>From: "Nason, David" <nasond@spawar.navy.mil>
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:11:14 -0400
>
>August 15, 1999
>Debbie, Janine, Janet for the MOVE 9
>MOVE RELEASE UPDATE!
>
>Just to keep you updated on what's going on with MOVE, I will tell you that
>on July 7, 1999 the Move 9 completed the filing of our PCRAs. The Move
>family, along with the attorney handling the appeal, Paul Hetznecker, held a
>press conference to address the basis of the appeal, filed in front of Judge
>Ricardo Jackson. We all know that the real issue behind Move being in prison
>is religious persecution, because we are Move members. Move have been
>persecuted since the beginning of the above ground chapter of Move, in
>Philadelphia, and still being persecuted.
>
>It was proven when the courts released 2 other people who were also arrested
>with the Move 9 on August 8, 1978, and charged with the same charges as the
>Move 9 but released because they were not Move members.
>
>It was proven when the government instituted a "parole stipulation" against
>Move members, from 1981 to 1994, that stated, in order for any Move member
>to be released on parole, they have to leave the Move Organization,
>disassociate ourselves from Move. In other words, turn traitor to Move's
>belief and JOHN Africa- nothing to do with the charges. (Alberta, Ramona,
>Sue, and Mo Africa were forced to complete their entire prison sentences
>because of this stipulation).
>
>We all know that when it comes to Move defending ourselves against cops and
>officials persecution, Move gets beat, jailed, punished, but when officials
>beat, hurt, kill Move people, they get promoted, given a pension, and
>allowed to walk the streets freely. At this point this system has another
>opportunity to do right by Move through these PCRAs. The Judge has the
>authority to; overturn the convictions on all 9 of us and release us
>immediately, give us time served, or reduce our sentences. The Judge can
>also be a part of keeping this persecution going by keeping Move in prison.
>In any case Move will not stop fighting, we will not give up working for
>what's right just because it's convenient.
>
>As you might or might not know, in June 1996 a jury found former
>Philadelphia firs commissioner and police commissioner, William Richmond and
>Gregore Sambor guilty of deliberate murder of 11 Move members, including 5
>children, in a civil suit filed by Ramonal Africa. In January 1997 Judge
>Louis Pollack mixed the jury's decision and released them of any and all
>responsibility, punishment; even dropped that measly $11 symbolic sentence
>they had been ordered to pay.
>
>Officials are always allowed to get away with murder just because it's
>legal. But legal don't' make it right. When unofficial people commit murder
>they are given many years in prison, a life sentence, a death sentence. The
>Move 9 been in prison over 21 years of a 30-100 year sentence for a murder
>we did not commit. Mumia Abu-Jamal been in prison 18 years facing, the
>death sentence, for a murder he did not commit. There are million of poor
>people, unofficial people, political prisoners in prison for doing nothing
>compared to the crimes these officials commit daily, and Move ain't lettin
>this legal-paradox of treachery be forgotten. Move ain't gone accept sittin'
>in prison without a fight, while officials like Sambor and Richmond walk the
>streets like they are clean and innocent. Mumia ain't gone accept sittin, in
>prison, waiting to be executed, murdered, without a fight while criminals
>like Sambor and Richmond, roam the streets endorsing the sadism of more,
>poor unofficial people.
>
>If Richmond and Sambor can be allowed to be on the streets after committing
>eleven murders; the Move 9 can be released after 21 years on the accusation
>of just one murder! FREE THE MOVE 9! FREE MUMIA! FREE ALL POLITICAL
>PRISONERS!
>LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA'S REVOLUTION! LONG LIVE JOHN AFRICA! THE POWER OF
>TRUTH IS FINAL!
>