LA Weekly Gives Print Blowjob To Mark FuhrmanLast week's cover story in the LA Weekly was a breathless humjob that attempted to not only rehabilitate the infamous Mark Fuhrman's image, but also to paint him as a knight in shining armor, a hero whose time was tragically cut short.
Read it here.
The problem with Christine Pelisek's blowjobbery is that her article takes every word of self-promotion Fuhrman utters as gospel, and forgets all about the
lying,
sexist,
racist blowhard that the court transcripts uncoverd. (
check out the transcripts here). There is not a whole lot of space devoted to the established facts that Fuhrman had a tendency to behavior that could be charitably described as virulently racist, nor to any of the facts that came out during the OJ Simpson (double murderer) trial that showed him to be a sloppy policeman.
Why does the Conservative movement allow this type of knuckle-dragger to wave their banner, and to claim his devotion to Jesus and George Washington? Don't they see that his beliefs are antithetical?
The fact is, Mark Fuhrman is exactly the type of neanderthal that the LAPD needed to kick the fuck out.
The thing that really disgusted me is how Fuhrman is playing it all out like he is the victim. Because his fucked up policework bungled the OJ conviction, another murder case was tossed out solely because Fuhrman again was involved; a trial concurrent with OJ's. It's almost a sidenote in Pelisek's story, but a crucial piece of evidence in the 2nd case, a door, was not checked in properly so there was no chain of custody, which means its use and value as evidence in a capital trial is diminished if not completely nullified.
Does Fuhrman feel any remorse, that his racist tirades and lazy policing caused 2 murderers (at least) to walk away? No, he seems more concerned about his image, and in correcting the mindset of the white power town he lives in.
There are those who say Fuhrman is a cunt, an incompetent motherfucker, and the person responsible for a murderer (now a pair of murderers) to walk free. Now that Fuhrman has relocated to an all white area, he can engage in crypto-fascist fantasies about the "Left" and "liberal media" (are they talking about Air America, for fuck's sake?). Don't forget about Fuhrman's masterful book on the Terry Shiavo case, which was described in a "conservative" review thusly:
Above all, Fuhrman proves that the death of Terri Schiavo was a legal homicide perpetrated by the State of Florida at the behest of Michael Schiavo -- who, while he always protested that he was doing it all for Terri, was actually in it always and only for himself. He demonstrates that Terri died because everyone failed her: the people charged with her care, the police, the politicians and judges involved with the case, and above all the man who claimed to care for her more than anyone else: her husband Michael Schiavo. Says Fuhrman of Terri's husband: "the control that he exerted over even the smallest details concerning her treatment, the efforts that he made to restrict access to her medical records and permission to visit her, and finally the stubbornness with which he pursued her legally sanctioned death -- is extreme to the point of suspicion." (from Conservative Book Service, where idiots go to get their fill of more idiocy)
Fuhrman, shut the fuck up.
Here are some examples of what a decent, noble, enlightened savior of manking the disgraced former LAPD officer is, just in case you're not sold on his bag-of-shit credentials, courtesy of
http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/www/Info/fuhrman.html:
The "Fuhrman Tapes" contain forty examples of the use of the term "nigger" to refer to black persons in a racially disparaging context. These references were not casual slips of the tongue, but a consistent pattern that recurs throughout the transcripts. In only one case - item no 12 - was Fuhrman assuming the role of a fictional character when the word "nigger" was used.
1. ( ...speaking of changes in composition of L.A.P.D.).
"That we've got females ...and dumb niggers, and all your Mexicans that can't even write the name of the car they drive."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p.11.)
2.( ...speaking of the physical risks to officers).
"If I'm wrestling around with some ___ nigger, and he gets me in my back, and he gets his hands on my gun. It's over."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p. 12)
3.( ...describing arrest of a suspect).
"She was afraid. He was a big nigger, and she was afraid."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p. 20)
4.(...explaining arrest of a suspect in Westwood).
"He was a nigger. He didn't belong. Two questions. And you are going: Where do you live? 22nd and Western. Where were you going? Well, I'm going to Fatburger. Where's Fatburger. He didn't know where Fatburger was? Get in the car."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p.33)
5.(...commenting on L.A. P. D. politics).
"Commander Hickman, was a dickhead. He should be shot. He did that for one thing. He wants to be chief, so he wants the city council, and the police commissioner, and all these niggers in L.A. City government and all of 'em should be lined up against a wall and fuckin' shot."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p.41)
6.(...discussing American aid to drought victims in Ethiopia).
"You know these people here, we got all this money going to Ethiopia for what. To feed a bunch of dumb niggers that their own government won't even feed."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p. 44)
7 & 8(...discussing where he grew up in the state of Washington).
"People there don't want niggers in their town. People there don't want Mexicans in their town. They don't want anybody but good people in their town, and anyway you can do to get them out of there that's fine with them. We have no niggers where I grew up."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1, p.45)
9.( ...speaking of women as training officers).
"When I came on the job all my training officers were big guys and knowledgeable, some nigger'd get in their face, they just spin 'em around, choke 'em out until they dropped."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1., p. 47)
10.(...discussing use of chokehold by L.A.P.D.).
"No, we have to eliminate a choke hold because a bunch of niggers down in the south end of L.A. said this is bad."
(McKinny Transcript No. 1., p. 49)
11.(...discussing police use of term "Bubba").
"You know, policemen also use "Bubba" a lot, 'cause it's a slam term, because niggers you know they call each other Bubba. They go, hey Bubba, what's happening, like that." (Tape No. 10, p. 6; McKinny Transcript No. 2, pp. 3-4)
12.(...suggesting how a fictional character would respond to a question whether officers would respond to a question whether officers need probable cause to stop and search suspects).
"Q: Why are you even talking to them?
A: Nigger. Stop them. See who they are.
Q: You don't have any probable cause? You just want to talk to them?
A: ...probable cause. You're God. (Tape No. 1. p.26; McKinny Transcript No. 2, p.14)
13.(...discussing where Black Muslims live).
"Q: Why do they live in that area?
A: That's where niggers live." (Tape No. 1, p.28; McKinny Transcript No. 2, p.15)
14.(. .. discussing the exhilaration of winning).
"I mean, that's just the way you feel, you know. You've got 200 Niggers that are trying to take you prisoner." (Tape No. 1, p.1; McKinny Transcript No. 2, p.19)
15.( ...suggesting police reaction to resistant suspect).
"She's a policeman in this city, and don't you ever fight or fuck around with policemen. You'll do what you're told, you understand Nigger." (Tape No. 1, p.10; McKinny Transcript No.2; p. 21)
16.(...discussing woman officer learning fencing).
"You just go out and what are gonna do with some Nigger with a knife? Go `on guard?' I mean that's bullshit." (Tape No. 4, p.2; McKinny Transcript No. 4, p.2)
17.( ... describing practicing martial arts kicks).
"I used to go to work and practice movements. Niggers. They're easy. I used to practice my kicks. (Tape No. 4, p.9; McKinny Transcript No.4, p.12)
18.(...discussing lack of women football players).
"Don't they think they are physically capable? They can arm wrestle 6'7" Niggers." (Tape No. 4, p.24; McKinny Transcript No. 4, p.30)
19. & 20.(...discussing use of chokehold by L.A.P.D.)
"We stopped the choke because a bunch of Niggers have a bunch of these organizations in the south end, and because all Niggers are choked out and killed -- twelve in ten years. Really is extraordinary, isn't it?"
(Tape No.4 pp.28-29; McKinny Transcript No. 4,p. 35)
21-24.( ...directing Laura Hart to Wilshire Division).
"Go to Wilshire division. Wilshire division is all niggers. All Niggers, Nigger training officers, niggers ...with three years on the job. Think of that 3 plus 1."
(Tape No.5, p.11; McKinny Transcript No.5, p.9)
25.( ...describing his partner Tom).
"He grew up in school with all blacks, and every time a nigger looked at him, he'd jump them cause he figured they were going to jump on him, so he might as well start the fight right now and get it over with." (Tape No. 5, p.12; McKinny Transcript No. 5, p.10)
26.(...describing the "last white strongholds".)
"Westwood is gone, the niggers have discovered it. When they start moving into Redondo and Torrance. Torrance is considered the last white middle class society." (Tape No. 5, p.17; McKinny Transcript No. 5, pp. 13-14)
27.(...discussing female police officers.)
"They don't do anything; they don't go out there and initiate a contact with some 6'5" nigger that's been in prison for 7 years pumping weights." (Tape No. 6A, p.34: McKinny Transcript No. 6-1, p.11)
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