MIM(Prisons) is a cell of revolutionaries serving the oppressed masses inside U.$. prisons, guided by the communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
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There’s been a shortage of staff on super-max. One reason being too
many prisoners are in S.I.B. (self injury behavior) watch and must be
monitored. Once observation and receiving cells are filled to capacity
then guards must (individually) sit outside the housing cells of any
other prisoner on S.I.B.
Phone Zap
From experience in what may have been S. White’s 1st successful
protest in 2019 Oct, outside support via phone zap was effective. All
morning this tied up the prison’s phone line until the prison took the
phone off the hook. The outside supporters then phone zapped Raleigh. So
Raleigh called the prison asking why the phones were off the hook.
There was 9 to 16 comrades in the prison on hunger strike and
multiple people on S.I.B. By lunch 5 comrades were called by Captain
Henderson to receiving and asked what they wanted. All of us already had
grievances being processed about other things. S. White also sent copies
of an anonymous missive to the administration with the policies that
were being breached.
Juneteenth
For the memorial celebration of the Juneteenth we are participating
in the traditional fast (meal refusal) for breakfast and lunch; and
10-20 S.I.B.s.
At North Carolina’s HCAU we want phone calls (iPad), TV news (iPad),
spider-free outside recreation cages built large enough for more than
one person, more food, real hygiene, heater fixed for winter, sally-port
swept and mopped at least once a month, lights off in the day time, and
case workers and fee recommendations for release from HCON on or after
the second 6 month term (infraction free). Feel free to add to the list
(every grievance will differ reflecting the demands of each
comrade).
We’ll like to have outside support phone zap at this institution.
Write MIM to stay updated. We do not expect any assistance from any
boot-licking reactionaries satisfied with the man and any conditions of
solitary confinement. Shall your days be numbered.
Things here in Connecticut remain same as last communique: regressive
and stifling! Oh! I do have intel which you comrades may find
interesting?!
In January I went to R.H.U. and initiated a hungerstrike. My
objective(s) were:
to get my rehab appointments from month’s ago
rescheduled;
to see the quack masquerading as a doctor!
After thirteen days, my tactic was successful! Now, the issue came
when a unit manager calls R.H.U. (at behest of my associates in unit) to
check on my health.
The R.H.U. Lieutenant “bad jackets” me & says, “[name of author]
has nothing coming as he is a child molester”. This blatant lie was
manufactured in response to my chastisement of this R.H.U. Lieutenant
for his managing conduct (lol)! In his quest to “get me” he locates a
child molester with my 1st & last name (sans middle name obviously)
and goes on to spread the falsehood to his subordinates, who in turn
spread it to captives in various pseudo-leadership roles within their
lumpen entities. Now, as I am from another state, the killers believed
that their smear campaign would work, ie. I am unknown here! However, as
a New Afrikan! one’s day-to-day stride coupled with fact, that I’ve
striven to build quality captives since my arrival! negated the pigs’
ploy. “Real recognizes real.” But, as many of Connecticut’s captives are
ideologically backwards and overtly pig acolytes, I may have to spit
fire at some point! Enough said.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We want to commend the people,
the L.O. leaders, in this Connecticut prison for not being taken in by
the pigs’ lies and judging people by facts and action. This is the second
principle of the United Front for Peace in Prisons –
Unity – in action!
We must not let state paperwork determine who we trust and who we do
not. What this comrade faced is an old trick. And we commend this
comrade for eir righteous behavior in a new environment. It goes to show
how righteous, revolutionary action helps build peace in prisons, even
when it seems like the environment is in a backwards state of affairs.
On February 13th, 2022 it was announced via PA in East Block that
there would be no yard due to holiday feeding. There was no state or
federal holiday. It was just another Super Bowl Sunday. We’re being fed
bullshit!
The deal is for second watch disrespectful sows to get an A.M. 7/11
lucky break before coming back to pass out lunch and dinner. Doing that
might take an hour and the taxpayers eat the rest (comes with
free-loading). Some of the second watch disrespectful sows will then
join third watch and the game kicks off into overtime. The TV is set up
in violation of 15CCR3394 distractions and the potluck tailgate assists
close proximity in defeating the chance of a stable cohort – a violation
of 15 CCR 3271, but no penalty?
As satirical as it may sound, this writing is an excerpt of events
which did occur on San Quentin’s death row in East Block. Similar events
as described above occurred in 2021 on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New
Year’s Day 2022. Deliberate indifference to your right to yard, your
health, or anyone’s safety in general means NOTHING to these
disrespectful sows and the court has acted more like a referee paid off
by the opposing team.
Want your rights back?
A suggestion to those warehoused on San Quentin’s death row:
Preemptively and immediately submit a 602-1 staff misconduct
grievance against AW specialized housing for denying you safe access to
appointments, visits, etc. simply because you refuse to ignore HC
guidelines to practice social distancing – NOT possible in a holding
cage/congregate waiting room AND an ultimatum in violations of 15 CCR
3271 if a valid concern exists.
If response implies no indoor close proximity concern is valid, then
demand normal outdoor daily yards program be reinstated in a 602-2
follow up grievance.
Advise your PCP/MH clinician in writing on CDCR 7362 of your
decision to follow HC guidelines to social distance and that custody
refuses to comply resulting in you being denied safe access to HC/MH
services and programs. Keep the yellow copy of that 7362 form for an
official record.
*Doing this in conjunction with grievances citing other ways your
card is being arbitrarily taken is a from of non-violent protest.
SQ/CDCR’s response (or lack of one) creates an official record for
future use.
Today at Polk Correction Institution the prep-team beat a young man
in full restraints named Mr. Fox as he screamed for help during a
shake-down: video surveillance was not provided.
15 March 2021, a few weeks before the killing of Andrew Brown by
Pasquotank Sheriff’s Department, I was maced, tased, beat, and nearly
killed by almost 20 Pasquotank C.O.s. The beating occurred in 6
different locations in the building including 3 elevators. I received
several life lasting injuries to the head, face, and mouth from being
punched and kicked over a hundred times while laying flat on the ground
on my stomach and/or side. A chunk of meat was ripped out of my shoulder
from being dragged over 50 ft. I was choked while beaten til they
thought and asked one another if I was dead.
Another official cut my thumb with a switch blade and I received
several other injuries that medical refused to treat or document. The
officers said, “they’ll be back to beat me every chance they get and
that I better not eat.”
I was emergency shipped, and 3 hours later pictures were taken of my
injuries when I arrived at Polk Correctional Institution
(High-Risk-Security).
Pasquotank Prison Officials deny to have ever touched me and claim
their innocence while not even bothering to explain how my injuries were
sustained. The disciplinary officer found that the video footage of the
incident had been tampered with and cut-short.
18 October 2021, all mail for North Carolina prisoners will be
received at TextBehind
in Phoenix, MD with long time promises of iPads in the future. Should
department of public safety provide proper video surveillance for safety
before iPads for profit and entertainment? Surveillance is critical to
maintain and monitor unwanted violence.
Relief in the claim I’ve filed against Pasquotank Correctional
Institution include that the courts enforce a policy with an injunction
ordering hand-held cameras be used when escorting offenders or using
force in blind spots.
Unfortunately, body-cams in prison make it harder for guards to
smuggle contraband or have relations which would decrease the rate of
violence from drug related issues allowing more prisoners to focus on
rehabilitation and money management.
With this we would ask for higher pay rates to support our families
and conjugal visits for married couples.
Prayers out for the family of Andrew Brown and the victims of police
brutality.
MIM(Prisons) adds: In the last issue of Under Lock
& Key one of our comrades addressed the use of tablets to
pacify and surveil the oppressed in A
Strategic Objective to Disrupt and Surveil the Communication Between
Prisoners and Our Loved Ones. The article above connects this to the
many campaigns prisoners have waged to get cameras in prisons so that
there is documentation of the regular abuse and illegal happenings that
go on inside.
In 2014, comrades in North Carolina won a lawsuit to [require staff
of NCPDS to record with video cameras any use of force
incidents]((https://www.prisoncensorship.info/article/north-carolina-prisoners-preliminary-victory-on-use-of-force-lawsuit/).
This suit however, left it up to the pigs to determine when cameras need
to be used. As AK47 asks, if the state is to invest more money in
technology, shouldn’t it be on this important task of preventing
physical abuse and drug trafficking, both of which leads to the loss of
humyn lives?
Modern surveillance and communication technology can be used for good
and for bad, for the interests of the oppressed or the interests of the
oppressor. The interests of the oppressed lie in holding the state
accountable for the rampant abuse and drug dealing its employees commit
every day, while being able to maintain connections to society, engaging
in rehabilitation programs where they can speak freely and openly. The
interests of the state lie in pacifying the population with pop culture
media and surveilling the communication of those who cannot be
pacified.
Sadly far too many people who should know better believe that a sign
of “equal justice” would be if Kyle Rittenhouse was housed in the empty
cell down the tier from me. Additionally far too many people actually
felt and argued that a sign of the system working was the guilty verdict
given to the McMichaels for killing Ahmaud Arbery. However i wonder what
exactly such people believe happens when these people are in fact placed
into prison. Do people believe these people would share the same
experiences as someone from the semi-colonies? Do they believe these
people will be subjected to the same level of brutality from the state
or its representatives? Do they believe this is “rehabilitation”?
i’ve even heard far too many people state that these people should
not even be given bourgeois rights while going through the courts. Such
people obviously believe in amerikkkan “democracy” and only aim to put
and keep their people in power specifically through the Democratic Party
where they can use the levers of bourgeois civil society to dominate*
the Republican Party. This is vengeance against the Amerikan
bourgeoisie’s political party by another - not justice and definitely
not revolutionary. We should condemn this at every turn.
2020 was lost because spontaneity dominated instead of actual
consciousness. Lenin stated in 1900 that the “spontaneity of the masses
demands a high consciousness from us.” Another obvious failure was the
failure of analysis of what amerikkka’s capitalism-imperialism is and
who her citizens are and their relationship to this specific form of
late capitalism-imperialism. Had this been done there would’ve been less
talk of trying to stuff a true history lesson down the settler-colonist
throats as if this would make them see the light and instead teaching
this history to New Afrikans, First Nations, Raza, API and receptive
whites with an emphasis on self-determination struggles, self-reliance,
anti-imperialism and internationalism. A proper class analysis would’ve
concluded there’s no real opposition to capitalism-imperialism (in 2020)
and most amerikans benefit from this system. The people protesting,
thinking pigs would be or should be neutral, while their system was
under attack; that they would not welcome vigilantes and even thank them
were foolish. If any one was surprised at all by how that night played
out, regardless of the Rittenhouse verdict, they need to go back to the
ABC’s of amerikkkan history (maybe Critical Race Theory would’ve helped
them).
Not only should we not root for U$A injustice system even against our
enemies**, we should denounce bourgeois criminal behavior, not just
gangsterism but even in protests. We are not terrorists nor do we
believe in focoism or anarchy. We advocate revolutionary consciousness.
We do not lead the people to slaughter. We gather forces or at least
sympathy for revolution.
What are prisons for? We know all too well about the
school-to-prison-pipeline and who this is designed for. We know we are
considered surplus-population and prison acts as a social tool to keep
idle people idle. We also know that amerikkkans are infatuated with law
and order (and punishment). We know amerikkkans rest assured when its
carceral system locks people away for 40 or 50 years for whatever
crime…we know amerikkka does not bat an eye at such abuses. In fact
immediately after Rittenhouse’s GoFundMe page successfully got him
acquitted Vice President Harris professed her role as top-cop in
California was to make the system more “equitable” and his acquittal
means there’s obviously “more work to be done”. Again, but what are
prisons for? Rittenhouse should go inside a box (for obviously many,
many years), get old and then be judged (by a specific faction of the
bourgeois dictatorship - the democrats**) to see if it’s enough years
gone by. This is the only purpose prison in bourgeois society serves so
what kind of people advocate such a thing?
Even in prison it’s not well known what prison is used for. Not only
that, even in prison bourgeois mentality is prevalent and ubiquitous… We
sit in cages like animals. We are psychologically tortured, sexually
humiliated, manipulated and harassed. We must fight for outside contact,
safety, humanity and freedom but a majority of captives sit around in
their assigned boxes and literally direct their anger and future
violence at other captives. Not just that but rebellion against our
circumstances and capture is far too often shunned. Revolution even in
hell isn’t automatic. Bourgeois society will go down as the most
adaptable. When almost everyone has a price how could it not?
When i hear “lock em up” or that “justice” was served i know for sure
i’m in the midst of enemies. i know such people deep down believe i’m
exactly where i should be. Revolutionaries cannot parrot Jesse
Jackson, Alicia Garza, Amy Goodman or anyone else’s call to “lock em
up.” Let’s leave that to Trump and Clinton and all the other enemies of
the revolution. Instead let’s learn how to protect each other starting
with a proper class analysis. True political consciousness going into
2022 must start from the empire’s utter success in buying off all but a
small percent of its population and the knowledge that this demand and
lame-ass attempt to take over the bourgeois system “from the inside”
with this pro-police imperialism, pro-FBI socialism, anti-revolution
revolutionaries is worse than a joke.
Salutes to TX Team One, FPC, Republic of Aztlán, and the entire
USW,
NA Struggle RL NAIM CA-MLM
*Obviously if this had the potential to advance anti-imperialism in
any way it is to be considered but we will not first exploit internal
contradictions between the capitalist then as a response to this build
our forces. No, there must first be a revolutionary force to galvanize
otherwise it’s just more imperialism and pro-imperialism.
**It would have to be Democrats because Republicans believe this was
just.
MIM(Prisons) responds: We agree with this comrade’s
focus on building our forces, building anti-imperialism, building
movements for self-determination. As we say on page 2 of every Under
Lock & Key, we have a different solution to the bourgeois
prison system and that is proletarian justice. We distribute the book
Prisoners of Liberation about Amerikan spies in a Chinese
socialist prison that we use as a starting point for how prisons can be
used to serve the people and give everyone the resources to reform and
contribute positively to society.
But implementing pro-people rehabilitation on a mass scale is a ways
off for us in this country. And we agree with our comrade here that
these calls for “justice” are the battlefield of bourgeois politicians.
If Rittenhouse was given a long prison term, that would only increase
the chances of him becoming the Nazi that he has been branded already in
the media; an indication of what these bourgeois prisons actually do.
There are class enemies, and both sides will use force against their
class enemies. But we must first build proletarian institutions, before
we can implement proletarian justice.
In this article I-self will be building with ya’ll in unity,
criticism, unity on the ongoing discussion on organizing strategy that’s
been going on in the last 3 ULKs. But where my focus is going
to be on are the questions that the comrade Wiawimawo stated at the end
of Comrade S. Xanastas’ “An
Ongoing Discussion Organizing Strategy Pt. 2” in ULK
No. 74. Also, a little on the redefining words that are used to
villianize WE from Comrade Triumphant’s article “Forever
Protecting the Community: We Are Our Own Liberators” in ULK
No. 75.
The questions posed by our comrade Wiawimawo are stated below:
“can building the Re-Lease on Life and University of Maoist Thought
programs mobilize and reach the masses in the same way as the campaigns
making demands from the state?
“…Isn’t a campaign exposing the widespread use of torture in U.$.
prisons an undermining of U.$. imperialism regardless of the maneuvers
the various states make to cut back on or hide their use of long-term
isolation? Or should we focus solely on the Third World neo-colonies and
expose U.$. meddling in Ethiopia, Cuba and Haiti?”
To answer the first question: can building the Re-Lease on Life and
University of Maoist Thought programs mobilize and reach the masses in
the same way as the campaigns making demands from the state? I would
have to say yes, and I also think that the Re-Lease on Life and the
University of Maoist Thought Programs will aid and assist with the
campaigns making demands from the state. Reason why is that the
University of Maoist Thought programs and the Re-Lease on Life will give
the de-imperialization study groups, programs, or classes, etc. Plus the
most right and exact educational class WE can bring to the masses so WE
can liberate ourselves. Which will in turn not just promote these
campaigns, but these individuals who “over”take these classes will have
a sense of duty to not just self, but the whole commune to start up
campaigns that are making demands from the state. In turn, this will
open the opportunity to capture the minds of more of the masses from the
imperialist reigns of control to be re-directed to our
de-imperialization study groups and/or classes, and then that situation
repeats until the masses are overwhelmingly pushing S.O.P.s in these
koncentration kamps and communism to the outside free world.
Next question is: Isn’t a campaign exposing the widespread use of
torture in U.$. prisons an undermining of U.$. imperialism regardless of
the maneuvers the various states make to cut back on or widen their use
of long-term isolation? I knowledge that these campaigns that expose
widespread use of torture and long-term isolation, with the many
campaigns to teach the deaf, dumb, and blind of our First World lumpen
class to see, be mindful, and more nationally, internationally,
revolutionarily conscious, and be able to discern the difference from
what is revolutionary and what is not. This will breed the revolutionary
souljas which is needed to topple U.$. imperialism and imperialism as a
whole. Souljas like those in the Ayiti (Haiti) revolution (Aug. 14, 1791
- Dec. 1803) the first and only successful revolution of Afrikans where
General Francois Capois yelled this battle cry at the final battle:
“Grenadye, also! Sa Ki Mouri, Zafe a yo! Nan pwen manman. Nan pwen
papa. Sa ki mouri, zafe a yo! Grenadye, aloso!”
Which translates to:
“Soldiers attack (or to the front and move forward)! Those who die,
so what! There is no mom. There is no dad. Those who die, so what!”
WE have to come with this mindset while in this realm of revolution,
and if WE are not there yet then WE better hop-scotch into a Usane Bolt
sprint to it and lock it in for eternity. For this is the mindset which
is going to get us to the transfer of power from imperialism to
communism. WE gotta be expecting that the imperialists are going to try
to hide their dirty laundry after WE show how filthy their ways are. So
in saying that we ALL have to become counter-attack masters and
specialists just as much as WE ALL ARE to be ready to become future
leaders of the revolutionary struggle.
Which is also answering the following question: or should we focus
soley on the third world neo-colonies and expose U.$. meddling on
Ethiopia, Cuba, and Haiti? Now just stating that WE ALL have to become
counter-attack specialists and be ready to become future leaders, the
comrade with the most knowledge gets to speak on either of the three. If
WE don’t have any of the comrades or leaders who have that knowledge,
then WE gone get into that study hall classroom and get some knowledge,
wisdom, understanding, and elect a cadre to each country.
So the focus that is needed to build campaigns that will undermine
the imperialists here in the U.$. and the world abroad, will be there in
full discretion. WE gotta become the monsters that the beast is scared
to death of. Since everybody has or had a monster that they was afraid
of, why not BE the monster(s) the imperialists shit and piss in their
pants every time they think of WE. Then die of heart attack when WE
manifest in the flesh.
Because WE as revolutionaries and FW lumpen have been villainized by
the imperialists already right? It’s either now that WE redefine these
words or abandon words like “monster,” “demons,” “gang,” “criminal”, and
etc. Just how the comrade Triumphant stated in their article “Forever
Protecting the Community: We Are Our Own Liberators,” I see and
knowledge that this task is going to be a difficult one. First,
redefining these words to the point it’s worldwide spread that even our
opps – the imperialists – knows the redefinition of word that they use
to villainize WE and use the new definition their damn selfs. Example:
How many knows Tupac Amaru Shakur’s redefinition of the word ‘NIGGA’?
Which is “Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished” or does the first
thing a persyn think about is a New Afrikan individual? And this leads
into part two: WE have to remember our leaders and souljas locked away
like Larry Hoover Sr., Iman Jalil Amin, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Bomani
Shakur, and many others’ lives are dependent on WE and if WE fail to
redefine correctly and get it worldwide recognition; WE’ll do more harm
to WE then forward progression of the movement. This will push us back
like Gang injunctions and R.I.C.O. acts. Just something WE should keep
in mind as we progress forward in these stages of organizing
strategy.
In 2017, MIM(Prisons) published Under Lock &
Key #59 (ULK) which focused on the impact drugs have on the prison
movement. ULK #59 was particularly significant to our
cause, given the fact that drugs play a central role in preventing the
lumpen from developing into a revolutionary force inside U.$. prisons.
As various comrades attested to in that issue, drugs are poisons that
eat away any potential unity of the oppressed, by fostering violence
amongst the imprisoned lumpen, and the bourgeoisification of those
involved in the trade. Also, discussed in ULK #59 was the
scourge of the synthetic cannibinoid K2 and the rise of opioid use in
prisons at the time. Since then, another opioid has gained popularity
behind prison walls, mostly because of its availability; Suboxone.
In 2020, the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation(CDCR) introduced Suboxone to its 33 prisons as part of
its Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment(ISUDT). Suboxone is a
medication used to treat opioid addiction, specifically in the detox and
withdrawal stages of care. According to the San Quentin News,
“ISUDT is touted as the largest in-prison medically assisted treatment
program in the nation.”(1) CDCR credits Suboxone with a sharp decline in
overdose deaths in its prisons since its introduction. But is there more
than meets the eye to this apparent miracle drug?
What is Suboxone?
Suboxone is a combination medication containing buprenorphine and
naloxone.(2) Suboxone is derived from opium, and was supposedly intended
to be a less addictive alternative to methodone, morphine, and
oxycodone.(3) Though viewed as a safe alternative to other drugs,
Suboxone can still be deadly when taken intravenously or in combination
with other drugs and alcohol. Other side effects are:
* cardiac arrhythmia
* irregular blood pressure
* respiratory issues
* liver and kidney problems
* constipation
* urinary retention
* sweating
* short term memory issues
* difficulty thinking clearly and focusing
* impaired coordination
* headache
* nausea and vomiting
* sedation (4)
Where Did Suboxone Come From?
Suboxone was developed in the 1970s by Reckitt Benckiser, a Briti$h
company at the behest of the Amerikan government. At the time, the
United $tates was searching for a “less addictive” alternative for
patients with opioid use disorder. After Suboxone was created, Reckitt
Benckiser shipped the drug to the United $tates narcotic farm in
Lexington, Kentucky to be tested on detoxified addicts. The farm was
also a prison and treatment facility as well as the site of the U.$.
government’s Addiction Research Center.
It was at the Addiction Research Center that the government
discovered just how addictive Suboxone could be, yet it was still
marketed as a useful tool to combat addiction. Originally the doctors
prescribing the drug had to hold special licenses and undergo special
training. However, the government loosened its restrictions in response
to the number of opioid associated deaths. Since then, Suboxone has
raked in billions of dollars for pharmaceutical companies and millions
more for the addiction treatment sector that sprang up in its wake.(5)
Yet, there have been 100,000 overdose deaths attributed to opioids in
the last 12 months.(6) Those same doctors trained by the government have
also been found to be some of the most unscrupulous predators around.(7)
As such, it was perplexing to many that the CDCR would provide such a
highly addictive drug with such potential for abuse at a time when most
prison addicts had already detoxed and gone through withdrawals, thanks
to the statewide prison lockdown in response to the COVID-19
pandemic.
Drugs are Chemical Weapons
The use of drugs as part of a larger strategy of unconventional
warfare dates back to the 16th century when Europeans created the drug
trade to finance the expansion of their empires and the rise of
industrial capitalism.(8) One of the most infamous examples of this was
the Briti$h East India Company’s use of opium to subdue China and bring
it into its sphere of influence by creating a nation of addicts. While
the Portuguese and Dutch were the first to popularize opium smoking in
China, it was the Briti$h who took full advantage of this. When the
Chinese realized what was happening, they attempted to ban all foreign
ships from entry and close their ports. The Briti$h claimed the Chinese
were blocking their access to Chinese markets, and used this as a
pretext to launch the first of two opium wars. By 1900, 27% of all adult
males in China were addicted to smoking opium and China was forced to
cede Hong Kong to the Briti$h.(9) This chapter in Chinese history marked
the beginning of what Mao Zedong called China’s dark night of slavery to
the west.
It was around this same time that alcohol was used by Amerikkkans to
facilitate the genocide of First Nations people and the theft of their
land. This period also marks the first recorded use of biological
weapons, when the U.$. Army used smallpox infected blankets to decimate
natives and clear the land for white settlers. Together, these acts of
savagery resulted in the extermination of 98% of people indigenous to
what is today the United $tates and the worst genocide in humyn
hystory.(10) Events similar to these played out in Africa, Asia, and the
Americas.(11)
During the 20th century, the Briti$h and Amerikkkan imperialists
developed more sophisticated means with which to subdue the oppressed
nations. Project MK-Ultra is one such example. Project MK-Ultra was
initiated by the CIA in the 1950s along with the Briti$h MI6, their
sometimes collaborators. This top secret project involved using drugs
and the media to attack and discredit Amerika’s political enemies.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), or just simply “acid” for short,
became the drug of choice for the CIA at this time. LSD was created by
Albert Hoffman, a Nazi collaborator working for the Swiss IG Farben.
Starting in the 1950s, the CIA began producing their own acid in
“tonnage quantities” after asking pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly to
synthesize Hoffman’s formula. This was part of the CIA’s larger plan to
dose the water supply of the Soviet Union. The CIA knew for themselves
the effects of LSD as they tested the drugs on prisoners at the same
facility in Lexington, Kentucky that Suboxone was tested at twenty years
later! Here, prisoners were kept tripping for 77 days straight as part
of Project Artichoke which was one of many programs under the umbrella
of Project MK-Ultra.(12)
The connection between the development of Suboxone, the CIA and
Acid’s early days are alarming given the fact that Suboxone was
introduced to California prisons at a time of heightened political
consciousness amongst prisoners, an economic recession, a rise in white
nationalism, Black Lives Matter protests, a statewide no visiting
lockdown, and the ten-year anniversary of prison hunger strikes that
rocked CDCR and produced ripple effects across Amerikkka’s gulags. Thus,
it was certainly in the interests of the imperialists to suppress the
germs of any potential organizing amongst the oppressed lumpen.
And although the CIA’s plans with respect to the Soviet Union never
came to fruition, they did use LSD to attack the political enemies of
the Amerikan bourgeoisie. Outspoken college professors critical of the
U.$., political activists, communists, government whistle-blowers and
their families all fell victim to LSD and were publicly
discredited.(13)
As the anti-imperialist movement gained traction both outside and
inside of U.$. borders, the use of LSD and other chemical weapons was
expanded. Throughout the 1970s heroin became part and parcel to the
fight against New Afrikan, Chican@, and First Nations national
liberation movements. Asian-produced opium also became critical to U.$.
imperialism’s war against Vietnam. Drug money was used to help
facilitate the creation of Taiwan as a U.$. ally against Maoist China
prior to these events.(14) Methadone too was linked to the opioid
problem in New York City in the 1970s. Methadone as “maintenance
treatment” for heroin addicts was funded by the Rockefeller Program.(15)
The Rockefellers have also been implicated in Nazi atrocities, the red
scare media campaigns, and CIA operations.
The 1980s brought us the Iran-Contra scandal responsible for the
introduction of crack-cocaine into the ghettos and barrios of the United
$tates. Again, the CIA was found to be at the heart of these dirty wars
which involved the use of Iranian money to buy Amerikan guns. Money from
the Iranians was then use to buy cocaine from Colombia for sale in the
United $tates. Amerikan drug money was then re-circulated to fund
counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua fighting the leftist
Sandinistas.(17)
More recently, Operation Fast and Furious made international
headlines when the CIA was exposed for selling firearms to Mexican
cartels as a means of keeping the Mexican government destabilized and
the Mexican people from fighting their oppressors. The last thing the
U.$. wants is for a neo-colonial country on their doorstep to turn
independent and determine their own destinies.
The Problem as We Understand
It
If the imperialists really wanted to they could shut down the drug
trade, but that runs counter to their interests. Addiction defines
capitalist society. Addiction lies at the center of supply and demand
economics and is what drives the anarchy of production. From cell
phones, to soap operas, to opioids and methamphetamines, everyone living
in a capitalist society is addicted to something. Addiction in
capitalist society is encouraged as a means to realizing profit; but
also as a way to keep people in general, and the masses in particular,
distracted and unable to rise up against oppression. Nowhere is this
seen better than in the recent hystory of the oppressed nations.
In a critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx
explained how religion had hystorically been urged to drug people much
in the same ways the bourgeois uses actual drugs today:
“Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of
real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the
sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the
soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”(18)
Marx was writing at a time of the industrial revolution when the
“miracle” of capitalism was creating advancements in humyn hystory never
before seen. However, it was also creating grinding oppression and
poverty previously unknown. Capitalism also promoted ideas of
individualism, self-centeredness, greed, and exceptionalism, some of the
worst qualities in humyn behavior, and expanding them to include entire
populations, most pointedly in the labor aristocracy. All this combined
led to lives full of misery and desperation for the masses. Lives in
which the only solace was that of an afterlife. And while religion
continues to act as a smokescreen in the oppression of the masses, the
use of drugs has proved indispensable.
Today the root causes of oppression can be better traced to nation,
class, and gender contradictions which have completely warped the way
people interact on both a macro and micro level. The root causes of
addiction are much the same.
In regards to religious suffering, Marx knew better than to simply
call for the abolition of religion. Instead, he realized that it was the
conditions that led to religious suffering themselves that needed to be
abolished. Otherwise, some other new feel good belief would come to fill
the void left by religion, and the oppressive system itself would remain
in its place:
“The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is
the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their
illusions about their conditions is to call on them to give up a
condition that requires illusion. The criticism of religion is therefore
in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the
halo.”(19)
In other words, religion sanctified capitalism and helped make it
tolerable for the oppressed. Drugs play a similar role in today’s
culture. If one is high all the time than ey does not think about the
many years ey have to spend in prison. One does not have to deal with
the fact that ey made a decision that impacted countless lives because
of eir parasitic behavior. The use of drugs allows one to cope with the
impact nation, class, and gender contradictions have had on em through
intergenerational trauma, all the while keeping them unable to
understand how the three strands of oppression manifest through that
trauma.
We encourage people to get drug free and stay that way, but this
requires more than the status quo in addiction treatment, which only
teaches how to better cope with the trauma of imperialism. We encourage
comrades to go further and destroy the conditions that require
illusions. We encourage comrades to take up revolution.
MIM(Prisons) adds: We will be doing a follow-up on this
article with the results of our second survey on drugs in prisons found
in ULK 75. We are still collecting and aggregating your
responses. It’s not too late if you have not responded yet.
We know the state is opposed to our efforts to expose and combat the
plague of drug addiction among imprisoned lumpen. Branchville
Correctional Facility in Indiana censored ULK 75 citing:
“denied based on the article about Suboxone, and the common drug
slang terms and sale information used in one of the articles. The items
in the article violate IDOC/BCF policies.”
Notes: [1] San Quentin News, September 2021, Pg. 8. [2]
5 Myths About Using Suboxone, Peter Greenspan MD, October 7, 2021
[3] Extended Suboxone Treatment Substantially Improves Outcomes for
Opioid Addicted Youth, November 4, 2008 [4] Suboxone vs Methodone:
Positives and Negatives, Avatar, May 21, 2021 [5] Addiction
Treatment with a Dark Side, New York Times, 2013 [6] Amanpour &
Co, PBS, December 7, 2021 [7] Addiction Treatment with a Dark Side,
New York Times, 2013 [8] Drugs As Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s
Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac,
and Other Activists, John L. Potash, Trine Day LLC, 2015, Pg 7-9 [9]
Ibid, pg 10 [10] J. Sakai, 1989, Settlers: Mythology of the White
Proletariat, 3rd Edition, Morningstar Press, p. 7. Sakai cites
200-300,000 native people remaining by 1900, of an estimated 10 million
people before colonization. [11] Drugs as Weapons Against Us, Pg
10 [12] Ibid, Pg 29-30 [13] Ibid, Pg 31-36 [14] Ibid, Pg
45-51 [15] Under Lock & Key, Issue 59, Pg 5, 2017 [16] Drugs
as Weapons Against Us, Pg 13-14 [17] Ibid, Pg 279-285 [18] Karl
Marx, 1843, Introduction to “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s
Philosophy of Right.” [19] A Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of
Right, Karl Marx
I recently paroled from C.D.C.R. into the B.O.P. Observation and
inquiry reveals a downward trend in the cut, caliber, and clarity of the
general population.
General Mao Zedong tells us we have to become the change we want to
see. Legion in the past has built at length under Unity-Criticism-Unity
on the people’s struggle for self-determination who are entangled in the
underground commercial sex industry. Observation within the C.D.C.R.
revealed that there was no incentive for a person, male or female and
regardless of sexual bent, to “program” at first, it’s shocking to
reveal.
However, when you are sent to prison you get a 841. It used to be a
long green sheet of paper – now it’s all electronic. They have “P” codes
for violent offenders, arsonists, and anyone convicted of any “sex”
crime. “P” coded individuals include (but is not limited to) domestic
abusers, indecent exposure, child-touchers, rapists, pimps, prostitutes,
Johns, etc. In California alone, a large part of the population has a
“P” code.
“P”-coded people at first were ineligible for milestones and relief
under Prop 47, Prop 35, Prop 57, SB260 and SB261. The “People” of
California always exclude rather than include under the guise of public
safety. They always combine “murderers & rapists” in their cry for
tough on crime policy. And will give a murderer the opportunity to
procreate but not the rapist. In turn, a lot of persons flock to
alternative living because they have no hope.
My duty is to build people’s brains. And under the guidance of
MIM(Prisons) to build public opinion and independent institutions of the
oppressed. To quote “ULK” we support the self-determination of ALL
nations and peoples. That said Legion is calling on all ESP (Erotic
Service Providers) in the confines of U.$. prisons under the thick net
of oppression to ADOPT, RATIFY, GROW, and INSTITUTE the 3P
initiative:
The safety factor, there is always safety in numbers.
Education of revolutionary thought & practice, ignorance of the
knowledge around you is NO EXCUSE.
You aren’t alone, you are not the anomaly.
These are the reasons to adopt, grow, and institute.
Legion is well aware of the hardship people face when subjected to
the “P” code. This label is akin to the Jewish persecution in Nazi
Germany during Hitler’s reign of terror. This is what is meant when you
get your 128-G printout and people see your “P” code in these “people’s”
mind its a green-light for extortion, violence, and sexual assault. UFPP
is against these parasitic practices in prisons and abroad. ESPs are not
just the vessels but the senders and the users. And everyone has a seat
at the table. The 3P initiative is a work of Legion ergo it is rooted in
UFPP and USW. DLS (Dirty Little Secrets) and the WWC (White Wolf
Collective) are some of the initiates of 3P and are apart of the cell
Legion.
– Peace
THE 3P INITIATIVE
PROTECT OUR INTERESTS AT ALL COSTS
ELEVATE OUR STANDARDS
UNITE OUR PEOPLE
– Accept yourself and be your own
– I CAN DO NOTHING BY MYSELF. IT’S ABOUT: US, WE, AND OURS!
MIM(Prisons) adds: In Under Lock & Key
61 we addressed in depth the question of sex offenders and their
role in the prison movement. One article in that issue concluded
with:
“Maoists believe that problems amongst the people should be handled
peacefully among the people and thru the methods of discussion and
debate. Most prisoners are locked up exactly because they engaged in
some type of anti-people activity at one point or another of their
lives. Should these actions define prisoners? According to MIM Thought,
all U.$. citizens will be viewed as reforming criminals by the Third
World socialist movement under the Joint Dictatorship of the Proletariat
of the Oppressed Nations (JDPON). The First World lumpen will be no
exception regardless of crime of choice.”(1)
We do not put any special conditions on “sex offenses,” but recognize
some crimes as more serious than others. We do think we all need to
undergo transformation, guided by criticism/self-criticism, as we create
a world free of oppression. We believe all people can be redeemed and
will have the ability to in the future. Unfortunately, today that is not
the case. But we welcome with open arms all who are ready for redemption
through revolution to begin with our new Revolutionary 12 Step
Program.
Regarding Prop. 57, there was a California state Supreme Court
decision on 2 January 2022 that CDCR shall not allow early parole to
people who have any sentence terms that are violent felonies
(In re Mohammad, No. S259999). Similarly the original law was
implemented by CDCR to exclude anyone with a required sex offender
registration under Penal Code subsection 290. However, this was
overturned on 28 December 2020 (In re Gadlin, No. S254599).
Such people should be “referred to the Board by July 1, 2021 and must be
scheduled for a hearing by no later than December 2022.” (see CCR title
15, § 2449.32)
The Prison Law Office should be able to provide you with additional
details if you are uncertain how this affects your parole eligibility:
PRISON LAW OFFICE General Delivery, San Quentin, CA 94964-0001
In ULK #73, MIM (Prisons) published one of my articles
entitled: Da
Struggle Continues: We Still Charge Genocide. In said article i
announced the coming of the international tribunal 2021, which took
place October 22-25, and has now passed. In this article we will look to
a few of the events that have taken place since that previous article,
and how it pertains to Our plans going forward.
For those who do not know, the verdict given by the International
Jurists was an emphatic GUILTY of all charges. These
charges include:
Police racism and violence
Mass incarceration
Political prisoners and prisoners of war
Environmental racism
Health inequalities
In the wake of the hystoric verdict leaders of this campaign
announced the next step forward being the establishment of what they’ve
coined a ‘People’s Senate’. This infrastructure is a key stepping stone
for New Afrikan, Indigenous, and Chican@ nation citizens to formulate
the common unity needed to eventually conduct a U.N. supervised
plebiscite, which will finally legitimize Our quest for
Self-determination.
Ultimately, that is the reason the tribunal was so important. With
the advent of the guilty verdict the political line that seeks
revolutionary nationalism for internal semi-colonies in north amerika
has been legitimized within the eyes of the international community, and
the United Nations (U.N.).
While Our struggle(s) have long been legitimate in Our own eyes, when
establishing an independent nation it is prerequisite that a nation gain
international diplomatic support. In the past New Afrikans have had such
support. However in recent decades such support has waned as New
Afrikans have become increasingly more bourgeoisified, and more and more
assimilated. As a result other countries have been hesitant to step out
on a limb in support of amerikanized ‘negroes’.
Now with the advent of the People’s Senate We will possess the
infrastructure to properly seek out reparations, and independent
nationhood. Up until this point the reparation push in this present
landscape has been one which revolutionary nationalists would be
hard-pressed to support. This was because the institutions and
hand-picked persyns chosen as the voice for reparations movement were
amerikanized negroes, seeking further assimilation into amerika,
utilizing the economic plight of segments of New Afrika to advance their
own agendas. With the People’s Senate, We will guarantee a people’s
voice, and a people’s control of the direction of Our collective
movement. Incarcerated persyns may also take part in this People’s
Senate. You should contact the Jericho Movement for further details on
how to participate. # Power Moves
The above-mentioned international tribunal took place in Harlem, at
the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz center, which is the exact location Bro.
Malcolm X. was assassinated.
Now, 56ADM (56 years After the Death of Malcolm), those men who’ve
languished behind bars falsely framed by the U.S. government for Bro.
Malcolm’s murder were officially exonerated 18 November 2021. This long
overdue exoneration came about after a February 2020 Netflix
documentary, Who Killed Malcolm X aired, and its startling
conclusion initiated calls from the Shabazz family to re-open the case
of Bro. Malcolm’s assassination. The basic conclusion is that the actual
shooter, along with others present were working on behalf of the FBI,
when they murdered Malcolm X on the orders of their masters.
Of course to many this is not ‘news’, but merely a confirmation of a
long-held belief. What is outrageous to this writer is that with the
government basically admitting to assassinating one of the greatest and
best leaders We’ve had for the New Afrikan liberation cause, the level
of outrage is basically zero. Brother Malcolm once said that We have
gone from a race of warriors and untamed runaways, to a race of
complicit house n___ers. Sad, but true. When the U.S. can for all
intents and purposes admit to assassinating Malcolm X, a liberatory
leader, when Kyle Rittenhouse can be found not guilty (more on this
later) and there is no outrage or sustained resistance, when Ahmaud
Arbery’s murderers begin trial and not ONE New Afrikan persyn is
selected on their jury in a county that is 25% New Afrikan (more on this
later) and there is no outrage nor sustained resistance, We’ve become
complicit in Our own oppression. We’ve capitulated to the will of Our
enemies. WILL THE REAL NEW AFRIKANS PLEASE STAND
UP!!!???
AS if Our case for Black secession, and a socialist Republic of New
Afrika weren’t clearly justified, events like Kyle Rittenhouse’s
acquittal, and the lack of Black jurors in the case of Ahmaud Arbery
underscore grievances issued by generations of neo-colonized Afrikans in
amerika. What We as a people must overstand is that these issues do not
persist because of racism. Malcolm X wasn’t assassinated by racism, but
by a corrupt power structure. Kyle Rittenhouse’s murderer of two Black
Lives Matter supporters and the wounding of a third, wasn’t acquitted by
a racist, nor because of racism, as his victims were white themselves.
Instead he was acquitted because the political orientation that led to
his actions (settler-colonial imperialism) is part and parcel with the
political identity of the corrupt power structure. And finally, the
murderers of Ahmaud Arbery are being tried by a jury of their peers,
while New Afrikans have been pleading for the same consideration for
literally centuries, because their actions were in furtherance of the
corrupt power structure’s sustained power. That is while some of us have
been struggling to ‘FREE THE LAND!’, a New Afrikan is unable to run
FREELY in the LAND. The devilish cowards that murdered brother Ahmaud
reinforce the colonial relationship between New Afrikans and the white
settler amerikans.
The time has come to move away from BLACK LIVES MATTER to the NEW
BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT. We are not fighting racism, We’re fighting
oppressive and exploitative POWER. In order to ever be FREE, in order to
have a REAL influence on whether or not incidents like those mentioned
here ever happen again, We must obtain POWER, and We must exercise POWER
in non-exploitative or oppressive manners. To accomplish this, the
formula is simple, We must organize now for people’s WAR, Vita Wa Watu,
to seize power, and implement socialist (non exploitative/oppressive)
power.
A comrade responded to the article “Oh So
You Woke” in ULK 73:
“In this article the author criticizes the likes of Angela Davis and
John Lewis. neither Ms. Davis nor Mr. Lewis were agents of propaganda
for the bourgeois as the author implies, but rather they were committed
to the struggle and spent many years on the front lines. As far as
penetrating the police and other arms of state imperialism/control,
someone is going to fill those roles. Is it better us or them? WE must
attack the status quo from multiple fronts – from the inside as well as
the outside. WE need more Angela Davises and John Lewises.”
I do agree with the comrade that WE do need to attack the status quo
from multiple fronts but when one of our own lumpen falls into the lines
of reformism and revisionism while on the road of revolution or
liberation, instead of being a die hard non-compromising, non-settling,
give-me-death-if-I-can’t-have-real-life-liberation revolutionary like
Fred Hampton, Bunchy Carter and the many fore Fathers and fore Mothers
of our lumpen communities, who died and were imprisoned so that the
eternal fire of Freedom, Justice and Equality will never lose its light
and intensity in the surviving generations and their children. So they
can fight on until that day comes in entirety. Then one has to ask the
question … who do you work for?
If WE as a First World lumpen and Third World proletarian
revolutionaries have more individuals like Angela Davis & John
Lewis, We’ll never fulfill the S.O.P.’s of the UFPP. We’ll be in a state
of Reformism and Revisionism, being closely intertwined with
imperialism/capitalism instead of overthrowing it.
First and foremost Angela Davis is a major reformist, she was a part
of the Communist Party, U$A, where the CPU$A was about that Real Life
revolution before the 1940’s but by the 1960’s all their members that
took inspiration from Mao Zedong had left the party. After the attempt
of Jonathan Jackson of freeing his older brother George Jackson, Fleeta
Drumgo and John Clutchette (Soledad Brothers) at Marin County Courthouse
in San Rafael, CA, was then Angela Davis charged with aiding the
attempted escape and placed on the FBI’s most wanted list due to her
close correspondence with George Jackson. She was found not guilty after
her case was severed from the other defendants like Ruchell “Cinque”
Magee who is still locked up in these Koncentration Kamps, while the
rally call of the masses at the time was “Free Angela Davis and ALL
POLITICAL PRISONERS!” Then in 1973 she founded the CP front the National
Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression that REFUSED to come
defend Black Liberation Army members facing prison time.
Later on in her “revolutionary” life she got back into academia while
still being a huge influence for the CPU$A, where she ran twice for Vice
President of the U$A. She supported Democratic presidential candidates,
like Joe Biden, to pressure them when in office to the CPU$A’s
Khrushchevite peaceful transition into socialism agenda or the Pac-Man
politics (biting away at imperialism until it collapses on itself). She
also co-founded the Committees of Correspondence with a moniker that
points to the CPU$A’s notion that “Communism is 20th Century
Americanism.” In her writings and university lectures in the academic
realm, she promoted the CPU$A’s reformism and postmodern politics, the
basis of this day and age concept of “Abolition,” and not the dire need
of armed revolution.
John Lewis is basically the same in the sense with the Pac-Man
politics, Abolition reformist movement and post-modernism. Also one of
the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and a leader in the peaceful
nonviolent strategy of protest and civil unrest. The “Woke” U.$.
leftists, who are the petty-bourgeoisie, praises Angela Davis and John
Lewis as saints and the imperialist aided in placing them on those
pedestals to be praised by the masses, because they knew with the
ideologies and concepts that these two individuals promote will do no
real harm to their oppressive establishment. Point proven in the last
summer series of protest after the murder of George Floyd and many
others.
What real change came from that civil unrest in a real revolutionary
way? It’s because of Angela Davis and John Lewis that We have to
re-educate and un-brainwash the masses from the concepts and ideologies
of Reformism, Revisionism, Postmodernism and the Pac-Man politics with
the concepts and ideologies of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism to gain
liberation from imperialism through armed resistance and revolution.
Reason why it was stated that they are agents of the imperialist
propaganda in the article “Oh, So You Woke.” Whether it was intentional
or not they step out of the realm of being First World lumpen to the
realm of the petty-bourgeoisie and benefited from the transition also.
It pays to be famous and in the limelight of the pop culture
revolutionary contest, right? Even after being on the front lines where
they witness first hand so many of our souljas and leaders lose their
lives, placed in exile and/or imprisoned, they settled for positions of
comfort for self and appeared to be in the struggle still, instead of
being ten toes down in the mud with WE overthrowing
imperialism/capitalism to establish socialism, and later communism,
nation- and world-wide.
DON’T FALL FOR THE POP CULTURE REVOLUTIONARY HYPE COMRADES.