MIM Notes 35                    Jan 23 1989 

What did you expect?

QUAYLE IS PERFECT NEW RIGHT SCUM

	Tied to the John Birch Society, critical of Reagan for pushing his missile 
treaty too hard and desiring English only, Vice-President Dan Quayle tried to 
abolish transitional bilingual education. The federal government had assisted in 
bilingual education under the 1968 Bilingual Education Act.  (The Connection: 
Journal of the Michigan Alliance for Disarmament, June 1988, pp. 16-7)

FBI MOVED ON PENTAGON

The Pentagon pork-barrel is so far out of hand that the FBI has moved in. It is 
not clear why the FBI is suddenly interested in Pentagon corruption which has 
gone on for years.

In any case, Republican Senator spoke of "'fraudulent use of taxpayers' money 
beyond the wildest imagination.'" (Time, 6/27/88, 16)

"Acting with court-approved search warrants, FBI agents last week moved 
methodically to seize documents and computer records at 45 sites in at least 
twelve states. The sweep included the offices of at least five Pentagon 
procurement officials, 15 defense contractors and six consultants." (Ibid., 17)

KEMP DECLARES NEW WAR ON  POVERTY

Appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush cabinet, Jack 
Kemp made it clear that he did not seek political oblivion. Kemp, who tried to 
win the Republican nomination by posing to the right of Bush, now declares a new 
"war on poverty."

Kemp realizes that he cannot become more famous unless his department is known 
for its accomplishments. This opportunist is simply making it clear that the 
difference between liberalism and conservatism is not too much for a bourgeois 
politician to swallow.

"'I plan to be audacious in my approach to these inner-city problems of poverty 
and homelessness and joblessness.'" (Boston Globe, 12/20/88, 10) He also 
paraphrased Martin Luther King in this quote and went on to a direct quote of 
King.

Lest anyone think Kemp will favor government cuts, "'I don't believe we're going 
to balance the budget by cutting housing. I don't think we're going to balance 
the budget by letting unemployment go up. I don't believe we're going to solve 
the budget problem unless we have healthy cities.'" (Ibid.)

In addition, he said, "'But I want it known that you cannot balance the budget 
off the backs of the poor.'" (Ibid.)

Lenin correctly understood the opportunism of politicians like Kemp. They are 
not beholden to any particular ideas. Trying to persuade such people with "good 
ideas" is useless.

 Bourgeois politicians simply respond to the conditions in the capitalist 
system. Some bourgeois politicians consciously attempt to confuse the masses by 
changing their rhetoric from time to time. In this way, politicians attempt to 
make the real issues impossible to see.

Watering down the program of the international proletariat to cater to bourgeois 
politicians will fail. Watering down the socialist program not only confuses 
issues, it also gives people like Kemp more maneuvering room to slip and slide 
to the right.

CORRUPTION IN CAPITALIST SCHOOLS IS NOTHING NEW

District 12 in the Bronx is faced with New York Times coverage for what is 
standard fare in the United States. The Times has discovered that the 
superintendent of schools there gained his job with a forged letter of 
recommendation.

ANATOLY (NATAN) SHCHARANSKY IS HARD-CORE COLD WARRIOR

While most scholars responsible for various theories and U.S. strategies 
concerning the Soviet Union are running for cover now that Gorbachev has done 
things they said the Soviet Union would never do--freeing of prisoners, Jews, 
dissidents, starting withdrawal from Afghanistan, adopting more features of free 
market capitalism etc.--Anatoly Shcharansky has continued denouncing the Soviet 
Union in the old language. According to Shcharansky, Gorbachev's changes in the 
Soviet Union are not real. (Los Angeles Times, 1/29/87, 6)

POLICE OFFICER LOSES SUIT

It is possible for the police to go too far in the United States and lose in 
court.  "A blind woman accepted a $17,000 settlement in a suit accusing a police 
officer of forcing her to clean up after her guide dog as bystander watched. . . 
.

The officer was temporarily suspended and ordered to perform 100 hours of 
community service." (Boston Globe, 8/17/88, 74)

The justice system allows small victories of the people to give the illusion of 
fairness. In this case, an added complication was the crowd of people that 
witnessed the event. 

POLICE OFFICER SHOVES BLACK MAN THROUGH GLASS WINDOW ON TV

So confident was Sgt. Don Jackson that he could demonstrate the racism of the 
Long Beach police, he brought a television crew with him to prove it. Sure 
enough police pulled him over when he was a passenger in a car.

Police charged that the car Sgt. Don Jackson was a passenger in was straddling 
lanes. In the ensuing argument, police put Jackson up against a wall and shoved 
him through the glass window, breaking it.

Jackson has a lawsuit against the police for driving him out of the department 
which is coming up on March 7th.

Although Jackson was the one shoved through the window, police charged him with 
interfering with and challenging police officers. Initially the court set bail 
at $12,000 before it released him on his own recognizance. (New York Times, 
1/17/89, 8)

REAGAN KNOWS THE TRUTH

While blind worshippers of the CCP continue to believe that China is socialist, 
the capitalists have learned otherwise. They don't kid themselves and go about 
their business of setting up investments in China.

For this reason it is not surprising that President Reagan himself knows the 
truth about China. The cold-warrior par excellence referred to China as a "'so-
called Communist China.'" (St. Petersburg Times, 9/4/88, 70d)

As for the United States, he also "believes that the communists have influence 
through various disinformation techniques and plans and programs. . . and that 
has influence on the Congress, on the public, on the press and on everybody." 
(Hartford Courant, 10/2/87, a6)

GOETZ GETS OFF

For shooting four Black men in the New York subway on December 22nd, 1984, 
Bernhard H. Goetz received a sentence of one year in jail -- not because he shot 
the men, but because his gun was unlicensed. (New York Times, 1/14/89, 1)

Goetz will not face trial for any more criminal charges. He already got off on 
attempted murder and assault. Even his one year prison term may vanish as his 
lawyer appeals the sentence to higher courts.

There will be a civil suit by the family of Darrell Cabey who is paralyzed from 
the waist down and suffering brain damage. The suit asks for $50 million.

The facts of the Bernard Goetz case are dismal.  Cabey was paralyzed by a second 
shot by Goetz after Goetz had already shot Cabey once. Cabey was on the ground 
already when Goetz said, "'You don't look so bad, here's another.'" (Ibid.)

The Amerikan jury made a mistake in letting Goetz off since self-defense was not 
at issue in Cabey's shooting. This is not to mention the fact that it is 
questionable whether he had to shoot any of the youth to begin with.

YALE HAD NAZI LECTURER

Former Yale University lecturer Vladimir Sokolov "was a writer and editor for 
RECH, a Nazi-controlled, Russian language newspaper, during 1942 and 1943." (New 
York Times, 7/17/88, 24)

He was stripped of citizenship in 1986 and apparently fled further court 
proceedings this year. (Ibid.

AMERIKANS SEE NO RACE PROBLEM

Two-thirds of whites think Blacks receive equal pay for equal work in the United 
States whereas two-thirds of Blacks disagree. (New York Times, 1/12/89, 7)

"Similarly 61 percent of whites rejected the notion that the criminal justice 
system treated blacks unequally, a statement that found support among 80 percent 
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