Killer cops and mad dog politcians [General] - Lorenzo -
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Well, it is always interesting to look at the current state of America. The
military is poised for yet another foreign adventure, the secret security
police have been strengthened with an *open mandate* under the new
"anti-terrorism" laws, and Arabs, Africans in America, and other oppressed
peoples have been made into yet another suspect class. Even white middle
class Leftist radicals are now on a list of "troublemakers" and suspected
"terrorists". People are being told that they cannot fly on airplanes due
to new security regulations and "watch lists". This happened recently to
lawyers and legal assistants of the Center for Constitutional Rights flying
to attend a legal convention. Of course, this unrestricted police
repression is always dangerous, as it leads to widespread scapegoating of
innocent persons and unpopular activists. Now I hear they are doing away
with the Miranda rulings of the Supreme Court, so that cops can resort to
torture with the old 3rd degree methods of the black rubber hose in the
interrogation room, without any legal restrictions.
Of course, now they are much more sophisticated in torture techniques,
using refined methods of sleep deprivation, behavior modification, forced
drugging, and mind control. But it still means police can wield great
coercive control of political dissidents in America, and use whatever force
they deem advisable.
Personally, I am not afraid, after having been a victim of the FBI's
COINTELPRO campaign initiated against the Black Panther Party and the
1960's New Left, after having spent over a decade and a-half of my life in
federal prison, after having been the victim of the infamous H-Block
control unit in Marion, the behavior modification program run by the "mad
doctors" in Springfield, Missouri, nine years of solitary confinment, and
numberous beatings, starvation, and threats of death by prison guards; all
of which will make one a little less easily frightened. But I have grave
doubts for the country as a whole, and the worsening plight to the common
people, and especially the usual scapegoat, the Black community.
Already burdened by poverty, racism, police brutality, homicide, drug
addiction, disproportionate infant mortality, massive unemployment, and
other ills foisted on us by the central government and the capitalist
state, we now have to deal with the reality of an outright fascist police
state. George W. Bush, and John Ashcroft, the head of the national security
apparatus, are creating an American style Nazi regime. They are suspending
the democratic rights of the common people, they are equipping the police
with murderous police armaments, and they are creating a civilian corps of
spies and saboteurs, called "TIPS", the Terrorism Information and
Prevention Service. (Now, it's true that they were given a setback with
TIPS because of public condemnation, but they have promised to reintroduce
it again in less obvious fashion). In recent days, they have created a
Homeland Security agency, which consolidates almost all government agencies
under the control of a Homeland Commissioner, at this time Tom Ridge,
former governor of Pennsylvania. They are attempting to create a national
police force, something always feared in this country. And Bush, a few
months ago, created a "Shadow Government" of anonymous functionaries, ready
to take over the entire administration from the civilian government at the
sign of the next "terrorist" incident. This was all done so secretly that
even members of Bush's own political party did not know what he was up to
until he'd done it.
The fact is that Bush is doing something that former President Richard
Nixon wished he had been able to do in the 1970's, set up a dictatorship
without any opposition from the people. He has been able to use the
September 11, 2001 attacks to justify gradually suspending the protections
of the constitution. For instance, now it is possible to be arrested and
tried as an "enemy combatant" at a military tribunal without any right to
civilian trial or attorney, to be held incommunicado, to be arrested and
jailed indefinitely without any production of evidence, and to be subjected
to deadly force without any investigation as to whether it was justified.
Like James Bond, the federal cops have been give an absolute right to kill.
It will only get worse, like the old Nazi German or Stalinist secret
police, thousands will be arrested and held in concentrations camps as
"terrorists" or "terrorist sympathizers" strictly on the word of a federal
agent or police officer. Many people will receive summary execution upon
arrest, and more and more, we will see people being punished for their mere
ideals and beliefs. When the dogs of the state are given a free hand, we
will all get bitten!
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