Voice Of The Voiceless

Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999)
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    Through steel walls
    Your voice blastin' on
    True rebel my brother Mumia
    I reflect upon
    You be tha spark
    That set tha prairie fires on
    Make tha masses a mastodon path
    To trample tha fascists on
    At fifteen exposed Philly's finest killing machine
    With boots and mad guns
    They tried to pacify you young
    Cause and effect
    Smell tha smoke and tha breeze
    My panther my brother
    We are at war until you're free

    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

    You see tha powerful got nervous
    Cause he refused to be their servant
    'Cause he spit truth
    And burned like black churches
    Prose and verses
    A million poor in hearses
    Watch tha decision of Dred Scott
    As it reserves
    So long as tha rope
    Is tight around Mumia's neck
    Let there be no rich white life
    We bound to respect
    Cause and effect
    Can't ya smell tha smoke in tha breeze
    My panther my brother we are at war until you're free

    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless
    You'll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

    And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
    But this little brother's watching you too
    And Orwell's hell a terror era coming through
    But this little brother's watching you too Writer/s: BRAD J. WILK, THOMAS B. MORELLO, TIMOTHY COMMERFORD, ZACK M. DE LA ROCHA
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Wixen Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Dan C Pants from Springfield, PaThe smell or "smoking gun" test to see if a gun had been recently fired is extremely subjective (instead the police relied on the spent shell caseings in mumia's gun and the 4 eye witnesses that saw him do it). The bullet was confirmed in court by a ballistics to be a .38 that matched the type of gun mumia was found with. The person who originally extracted the bullet thought it was a .44 because it was a very powerful hollow point .38 (why would a pacisfist mumia carry a gun with such a deadly ammo?) And checking a person's hand to see if they recently fired a gun only works if it is down immediatly after the shooting, and any type of movement can deem the test ineffective (like when mumia resisted arrest).

    Try actually reading the trial transcripts before supporting a CONVICTED cop killer.
  • Ryan from Philadelphia, PaIt was proven that Faulkner was shot with a .38 not a .44. And maybe you are forgetting that there are 5 eyewitnesses to the murder.
  • David from Manchester, EnglandNote for Tom, Northport, NY:

    The original suspicion was that a .44 calibre was used, guessed by the person who extracted the bullet, not a ballistics expert. Proper ballistics tests confirmed a .38 calibre was used to kill Daniel Faulkner.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia
  • Julien from Carvin, FranceMumia Abdul Jamal is a "citizen" of the Paris city.

    also a street hold the name of Mumia Abu Jamal in St Denis (france)
    http://solidarite93.free.fr/images/news/rue%20st-denis.JPG
  • Tom from Northport, NyThe police never even tested Abu-Jamal's gun to see if it had recently been fired. They never tested his hands to see if he had fired a gun. They also never confirmed that Mumia's gun was the fatal weapon.
  • Tom from Northport, NyThe policeman that Mumia Abu-Jamal was acused of killing was shot with a 44 caliber gun, Mumia's gun that he was licenced to carry, was a 38 caliber
  • Vince from Philadelphia, PaJamal never actually won a Peabody award. Wikipedia has a whole article about him. His work was sent in but he never won. He worked as a taxi driver at the time of the murder
  • Jamie Jay from West Oxfordshire, EnglandThe guitar at the beginning sounds like bagpipes (I probably spelt that wrong but hey!)
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