Dave Lindorff Knows

Lindorff is all over this nasty shit the Republicans have kicked up recently over the Mumia Abu-Jamal case.  The Republicans are pandering, of course.  They're doing their best to scare the racist cracker teabaggers with the scary, scary black man with the funny name, Mumia Abu-Jamal.  Lindorff has very unhelpfully done some a shitload of actual reporting on this case, so he is not susceptible to promulgating the evil insanity in the same way that Rendell and Smerconish are.  Lindorff's point that no one knows what happened because of police malfeasance and incompetence are the most important things.  It doesn't matter whether Abu-Jamal killed Faulkner or not--and the evidence points to no way in hell--because the police and the state were unwilling and unable to make a legal case against him, and instead relied on racism and misconduct to railroad a most certainly innocent man--but even if he was guilty as hell and pissed on Faulkner after he shot him a thousand times, if the police and the state can't or won't make a just and legal case against the suspect, then that guilty man should go free.  Since the police and prosecutors fucked up the case beyond repair, we will never know what really happened with Abu-Jamal and Faulkner.