozens more across the nation. …”

http://www.odmp.org/officer/4764-police-officer-daniel-j.-faulkner