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Five months after an emergency relief envoy destined for Palestine was
attacked and diverted by I$raeli settler pigs, who killed international
relief volunteers aboard a Turkish tanker in international waters, the
Amerikan puppet zionist regime announced it had begun allowing
international aid to reach the Palestinian people yet again.
Desperately needed human aid such as food, clothing, medicine and
construction materials comprised of cement and steel were stopped by
zionist occupation forces due to supposed safety and security concerns
that armament and explosives were being smuggled among the aid into the
oppressed nation of Palestine. These allegations were of course proven
untrue, however, the settler state still imposed an illegal ban on
international aid entering Palestine as well as an import/export
economic blockade.
This “economic blockade” as the settlers and their imperialist masters
call it (really just another genocidal weapon, i.e., “excellent weapon
of extermination”) further destroyed the already pathetic economy which
the Palestinian people have been forced to accept by the imperialists
and their running dogs. Factories have been at a stand still since May
forcing people out of work and most businesses have been shut down. Even
agricultural plots which the Palestinians directly rely on to help feed
their families have been denied to them. Jewish settlers steal produce
from these plots and then destroy that which they cannot carry. The
setters then contaminate the land with raw sewage.
So while the Palestinian economy has been destroyed and the
international aid which the Palestinian people have been forced to turn
towards is turned away, many might wonder exactly how is it that the
Palestinians survive? A BBC reporter wondered too, so he took to the
streets and found Palestinian markets selling Hebrew products and Hebrew
products alone (Leave it to the invincible hand of free market
capitalism to recognize where capital has fled and then magically
re-organize). However, nowhere in sight was international aid or a
re-surging Palestinian economy to be found. This is in direct
contradiction to Zionist claims that the ban on aid and economic
blockade had been lifted.
When I$raeli Foreign Minister Palmor was asked by the liberal bourgeois
media why the supposed expired ban was still in effect despite claims
that it’s been lifted he resorted to typical oppressor nation rhetoric.
Palmor unabashedly stated that the Palestinian people only had
themselves to blame for the situation they now found themselves in.
Furthermore, this PIG had the nerve to go on and explain that it was the
Palestinians own terroristic behavior that caused all this to begin
with. As if the Palestinians were the ones to make war on the Jewish
people, evict them from their lands and subject them to 62 years of
oppression and genocide. Oh wait, those were all zionist acts against
the Palestinian people. Of course anytime the oppressed stand up and
fight for their rights the oppressors quickly label them “terrorists.”
The real terrorists here are the backwards looking imperialists and
their lackey supporters who refuse to acknowledge the rights of nations
to self determination, while they love to talk about “equality” and
“freedom.”
Well, we in the USW say fuck your equalities and fuck your freedoms! The
only freedom and equality we recognize is that of the oppressed.
The basis for unity among lumpen is class. The lumpen are the
disenfranchised who derive from the economically depressed areas - the
Barrios and ghetto projects - and are for the most part oppressed
nations people. The lumpen are known to the oppressor nation as the
‘criminal element’ which is code word for persyn of color. The lumpen
usually come from a lumpen organization that the oppressors call a
‘gang,’ or survive as some type of parasitic hustler. Although we do
make choices, often times in imperialist society our choice to engage in
crime is a logical one due to the national oppression we endure.
As communists it is our job to fully understand the laws of social
development, and the lumpen are an essential part of these laws today,
especially here in the imperialist stronghold. In Marx’s theory of
‘social relations of production’ lies the question of ownership, that is
what ‘class’ owns the tools and what ‘class’ uses the tools. In this
imperialist society the lumpen neither own nor use the tools. We are
excluded from production and live under the heel of capitalist relations
of production. The propertied class has monopolized the productive
forces. The lumpen play a crucial role in Amerika in the creation of new
productive forces that will come into contradiction with the decaying
social relations of production. The current economic crisis is helping
to streamline this process.
The lumpen is a class, regardless of what nationality one comes from; we
all have similar relations to the tools of society and the distribution
of society’s wealth. It is a group that experiences the same oppression
and is fighting the same imperialist monster.
It is understood that as national oppression exists it is thus only
natural for there to also be national liberation struggles to combat the
unevenness in this society, and for revolutionary national struggles to
work to bring safety to the people who live in a constant police state
in areas of the oppressed nations. This is the correct stance in the
face of any oppression. But we can’t get caught playing the same
dog-eat-dog game that the imperialists play on us and our fellow lumpen.
We need an Aztlán Liberation Front that is in unity with the lumpen.
The lumpen in Amerika must begin to realize that we are a class and
lumpen fighting lumpen does nothing to liberate any oppressed nation. On
the contrary, lumpen-on-lumpen crime will only strengthen the
imperialist vice grip on our necks! This is why unity amongst the lumpen
is the first step to liberation of all oppressed nations in the United
$tates. We don’t have to agree on everything, but we must have unity and
work together with the full realization that we are up against not just
the same monster but one that happens to run the world militarily.
It is essential for the lumpen to come together in a united front in
order for liberation to ever be a reality on these shores. Without the
critical element of the united front, liberation struggles of any kind
are simply idle talk and will not produce. The function of the united
front for the oppressed nations and ULK should be 1) to
practice peoples’ power within the prison system and thoroughly
politicize the U.$. prison system, and 2) to practice peoples’ power
within the Barrios and ghetto projects out in society and thoroughly
politicize these oppressed nation areas. These functions should be done
with the idea of preparing these grounds for future insurrection.
Lumpen Unite with the International Proletariat!
The basis for unity between the lumpen and the international proletariat
is again class-based. The lumpen are connected to the international
proletariat by their common oppression by the imperialists and their
popular resistance to this oppression. What we must keep in mind is the
imperialists think and act on a global scale so we must do the same.
Just as many have used the saying “don’t show up at a gun battle with a
knife,” we don’t want to show up with a “not in my backyard” mentality
when the imperialists show up with an international colonization
mentality. We must think of the big picture and on a grand scale of
things. Of course we must first work in a particular area, as
MIM(Prisons) works primarily with the prison population, to start from
one area and eventually expand to include larger or multiple fronts of
struggle. All our efforts should be with the intention of chipping away
at imperialism.
Regardless of one’s oppressed nation, it really is the same struggle
against the same opponent. Currently this is seen unabashed by the
imperialists’ mega-prison system housing millions of Brown, Black, Red
and Yellow people. It is seen in people of color hunted down in urban
communities by the police and shot dead as if there were safaris in the
inner cities. It is seen in the unequal treatment that has been
festering in Amerika for over 500 years, the lynching of the body and
the lynching of the mind. Therefore, it is not just understandable or
justified but damn right necessary for these oppressed peoples to
struggle for national liberation. Until New Democracy is achieved, as
Mao
spoke of, and we finally achieve equality for all in all aspects,
the oppressed nations should continue to struggle for
self-determination.
As communists we should always maintain focus on our goal of
international communism rather than degenerating to simply Brown
capitalism or Black capitalism, etc. This is why our unity must be with
the international proletariat in mind as this will be our moral compass.
Some may say or think “If I can liberate my people in this or
that country why would I care about countries in another part of the
world?” Well, as I’ve said before, we are all up against the same
monster that cannot be defeated by one group of people, and even if one
could somehow liberate one group of people, the imperialists worldwide
would smash this isolated nation. We saw it happen in Grenada.
When Marx and Engels put together the theory of communism, it was with
internationalism in mind as they saw even back then that the bourgeoisie
would not sit back and allow the people to begin liberating themselves.
We must always work in unity with the international proletariat in order
to rise from lumpen to true revolutionary. Only then will we liberate
our people.
La Lucha Continua!
MIM(Prisons) responds: This comrade did a good job of stressing
the importance of internationalism in the united front, and in
particular pointing out that the international proletariat must be our
moral compass. The question we need to ask though is to what degree the
imperialist country lumpen’s interests are united with the international
proletariat, and therefore how they fit into the united front as a
class. What this comrade wrote about the need to support everyone’s
national liberation is true for any oppressed nation in the world, but
we face particular challenges due to our material conditions.
MIM(Prisons) sees the lumpen in the United $tates as a bourgeoisified
lumpen, in that the whole country benefits from imperialism in the form
of basic needs like food, clean water, electricity, etc. as well as in
the form of cheap consumer goods. The latter allows the lumpen to own
small amounts of capital, creating a spectrum of wealth where a minority
in the lumpen organizations are at the level of national bourgeoisie due
to their relations to production, distribution and ownership. Even for
the relatively poor majority of the lumpen class, a combination of state
welfare and the drug game have allowed for access to the material
benefits of imperialism the proletariat do not have.
We are watching closely the efforts of the white nation to take away
welfare and
local
drug markets from the lumpen, as well as
jobs
from the undocumented. Even if these trends are successful, we see
compradors among the lumpen and a popular desire for and belief in the
Amerikan dream. While the lumpen are a class forced into criminality,
there is a class consciousness and culture that derives from this
criminality that is individualistic and parasitic. As this comrade
alludes to, there is a transformation that must occur to replace the
lumpen mentality (in particular its capitalistic elements) with a
proletarian one. No national liberation struggles can succeed in this
country without tackling this great challenge.
In addition, a growing lumpen class due to imperialist crisis will also
touch the white nation. As we wrote about in
ULK
14, a declassed white population is the makings of fascist foot
soldiers. History has shown this to be the case for oppressor nations.
So we agree with the author’s alternating use of lumpen and oppressed
nations in most cases, but disagree when s/he says the lumpen have the
same interests regardless of nationality. Only if the oppressor nation
lets go of its white privilege would this be true. This is an even
stronger reason why a thesis that the lumpen in general in the U.$. are
a progressive force does not hold true.
Give us rest, give us time To sort out why our country doesn’t
realize Torture laws and racism exist And there’s more to life
than Those Seinfield reruns you missed As long as you have a Mazda
Miata With a full tank and a pack of smokes You couldn’t care less
about 500,000 dead Iraqi children Less names to intrude on your
child’s Santa Claus naughty or nice list!?! folks? A dead man
hangs from an air vent As a bunch of cowards laugh at him But this
man’s dying breath Pleaded for me to seek justice for him And the
justice will multiply a thousand fold Because my strength is
endless I’ve chosen to pick up a revolutionary cause And the
world’s vendettas Against my supposed country I’ll carry the
progressive red flag And your overweight greedy amerikkkans Will
finally understand the meaning of sad It’s a true emotion that
bubbles from within Totally opposite than your sugar come down And
more human than your bullshit “sin” Ring around the rosey and pop
goes the weasel Is that spittle on your lip Mr
Vegetate? Dialectics is jet fuel to your racist diesel Give us
rest, give us time To sort out this mess we’ve made of our
lives Give us a chance to pay for our crimes You have our bodies,
some of our minds What more do you want? More pain and some
fines! Take his rigid body and cut it down Call him worthless,
call him clown I called him friend, his mother’s son Look at his
face, look what you’ve done
I’m writing in response to the article
“Gulf
Oil Spill: It’s Capitalism, Stupid!”, and wanted to address one
issue within the article. In this prisoner’s article, he states that
“this type of disaster would have had a very small to nil chance of
happening in the former Soviet Union (1917-1953) [The Lenin and Stalin
era] or the socialist People’s Republic of China (1949-1976), because
those communist countries wouldn’t have had to do the extensive drilling
that the First World seems so caught up with. Why? It is exactly because
the communist countries implement something called ‘planned economics,’
to meet human needs.”
We must be careful what we teach in regard to a better government when
using the Stalinist era. This individual’s comment regarding “planned
economics” is wrong, it was not implemented peacefully but through
violence. He should read about Stalin’s seven year plan and the
collectivization of property and farms. History reflects that Stalin
killed over 20 million of his own country men, so using him or that era
as an example is misguided. Stalin was a tyrant, a pathological killer.
I would not name his era as one of humanity’s finer points, nor look up
to his “planned economics” which cost so many of his countrymen’s lives.
Additionally, the Soviet Union’s record regarding ecological and
environmental disasters is one of complete failure and surpasses the
United States record on a grand scale, both under the Stalinist era and
even today.
It is ok to believe in one form of government or a goal of government,
but let’s not distort the past to build a better future as this is
nothing more than an illusion in which we all already live under in
America.
MIM(Prisons) responds: The original author was correct to uphold
the Soviet Union and China as examples of environmentalism. In 1942,
under Stalin’s leadership, the city of Moscow composted all of the waste
of its 4,000,000 inhabitants. The biothermal process heated large
“greenhouse farms” in the city, while the resulting compost was used as
fertilizer.(1) With all the talk of “green cities” in the United $tates,
there are no projects that rival what the Soviets were doing 70 years
ago. Similarly, China and the Soviet Union had massive recycling
programs for metal decades before such things became fashionable in the
imperialist countries. Also note, that if one were to do a quantitative
comparison of socialist vs. capitalist environmentalism, one must
compare countries of the same time period, reflecting similar ecological
knowledge.
This letter gives us a chance to debunk some myths about the Stalin era
in the Soviet Union in general. First, we want to be clear that state
capitalism, which was put into place in the Soviet Union after Stalin’s
death, does not reflect Stalinism or any form of socialism. Therefore
this author is just confusing the issue by complaining about
environmental disasters there today. Second, we must point out that the
article in question never claims that planned economics was an entirely
peaceful process. However, we must be very clear that it was Stalin’s
policies and practices that enabled the Soviet Union to industrialize
the Soviet Union, defeat Hitler and put an end to fascism, in spite of
the purposeful non-interference policy of countries like the U.$. who
hoped to stand aside and let fascism wipe out communism.
This letter reflects the typical anti-Stalinist propaganda of the
imperialist countries who like to claim that Stalin himself killed over
20 million people, as if one man could possibly be so powerful. The
reality is that many people died during the fight against fascism, and
in fact Stalin himself did order or oversee many deaths of spies and
those suspected of being infiltrators for the fascists. In this way
Stalin ensured that the Soviet Union was the only country free of a
Fifth Column of fascist spies and infiltrators. This made it possible
for him to do what no other country could even come close to
accomplishing, in spite of the lack of development and widespread
poverty in the Soviet Union, and defeat Hitler. The aggressive
industrialization and collectivization reflected the needs of the Soviet
Union at the time those policies were implemented.
This letter includes the usual imperialist propaganda of labeling Stalin
a pathological tyrant rather than looking at his actions and evaluating
them scientifically. It’s easy to sling around names masquerading as
political criticisms. But when we look closely at Stalin’s record and
his policies we can see a history of carefully evaluating the difficult
conditions of the time and making decisions about what to do based on
the reality of those conditions. When you have the fascists amassing on
your borders, planning invade and massacre your population to put in
place a system of tyranny and oppression, sometimes the best options to
fight those fascists don’t involve picking flowers and singing happy
songs. Without industrialization the Soviet Union could not have
defeated Hitler (even Hitler saw this) and with an active Fifth Column
of spies the fascists would have had the inside track on Soviet
activities. In wartime difficult decisions must be made, and the world
is lucky that Stalin was a man able to make these decisions
scientifically, without sentiment, or we could be living under global
fascist rule today. As it was the Soviet Union lost more than 20 million
people to the war against the fascists. The number of lives saved by his
victory in the war is never something he gets credit for, but even
deaths from starvation due to the conditions of war are something his
critics like to count as if Stalin had personally executed every single
person who died during his leadership.
For more on Stalin we recommend MIM Theory 6, The Stalin Issue.
It happened again! These vicious ass wild boars killed another brother
here in Kkklinton maximum facility. Sunday morning October 3, 2010
approximately 9:10 am the roughshod started as brother Leonard
Strickland was assaulted while being moved from one cell to another
cell. As it played out on the news that following night I became greatly
agitated. The media (4th branch of government) accused brother Leonard
Strickland of assaulting the guard which is malarkey (those are the only
facts the administration has!). These wild boars say that so they can
justify their use of deadly force. Another thing the media (WPTZ 5) said
was that “prisoner Leonard Strickland was incarcerated for weapons
possession serving 20 years to life” as if that justified his death! We
asked, what does his crime or time have to do with the malicious taking
of his life. And these sorry ass inmates continue to worry about losing
CINEMAX TV. The subliminal message was to all of NYSDOCS sympathizers
that you shouldn’t feel sorry for a “Inmate” who was convicted of any
crime!
Annually there are 1-2 murders here in KKKlinton. KKKlinton also has a
notorious reputation not only for killing the Black and Brown but also
for covering it up as well (Suicide or Medical Complications).
On October 5, 2010, Superintendent Thomas LaValley had an emergency
meeting with the Inmate Liaison Committee (ILC) to sift the mood of the
population and ask the representatives questions on the murder, which he
and his team calls an “incident.”
Bottom line is they are lying! They beat brother Leonard Strickland then
threw him down a flight of stairs. He was then handcuffed and never
regained consciousness. Of course the administration consisting of Supt.
LaValley and his Executive Team all lied when they told the ILC “Leonard
Strickland was subdued and was walked to the facility hospital (approx.
100 yards). In reality he did not walk because he was unconscious/dead.
The State Police stated Leonard Strickland was pronounced dead at
10:45am. On top of all of this, his property has disappeared. The so
called Inspector General (IG) didn’t leave a name or contact card with
any prisoner. Many assumed it was IG because after the many deaths over
the years it’s easy to recognize them.
There is an imminent danger that fills these prison walls and most
importantly it’s the Black and Brown prison population that’s in peril!
Since I came here in 2006, there have been five murders and a profusion
of brutality on the Black and Brown by the all white wild boars called
correction officers. I’ve been told by the administration “it’s not a
race thing.” Well I beg to differ! I asked when was the last time a
caucasian “allegedly” assaulted staff and his death followed? When was
the last time they kicked a caucasian’s teeth in, broke his nose, wrist
and ribs or stomped, kicked, punched etc.? The reply was “I’m going to
have to get back to you on that!” Can you believe that???
As you see, we are literally sitting ducks. Who knows, I might be next
for writing about what I see although my time here “is” limited. Now
check this out… The State of New York wants to hire 1,000 more young
boars!!!
I forgot to mention this, the ILC requested an emergency meeting in June
2010 with Superintendent Thomas La Valley to try and resolve the
multiple staff assaults on prisoners that always ended in having no
merit. He refused to attend the emergency meeting and less than four
months after, Leonard Strickland was killed by these cowards. This all
took place less than six months after Superintendent Thomas La Valley
took over in KKKlinton. He allowed for the wild cowboy attitude to
persist and this led to Leonard Strickland’s live being extinguished.
Cats and dogs raining down my window Dust bunnies roaming around my
floor Learned worms crawling around my stomach Telling me I was
taught to want more These measly maggots at war with science And
what’s before us as real and true I pump my blood until the skin
stretches Sweat drips onto the concrete like Chinese tea Searching
each repetition the puddle’s reflection For truth The same as I do
each USW study lesson For a MC’s guidance into deeper realms Blood
starts to puddle and pool with my sweat I question from where but
continue my pace Letting the itch of it linger on my face Three
cold meals and denials at mail call Four cold walls and a solitary
cot One man alone with only one thought Your punk denials will
breed lawsuits And my stomach turns cold to hot We, comrades, are
part of something larger More human than “Jesus” dying on a
cross Steering the people through minefields of hate Aware it’s a
privilege we even ate A species on the sad cusp of extinction One
vanguard, one chance, one reason As planet Earth spins out the
seasons Survival of the fittest as Amerikkka weakens One love
comrades — Our species
Go to your bathroom door and kick a hole in it. Now lock yourself in
tight. Throw all your hygiene items, except a toothbrush and toothpaste
tube, out the hole. Everything. Now go sit. The light switch disappears
and the shower splits. A little speaker replaces them. It listens and
sometimes speaks to you, laughs at you, taunts you, tells you your
sufferings entertaining. You can’t shut off the light with no switch and
you’ll have to shower using the sink. As you sit you hear ten or so
voices outside the door. That’s funny, sounds like that guy who robbed
my mother’s house last year and put her in a wheelchair after brutally
beating and raping her. It can’t be! Is that the judge that let the man
run free too? And his twisted attorney? Why they here?
The worst enemies you could imagine, or put a face to, have just moved
into your house as you sit in the bathroom. These people wish you harm
of the utmost, and your death would be nothing but joy to them. All your
food, and any mail you might be expecting, will have to come from these
“squatter-enemies.” Good luck!
To make matters worse, these enemies of yours control all your heating,
air conditioning, water form your sink and to your toilet. And to top it
off, if they see you sleeping they’ll kick the door and yell at you,
then laugh.
You can hear these men day and night right outside your door. You smell
them Bar-B-Qing and smoking. You’re hungry. You can hear these men
torturing people. Sometimes other people in similar bathrooms next to
yours are pulled out and placed in body bags. To these “squatter’s”
amusement.
A day passes this way.
“My god,” you say “what have I done to deserve this?” A week
passes You cry A month You attempt suicide but your vein closes
up before death A year
You are now talking to yourself and running around naked. You are
convinced the food you seldom receive, that’s halfway edible, is
poisoned. As you eat the rotten “meat” your beard and mustache get in
the way of the teeth chewing. You couldn’t cry if life depended on it.
And it used to. But you’ve forgotten why.
Two years.
You can’t remember. You’ve forgotten. Forgotten what? You don’ know. The
“squatter-enemies” come around and you look at them. They look at you.
They laugh. You start to laugh too. You forgot why. But you do.
Three years.
You sleep 20 hours a day. You can’t help it. But your floor’s clean. You
keep it spotless. You don’t know why. But you do. You’re skinny. You’ve
lost an easy 60 pounds. Your skin’s turning yellow and your legs cramp
up and atrophy. You don’t want to die anymore. Why bother? You’d rather
sleep and dream. The dreams are so vivid. More real than these walls.
Five years
You go home, you leave your bathroom, this year they tell you that. But
why? Where do I go? I don’t want to leave now. I like my tub and sink…
MIM(Prisons) adds: This comrade vividly describes the torture
that is found in control units in prisons across the U.$. The criminal
injustice system uses the torture chambers as tools to break the will of
politically conscious prisoners. It is one more weapon in the criminal
injustice system’s work of social control. For more information about
these units and what you can do to join the fight, see our campaign
against prison control units.
With extreme I compose this essay in hopes to shed light on a
prison-related issue of national oppression and prison organizations.
The Black Panther Party (BPP), and similar organizations, are not
entirely made up of Blacks. Far from it. This is because the BPP’s whole
creed and politics center around non-racism and equality. Whereas you
must be 100% white to become an aryan soldier (AS). And an AS’s whole
creed revolves around that fact. Literally the 14/88 of the aryans
stands for “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for
white children.”(14 words) and the 88 precepts are set at that exact
number because the eighth letter in the alphabet is “H.” and “HH” stands
for Heil Hitler! And I’m sure readers are familiar with the Nazis.
Aryans believe in and support such myths as Valhalla (palace in which
the souls of slain heroes feasted for eternity) and Valkyries (maidens
who selected heroes destined to be slain in the battle and escorted them
to Valhalla) geared from ancient Norse mythology. Whereas Panthers
believe in and support science and a thing called “materialist
dialectics” which basically states contradiction exists in everything
[everything that’s not a fairy tale or myth] and in order to embrace
reality, or change it if you wish, one must understand these
contradictions inherent in things.
If we were to look at the reason why an aryan has time for nursery
rhymes and fictional deities we’d see it’s because the white imperialist
elite system these aryans live in already supports such idealist
metaphysical ideals. And in truth, a person who doesn’t oppose a system
thereby supports that system, as silence is taken as acceptance of that
system.
And why not? The 14 million children who starve to death annually and
the over 500,000 Iraqi children who’ve died because of U.$. sanctions
aren’t white children. If one of our white baby Jessicas slips down a
hole we aryan nation amerikans pull out all the stops. And I say aryan
nation because history has shown the U.$. leaves these aryan gangs and
organizations alone. At least compared to what the U.$. government did
to the Black Panthers. Has anyone ever heard of a COINTELPRO (counter
intelligence FBI program) roundup of aryans? Inside of Amerika? Just
look at how long it took the U.$. to step in and oppose the nazis.
So why isn’t an aryan soldier deemed a threat but a Panther is?
Is it because the Panthers actually voice dissent at a system that
allows millions of children to starve to death? At a system that wars
for profit and imprisons for the simple fact you are not white, or rich
enough to dodge the bullet? Because the Panthers use statistics and
percentages:
U.$. Black incarceration rate per 100,000: 1,947 U.$. white
incarceration rate per 100,000: 306(1) Iraqi children killed because
of U.$. sanctions (1996): 500,000 (2)
Not folklore and myth to attempt to grasp reality, they’re
“dangerous” and deemed a threat to the white elitists who run the
amerikan military, and prison industries.
A Panther seeks an end to all wars. What is the aryan soldier’s take on
the issue of war? They don’t have one. Unless it’s the willingness to
join the U.$. military and fight for “their” country. A Panther will not
join the military out of moral and ethical beliefs.
And then we come to “choice of words” or “manners” that these two groups
have adopted over time because their environments have forced such
polarities. A person in the aryan soldier brotherhood has time to write
about and justify his tattoos. He could be seen as a man who isn’t in no
hurry at all. No danger for this man or his people is imminent. He
thinks of tattoos. And justifying himself and his gang.
But a panther worried about the deaths of his friends, loved ones and
comrades, at the hands of an aryan system, will speak with an entirely
different tone of voice. Because he must hurry, it’s life or death for
him, his family and 15 million children annually. His people. The ones
oppressed and dying because of this white elitist aryan system of
government.
It’s like this. You and a friend are walking toward the Grand Canyon.
1,000 yards away your buddy turns around and walks backwards smiling at
you. You say, “funny, but we’re far away from the cliff. nice tattoos.”
At about 500 yards you say “well dude, better face forward or you’ll
walk over the cliff.” At 5 yards you’re not going to smile and say
“please”; you’ll grab him; or if he’s too far away, you’ll scream “stop!
now!” even if it hurts his feelings or upsets him.
Unless you’d rather talk about his hair style or tattoos. Unless you
don’t care if he (15 million children) die. Would it make a difference
to an aryan soldier what color this man’s, 5 yards from a cliff’s edge
walking towards it backwards, skin was? Most certainly it would. Read
the 14 words.
Even though I’m a white “redneck,” I am very put off by aryan soldiers.
I personally am ashamed and embarrassed when anyone tries to support or
stick up for “14/88” or “skinhead($)”. And, i guess, this makes me a
race traitor to these people, and a captive that sticks up for
“undesirables.” But I don’t care. I’m already deemed a “threat to the
community” and a “terrorist” in most people’s eyes. What’s a group of
Nazis ‘hating on me’ going to add to the state of Utah’s and
government’s already dislike for my anti-imperialist person? Nothing.
To justify a Black Panther and their beliefs is progressive and correct.
To (attempt to) justify a white supremacist is backwards and frightening
to the world’s majority.
In the belly of the beast the prisyners are the pigs’ feast We are
beat like Rodney King We are physically disabled The things that
goes on behind these walls and bars are unbelievable written
complaints of the perilous use of restraints the oppressors are
the real aggressors comrades buried under gym floors Maoist
Internationalist Ministry is kicking in the oppressors doors United
soldiers fighting oppression from within Instead of
rehabilitation we’re getting corruption and retribution if we
stand and fight against this oppression with our all. One day we will
knock down the oppressive wall so fuck all oppressors is what I
say and ending oppression is what I pray.
In response to the feelings expressed in
ULK14 [on the
issue of Special Needs Yard(SNY) prisoners]…I stand on the side of a
General Population(GP) active convict for what it’s worth as an
anti-capitalist imperialist. And i can’t stand the SNY population. But I
deal with the existence, because it is a reality of California
imprisonment.
I’ve gone back and forth from the main line to the hole for the
lifestyle I lead behind these walls, and I come across SNYs like it’s
the new GP. The respect and conduct of the average SNY who blames his
even more unfortunate situation of enslavement is terrible, because
there is little to no order on that side. It’s been told to me by
various individuals that it’s an each-to-his-own system, while being
observed that there is no accountability.
I’m not an SNY hater, nor a paper tiger, but a true comrade against a
police state in the existence of the social camps within this CDCR, LLC
Control System. While you are allowing yourself to be divided into a
sensitive mass, you are allowing our masters/captors to continue their
control, rule, and conquer of the old convict structure.
Yea you already did that, we can’t achieve any type of revolutionary
goal by knocking each other off in person or on paper. Fuck wut others
are talking about if it’s a GP vs SNY discussion because no matter what,
you ain’t gone come on my side and I ain’t gone be on your side.
Do something to impress the mass that SNYs can be revolutionaries too.
Instead of snatching up lines and doing unnecessary yelling, shouting,
and banging on the doors while the GPs are attempting to sleep at night
in the hole. Observe the fact that SNYs are in the position to stop the
production of PIA industries in Cali and cause the state to lose money
in large sums. If you really as effective with the civil law as you
claim, why don’t you organize an action for the mass on the issue of the
appeal system in general, or the poison (arsenic lead) that is given to
most prisoners in the water.
I personally say it’s too much talking and not enough action. Take
responsibility that you busted under pressure on an individualist need,
or desire. And learn from the experience. What I as a part in this
struggle for liberation from this belly of the beast think about you as
an individual means, or does nothing to advance our struggle against
capitalist-imperialism in USA territory. Stay focused revolutionaries.
A nation divided can never stand together, but a nation united can. We
will never come to recognize each other as equals fighting for the same
cause of liberation, under the same conditions as long as we attempt to
prove ourselves to ourselves instead of the people.
To the SNY population I say prove yourself to the people that you are
more than what some say. Prove to the people that there isn’t a major
difference from SNY yards and GP yards. If you are so active, I
challenge you to truly begin implementing the actions needed to get the
force of imperialism off not only your backs but also the backs of the
GPs.
I agree that the GP population as a whole collective of parts are very
divided and un-unified. So seeing that the SNYs have their struggle a
little more advanced than ours, why don’t you all kick it off with
organized boycotts, and sit in peaceful protests on the matter of the
corrupted appeal system?
MIM(Prisons) responds: Despite having an anti-SNY bias, this is a
principled approach to the divisions that the CDCR likes to promote. As
this comrade points out, there is no question of SNY and GP working
side-by-side, so each needs to organize where they are at. And we want
to see people hitting the pavement to show who’s doing more for
the prison population as a whole, because at this point in time no one
has much to brag about.