Dear comrades,
P.R. is being forced by Violence to accept statehood. So far, 2 days
ago, everyone has voted for the [none of the above ballot option], which
means that the people are not sure what they want. No one in the U.S.
were informed of how the elections were going. Everything was being
censored from the very beginning.

Our people are being fed this big lie that being a state is the best
thing for us. I have met a lot of people that believe that Puerto Rico
should stay the way it is.

But the funny thing about this bullshit is that the people that want
P.R. to stay the way it is (commonwealth) are the very people that want
Imperialism to keep on plundering Third World Countries. They want to
benefit from the superexploitation, alienation, & oppression; because to
these people, in which I am ashamed to say that they are my fellow
countrymen, that means more jobs, security, privilege, status, prestige
& more hand-outs.

Personally again, I cannot stand a person or a group that wants P.R. to
become a state or, to continue it's present course into hell! As a
Maoist, I know that these kind people are brainwashed &, that they are
also cowards for not being able to come to their own senses. For years,
as far as I can remember, we (MIM, RAIL & I speak for those that feels
the same way as me & the nationalists) have been trying endlessly to
educate, organize, politically mobilize the Latino nations within the
U.S.; Puerto Ricans in particular.

For more that 500 years, the P.R. people have been up-rooted from our
original existence, reshaped & molded to fit a specific purpose &
reason. No consideration has been given concerning our interests. Could
it be that we as a people, don't know what we want, what our interests
are &, that we need U.S. imperialism to guide us? Bullshit! Only we can
know what we want if we only had the courage to do so.  We don't need
Imperialism to guide anyone because they have always guided us into war,
poverty, international oppression & starvation. They have always cared
about their own interests, which is to continue being a tyranny, a
monster, an enemy of humanity, international proletariat &, the world it
self!

Only a true Maoist political revolutionary organization, such as MIM,
can led us out of the capitalist wilderness & into the promise land!!!
If worse comes to worse & P.R. becomes a state, I hope that there will
be bloodshed, civil war, revolution; because if it becomes a state, we
as a people will have no flag of our own, our culture, history &
language will vanish forever... I know &, I speak for everyone that
feels that same way I do, concerning P.R., that we have a duty, an
inescapable, sacred duty that cannot be neglected -- for the sake of
communism, true freedom, & Third World proletariat. If blood needs to be
spilled in order to save more blood in the future, so be it!

But for now, all I can say is that if P.R. becomes a state, I really
don't know what I will do. I really don't know what my reaction will be,
knowing that I have no country, flag of my own. I will truly be a shame
to be called a Puerto Rican. I will deny my race if I have to...No, I
don't think a have the courage to do that, I will always be what I am: a
Boricua revolutionary Maoist! Not even U.S. Imperialism will change
that. But I will make it a life mission to destroy Imperialism, even if
it takes 5, 10, 15 or even 20, 30 years. I will dream & think of only
destroying our enemy: Imperialism.

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