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What a fucking joke!
Decision to let cop killer Abu-Jamal give commencement speech 'despicable,' widow says
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published September 30, 2014 | FoxNews.com
A Vermont college's selection of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as commencement speaker is a “despicable” decision that should be reversed, his victim's widow told FoxNews.com.
Maureen Faulkner, whose husband Daniel was gunned down by Abu-Jamal in 1981, was shocked to learn of the selection by undergraduate students at tiny Goddard College in Plainfield. Abu-Jamal, who will not attend the event and whose speech will be pre-recorded, received a bachelor of arts degree from the 245-student liberal arts college in 1996 through a correspondence program.
“It’s not appropriate,” Faulkner said. “His freedom was taken away when he murdered a police officer in the line of duty. It seems like our justice system allows murderers to continue to have a voice over the public airwaves and at college commencement. It’s despicable.”
Abu-Jamal, born Wesley Cook, was sentenced to death following a high-profile trial in Philadelphia. His sentence was later reduced to life in prison without parole for killing Faulkner, a 25-year-old patrolman who scuffled with Abu-Jamal’s brother during an early morning traffic stop. Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black Panther Party, was wounded by a round from Faulkner’s gun and a .38-caliber revolver registered to Abu-Jamal was found at the scene with five spent shell casings, according to trial testimony.
Sunday's event will mark the third time Abu-Jamal, 60, has given commencement speeches at colleges, including at Evergreen State College in Washington and Antioch College in Ohio. Both of those events prompted widespread protests on behalf of law enforcement officers and Faulkner’s relatives.
“How can this go in our country? It’s amazing,” Maureen Faulkner continued. “People need to start realizing that there’s right and wrong in this world. It seems like no one thinks about that.”
In a statement, Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny said the college holds 20 commencement ceremonies annually to provide personalized graduation ceremonies in each degree program.
"As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker," Kenny said in a statement. "Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that."
Goddard officials did not immediately reply to requests for comment on Faulkner’s comments. She intends to protest the ceremony in some way, she told FoxNews.com.
Faulkner acknowledged that Abu-Jamal remains not far from her mind. Earlier this month, the notorious inmate made headlines when an attorney nominated to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division withdrew from consideration due to his involvement in Abu-Jamal’s case while working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to overturn his death sentence.
And in April, a lesson plan posted on the Oakland (Calif.) Unified School District’s website asked students to draw parallels between late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Abu-Jamal, an exercise akin to advocating violence to young students, Faulkner said.
“It’s a travesty,” Faulkner told FoxNews.com in April. “You’re going to teach children about a man who murdered a police officer? That’s not a good lesson to be teaching children. He was a radical, a militant. My question is: Are our tax dollars paying for this?”
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Goddard College said university officials do not condone “any acts” of violence.
"Our condolences go out to [Faulkner] as they go out to the many victims and their families who have experienced senseless acts of violence,” spokesman Dustin Bylerly said in a statement to FoxNews.com. “Our aspiration is to make the world a less violent place in which to live by examining carefully those elements of life in this world that lead to such senseless acts. Without equivocation we do not condone any acts of violence."
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Not surprising. Vermont is extremely liberal and filled with hippies.
In some towns, its even legal to walk around nude. Hippies.
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upside down world
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i stopped reading at Fox "news"
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i stopped reading at Fox "news"
Reading is fundamental.
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Pretty sad.
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Hey, why not?
While they're at it, why doesn't the school pitch in a buy the turd a new plasma TV and some candy treats?
This world is a joke.
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I have a couple friends who went to Evergreen. Total hippie college.
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Maureen Faulkner has nothing to do with this. The college students chose who they wanted to speak, and the college responded.
Perhaps it's thought that her husband was profiling or targeting the people in the vehicle unnecessarily. Who knows why the students chose the guy. Perhaps they are tired of the police and are of the mindset that they are not needed. Anyhow, it doesn't matter. The man responsible for the crime is in prison for life. Doesn't mean he can't do other things than his time.
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Perhaps it's thought that her husband was profiling or targeting the people in the vehicle unnecessarily. Who knows why the students chose the guy. Perhaps they are tired of the police and are of the mindset that they are not needed.
This is a moronic statement to make.
Maureen Faulkner has nothing to do with this. The college students chose who they wanted to speak, and the college responded.
Remember this next time a college or university invites someone you don't like to give a speech on their campus.
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Not surprising. Vermont is extremely liberal and filled with hippies.
In some towns, its even legal to walk around nude. Hippies.
Liberal fat nude hippies! No thanks
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In a statement, Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny said the college holds 20 commencement ceremonies annually to provide personalized graduation ceremonies in each degree program.
"As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker," Kenny said in a statement. "Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that."
Getbag.......we should strongly consider an email campaign on behalf of the widow to this spineless Liberal douchebag kunt Bob Kenny.
If someone can find his email address - I will go first.
I'd personally like to curbstomp that gutless guy.
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Liberals...
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Liberals...
The problem is they are hypocrites. They would demand a speech be canceled if they disliked the speaker. They hide behind free speech or as Deacon did claim its the students choice but they would surely deny that right to anyone else they disagree with.
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This is a moronic statement to make.
Remember this next time a college or university invites someone you don't like to give a speech on their campus.
Why is my statement moronic?
And the next time a person who I don't like or approve of does a speech, a show, an act, etc., I simply will not attend or support them.
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Why is my statement moronic?
And the next time a person who I don't like or approve of does a speech, a show, an act, etc., I simply will not attend or support them.
Its moronic because its not based in fact, completely biased and blames the victim.
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Its moronic because its not based in fact, completely biased and blames the victim.
I'm not blaming anyone for anything.... I just stated an opinion why college students chose a killer to speak at their ceremony.
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Not condoning this, but what's his message? If it's "hey, don't be a fuck up and kill cops like me" then I see nothing wrong. If it's anything other than that, the whole school should be blown up.
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He's always claimed his innocence and a number of people at the scene rebuked the findings as well and insisted that it wasn't him.
Who knows.....but college students have the right to pick who they want and he is a graduate of the college.
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I'm not blaming anyone for anything.... I just stated an opinion why college students chose a killer to speak at their ceremony.
Yes you are
Perhaps it's thought that her husband was profiling or targeting the people in the vehicle unnecessarily. Who knows why the students chose the guy. Perhaps they are tired of the police and are of the mindset that they are not needed.
He's always claimed his innocence and a number of people at the scene rebuked the findings as well and insisted that it wasn't him.
Who knows.....but college students have the right to pick who they want and he is a graduate of the college.
As I said to Deacon, remember that when someone you don't like is invited to speak at a college or university. I'm sure if the situation were reversed, you would be one of the first to demand the speaker be banned.
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Maureen Faulkner has nothing to do with this. The college students chose who they wanted to speak, and the college responded.
Perhaps it's thought that her husband was profiling or targeting the people in the vehicle unnecessarily. Who knows why the students chose the guy. Perhaps they are tired of the police and are of the mindset that they are not needed. Anyhow, it doesn't matter. The man responsible for the crime is in prison for life. Doesn't mean he can't do other things than his time.
I refused to attend graduation for my masters degree because the university had a speaker, I didn't want to hear.
I'd do the same thing here and make a written , formal complaint to the University.
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This is a moronic statement to make.
Remember this next time a college or university invites someone you don't like to give a speech on their campus.
"In a statement, Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny said the college holds 20 commencement ceremonies annually to provide personalized graduation ceremonies in each degree program."
The school didn't invite the speaker - the students did. Apparently they need "personalized" commencement ceremonies to feel special.
Should have their prissy liberal assess kicked up to their shoulders.
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Getbag.......we should strongly consider an email campaign on behalf of the widow to this spineless Liberal douchebag kunt Bob Kenny.
If someone can find his email address - I will go first.
I'd personally like to curbstomp that gutless guy.
Robert P. Kenny
Interim President of Goddard College
802.322.1600
robert.kenny@goddard.edu
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I just emailed the prick fuck. I kept it simple by asking him a question, just to see if he'd engage.
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Who knows.....but college students have the right to pick who they want and he is a graduate of the college.
Thanks, jerkoff.
This isn't about rights. It's about doing what's right.
Ever think of that, when you're not thinking of cack?
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i stopped reading at Fox "news"
Funny, I stopped reading at Vermont "college"
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Thanks, jerkoff.
This isn't about rights. It's about doing what's right.
Ever think of that, when you're not thinking of cack?
It is also about the fact that this idiot would be the first to demand a speaker he didn't like be banned.
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I just emailed the prick fuck. I kept it simple by asking him a question, just to see if he'd engage.
I just emailed him too......
Probably a little bit less diplomatically than you did.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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I want to college near there...holy shit. Its like a dead concert all year long....I know what school before I saw the article.
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He's always claimed his innocence and a number of people at the scene rebuked the findings as well and insisted that it wasn't him.
Who knows.....but college students have the right to pick who they want and he is a graduate of the college.
You're an idiot. A total idiot. I assume by "rebuked" you mean "debunked": how odd that a killer professes his innocence.
I still like you Vince but god you're dumb
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Last Friday marked thirty years since the early morning murder of Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner, shot in the face as he lay on a downtown sidewalk after being shot in the back from close range. But Faulkner remains unknown while Abu-Jamal has achieved international celebrity and an iconic near-sainthood status among progressives, what with their limitlessly bad judgment in selecting black heroes.
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You're an idiot. A total idiot. I assume by "rebuked" you mean "debunked": how odd that a killer professes his innocence.
I still like you Vince but god you're dumb
+1
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Lol @ you all trapped in the left/right paradigm. They are both crackpots.
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Lol @ you all trapped in the left/right paradigm. They are both crackpots.
Im converted. If you didn't believe in all the weird shit I would invite you to my compound