Sunday, October 04, 2009

The Fantasies of Joe McGill - a response to the trailer for "The Barrel of A Gun"

From Freedom Archives:

by Michael Schiffmann | 10.02.2009
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/fantasies-joe-mcgill-response-trailer-barrel-gunhttp://www.phillyimc.org/en/fantasies-joe-mcgill-response-trailer-barrel-gun

The trailer for the new film about the Mumia Abu-Jamal/Daniel Faulkner case, titled The Barrel of a Gun has just been released. The title refers to a quote from Mao Zedong, that Abu-Jamal made as the 15 year old information officer of the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party in response to the murder of BPP members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by the Chicago police and the FBI in December 1969: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

In this new article, German author Michael Schiffmann confronts the film's pernicious title and explains why the scenario presented by prosecutor Joe McGill is ballistically impossible.

Read the full article at http://abu-jamal-news.com/article?name=German+Book+Reveals+New+Evidence