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.

Majority backs repression:

Bush admits CIA secret prisons & more

*See also, our article on the internationalist elite in a capitalist monarchy

President George W. Bush finally decided to admit the existence of secret CIA prisons involved in kidnapping prisoners globally.(1) He also again asked for Congress to pass laws to approve his repression, including torture.

This is relevant to MIM, because of threats against MIM by the government. It having been established that the U.S. government lied and many European governments lied about the existence of secret prisons, no one should take any stories about what happens in these prisons or why prisoners are there seriously.

If a persyn goes missing or dies, we know to blame it on Uncle $am or his fronts and not to accept any stories about why people went missing or died. All those who ever had business with the deceased or tortured should sue the U.S. Government for lost business, diminished estates and emotional duress.

The U.S. Government continuously breaks its own laws, because it has such tangled objectives connected to the underlying class in power. That is why Bush and others continuously rewrite the law.

The Bush admission is only the tip of the iceberg. It is also illegal to use U.$. tax money to create a false impression of a political ideology in the united $tates--the government lobbying the people instead of the other way around. Lobbying the Amerikkkan people on behalf of foreign governments with u.$. tax money is also illegal. So far, the courts have only determined that Bush's spying and imprisonment system are illegal. It's just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much secrecy regarding so many basic aspects of politics in the united $tates, that democracy is a farce anyway. The people can only vote on what they are allowed to know, but they don't care what they don't know either and that is obvious. Then, the Bush administration still expects the world to respect the opinions of the so-called democracy in the united $tates. Well, the joke is on the Amerikkkans, because the world is not buying it.

Bush & Co. will come up with various stories about why the prisoners are in secret prisons with secret processes. Some will have political knowledge that Bush was afraid would leak into the public. The government needs to be sued for violation of civil rights, including the rights of observers called voters. There is a reason that the bourgeois democratic revolution generally established the need for open trials--to hear the other side, not even just for the prosecutors and defendants.

In addition there is illegal surveillance, illegal break-ins and inducement to murder being carried out by the government including against MIM.

The government spin job attempts to say this is about 14 prisoners who had something to do with Al-Qaeda, but bourgeois observers have already pointed out that that is far from true. Over 9000 prisoners have been involved.

It's important to notice the U.S. Government is not saying there are only 14 prisoners going to Guantanamo Bay from the secret prisons. The Bush administration spin job focuses only on those the public finds scariest and implies that they have classified them correctly without trial in order to distract attention from what is happening overall. If not, the government would not be afraid of trying prisoners in their labor aristocracy packed courts, which have convicted a higher percentage of people than any other court system in the world, they are so repressive.

The United $tates signed the Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions,(2) an international treaty regarding prisoners. Yet the united $tates has never respected those conventions even for unconvicted u.$. citizens harassed by state agents, standards including "no outrages upon personal dignity," that Bush admits to wanting to overturn.

As MIM recently said,

The only reason our enemy does not operate totally in the open is not in fear of the white proletariat but out of fear of others also watching who are not Amerikkkans.

Bush is showing he is not afraid to campaign for repression in the 2006 elections, just as MIM said. At the same time, there are going to be repercussions in Europe for what Bush has done--again as MIM said before. Numerous European politicians covering for Bush have been exposed as liars. Some have called for tracking CIA operatives instead of treating them like totally friendly spies and rightly so.(3) At the same time this whiff of monarchism or early-stage fascism has spread into Europe and we find many imperialists complicit, including the Germans, who allowed kidnapping of their own citizens while denying it. The disease of fascism originated in Europe and should not now be palmed off only on Bush.

In some sense, it is all a show of bravado by Bush--his willingness to campaign for repression and show people he does not care about European opinion. Yet if he were so confident of his cause, there would be no secret intelligence operations to begin with. There's the logic of "open dictatorship," King Bush. Go into the open with the new SS called Homeland Security and let the CIA be abolished or operate in the open like SS did.

Bush would like discipline, speed and intelligence in his struggle, but he cannot have it. His government is based on alliance with the petty-bourgeoisie. It's very good for stability and taxes, but it cannot be everything. He has charge of a great tax base and military. That's what he gets. It's not nothing by any means, but he still feels that he does not have the power he needs.

Bush openly admitted that he spies on Amerikans when he said he wanted a law passed to allow surveillance of email and cell phones. "'The terrorists who want to harm America can now buy disposable cellphones and open anonymous e-mail addresses. Our laws need to change to take these changes into account,'" Bush said.(2) That means he is already spying on open email and non-disposable cellphones.

No matter what taxes, military or State Department he has, Bush is not satisfied with his power, because he and his class are inept. The u.$. imperialists claim to be for so-called freedom, while imprisoning a higher percentage of people than any other country and conducting the largest electronic surveillance programs in the world. Requesting more repressive power is an open acknowledgement that the imperialists cannot achieve their goals by other means. That is their ineptitude on the question of freedom and questions tied to it.

The Amerikkkan people are too bought off to see that another system could do better and it does not occur to most that trusting the government is incompatible with capitalism, with which there are economic motivations for corruption and lying. That's why the original bourgeois revolutions provided for minority rights and open governance.

The Amerikkkans get their consumer goods paid for so cheaply, it's easier to focus on a lifestyle of consumerism than to work hard in political struggles. The oppressed and exploited people will have to be the ones to relieve the united $tates of its world-leading prison system and need for world-leading surveillance. What Amerikkkans cannot see objectively is obvious to the rest of the world.

Our comrades internationally will know if anything happens to MIM's website or MIM's comrades, that the reason is that MIM is the real deal. The public from India to Brooklyn will learn not to accept substitutes for the MIM line in the imperialist countries.

The whole world knows that MIM does not cater to public opinion, but the Bush administration does. The Bush administration comes up with wild stories for its repressions that should not be believed. They will be believed in the united $tates by the apathetic majority, but the people who count will not believe them and will continue the fight, and not in the areas Bush would wish for. Our internationalists should hit back where they are strong and according to plan.

The CIA has infiltrated the struggle and tries to conduct it off track. The CIA's secret prisons demonstrate how far the United $tates will go to silence its critics. With the world's largest economy and largest military, if the united $tates were not afraid of criticism, it would not need secrecy. So we know the prisoners are not there for the reasons we are being told.

Notes:
1. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/07/news/react.php
2. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0908/p01s01-uspo.html
3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1867380,00.html