A thousand scattered voices, politically and ideologically separated, mean nothing. We must confront each and every attack on what liberty we have left.
—
Unarmed civilians with their hands in the air are gunned down like dogs. Nine- year-old children are handcuffed and dragged to jail for pointing fingers and saying, “Bang – bang.” Police beat defenseless, homeless people to death for being homeless. Citizens photographing illegal police activities are beaten and hauled off to jail. Armored battlewagons with “Serve and Protect” painted on their sides patrol our streets. Masked men with battlefield arms, called SWAT Teams, lurk in the police stations of even small towns. Police chiefs, lawyers, State officials (who happen to be Black) are stopped, frisked and hauled off to jail on “suspicion.” Latinos are unlawfully stopped, frisked or jailed on suspicion of being “undocumented.”
Nazi Germany? No! It is America—Land that I love. It is the Beautiful, the land of patriot’s dreams. Stripped from the 4thAmendment, humiliated by cavity searches, she is slipping into the grasp of full-blown fascism.
It hasn’t happened to you? Have we so soon forgotten the lesson of Germany? “First they came for the Communists – but I wasn’t a Communist.” The time for resistance is before it happens to you, and time is short.
Dropping the benign mask of “Serve and Protect,” the police stand exposed as the ”the watchdogs of private property.” Militarized, divorced from society, striving to become a law unto themselves…
|
In preparation for battle the first task is an estimate of the situation. We are in a war and no war is won simply by fighting battles. Understanding and defeating the enemy’s strategy win wars. That strategy has been to control and exploit the American people by creating a “middle class,” about a quarter of the population, through labor unions, minimum wages, Social Security and home ownership. The majority of the workers were excluded. The double exploitation of the African Americans, the increased exploitation of domestic, agricultural and non–union labor more than made up the cost of bribing this “middle class.”
Greek philosophers wrote, “Nothing is permanent except change.” The introduction of electronic production with little or no human labor changed everything. With robotics, wealth and poverty polarized. Globalization of production began the end of bribery of the “middle class.” No longer politically or economically necessary, this pillar of social control was discarded.
A new class of workers with decreasing reliance on or relations with capitalist society confronts the ruling class. Dropping the benign mask of “Serve and Protect,” the police stand exposed as the ”the watchdogs of private property.” Militarized, divorced from society, striving to become a law unto themselves, their every brutal, illegal act shapes and concretizes an American fascist police state.
Thousands of Americans are aware of this danger. Even the liberal writers of the capitalist press are raising the warnings. A thousand scattered voices, politically and ideologically separated, mean nothing. We must confront each and every attack on what liberty we have left.
Most of all, we must see that electronics has fundamentally changed the world. There is no going back. The sad alternative is to re-live the blood soaked horror of the past century. We must visualize the world of peace and freedom that electronics makes possible and fight for that future.
—
@ boris: The People’s Tribune has been writing about the developing police state for decades. The paper tries to educate the developing new class that is being created from the destruction of the capitalist system as to its historic role in creating a new society organized around the new, revolutionary labor-less means of production which have the potential for a world of peace and abundance for all. I encourage you to read the articles and especially the editorials for an understanding of what we can do to create a better world.
They have been in full court press for the Police State since 9/11. That you are ‘suddenly’ aware of it is laughable, especially since the rattling Social Justice groups are being played as pawns for it. In 2007, I predicted full Martial Law on U.S. streets by 2017, and gave my reasons why the 2016 elections will either be suspended or ruled invalid…. I have a pretty good history of being right about this s hitm I used to get paid by Admirals and Generals to give them the bad news – I have an uncanny sense for calamity and… Read more »