This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

Revolutionary feminism

Page created and maintained by Web Minister mim3@mim.org

Winning elections among labor aristocracy voters:

Duke lacrosse prosecutor resigns

June 19 2007

An infamous rape case in North Carolina involved three Duke University lacrosse players and a Black erotic dancer. The prosecutor behind the case has now resigned.

MIM would advise our foreign readers that in North Carolina, racial politics determine elections on a regular basis, usually for the whites. In Durham, politics are not typical for the rest of North Carolina. In addition, Duke sports are sacrosanct, along with the sports at another North Carolina school where Michael Jordan attended college.

MIM does not know what happened in this case involving a stripper and some lacrosse players. We did no investigation. We can however comment on what the media said and also Durham voters who also did not know what happened.

On June 16, the Duke case became the lead story on CNN's web page, because the prosecutor named Mike Nifong who stuck to his guns on the case resigned. Nifong also lost his license to practice law. It appears that an ethics committee found his prosecution of the college students unwarranted in the extreme. Duke University caused the students to have to miss some school because of the case. Professors up in arms also graded down one of the accused's marks and he almost flunked out of school--before the trial that never happened. At the same time, sales of Duke lacrosse merchandise tripled.(1)

The current writer witnessed another rape case on a college campus where 90% of initial opinion was for the accuser until the trial, but both sides were whites. Even MIM circles were divided on the case with some wanting to throw the book before trial. Then there was a radical reversal in opinion at the trial. In general, Amerikans do not really believe "innocent till proven guilty." Amerikans opt for an individualized crime system; yet, they do not give it the Liberal patience it is supposed to have. In Florida, a recent survey showed that 47% of respondents believed Dr. Sami Al-Arian was probably or definitely guilty at the stage when the government merely charged him with a crime. 28% already considered him a "terrorist."(2)

So, it is normal for Amerikans to prejudge people who are charged and then possibly flip back after trial, or, not flip back, and complain about the legal system as not convicting enough people. It's not right, because Amerikan civics teaches "innocent till proven guilty," but in judging the racial factor, "innocent till proven guilty" seems to apply to whites charged with crimes against oppressed nationalities. MIM itself is not in favor of individual-centered approaches to crime and points to the united $tates as a case where Liberalism ends up hiding fascism, monarchism and racism. "Innocent till proven guilty" requires implementation, but Amerikkkans simply do not agree with it. It's another aspect of how the united $tates became the world's imprisonment leader.

The Guantanamo Bay prison is another good measure for monarchism. The U.$. public is split evenly 44% to 43% whether the prisons should be allowed. 63% of Republicans are for while 57% of Democrats are against.(3)

The poll is great proof that the U.$. exploiters know they are exploiters and want war and repression of the rest of the world. Guantanamo Bay is making life hard for the State Department and CIA and so imperialists oppose it for tactical reasons, notso the labor aristocracy necessarily.

When the exploited are the majority in a country, the call to democracy or majority rule can have a progressive thrust. In the u.$. situation, in the Guantanamo Bay case or the question of migrants, the majority is more backward than the imperialists. Anyone who cannot tell the difference between MIM and "democratic socialism" should contemplate reality a little more deeply.

The left-wing of parasitism wants to make excuses for attitudes toward "innocent till proven guilty," migrants and Guantanamo Bay as just "false consciousness." Quite the contrary, it is vicious white nationalist consciousness, oppressor consciousness that cannot be blamed mainly on imperialist leaders. The president, Department of Defense Gates, CIA Director Hayden, former Secretary of State and Iraq War leader Colin Powell all say in the press that they want Guantanamo Bay closed. It's been that way for months. Yet the monarchists of public opinion hold out against these leaders. Even Romney is backpedalling somewhat,(4) but the labor aristocracy won't let go of its bite. Those candidates would all back off if the labor aristocracy would follow the rhetoric of the imperialist leaders and let the candidates back off.

Those of us who live in the united $tates know that "innocent till proven guilty" is not the real deal here. As a result, we have Black monarchists too, people who just want Blacks treated the same way as whites. If whites would ordinarily cast suspicions on rape suspects and lynch them, then Black monarchists want to see white rape suspects lynched too.

One thing that pleases MIM about the media coverage is that it is open about seeing political motivations in Nifong's work. He was facing re- election and the ethics committee saw that as a factor in pursuing what it says was a false case of rape. Nifong simply waited till after re-election to drop the rape case. By serving another term, Nifong also would have greatly improved his pension. MIM would add that Bill Clinton is an example of someone who became governor after becoming a prosecutor. Bill Clinton used his fame from prosecution to become president eventually.

Too often, whites see prosecutors and cops as holy figures worthy of prolonged gaping-mouth disease while the television is on.

On the other hand, what makes MIM sad about this case is that North Carolina is now deep into a punishment phase for Nifong but only Nifong. There is talk of a criminal case against him. Where are all these fine people for justice when DNA reveals that prosecutors and cops cooked up entire murder cases, we wonder. We never hear about prosecutors losing jobs in connection to railroaded Blacks, never mind facing criminal charges.

MIM has argued that there should be a death penalty for lying cops and prosecutors who attempt to convict someone for murder. Hopefully in the future, a silver lining to this case will be that people will have a more realistic view of Amerikan prosecutors, as people who also have motivations for evil. The furor now proves that Amerikans can be motivated to be more than just naive dupes of cops and prosecutors when they want to be, so actually the Nifong case casts a poor light on more serious situations that have not been corrected. Those saying that whites just have "false consciousness" about the injustice system proved wrong, because the North Carolina whites became suddenly MIM-like in their analysis but only on behalf of white victims of prosecutorial misconduct in one case.

Also in the news on the topic of politics and crime--the whole "Justice Department" remains under fire for politics in the firings of eight prosecutors. Amerikans like to believe that politics is not principal in art or law. At the same time, they allow elections of prosecutors as in Durham, North Carolina and the law says the president can appoint the federal prosecutors.

Bush official under Gonzales, Mike Elston resigned June 15. Some of the fired prosecutors said Elston asked them to keep quiet about the firings.(4) Whether it is bourgeois politicization of the Ward Churchill case or prosecutor firings, the difference between bourgeois politicization and proletarian politicization is that the socialist dictatorship removes the profit motive for corrupt behavior. If a Lynne Cheney of the socialist future gets a Ward Churchill fired, she will not gain any profits from that. Likewise if a socialist official uses a court case for political gain, he will not profit from that.

Note:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Duke_University_lacrosse_case#Effect_on_Duke_students
2. www.flmd.uscourts.gov/al-arian/8-03-cr-00077-JSM-TBM/docs/2100513/4.pdf
3. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3293445&page=1
4. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-06-18-gitmo-candidates_N.htm
5. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3284975