Shawshank Revisited

[Peter Lemkin]

"The brutality of the empire was exposed under George W. Bush. The empire desperately needed a new face, a black face, to seduce the public. This is the role of Barack Obama. He is the black face of empire. He was pitched to us during the most recent presidential campaign by Bill Clinton, the same Clinton who gave us NAFTA in 1994 and abolished good-paying manufacturing jobs for millions of workers. The same Clinton who locked us up. Clinton and Obama represent the politics of betrayal at the heart of the corporatist machinery. And they have fooled a lot of people, especially black people. During slavery, and even post-Reconstruction, there were always a few black people who served the system. The role of these black servants to white power was to teach passivity in the face of repression. This is why Obama is president. Nothing has changed." Abu Jamal

Such a brilliant and INNOCENT man as Abu Jamal must speak and write from prison.....who is next?! It could be any of us now. For doing nothing. For committing a crime without any victim. For committing a thought crime. For daring to even think of criticizing or challenging the Empire. For being poor or Black or Hispanic or different than the average Sheeple. For demanding your rights and liberties guaranteed under UN, US and local legislation, and basic under Natural Laws and humanity. Abu Jamal was a journalist before he was imprisoned on trumped-up charges and is a great journalist from prison. One can hear and read his reports - easily found on the internet and presented regularly on Pacifica Radio and other independent outlets. Most in prison are innocent and most who run the prisons and society are guilty. What a Nation we have become. Wars based on false-flag ops; people convicted on false-testimony and trumped-up charges and lies; punitive laws inventing crimes without victims and three-strike laws, etc. Lies, hate and cheating, greed and avarice are rewarded - especially to those who already 'have'; to all others, get on your knees and keep your mouth shut.......how can this be called progress? We are back in Feudal times.