thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-12--Would-be führer Trump steps up coup plotting

NB : A recent satirical piece by CJ Hopkins analyses the same situation from a different perspective .
onald Trump is stepping up his efforts to manufacture a pretext for a declaration of martial law and the deployment of the military on the streets of the United States .
The president has taken a series of provocative actions even as more information is coming to light as to just how close Trump came to instigating a military bloodbath at the beginning of last week .
Only hours after the last National Guard troops were withdrawn from Washington DC , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against a major American city , this time Seattle .
In statements on Twitter Wednesday night , Trump demanded that Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan , both Democrats , act to suppress protesters in a small neighborhood from which the police have temporarily withdrawn .
“ If you don ’ t do it , I will , ” he tweeted .
“ This is not a game.
” Trump was seizing on a series of minor protest actions in the city , in which demonstrators against police violence have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” encompassing all of six city blocks , with spray-painted signs , campsites and other paraphernalia reminiscent of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests .
This reality has not stopped Trump from portraying the events in the most incendiary terms .
“ Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle , run by Radical Left Democrats , of course , ” he tweeted later , adding , “ LAW & ORDER !
” Trump also announced Thursday that he will hold his first public campaign rally since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is extraordinarily provocative , given the ongoing mass protests against the murder of George Floyd .
June 19 has been traditionally celebrated by African Americans as “ Juneteenth , ” the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally put into effect in Texas in 1865 , while Tulsa is the site of the worst racist violence against African Americans in history , the Greenwood massacre of 1921 , in which as many as 300 were killed .
The choice of this date and place for a campaign rally must be seen as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces that would “ justify ” the use of the military .
The unprecedented political crisis in America was underscored by the comments made Wednesday night by Trump ’ s Democratic opponent in the presidential election , Joe Biden , on the Comedy Central program hosted by Trevor Noah .
“ This president is going to try to steal this election , ” Biden declared .
In response to a question by Noah about whether he expected Trump to refuse to leave office if he is defeated on November 3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was “ my greatest fear.
” Biden then praised the public attacks on Trump by a series of former military leaders last week , after Trump ’ s threat to call out the military against those protesting the police murder of George Floyd .
“ I was so damn proud .
You have four chiefs of staff coming out and ripping the skin off of Trump , ” he said , adding that he counted on the military to remove Trump if he balked at respecting the results of the vote .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House in a—with great dispatch , ” Biden concluded .
This statement is remarkable : first , because Biden concedes that Trump has no intention of accepting the outcome of the election , and second , because he concedes to the military the decisive role in Trump ’ s ultimate removal from office .
As to what Biden would do if the military did not remove Trump , but rather allowed him to stay , Noah did not ask and Biden did not say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the events of June 1 and the days that followed , completely confirming the warnings made by the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party that Trump was seeking to launch a military coup .
On Monday , June 1 , he declared himself “ your president of law and order ” and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 , under which the president may deploy troops in the event that local and state governments can not keep order .
At a meeting that Monday morning , Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , where he had been badly frightened by protests outside the White House .
According to an account in Thursday ’ s New York Times , “ Gen .
Mark A. Milley , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , objected , saying it was a terrible idea to have combat troops trained to fight foreign adversaries at war with Americans .
A wild scramble ensued to use another option : Summon National Guard troops from other states to reinforce the 1,200 DC Guard troops already called up.
” Eleven states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only nearby Maryland and New Jersey , but more distant states like South Carolina , Florida , Mississippi , Tennessee , Ohio , Indiana , Missouri and even Utah and Idaho .
Ten of the eleven states have Republican governors .
At the Pentagon ’ s insistence , the National Guard troops stacked their weapons and ammunition at a local armory and went on patrols unarmed in order to avoid a repetition of the Kent State massacre 50 years ago , when National Guard troops opened fire on antiwar student protesters , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however , that Trump wanted such a violent encounter and sought to trigger a confrontation that night , which would give him a pretext for further and far more sweeping military moves .
Press reports indicate that the order by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper that National Guard forces should operate without weapons at the ready was not cleared with the White House .
At the same time , according to the Times , General Milley and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy “ warned the Guard throughout the day that if it could not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most likely call in the 82nd Airborne.
” These troops , as well as military police from the 10th Mountain Division stationed in upstate New York , were brought to the Washington DC area , but remained at bases outside the city .
Despite the absence of any significant violence in the US capital , it was not until Thursday night , June 4 , that Trump agreed that the regular troops should be sent home .
On Sunday , June 7 , he allowed the National Guard troops from outside DC to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only completed Wednesday , has not ended the threat of military intervention .
On Wednesday , Secretary Esper and General Milley replied by letter to the demand of the House Armed Services Committee that they appear to testify about the planned use of the military against the mass protests over the death of George Floyd .
The two have so far declined to testify , adhering to unconstitutional instructions from the White House barring any cooperation with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives .
In their letter , Esper and Milley said that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the District for purposes of civilian law enforcement.
” But they declared that Trump retained the authority to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and send federal troops anywhere in the United States to suppress disturbances .
“ In the event that a president makes such a decision , he may do so without approval from the state government in which the forces are to be used , ” they said .
This would apply directly to the state of Washington , the current target of Trump ’ s threats .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The conspirators in the White House have not ceased their plotting .
The military is biding its time and considering its options .
The police remain armed to the teeth.
” As Biden ’ s comments make clear , the Democrats consider the military the ultimate arbiter of politics in the United States .
Neither Congress nor the Democratic Party lifted a finger against this presidential declaration of authoritarian rule .
It was only because of opposition from the Pentagon brass , which felt such a military action was both poorly prepared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pulled back .
The responsibility to oppose Trump ’ s preparations for dictatorship falls to the working class , the only social force whose very existence is bound up with the defense of democratic rights—as the ongoing mass protests against police killings demonstrate .
This must go forward through the building of an independent political movement of the working class based on a socialist program .

NB: A recent satirical piece by CJ Hopkins analyses the same situation from a different perspective.
By Patrick Martin
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onald Trump is stepping up his efforts to manufacture a pretext for a declaration of martial law and the deployment of the military on the streets of the United States. The president has taken a series of provocative actions even as more information is coming to light as to just how close Trump came to instigating a military bloodbath at the beginning of last week.
Only hours after the last National Guard troops were withdrawn from Washington DC, Trump made a new threat of military violence against a major American city, this time Seattle. In statements on Twitter Wednesday night, Trump demanded that Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, both Democrats, act to suppress protesters in a small neighborhood from which the police have temporarily withdrawn. “If you don’t do it, I will,” he tweeted. “This is not a game.”
Trump was seizing on a series of minor protest actions in the city, in which demonstrators against police violence have declared a “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” encompassing all of six city blocks, with spray-painted signs, campsites and other paraphernalia reminiscent of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. This reality has not stopped Trump from portraying the events in the most incendiary terms. “Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course,” he tweeted later, adding, “LAW & ORDER!”
Trump also announced Thursday that he will hold his first public campaign rally since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 19. This is extraordinarily provocative, given the ongoing mass protests against the murder of George Floyd. June 19 has been traditionally celebrated by African Americans as “Juneteenth,” the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally put into effect in Texas in 1865, while Tulsa is the site of the worst racist violence against African Americans in history, the Greenwood massacre of 1921, in which as many as 300 were killed.
The choice of this date and place for a campaign rally must be seen as a deliberate effort to stage a confrontation between pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces that would “justify” the use of the military.
The unprecedented political crisis in America was underscored by the comments made Wednesday night by Trump’s Democratic opponent in the presidential election, Joe Biden, on the Comedy Central program hosted by Trevor Noah. “This president is going to try to steal this election,” Biden declared. In response to a question by Noah about whether he expected Trump to refuse to leave office if he is defeated on November 3, the former vice president said that was “my greatest fear.”
Biden then praised the public attacks on Trump by a series of former military leaders last week, after Trump’s threat to call out the military against those protesting the police murder of George Floyd. “I was so damn proud. You have four chiefs of staff coming out and ripping the skin off of Trump,” he said, adding that he counted on the military to remove Trump if he balked at respecting the results of the vote. “I promise you, I’m absolutely convinced they will escort him from the White House in a—with great dispatch,” Biden concluded.
This statement is remarkable: first, because Biden concedes that Trump has no intention of accepting the outcome of the election, and second, because he concedes to the military the decisive role in Trump’s ultimate removal from office. As to what Biden would do if the military did not remove Trump, but rather allowed him to stay, Noah did not ask and Biden did not say.
Press reports have shed additional light on the events of June 1 and the days that followed, completely confirming the warnings made by the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party that Trump was seeking to launch a military coup. On Monday, June 1, he declared himself “your president of law and order” and threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, under which the president may deploy troops in the event that local and state governments cannot keep order.
At a meeting that Monday morning, Trump demanded that federal troops pour into Washington, where he had been badly frightened by protests outside the White House. According to an account in Thursday’s New York Times, “Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, objected, saying it was a terrible idea to have combat troops trained to fight foreign adversaries at war with Americans. A wild scramble ensued to use another option: Summon National Guard troops from other states to reinforce the 1,200 DC Guard troops already called up.”
Eleven states contributed 3,900 National Guard troops, including not only nearby Maryland and New Jersey, but more distant states like South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and even Utah and Idaho. Ten of the eleven states have Republican governors. At the Pentagon’s insistence, the National Guard troops stacked their weapons and ammunition at a local armory and went on patrols unarmed in order to avoid a repetition of the Kent State massacre 50 years ago, when National Guard troops opened fire on antiwar student protesters, killing four.
It is clear, however, that Trump wanted such a violent encounter and sought to trigger a confrontation that night, which would give him a pretext for further and far more sweeping military moves. Press reports indicate that the order by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper that National Guard forces should operate without weapons at the ready was not cleared with the White House.
At the same time, according to the Times, General Milley and Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy “warned the Guard throughout the day that if it could not control the protests, Mr. Trump would most likely call in the 82nd Airborne.” These troops, as well as military police from the 10th Mountain Division stationed in upstate New York, were brought to the Washington DC area, but remained at bases outside the city.
Despite the absence of any significant violence in the US capital, it was not until Thursday night, June 4, that Trump agreed that the regular troops should be sent home. On Sunday, June 7, he allowed the National Guard troops from outside DC to return to their states. This pullback, only completed Wednesday, has not ended the threat of military intervention.
On Wednesday, Secretary Esper and General Milley replied by letter to the demand of the House Armed Services Committee that they appear to testify about the planned use of the military against the mass protests over the death of George Floyd. The two have so far declined to testify, adhering to unconstitutional instructions from the White House barring any cooperation with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
In their letter, Esper and Milley said that active-duty military forces “were not ever in the District for purposes of civilian law enforcement.” But they declared that Trump retained the authority to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and send federal troops anywhere in the United States to suppress disturbances. “In the event that a president makes such a decision, he may do so without approval from the state government in which the forces are to be used,” they said. This would apply directly to the state of Washington, the current target of Trump’s threats.
As a statement of the SEP warned, “The conspirators in the White House have not ceased their plotting. The military is biding its time and considering its options. The police remain armed to the teeth.”
As Biden’s comments make clear, the Democrats consider the military the ultimate arbiter of politics in the United States.
Neither Congress nor the Democratic Party lifted a finger against this presidential declaration of authoritarian rule. It was only because of opposition from the Pentagon brass, which felt such a military action was both poorly prepared and not yet necessary, that Trump pulled back.
The responsibility to oppose Trump’s preparations for dictatorship falls to the working class, the only social force whose very existence is bound up with the defense of democratic rights—as the ongoing mass protests against police killings demonstrate. This must go forward through the building of an independent political movement of the working class based on a socialist program.


The Empire’s Executioners?

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From a recent report by the Insider publication : It begs the question of just how well these two may have known each other , or worse , if Chauvin had some sort of ' Racially prejudiced 'ulterior motive for doing this heinous deed .
The report also states : 'This was not the first time Chauvin had been involved in a violent incident during his 19 years in the Minneapolis Police Department .
He was involved in violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And he has been the subject of 10 complaints filed to the city 's Civilian Review Authority and the Office of Police Conduct ... .
Two years later , just after 2 o'clock one morning in 2008 , Chauvin responded to a 911 domestic-assault call in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis , the Pioneer Press reported .
Chauvin and his partner entered the home , confron'ing Ira Latrell Toles , whose partner had made the 911 call .
Toles ran from the pair , but 'they caught and tried to subdue him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The statement said Toles 'grabbed at one of the officer 's guns , and Chauvin shot him in the torso . '
`` Is this not shades of the George Zimmerman case regarding his murder of Trayvon Martin ?
More from the Insider piece : '' In 2011 , Chauvin was involved in a third police shooting .
He was among five officers to respond to reports of a shooting .
Leroy Martinez , a 23-year-old Alaska Native , was spotted running from the scene , and the officers gave chase , local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brandished a pistol as he fled .
Terry Nutter , one of the responding officers , shot Martinez .
An eyewitness account , reported by the Star Tribune , challenged the police 's claim that Martinez was holding a pistol when he was shot . ''
`` 'He had no reason to shoot that little boy , ' Delora Iceman told the Star Tribune .
She said Martinez had dropped the weapon and held his arms in the air before the police shot him .
During his nearly two decades with the Minneapolis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ subject of several internal complaints ... three separate reviews from the Civilian Review Authority found Chauvin to have used 'demeaning tone , and ' 'derogatory language . '
No other details were available .
He has also been the subject of seven reviews by the local Office of Police Conduct .
Each review concludes : 'Closed – No discipline . '
No other details were available . ''
Derek Chauvin should never have been in the Minneapolis Police Department for as long as 19 years .
When one reviews the above news piece @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this dude should never have been in any position of control over anyone !
He , and his fellow thugs are right out of the Pinkerton or Baldwin Felts school of law enforcement .
Go and get the 1987 film classic Matawan , written and directed by John Sayles , based on the 1920 Matawan , West Virginia coal miners ' strike .
See how those who ' Own the Manor ' use their paid 'thugs with badges ' to keep the rabble in line .
Similar to how Officer Chauvin and Co. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the inner city from men like George Floyd .
Imagine those neighbors of Floyd who had to stand behind the Blue Wall of Chauvin 's three partners ( in crime ? )
and listen to a dying man gasp for help .
Amazing what power those four had over the community because ' They are the Law !
! '
One thinks that maybe our local police should realize that the overwhelming majority of us are all Working Stiffs the same as them .
The color of the person should n't mean squat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punch out the hours for our survival the same as those four cops .
I remember how my friend 's older sister ( foolish white woman ) pontificated at a Christmas party about the poor : `` Let 's face it , most of them are either drug addicts or alcoholics '' .
She failed to understand that , in most poor neighborhoods , the overwhelming majority of the residents have to get up early ( sometimes earlier than folks from better neighborhoods ) for shitty paying jobs , shit conditions with few @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do it .
Yes , the study of Socialism teaches this writer that Capitalism as it exists today in Amerika has set up the deck their way .
In poorer areas the liquor stores abound , along with Payday loans , food stores that overcharge and of course ... the flow of illicit drugs goes unabated .
The scene from Godfather 1 when the heads of five Mob families discuss the drug trade , one of the mobsters says `` In my city we would keep the traffic in the dark areas for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyway so let them lose their souls . ''
I have been on the soapbox for over 30 years saying that only four year college graduates with majors in either sociology or criminal justice should qualify to be police officers ... period !
Perhaps if we lived in a more equitable economic system , whereupon ALL who work for the owners get a bigger piece of the pie , the pay would be enough to attract new , more educated police officers .
The higher one goes up on the ladder of intellect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The motto ' Protect and Serve ' should resonate more than it does now .
Too many who stand behind the Blue Wall keep the rest of us away from Truth .
I remember speaking to my lawyer 's Criminal Defense partner .
He had been an Assistant DA for years before jumping ship.
`` Here 's my experience '' , he said , `` If they want to get someone real bad , they will plant a gun or plant drugs when they arrest .
They also will , in more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stand to help a fellow officer .
I have seen it too many times.
`` Who suffers from this ' Perjury Mill ' ?
Well , all those good officers who go by the book and treat everyone the same , regardless of color , creed , religion or sexual orientation .
They need to speak up ... loudly !
!
Perhaps it is time for all our governments , local , county , state or federal , to insist on a much higher standard for policing .
Chauvin would n't have his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was n't a cop in the first place !

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Philip Farruggio OpEds
From a recent report by the Insider publication:
" George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin actually worked for the same Minneapolis night club- Chauvin as a security guard for many years, and Floyd as a bouncer during 2019."
It begs the question of just how well these two may have known each other, or worse, if Chauvin had some sort of ' Racially prejudiced 'ulterior motive for doing this heinous deed. The report also states:
'This was not the first time Chauvin had been involved in a violent incident during his 19 years in the Minneapolis Police Department. He was involved in violent incidents before, including three police shootings. And he has been the subject of 10 complaints filed to the city's Civilian Review Authority and the Office of Police Conduct.... Two years later, just after 2 o'clock one morning in 2008, Chauvin responded to a 911 domestic-assault call in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, the Pioneer Press reported. Chauvin and his partner entered the home, confron'ing Ira Latrell Toles, whose partner had made the 911 call. Toles ran from the pair, but 'they caught and tried to subdue him,' a police statement said. The statement said Toles 'grabbed at one of the officer's guns, and Chauvin shot him in the torso.' "
Is this not shades of the George Zimmerman case regarding his murder of Trayvon Martin?
More from the Insider piece:
"In 2011, Chauvin was involved in a third police shooting. He was among five officers to respond to reports of a shooting. Leroy Martinez, a 23-year-old Alaska Native, was spotted running from the scene, and the officers gave chase, local news reported. The police said Martinez brandished a pistol as he fled. Terry Nutter, one of the responding officers, shot Martinez. An eyewitness account, reported by the Star Tribune, challenged the police's claim that Martinez was holding a pistol when he was shot." " 'He had no reason to shoot that little boy,' Delora Iceman told the Star Tribune. She said Martinez had dropped the weapon and held his arms in the air before the police shot him. During his nearly two decades with the Minneapolis Police Department, Chauvin has been the subject of several internal complaints... three separate reviews from the Civilian Review Authority found Chauvin to have used 'demeaning tone, and' 'derogatory language.' No other details were available. He has also been the subject of seven reviews by the local Office of Police Conduct. Each review concludes: 'Closed – No discipline.' No other details were available."
Derek Chauvin should never have been in the Minneapolis Police Department for as long as 19 years. When one reviews the above news piece, isn't it pretty plain that this dude should never have been in any position of control over anyone! He, and his fellow thugs are right out of the Pinkerton or Baldwin Felts school of law enforcement. Go and get the 1987 film classic Matawan, written and directed by John Sayles, based on the 1920 Matawan, West Virginia coal miners' strike. See how those who ' Own the Manor ' use their paid 'thugs with badges' to keep the rabble in line. Similar to how Officer Chauvin and Co. protected the pure white world outside of the inner city from men like George Floyd. Imagine those neighbors of Floyd who had to stand behind the Blue Wall of Chauvin's three partners ( in crime?) and listen to a dying man gasp for help. Amazing what power those four had over the community because ' They are the Law!!'
One thinks that maybe our local police should realize that the overwhelming majority of us are all Working Stiffs the same as them. The color of the person shouldn't mean squat! We all need to go and punch out the hours for our survival the same as those four cops. I remember how my friend's older sister ( foolish white woman) pontificated at a Christmas party about the poor: " Let's face it, most of them are either drug addicts or alcoholics". She failed to understand that, in most poor neighborhoods, the overwhelming majority of the residents have to get up early (sometimes earlier than folks from better neighborhoods) for shitty paying jobs, shit conditions with few or NO benefits. Yet, they do it. Yes, the study of Socialism teaches this writer that Capitalism as it exists today in Amerika has set up the deck their way. In poorer areas the liquor stores abound, along with Payday loans, food stores that overcharge and of course... the flow of illicit drugs goes unabated. The scene from Godfather 1 when the heads of five Mob families discuss the drug trade, one of the mobsters says " In my city we would keep the traffic in the dark areas for the colored people. They're animals anyway so let them lose their souls."
I have been on the soapbox for over 30 years saying that only four year college graduates with majors in either sociology or criminal justice should qualify to be police officers... period! Perhaps if we lived in a more equitable economic system , whereupon ALL who work for the owners get a bigger piece of the pie, the pay would be enough to attract new , more educated police officers. The higher one goes up on the ladder of intellect, I believe rational behavior can follow. The motto ' Protect and Serve' should resonate more than it does now. Too many who stand behind the Blue Wall keep the rest of us away from Truth. I remember speaking to my lawyer's Criminal Defense partner. He had been an Assistant DA for years before jumping ship. " Here's my experience" , he said, " If they want to get someone real bad, they will plant a gun or plant drugs when they arrest. They also will, in more cases than not, LIE on the stand to help a fellow officer. I have seen it too many times. " Who suffers from this ' Perjury Mill' ? Well, all those good officers who go by the book and treat everyone the same, regardless of color, creed , religion or sexual orientation. They need to speak up... loudly!!
Perhaps it is time for all our governments, local, county, state or federal, to insist on a much higher standard for policing. Chauvin wouldn't have his jackboot on Floyd's vulnerable neck if he wasn't a cop in the first place!
PA Farruggio


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-12--Five Reasons Why People Defend Police Brutality

s protests against police brutality are met with an unceasing barrage of police brutality , the obsequious bootlicking copologia in online discussion forums has been cranked up to eleven .
I ’ ve written a couple of articles touching on the police assault and hospitalization of 75 year-old lifelong peace activist Martin Gugino , and the bat shit insane arguments I ’ ve been encountering to justify this self-evidently unjustifiable occurrence have been absolutely jaw-dropping .
People have been using some of the dumbest arguments I ’ ve ever seen on the internet to claim Gugino staged his injury .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ article by the odious disinfo blog The Conservative Treehouse which claims , citing literally no evidence whatsoever , that “ Gugino was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers ” , assuming on no basis whatsoever that the septuagenarian would need to be within touching distance of the police in order to do such a thing .
Mostly , though , they ’ ve been saying that Gugino deserved to be shoved by the officers .
“ He shouldn ’ t have gotten in their path !
” they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s not okay to assault someone just because they ’ re in your way and you ’ re wearing a badge .
Don ’ t shove people , much less senior citizens who could be injured and die .
You should have learned not to shove people in preschool .
“ Well obviously if you get too close to the police moving around like that they ’ re going to give you a shove , ” they argue .
Yes , yes police do often physically assault people for inexcusable reasons .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ grownups are trying to solve here .
Stop interrupting adult conversations designed to accomplish that .
Why do people do this ?
Why whenever there ’ s a video of police brutality , no matter how clearly and obviously wrong it is , are there always people falling all over themselves to try and justify or spin it as something acceptable or illusory ?
Literally always , without a single , solitary exception ?
Well , here are five reasons .
One reason is because of a glitch in human cognition known as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fallacy , which causes us to assume that if bad things are happening to someone , it ’ s because that person deserves it .
Blaming the victim is more psychologically comfortable than seeing that we live in an unjust world where we could very easily become victim ourselves someday , and we select for that comfort over rational analysis .
It allows us to feel as though we ’ re in control of our fate .
In the early 1960s a social psychologist named Melvin Lerner discovered that test subjects had a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unfortunate event to the victims–even when said event couldn ’ t logically have been their fault–and to assign positive attributes to people who received good fortune–even if their fortune was due solely to random chance .
Lerner theorized that people have an unconscious need to organize their perceptions under the fallacious premise that the world is basically just , where good things tend to happen to good people and bad things tend to happen to bad people .
Nothing in a rational analysis of our world tells us that this assumption is in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lerner and subsequent social psychologists have backed up his theory that most of us tend to interpret events through the lens of this irrational assumption anyway .
People are more comfortable believing they live in a controllable and just world , so when a cop brutalizes someone they need to start blaming the victim to maintain that psychologically comfortable perspective .
Acknowledging reality is less comfortable .
This is also why people often start babbling about how a rape victim shouldn ’ t have been wearing that or should have known better than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used self-defense techniques X , Y and Z.
It ’ s why people justify the brutalization of Julian Assange , and it ’ s why people excuse the abusive things the US government does to nations which dare to disobey its dictates .
The alternative is being real with yourself and accepting the uncomfortable reality that we live in an unpredictable and out-of-control world where bad things can happen to good people .
Many people don ’ t know how to live life that courageously .
Because journalists often rely on statements by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news events , there ’ s a much closer relationship between the news media and the police than there is between the news media and activists or the rank-and-file civilian population .
This puts the police responsible for public relations in a prime position to advance narratives that put a much friendlier face on the cops than they have earned .
This , combined with the dynamic of access journalism and fact that the news media are owned by billionaires with a vested interest in keeping their fortunes and assets protected by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control the dominant narrative about them .
Most westerners have also been indoctrinated throughout their entire lives by movies and TV shows about heroic cops saving the day from villainous bad guys .
The wealthy class which makes these movies and shows have built their kingdoms upon the status quo whose existence depends upon a violent force controlling the world internationally and a violent force controlling the nation domestically , so mainstream consciousness is constantly saturated in stories about the military and police being awesome and virtuous .
So it ’ s no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consciousness scrambling to defend depraved acts by people they ’ ve been trained by copaganda to regard as beneficent heroes .
Let ’ s not kid ourselves about the major reason conservatives have been frantically trying to manage the narrative about Martin Gugino more than other victims in these protests .
They understand that footage of a frail old white man being assaulted and injured by police is having a much bigger impact on a large chunk of the population than seeing people of color assaulted .
For many Americans , black people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unconsciously–as normal .
Consciously or unconsciously , it ’ s seen by many as just the thing that you do with black people .
Bootlickers with any awareness of perception management would understand that their cop-defending agenda is jeopardized far more by the footage of Gugino than the countless other police brutality victims at these protests .
People of color are trying to change this underlying inequality of perception , and a lot of the pushback they ’ re receiving is due to a reflexive defensiveness around maintaining that inequality .
If you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some family ’ s front lawn for a very long time–so long you forget that it wasn ’ t your parking space to begin with–it would feel like a major imposition for the family to tell you it ’ s time to find somewhere else to park .
You ’ d feel like you were the victim .
That ’ s how attempts to address racial inequality are experienced by many white people .
People of color haven ’ t been permitted to occupy a human-sized amount of space in our society , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their whole property it feels to many white people like a cruel eviction .
That ’ s how a completely innocuous phrase like “ black lives matter ” gets interpreted as something threatening like “ black lives matter more than white lives ” ; when all you ’ ve known is the up-power position , elevating those in down-power positions can feel like something is being taken away from you .
So you get defensive .

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s protests against police brutality are met with an unceasing barrage of police brutality , the obsequious bootlicking copologia in online discussion forums has been cranked up to eleven.
I’ve written a couple of articles touching on the police assault and hospitalization of 75 year-old lifelong peace activist Martin Gugino, and the bat shit insane arguments I’ve been encountering to justify this self-evidently unjustifiable occurrence have been absolutely jaw-dropping. People have been using some of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever seen on the internet to claim Gugino staged his injury. They’ve been spamming a bogus article by the odious disinfo blog The Conservative Treehouse which claims, citing literally no evidence whatsoever, that “Gugino was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers”, assuming on no basis whatsoever that the septuagenarian would need to be within touching distance of the police in order to do such a thing.
Mostly, though, they’ve been saying that Gugino deserved to be shoved by the officers.
“He shouldn’t have gotten in their path!” they object.
No, bootlicker, it’s not okay to assault someone just because they’re in your way and you’re wearing a badge. Don’t shove people, much less senior citizens who could be injured and die. You should have learned not to shove people in preschool.
“Well obviously if you get too close to the police moving around like that they’re going to give you a shove,” they argue.
Yes, yes police do often physically assault people for inexcusable reasons. Thank you for confirming the problem the grownups are trying to solve here. Stop interrupting adult conversations designed to accomplish that.
Why do people do this? Why whenever there’s a video of police brutality, no matter how clearly and obviously wrong it is, are there always people falling all over themselves to try and justify or spin it as something acceptable or illusory? Literally always, without a single, solitary exception?
Well, here are five reasons.
1. The Just World Fallacy
One reason is because of a glitch in human cognition known as the just world hypothesis or just world fallacy, which causes us to assume that if bad things are happening to someone, it’s because that person deserves it. Blaming the victim is more psychologically comfortable than seeing that we live in an unjust world where we could very easily become victim ourselves someday, and we select for that comfort over rational analysis. It allows us to feel as though we’re in control of our fate.
In the early 1960s a social psychologist named Melvin Lerner discovered that test subjects had a curious tendency to assign blame for an unfortunate event to the victims–even when said event couldn’t logically have been their fault–and to assign positive attributes to people who received good fortune–even if their fortune was due solely to random chance. Lerner theorized that people have an unconscious need to organize their perceptions under the fallacious premise that the world is basically just, where good things tend to happen to good people and bad things tend to happen to bad people. Nothing in a rational analysis of our world tells us that this assumption is in any way true, but tests by Lerner and subsequent social psychologists have backed up his theory that most of us tend to interpret events through the lens of this irrational assumption anyway.
People are more comfortable believing they live in a controllable and just world, so when a cop brutalizes someone they need to start blaming the victim to maintain that psychologically comfortable perspective. Acknowledging reality is less comfortable. This is also why people often start babbling about how a rape victim shouldn’t have been wearing that or should have known better than to get so drunk, should have used self-defense techniques X, Y and Z. It’s why people justify the brutalization of Julian Assange, and it’s why people excuse the abusive things the US government does to nations which dare to disobey its dictates.
The alternative is being real with yourself and accepting the uncomfortable reality that we live in an unpredictable and out-of-control world where bad things can happen to good people. Many people don’t know how to live life that courageously.
2. Copaganda
Because journalists often rely on statements by police departments in order to report on news events, there’s a much closer relationship between the news media and the police than there is between the news media and activists or the rank-and-file civilian population. This puts the police responsible for public relations in a prime position to advance narratives that put a much friendlier face on the cops than they have earned. This, combined with the dynamic of access journalism and fact that the news media are owned by billionaires with a vested interest in keeping their fortunes and assets protected by a militarized police force, enables police to control the dominant narrative about them.
Most westerners have also been indoctrinated throughout their entire lives by movies and TV shows about heroic cops saving the day from villainous bad guys. The wealthy class which makes these movies and shows have built their kingdoms upon the status quo whose existence depends upon a violent force controlling the world internationally and a violent force controlling the nation domestically, so mainstream consciousness is constantly saturated in stories about the military and police being awesome and virtuous.
So it’s no wonder we constantly see this same mainstream consciousness scrambling to defend depraved acts by people they’ve been trained by copaganda to regard as beneficent heroes.
3. White Privilege
The following is my husband Tim's account of witnessing the police shooting of Oscar Grant on 1/1/2009. #BlackLivesMatter The weirdest thing about it was how unsurprising the actual shooting was when it happened. That's how far the police had already escalated things by then. /1 — Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) June 4, 2020
We’d be lying to ourselves if we pretended there isn’t also a major racial component to a lot of this. I recently shared my husband Tim’s account of witnessing the police shooting of a black man named Oscar Grant in 2009, and watching white people rush to excuse something he knew for a fact to be completely inexcusable while black people (who are statistically much more likely to be victimized by police violence) were unable to maintain any illusions about what happened.
Let’s not kid ourselves about the major reason conservatives have been frantically trying to manage the narrative about Martin Gugino more than other victims in these protests. They understand that footage of a frail old white man being assaulted and injured by police is having a much bigger impact on a large chunk of the population than seeing people of color assaulted. For many Americans, black people being brutalized by police is seen–consciously or unconsciously–as normal. Consciously or unconsciously, it’s seen by many as just the thing that you do with black people. Bootlickers with any awareness of perception management would understand that their cop-defending agenda is jeopardized far more by the footage of Gugino than the countless other police brutality victims at these protests.
People of color are trying to change this underlying inequality of perception, and a lot of the pushback they’re receiving is due to a reflexive defensiveness around maintaining that inequality.
If you’d been parking your car on some family’s front lawn for a very long time–so long you forget that it wasn’t your parking space to begin with–it would feel like a major imposition for the family to tell you it’s time to find somewhere else to park. You’d feel like you were the victim. That’s how attempts to address racial inequality are experienced by many white people. People of color haven’t been permitted to occupy a human-sized amount of space in our society, so when they start moving in to their whole property it feels to many white people like a cruel eviction.
That’s how a completely innocuous phrase like “black lives matter” gets interpreted as something threatening like “black lives matter more than white lives”; when all you’ve known is the up-power position, elevating those in down-power positions can feel like something is being taken away from you. So you get defensive.
4. Fear of Others


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-12--String Of Attacks On US Forces And Facilities Continues In Iraq

Earlier , Saraya Thorat Al-Ashrin Al-Thani , one of Iraq ’ s many anti-US groups , which have surfaced since the start of the year , released two videos claiming that these show attacks on convoys carried out using US equipment .
According to the group , the attacks took place on May 20 and June 6 .
The impact of the attacks remains unclear .
Military bases housing US troops across Iraq and the U.S. embassy have frequently been targeted by mortar and rocket attacks over the post months .
According to US officials , most of these have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iraqi-U.S. relations have been witnessing tensions since January 3 when a US drone struck a convoy at Baghdad airport , killing Qassem Soleimani , commander of the Quds Force of Iran ’ s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis , deputy chief of Iraq ’ s Popular Mobilization Forces .
This attack escalated tensions in the region and led to a large-scale Iranian missile attack on US military bases in Iraq .
The Iraqi Parliament also demanded that the US withdraw its troops from the country .
Washington rejected the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is forced to withdraw its forces .
On June 11 , US and Iraqi officials will be holding another meeting to discuss the current state of Iraqi-US relations and the issue of US troop withdrawal from the country .
However , it remains highly unlikely that Washington will back down from its de-facto occupation of the country .
Meanwhile , the Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces continue their anti-ISIS raids in eastern Homs and southern Raqqah in central Syria .
According to pro-government sources , over 10 ISIS members have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ efforts since the start of the month .
On June 10 , a unit of the Syrian Army and pro-government locals blocked a US military convoy and forced it to retreat near the village of Dardara in the province of Hasakah .
Separately , a US military patrol was blocked by the Russian Military Police near Qamishli .
At least one US vehicle broke down when it went off road to bypass the Russians .

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ast night, two rockets struck the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The heavily fortified area houses some of the main Iraqi government offices and the US embassy. There were no immediate reports about casualties. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Earlier, Saraya Thorat Al-Ashrin Al-Thani, one of Iraq’s many anti-US groups, which have surfaced since the start of the year, released two videos claiming that these show attacks on convoys carried out using US equipment. According to the group, the attacks took place on May 20 and June 6. The impact of the attacks remains unclear.
Military bases housing US troops across Iraq and the U.S. embassy have frequently been targeted by mortar and rocket attacks over the post months. According to US officials, most of these have been carried out by Iranian-backed forces.
Iraqi-U.S. relations have been witnessing tensions since January 3 when a US drone struck a convoy at Baghdad airport, killing Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. This attack escalated tensions in the region and led to a large-scale Iranian missile attack on US military bases in Iraq. The Iraqi Parliament also demanded that the US withdraw its troops from the country. Washington rejected the demand and threatened Iraq with sanctions if it is forced to withdraw its forces.
On June 11, US and Iraqi officials will be holding another meeting to discuss the current state of Iraqi-US relations and the issue of US troop withdrawal from the country. However, it remains highly unlikely that Washington will back down from its de-facto occupation of the country.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Army and the National Defense Forces continue their anti-ISIS raids in eastern Homs and southern Raqqah in central Syria. According to pro-government sources, over 10 ISIS members have been neutralized in the framework of these efforts since the start of the month.
On June 10, a unit of the Syrian Army and pro-government locals blocked a US military convoy and forced it to retreat near the village of Dardara in the province of Hasakah. Separately, a US military patrol was blocked by the Russian Military Police near Qamishli. At least one US vehicle broke down when it went off road to bypass the Russians.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-12--PROTESTS IN USA, LAND OF MARLBORO MAN, WILL COME TO NOTHING, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SOLIDARITY, NO VISI

PROTESTS IN USA, LAND OF MARLBORO MAN, WILL COME TO NOTHING, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SOLIDARITY, NO VISION, NOR GUIDING IDEOLOGY TO UNITE THE PEOPLE IN COMMON STRUGGLE AGAINST THE 1%.

Sixteen years on the streets , living and working with the people of China , Jeff Downloadable SoundCloud podcast ( also at the bottom of this page ) , YouTube video , as well as being syndicated on iTunes , Stitcher Radio , RUvid and Ivoox ( links below ) , Thanks to my interview with Chairman Fred Hampton , Jr. , I ’ ve been doing a lot of research about the Black Empowerment movement in the United States ( https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2020/05/27/chairman-fred-hampton-jr-the-black-panther-pantha-cubs-their-revolution-for-self-determination-to-serve-the-people-and-fight-the-us-governments-ongoing-program-of-domestic-genocide-on-china/ ) .
One salient fact is that the Black Panther Party ( BPP ) is organized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ideology , based on socialism , especially Mao Zedong Thought .
To wit , • The Black Panther Party is the Revolutionary Vanguard Party of the People .
The Black Panthers admired , respected and were inspired by Mao Zedong ( Thought ) , because it made Marxism-Leninism relevant to ( poor ) people of color , America ’ s equivalent of China ’ s pre-liberation , toiling masses of oppressed peasants .
The four-volume Collected Works of Mao Zedong is required reading for all Black Panther members .
The Black Panthers sold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Little Red Book on the streets of America , to finance their self-defense , and later , social programs .
In fact , the Black Panthers beat Richard Nixon to China , traveling there in the fall of 1971 , meeting Zhou Enlai ( https : //archives.stanforddaily.com/1971/10/25 ?
page=3§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE11 # article ) .
In the 1930s , Paul Robeson publicly sang China ’ s eventual national anthem , Qilai ( which means Rise Up ) , to audiences in America .
Black Empowerment leader WEB Du Bois traveled to China in 1959 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while celebrating his 91st birthday ( https : //archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/specials/dubois-china.html ) .
In the 1960s , Robert F. Williams ( Black Panther lawyer ) and his wife lived there for three years and both he and Du Bois met Chairman Mao ( https : //radiichina.com/from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-huey-newton-a-history-of-black-americans-in-the-early-prc/ ) .
Mao was so impressed with these revolutionary leaders that he published two essays in their support ( https : //www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm and https : //www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_80.htm ) .
Titles of the two aforementioned Mao essays on the connection between racism , imperialism and capitalism .
With all this Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not hard for the Black Panthers to develop a visionary , guiding ideology .
Thus , they rally around their simple , timeless , • WE WANT FREEDOM .
WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES .
• WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE .
• WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES .
• WE WANT DECENT HOUSING , FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS .
• WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY .
WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY .
• WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE .
• WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE , OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR , ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES .
• WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION .
• WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL , STATE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ AND JAILS .
WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY .
• WE WANT LAND , BREAD , HOUSING , EDUCATION , CLOTHING , JUSTICE , PEACE AND PEOPLE ’ S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY .
( https : //www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm and here is a PDF poster , suitable for framing BPP_Ten_Point_Program ) .
I don ’ t know about you , but it sounds like a great plan for ALL Americans , as well as everyone else in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the visionary , revolutionary Black Panther Party , just remove the word “ Black ” from the list above and presto – the 99 % has a manifesto for social justice and , well , socialism .
The ongoing protests engulfing the United States will come to naught , without a unified vision and a guiding ideology , like the ten-point plan above .
The closest that this was recently realized was Occupy Wall Street in 2011 .
There are lots of explanations as to why it failed ( https : //www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-triumph-of-occupy-wall-street/395408/ ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is laid on it being splintered into “ a hundred focus groups ” , including one of the oligarchs ’ great destroyers of hope , identity politics .
As well , every movement that tries to support the 99 % at the expense of the 1 % is guaranteed to be infiltrated by the CIA , FBI , ATF , local police and thousands of phony Soros/Omidyar NGOs , or that generation ’ s ABC soup equivalents .
They always work closely with their partners in institutional crime , the Mafia .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and guns to get those involved fucked up in the head and attacking each other .
These state actors always stage false flags , creating and financing fake for-and-against groups , using paid protesters , terrorism , violence , vandalism and looting , in order to justify brutal government repression ( http : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/08/26/baba-beijing-is-sick-and-tired-of-the-west-using-hong-kong-to-overthrow-the-cpc-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170821-2/ ) .
They bribe , extort and blackmail nonstop .
They use psyops to split movements into feuding factions and pit groups versus groups , leaders against leaders ( https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2019/07/02/douglas-valentine-on-china-rising-radio-sinoland-the-cia-is-global-capitalisms-secret-gangster-army-190702/ ) .
They of course own and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their Big Lie Propaganda Machine ( BLPM ) , destroy the image and reputation of all enemy movements , to brainwash the masses to fear and loathe them , affecting even the people in same said movements .
( https : //chinarising.puntopress.com/2020/02/14/presstitutes-in-the-pay-of-the-cia-confession-from-the-profession-book-interview-with-john-paul-leonard-and-andrew-schlademan-china-rising-radio-sinoland-200214/ ) .
And if all else fails , they assassinate or frame-to-imprison key people to , as the Chinese say , Cut off the snake ’ s head .
The same thing happened to every Black Empowerment movement , going back to Marcus Garvey and WEB Du Bois , with their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ //www.thoughtco.com/pan-african-leaders-45183 ) .
You can even go back starting in the 1880s , with the prairie populist , communist , socialist and labor movements .
The same oligarchs ’ imperial toolbox has been used for over 100 years to effectively and brutally crush them into non-existence .
The Achilles heel for any movement in the United States , which might permanently bring social and economic justice to the 99 % , always has been and still is its Marlboro Man ethic .
Me-Myself-I-Go-It-Alone is glorified , admired and exalted .
Sorry to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Panthers , 95 % of US citizens would not know the meaning of solidarity if it slapped them in the face , which is Us-Ourselves-We-Sacrifice-Together .
Solidarity is the heart and soul of communism-socialism , which is why no matter how many tens of billions of dollars Eurangloland burns , how sky high it piles on illegal , genocidal , color revolutions , crimes-against-humanity sanctions , blockades , asset seizures , boycotts , false flags and military threats/attacks , it can not turn free and independent peoples in China , DPRK , Vietnam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and elsewhere into colonial , global capitalist whores .
These nations peoples have a common vision , collective purpose and guiding ideology : communism and/or socialism in solidarity and mutual self-sacrifice .
Can Americans overcome this deleterious Marlboro Man defect engrained in their sociocultural DNA ?
Can they embrace real , meaningful , unifying solidarity ?
Can they do it while keeping capitalism as their economic system ?
That is truly the $ 64,000 question .
Russians have probably come closest to succeeding with their anti-imperial , mixed state-private system .
Or is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ justice for the US ’ s long suffering 99 % ?
My fellow Americans and Europeans , the Black Panthers already have – in solidarity – a visionary , guiding ideology , crystalized into a simple 10-point program , which people of all colors and creeds can embrace .
You know the 1 % are going to try to subvert , suborn , divide and destroy you and everything you do , so you have to struggle through all that , just like the Chinese , Cubans , Iranians and millions of freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day .
I ’ ll be watching and reporting from outside the BLPM ’ s Great Western Firewall ( GWF ) , so stay tuned .

Sixteen years on the streets, living and working with the people of China, Jeff
Downloadable SoundCloud podcast (also at the bottom of this page), YouTube video, as well as being syndicated on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, RUvid and Ivoox (links below),
Thanks to my interview with Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr., I’ve been doing a lot of research about the Black Empowerment movement in the United States (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2020/05/27/chairman-fred-hampton-jr-the-black-panther-pantha-cubs-their-revolution-for-self-determination-to-serve-the-people-and-fight-the-us-governments-ongoing-program-of-domestic-genocide-on-china/). One salient fact is that the Black Panther Party (BPP) is organized and united behind a visionary, guiding ideology, based on socialism, especially Mao Zedong Thought. To wit,
Power to the People.
Serve the People.
Self-Determination for the People.
The Black Panther Party is the Revolutionary Vanguard Party of the People.
The Black Panthers admired, respected and were inspired by Mao Zedong (Thought), because it made Marxism-Leninism relevant to (poor) people of color, America’s equivalent of China’s pre-liberation, toiling masses of oppressed peasants. The four-volume Collected Works of Mao Zedong is required reading for all Black Panther members. The Black Panthers sold countless thousands of copies of Mao’s Little Red Book on the streets of America, to finance their self-defense, and later, social programs.
In fact, the Black Panthers beat Richard Nixon to China, traveling there in the fall of 1971, meeting Zhou Enlai (https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1971/10/25?page=3§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE11#article). In the 1930s, Paul Robeson publicly sang China’s eventual national anthem, Qilai (which means Rise Up), to audiences in America. Black Empowerment leader WEB Du Bois traveled to China in 1959 and gave a speech in Beijing, while celebrating his 91st birthday (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/specials/dubois-china.html). In the 1960s, Robert F. Williams (Black Panther lawyer) and his wife lived there for three years and both he and Du Bois met Chairman Mao (https://radiichina.com/from-w-e-b-du-bois-to-huey-newton-a-history-of-black-americans-in-the-early-prc/).
Mao was so impressed with these revolutionary leaders that he published two essays in their support (https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm and https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_80.htm).
Titles of the two aforementioned Mao essays on the connection between racism, imperialism and capitalism.
With all this Chinese communist-socialist inspiration to work with, it was not hard for the Black Panthers to develop a visionary, guiding ideology. Thus, they rally around their simple, timeless,
Black Panthers:
Ten-Point Program
WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. WE WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY. WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
(https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm and here is a PDF poster, suitable for framing BPP_Ten_Point_Program).
I don’t know about you, but it sounds like a great plan for ALL Americans, as well as everyone else in Eurangloland. With all due respect to the visionary, revolutionary Black Panther Party, just remove the word “Black” from the list above and presto – the 99% has a manifesto for social justice and, well, socialism.
The ongoing protests engulfing the United States will come to naught, without a unified vision and a guiding ideology, like the ten-point plan above. The closest that this was recently realized was Occupy Wall Street in 2011. There are lots of explanations as to why it failed (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/the-triumph-of-occupy-wall-street/395408/), but in general, the blame is laid on it being splintered into “a hundred focus groups”, including one of the oligarchs’ great destroyers of hope, identity politics.
As well, every movement that tries to support the 99% at the expense of the 1% is guaranteed to be infiltrated by the CIA, FBI, ATF, local police and thousands of phony Soros/Omidyar NGOs, or that generation’s ABC soup equivalents. They always work closely with their partners in institutional crime, the Mafia.
These same saboteurs always bring drugs, alcohol and guns to get those involved fucked up in the head and attacking each other. These state actors always stage false flags, creating and financing fake for-and-against groups, using paid protesters, terrorism, violence, vandalism and looting, in order to justify brutal government repression (http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/08/26/baba-beijing-is-sick-and-tired-of-the-west-using-hong-kong-to-overthrow-the-cpc-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170821-2/). They bribe, extort and blackmail nonstop. They use psyops to split movements into feuding factions and pit groups versus groups, leaders against leaders (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2019/07/02/douglas-valentine-on-china-rising-radio-sinoland-the-cia-is-global-capitalisms-secret-gangster-army-190702/).
They of course own and operate the government-corporate mainstream media and using their Big Lie Propaganda Machine (BLPM), destroy the image and reputation of all enemy movements, to brainwash the masses to fear and loathe them, affecting even the people in same said movements. (https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2020/02/14/presstitutes-in-the-pay-of-the-cia-confession-from-the-profession-book-interview-with-john-paul-leonard-and-andrew-schlademan-china-rising-radio-sinoland-200214/). And if all else fails, they assassinate or frame-to-imprison key people to, as the Chinese say, Cut off the snake’s head.
The same thing happened to every Black Empowerment movement, going back to Marcus Garvey and WEB Du Bois, with their Pan Africanism in 1900 (https://www.thoughtco.com/pan-african-leaders-45183). You can even go back starting in the 1880s, with the prairie populist, communist, socialist and labor movements. The same oligarchs’ imperial toolbox has been used for over 100 years to effectively and brutally crush them into non-existence.
The Achilles heel for any movement in the United States, which might permanently bring social and economic justice to the 99%, always has been and still is its Marlboro Man ethic. Me-Myself-I-Go-It-Alone is glorified, admired and exalted. Sorry to say, but outside groups like the Black Panthers, 95% of US citizens would not know the meaning of solidarity if it slapped them in the face, which is Us-Ourselves-We-Sacrifice-Together. Solidarity is the heart and soul of communism-socialism, which is why no matter how many tens of billions of dollars Eurangloland burns, how sky high it piles on illegal, genocidal, color revolutions, crimes-against-humanity sanctions, blockades, asset seizures, boycotts, false flags and military threats/attacks, it cannot turn free and independent peoples in China, DPRK, Vietnam, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and elsewhere into colonial, global capitalist whores. These nations peoples have a common vision, collective purpose and guiding ideology: communism and/or socialism in solidarity and mutual self-sacrifice.
Can Americans overcome this deleterious Marlboro Man defect engrained in their sociocultural DNA? Can they embrace real, meaningful, unifying solidarity? Can they do it while keeping capitalism as their economic system? That is truly the $64,000 question. Russians have probably come closest to succeeding with their anti-imperial, mixed state-private system. Or is socialism the only way to achieve true justice for the US’s long suffering 99%?
My fellow Americans and Europeans, the Black Panthers already have – in solidarity – a visionary, guiding ideology, crystalized into a simple 10-point program, which people of all colors and creeds can embrace. You know the 1% are going to try to subvert, suborn, divide and destroy you and everything you do, so you have to struggle through all that, just like the Chinese, Cubans, Iranians and millions of freedom fighting comrades do around the world every day.
I’ll be watching and reporting from outside the BLPM’s Great Western Firewall (GWF), so stay tuned.
Good luck and dare I say,
Power to the People!
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n Gary Pomerantz 's recent book on Bob Cousy , `` The Last Pass '' , he relates a story about the Boston Celtics All Star as to race relations .
This was from 1950 , when most of our nation was even more segregated than we ( still ) are now .
Cousy was a rookie that year and roomed with the team 's only black player , Chuck Cooper .
They became close friends , going to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wives on a regular basis .
They had to go travel to play in areas of the country that had ' Jim Crow ' laws to force segregation : ' White Only ' and ' Colored Only ' restaurant eating sections , bathrooms , water fountains and hotels .
Cooper , a proud man , really got ' taken back ' by such horrific and draconian laws .
On one trip he just felt violated by such attacks on his manhood .
Cousy , very troubled for his friend , told him that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end , had treated the Jews just as horrifically .
Matter of fact , he said , being a Catholic he was angered by how some Southern right wing nuts trashed Catholic churches due to their hatred of what they referred to as ' Papists ' .
Cooper answered him that `` When they look at those folks they can not see if they are Jewish or Catholic or whatever .
All they have to do is look at me and know ! ''
As a baby boomer this writer can assure you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ segregated , white supremacist society .
It could be North , South , East or West , it is usually always the same thing : If one is of a darker complexion , then they are simply a Nigga !
Period !
All the crap about civil rights may be OK for some government jobs , but for the majority of Amerika , Niggas will always be second class citizens .
Whether it be for private sector employment , housing or getting into better schools , to name just a few examples , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the stick .
One example resonates well with me .
It was 1985 and I was employed at a local real estate office .
The owner , a tall Irishman , once got arrested for running guns in Texas for shipment to the IRA in Belfast .
He knew , from his experience with the British in Northern Ireland , that he himself was thought of as a Nigga .
One day he approached me to handle the rental of a home he owned in the area near the office .
I answered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a doctor who had just been hired by the local hospital .
When I showed the house to he and his wife , I noticed that he was originally from India .
He and his wife loved the house and did n't even try to negotiate the rental charge .
They wrote me a check for the deposit , and I told them to meet me tomorrow morning at 10 at the office to sign the contract etc .
I was really happy the next morning when I arrived at the office .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , hefty commission for me , the rental of a house .
My boss saw me and called me over to him , right in front of the other sales people.
`` Phil , give the man back his check when he comes in .
Tell him you are sorry but I already rented the house . ''
I was shocked !
Why , I asked ?
He rolled up his sleeve and said , as he slapped his hand across his wrist `` Do you see the color of my wrist ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ n't rent .
I do n't care myself , Phil , about things of that nature .
It is just that I have to be careful as to not insult my neighbors by renting to someone colored . ''
I was aghast .
But the guy is a doctor , I jibed back .
I do n't get it !
My boss got adamant and insisted I do what he asked .
I exclaimed He 's a **** doctor !
Do it yourself !
I quit !
!
Prejudice has always been a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bunch of three year olds playing together .
They care not for what background each of them come from .
Not at all .
I recall growing up in a 98 % white neighborhood in Brooklyn .
As with most of the neighborhoods in perhaps the whole country , this is how it was ... and to some extent still is .
The only black people I would see ( though they were referred to in those days as ' Colored ' or ' Negro ' ) were either the cleaning ladies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , an apartment building janitor , or a delivery truck helper .
As I have related in a previous column , my earliest experience of racial fear was when my mother took me with her around the corner to the grocery store .
I must have been five years old , and she held my hand as we crossed the avenue .
Coming in our direction was this black man , dressed in a suit .
As we approached him I could feel her hand tightening on mine .
After he passed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I was working as a marketing director for a Brooklyn based manufacturer .
One evening I was on a flight to Phoenix , on this huge wide body plane .
Many of us were able to stand around in a lounge area .
I made conversation with this 40 something fellow from Israel .
He was an engineer on his way to a conference .
I asked him about his feelings on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict .
His answer still reverberates in my memory bank as if it was yesterday.
`` Well '' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way it is for many Israelis .
The Palestinians are to us like your southern blacks are to you here .
We see them breeding like rabbits , knee deep in poverty .
If we do not do something about this problem , they will one day out populate us .
As sorry I am to say this , but you asked for my truthful answer , is if we do n't push them into the sea , our culture will be doomed ... .
period ! ''
History has this terrible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we never learn .

BE SURE TO PASS THESE ARTICLES TO FRIENDS AND KIN. A LOT DEPENDS ON THIS. DO YOUR PART.
Philip Farruggio OpEds
I
n Gary Pomerantz's recent book on Bob Cousy, " The Last Pass", he relates a story about the Boston Celtics All Star as to race relations. This was from 1950, when most of our nation was even more segregated than we (still) are now. Cousy was a rookie that year and roomed with the team's only black player, Chuck Cooper. They became close friends, going to jazz clubs together and socializing with their wives on a regular basis. They had to go travel to play in areas of the country that had ' Jim Crow' laws to force segregation : ' White Only' and ' Colored Only' restaurant eating sections ,bathrooms, water fountains and hotels. Cooper, a proud man, really got ' taken back' by such horrific and draconian laws. On one trip he just felt violated by such attacks on his manhood. Cousy, very troubled for his friend, told him that Germany, up until the war's end, had treated the Jews just as horrifically. Matter of fact, he said, being a Catholic he was angered by how some Southern right wing nuts trashed Catholic churches due to their hatred of what they referred to as ' Papists'. Cooper answered him that " When they look at those folks they cannot see if they are Jewish or Catholic or whatever. All they have to do is look at me and know!"
As a baby boomer this writer can assure you that I have always lived in a segregated , white supremacist society. It could be North, South, East or West, it is usually always the same thing: If one is of a darker complexion, then they are simply a Nigga! Period! All the crap about civil rights may be OK for some government jobs, but for the majority of Amerika, Niggas will always be second class citizens. Whether it be for private sector employment, housing or getting into better schools, to name just a few examples, the Nigga gets the short end of the stick. One example resonates well with me. It was 1985 and I was employed at a local real estate office. The owner, a tall Irishman, once got arrested for running guns in Texas for shipment to the IRA in Belfast. He knew, from his experience with the British in Northern Ireland, that he himself was thought of as a Nigga . One day he approached me to handle the rental of a home he owned in the area near the office. I answered the first call I got, from a doctor who had just been hired by the local hospital. When I showed the house to he and his wife, I noticed that he was originally from India. He and his wife loved the house and didn't even try to negotiate the rental charge. They wrote me a check for the deposit, and I told them to meet me tomorrow morning at 10 at the office to sign the contract etc. I was really happy the next morning when I arrived at the office. This was going to be a nice, hefty commission for me, the rental of a house. My boss saw me and called me over to him, right in front of the other sales people. " Phil, give the man back his check when he comes in. Tell him you are sorry but I already rented the house." I was shocked! Why, I asked? He rolled up his sleeve and said, as he slapped his hand across his wrist " Do you see the color of my wrist? Anything darker than that, you don't rent. I don't care myself, Phil, about things of that nature. It is just that I have to be careful as to not insult my neighbors by renting to someone colored." I was aghast. But the guy is a doctor, I jibed back. I don't get it! My boss got adamant and insisted I do what he asked. I exclaimed He's a **** doctor! Do it yourself! I quit!!
Prejudice has always been a 'Learned response'. Just look at a bunch of three year olds playing together. They care not for what background each of them come from. Not at all. I recall growing up in a 98% white neighborhood in Brooklyn. As with most of the neighborhoods in perhaps the whole country, this is how it was... and to some extent still is. The only black people I would see ( though they were referred to in those days as ' Colored' or ' Negro') were either the cleaning ladies who a few of my neighbors hired, an apartment building janitor, or a delivery truck helper. As I have related in a previous column, my earliest experience of racial fear was when my mother took me with her around the corner to the grocery store. I must have been five years old, and she held my hand as we crossed the avenue. Coming in our direction was this black man, dressed in a suit. As we approached him I could feel her hand tightening on mine. After he passed by her hand loosened up.
In 1988 I was working as a marketing director for a Brooklyn based manufacturer. One evening I was on a flight to Phoenix, on this huge wide body plane. Many of us were able to stand around in a lounge area. I made conversation with this 40 something fellow from Israel. He was an engineer on his way to a conference. I asked him about his feelings on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. His answer still reverberates in my memory bank as if it was yesterday. " Well" , he said, " Here is the way it is for many Israelis. The Palestinians are to us like your southern blacks are to you here. We see them breeding like rabbits, knee deep in poverty. If we do not do something about this problem, they will one day out populate us. As sorry I am to say this, but you asked for my truthful answer, is if we don't push them into the sea, our culture will be doomed.... period!"
History has this terrible habit of always repeating itself... IF we never learn.
PA Farruggio
June 2020