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G1deon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:35:29 GMT

Black man attacked non Black store owners as community service...executed by Texas

meroe — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:42:10 GMT

the courage and seriousness of this man this brother is typical of
Texas eye have come to learn much respect

rest in hotep
Texas executes inmate after Perry refuses reprieve
11/19/2009 7:38 PM
By: Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas � Texas inmate Robert Lee Thompson has been executed for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after Gov. Rick Perry rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare Thompson because he wasn't the gunman.
The 34-year-old Thompson was an accomplice to triggerman Sammy Butler when 29-year-old store clerk Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed was gunned down 13 years ago.
Butler received life in prison. A jury gave Thompson death.
Thompson's lawyer told the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Thompson's punishment under the Texas law of parties wasn't fair and the panel voted 5-2 Wednesday to recommend his sentence be commuted to life.
Perry didn't have to follow their recommendation.
The execution was carried out Thursday evening less than an hour after Perry refused to go along with the panel's endorsement.

Texas Board Recommends Clemency for Man Set to Die

Updated: Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 6:09 PM CST
Published : Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 6:09 PM CST

MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a highly
unusual vote, recommended a convicted murderer set to die Thursday for
his part in the fatal shooting of Houston convenience store clerk have
his sentence commuted to life in prison.

The board's action Wednesday, on a 5-2 vote, leaves the decision on
whether Robert Lee Thompson lives or dies with Gov. Rick Perry.

Thompson, 34, was condemned under the Texas law of parties for being an
accomplice when Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed, 29, was gunned down 13
years ago.

Thompson's partner, Sammy Butler, received a life prison term. Thompson
got death.

"This is hugely significant," Patrick McCann, Thompson's lawyer, said.
"I'm thrilled... Whatever gets my guy to a life sentence I'm thrilled with."

Perry is not required to follow the recommendation of the board, whose
members he appoints.

"The governor has received the board's recommendation but has not made a
decision," Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle said.

Thompson was set to die after 6 p.m. Thursday.

"I spoke with his office of general counsel and his representative
there, and they couldn't tell me when he would make his decision,"
McCann said.

In his clemency request, McCann compared Thompson's case to that of
Kenneth Foster, another inmate condemned under the law of parties.

Two years ago, Foster won a commutation recommendation from the parole
board. Perry agreed and Foster now is serving a life sentence. Prison
officials said it's the last time a Texas governor commuted a death row
inmate's sentence to life in prison.

Perry's explanation for commuting Foster was that Foster and his
co-defendant were tried together on capital murder charges for a slaying
in San Antonio. In Thompson's case, he and Butler were tried separately
in Houston.

At least a half dozen other Texas inmates have been executed under the
law of parties.

Under the law, offenders conspiring to commit one felony like robbery
can all be held responsible for another ensuing crime, like murder.

The U.S. Supreme Court since 1982 has barred the death penalty for
co-conspirators who don't themselves kill. The justices, however, in
1987 made an exception, ruling the Eighth Amendment didn't prohibit
execution of someone who plays a major role in a felony that results in
murder and whose mental state is one of reckless indifference.

McCann also has an appeal before the Supreme Court raising questions
about the competence of Thompson's trial lawyers, arguing jurors who
decided Thompson should be executed never learned of his abusive
childhood, an upbringing by a mentally ill and drug- and
alcohol-addicted mother and a household where he was "raised in and
among felons."

Thompson believed he was doing a public service by robbing and shooting
Asian and Middle Eastern grocery store clerks in Houston. The 10th-grade
dropout was 21 at the time of Mohammed's shooting. Another clerk at the
same store was shot four times by Thompson but survived.

"I feel remorse now that I've grown and understand certain things now,"
Thompson told The Associated Press recently from a visiting cage outside
death row. "But as far as my motives, I'm not going to feel guilty about
standing behind my community.

"I wasn't thinking of this being wrong. It was more: You're not doing us
right," he said of the store clerks. "They rob us. They watch us like
crazy. We're all victims."

Evidence at his trial showed Thompson, who is black, told detectives he
went on a two-month crime spree in 1996 because God told him to do
something about store clerks who discriminated against blacks.

The killing was one of three he acknowledged to authorities. In two of
the slayings, Thompson told detectives he was the gunman.

Asked in prison if he'd ever killed someone, he replied: "No one died in
front of me. I've shot at people. Different things happen."

According to testimony at his trial, Thompson and Butler walked into the
southwest Houston convenience store and Thompson demanded money from
32-year-old clerk Mubarakali Meredia. Even though Meredia complied, he
was shot. Thompson went around the store counter and shot him three more
times, then placed his .25-caliber pistol at Meredia's head and fired
again but the gun was out of ammunition. Instead, court documents show
he used a cash register drawer to bash Meredia in the head.

Butler opened fire at Mohammed, hitting him once, then fired again
through the passenger side window of their car as he and Thompson were
fleeing. Mohammed was killed with the second shot. Jurors decided Butler
didn't intend to kill Mohammed and gave him life in prison rather than
death.

Meredia survived his wounds and testified against Thompson.

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A Place of Honor

The Talking Drum Collective — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:01:21 GMT

"A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every [Afrikan] home." Ida B. Wells This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought

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State prison plans: mental therapy or torture?

Moorbey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:36:25 GMT

by Susan Mortimer�Wednesday, April 30, 2008

On February 11, four steel cages were delivered to the state prison in Walpole. That was two months after publication of the Globe series on alleged suicides among Massachusetts prisoners. Just four square feet and eight feet high, they cost the Department of Corrections almost $60,000. The cages feature small metal benches and have openings for leg shackles. They have a sinister name, too: Custom Therapeutic Modules. (editors' note)

State prison plans: mental therapy or torture?

Four Custom Therapeutic Modules delivered to State prison at Walpole [anonymous photo]

The rate of �suicide� in Massachusetts prisons is three times the average rate for U.S. prisons. Deaths behind bars have escalated in the past two years; and much attention has been paid to this continuing trend.

Ignoring the root causes of such deaths, the Commonwealth and the press�the Boston Globe in particular�have pushed instead for ill-conceived reforms, which will increase the suffering of Massachusetts prisoners, but not their safety.

Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services (MCLS), some State legislators and the Disability Law Center (DLC) presume that these deaths were in fact suicide and not murder by the DOC; that the prisoners were "mentally ill" at the time of their conviction; and that only "mentally ill" people commit suicide.

While we do not have space here to enumerate all the reasons why such presumptions are fallacious, we must acknowledge that racism, poverty and the War on Drugs are the foundation of the prison industrial complex.
Charity paves a road to Hell
Powerlessness, constant stress, solitary confinement and sensory deprivation inflict great suffering. Lack of fresh air and exercise, medical neglect and abuse, inadequate nutrition, guard violence, daily deprivation and degradation combine to destroy physical and psychological health. From the extremes of sensory deprivation to seemingly mundane daily occurrences, prison policy and practice violate human rights. Thus, we believe that conditions of confinement, inflicted by the state, manufacture disability.

While we recognize that some behaviors may be viewed as mental illness, designating and placing the focus of an investigation into the deaths of �mentally ill� prisoners allows administrators, guards and medical staff to evade responsibility for the cruel, inhumane and degrading conditions that engender such desperate behavior. Further, labeling people as �mentally ill� masks disablement caused by child abuse, poverty, racism, sexism and finally, prison conditions.

Coping responses to inequality and unsafe conditions must be differentiated from �mental illness.� Counterproductive measures meted out for such coping mechanisms punish individuals for the harms the DOC inflicts upon them.

This institutional abuse brings some prisoners to a terrible choice: to live in unending despair or to end their suffering.

The role of paternalism in the development of Residential Treatment Units is clear. Liberal reformers want to do the charitable thing. But charity emanates from pity of the allegedly inferior individual; it does not seek to ally with prisoners to work for systemic change.
Paternalism originates in privilege and assumed superiority. It is loathe to challenge the power of the state. It wants to do what it believes is best for the victim without consulting her. Criminal justice policy born of charitable ideology has had devastating effects on the minds and bodies of incarcerated people.
In the nineteenth century, Quakers advocated penitentiaries as a charitable way to improve prisoners� minds. Prosecutors and jailors use reforms such as parole to punish and to lengthen sentences.
Liberals respond
Enter Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services (MCLS), Representative (and psychologist) Ruth Balser, the Disability Law Center (DLC) and the Boston Globe.
The MCLS lawyers are suing for Residential Treatment Units (RTU) and Rep. Balser is sponsoring H.1313, a bill calling for $40 million for secure mental health units within prisons to be staffed with Department of Mental Health employees.

The Globe has editorialized in favor of RTUs. Last May during oversight hearings on Prison Suicide and Prison Mental Health at the State House, Boston Globe reporter Beth Healy declined to accept written testimony from the only invited group opposed to the treatment units�the Statewide Harm Reduction Coalition (SHaRC). Healy is a member of the Spotlight Team that spent several months working on a three-part investigative series on prison suicides.

The expose was biased toward RTUs. It appears to have been guided, particularly regarding the pro-RTU viewpoint, by MCLS� Leslie Walker, a long-time proponent of RTUs.
The Globe published Walker's op-ed, touting the treatment units, on February 2, 2008. Walker has ignored prisoners and families who understand that the DOC co-opts reform measures to inflict punishment and to add to its bloated budget.
By insisting on labeling prisoners who may be suicidal as "mentally ill," liberal reformers are choosing not to address the root causes of prison deaths. Closer monitoring of suicidal prisoners in RTUs would not treat despair�a product of prison environs. Instead it formalizes policy, protects the DOC administration and consolidates more power in the prison industrial complex.

Balser's bill, H.1313, gives wide latitude to DOC superintendents and Corrections Commissioner Harold Clarke to administer RTUs under supervision of the Department of Mental Health (DMH).

At present, however, even low-level guards challenge medical orders, withhold pink slips (requests for medical attention), look through patient records and hamper prisoner efforts to get medications in a timely manner. H.1313 does not address guard interference in provision of therapeutic services or guard-on-prisoner violence except to mandate forty hours of mental health training annually for correctional staff assigned to the RTUs. All other guards would be required to undergo eight hours of training yearly.
Get text of H.1313 on Rep.Balser's web page
Reform through the looking glass
Prior studies commissioned by the DOC have recommended such training. The department has repeatedly failed to implement even such minimal requirements.
Many prisoners deride the concept of special mental health treatment units as "same guards, same treatment, different location."

Prisoners understand that the prison culture affects mental health clinicians as deeply as DOC employees. Indeed many "lifers" and older prisoners speak eloquently about being subjected to behavior modification programs, aversive conditioning, electro-shock "therapy", forced administration of powerful sedatives and four-point restraints.

(The writings of Joe Labriola, Albert Gagne, Stephen Metcalf, The Lifers Group and other prisoners are readily available online. Read Massachusetts prisoners writings. )

Nevertheless, against this reform backdrop the DOC has seized the liberal momentum. In February, four Custom Therapeutic Modules were delivered to MCI-Cedar Junction. The CTMs are steel cages, measuring approximately 4� by 4� by 8� which contain a small opening for shackled legs and a metal stool. A sales slip shows that the DOC Central Office in Milford ordered the units at a cost of $15,000 each.

On April 23, 2008 Representative Ruth Balser�s office was presented a copy of the sales slip and photographs of �Custom Therapeutic Modules." The Representative was invited to comment. On April 28 Balser�s aide Jake Larson was again invited to provide a comment. To date there has been no response.

Can a person be "cured" in a cage? Can humanization occur in a dehumanizing atmosphere? If prisoners need treatment, it is in large part for injuries from the institutional violence to which they are subjected in prison and within a society that wages war against its young, the poor and people of color.

The push for RTUs inverts cause and effect of disablement in the prison system. Any legislation, lawsuit or advocacy work which requires that abused and disabled prisoners be "helped" to heal by the very entity which tortures them is no help at all. It is betrayal and collusion with state -sanctioned violence.

Susan Mortimer is an anti-prison activist whose disabled brother is a Massachusetts prisoner. She knew Anthony Garafolo, a paraplegic, whose June 2006 death in a prison hospital unit the Department of Correction has labeled a suicide.
Andrea Hornbein contributed to this article.

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Moorbey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:53:01 GMT

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By Senghor Baye

Greetings to you all,
Sistren and Brethren we are in a serious time in this drunk and corrupt world. It is of the utmost importance that we continue to close our ranks and build on the accomplishments of our ancestors as well as overstand all our shortcomings of the present and past. Inorder to ameliorate the conditions Afrikans face at home and abroad, we must remain clear Marcus Garvey laid the most solid black print within the 20th century. Now that Garvey and many other ancestors have returned in the spirit of the global Whirlwind, self reliance, self determination and independent practical application towards real nation building must be addressed, so the 21st century, we can advance to our traditional greatness both at home and abroad.
The unification, focus, and works of those who know our internal power,heritage, and great potential must build concrete ways and means for our own advancement in Industry, Government, Economics, Health and Wellness, and systems of Communications and Technological advancement. Our ancestors are waiting and watching and far to many of our own youth are crying and dieing do to the oppression of the system of global white supremacy and our own apathy. Guns, Greed and Genocide continues to be used against us globally and now in the 21st century this shall continue until we build a real solid external power base in numbers to stop it.
We can, We must, We will for we can accomplish what we will!. Just thought I would let each of you know the 21st century UNIA-ACL still has the rightous formally for Afrikans north,south,east and west of the world. It is now going to be up to U (you ) NIA (Purpose) what becomes of the Afrikan Communties League ACL of the world is on all of us. whether active with the Garvey movement or not the future shall prove it is all for YOU Too, what we do. Garvey Lives! The UNIA-ACL is rebuilding our government for today and future generations. 9th succesor to Garvey and 10th PG of the UNIA-ACL.

Subversive Thoughts

Moorbey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:57 GMT

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist .- Dom Helder Camara

Was africa peaceful before islam and the whites?

That_Untouchable_cat — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:07:01 GMT

Was Africa peaceful before the intruders infiltrated us?

Or Was Africa, as the white describe it, a land full of tribalism and constant clannish bickering?

Anybody got some information, a link, a video or a website that goes more into this, I would greatly appreciate it.

YahHHh!!!!!!!!

Eka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:39 GMT

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iddonfamily — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:28:03 GMT

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P.E.A.C.E — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:40 GMT

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