Gotta keep those convicts quiet or they might cast the entire $y$tem into doubt (as if it wasn't already).
"Law signed to curb Abu-Jamal’s ‘obscene celebrity’" Associated Press October 22, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — Ignoring the chants of protesters on the block where a police officer was killed and the cause célèbre of Mumia Abu-Jamal was born, Governor Tom Corbett signed into law a measure Tuesday he said would curb the ‘‘obscene celebrity’’ cultivated by convicts at the expense of victims.
The law allows prosecutors or crime victims to seek an injunction when an offender’s conduct ‘‘perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime,’’ including causing a temporary or permanent state of ‘‘mental anguish.’’
The measure won unanimous approval in the state legislature last week after Abu-Jamal, serving a life sentence for the 1981 shooting death of Officer Daniel Faulkner, delivered a prerecorded commencement address this month to 21 graduates of tiny Goddard College in Vermont.
Related: The Flowers Off Massachusetts Justice
It's AmeriKan Ju$tu$ now.
‘‘This unrepentant cop killer has tested the limits of decency,’’ Corbett said. ‘‘Gullible activists and celebrities have continued to feed this killer’s ego.’’
Abu-Jamal, 60, drew international support in the decades since his conviction with assertions — repeated in weekly radio commentaries and books including ‘‘Live From Death Row’’ — that he is the victim of a racist justice system.
Faulkner’s widow, Maureen, demanded Abu-Jamal ‘‘be silenced’’ after squelching her husband’s voice with a ‘‘bullet between his eyes.’’
Officers on the stage and in the street applauded. The protesters — several dozen people clad in prison-like jumpsuits — held up a banner denouncing the law as unconstitutional.
The state’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter called the law overbroad and ‘‘unclear on what behavior is prohibited.’’
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This looks like a move to keep convicts from talking forever.
Related:
"Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has signed into law a measure he says is intended to curb the ‘‘obscene celebrity’’ he says is cultivated by convicts like Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer. The new law would let prosecutors or victims of violent crimes go to court to seek an injunction or other relief when an offender’s conduct ‘‘perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime.’’ (AP)."
What's Upham with all the attention?
Also see: Pennsylvania Porn Scandal
A one-day wonder out of Corbett's office?
$8M for 88 victims of abuse by Franciscan friar
That's it, flog the Catholics.
Speaking of celebrity cop-killers:
"Search shifts after possible fugitive sighting" Associated Press October 21, 2014
SWIFTWATER, Pa. — Police shifted their search and a northeastern Pennsylvania school district tightened security Monday after the suspect in a deadly police ambush was believed to have been spotted near one of its campuses.
A woman out for a walk Friday night saw a rifle-toting man with a mud-covered face near Pocono Mountain East High School in Swiftwater. State Police believe the man was Eric Frein, who has eluded capture despite an manhunt in the Pocono Mountains.
Uh-huh.
Authorities had been searching for Frein in the woods around his parents’ home in Canadensis, but shifted their focus 5 or 6 miles to the southwest after Friday night’s sighting.
Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said police have put a ‘‘tremendous amount of pressure on him’’ and probably forced him to move.
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"Schools closed amid search for Pa. ambush suspect" Associated Press October 22, 2014
SWIFTWATER, Pa. — With two possible sightings in four days, a man charged in the deadly ambush of a State Police barracks appears to have moved out of the deep woods and into a more heavily trafficked area of the Pocono Mountains.
Pffffft!
The sightings led to another round of school closures and a feeling among some residents that law enforcement is spinning its wheels more than five weeks into the manhunt.
The school closings is a good fear conditioner and psyop for inquisitive young minds. Well done.
Officials in the Pocono Mountain School District canceled classes shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday, reversing course after saying the night before that schools would stay open.
Who got to them?
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Enough of that swill. Feeling like fake a to me now.
Time to put out this post.
