The Expression of American Power [rant] - Lorenzo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] @
12:50:42
The military-political intervention by the U.S. government into the Middle
East is not about just the naked use of force, but is a projection of
American imperialist might. Like every empire before it, it must conquer
the "lesser nations" as its reason for existence. Yes, of course, this
country is facing a major economic crisis at home, but by stealing Iraq's
oil wealth, and taking over other nations in the Middle East, it puts
itself in the political line of fire of other nation-states. That does not
matter, under the new Bush "pax American" doctrine these folks honestly
believe that by using old fashioned gunboat diplomacy and "smart bombs",
they can restore the tainted aura of past periods of imperial glory, and
put those country under a new Aamerican colonialism.
From their perspective, the September 11th atttacks were a great thing
because it enabled them to begin creating a fascist police state at home,
while they are free to engage in all maner of foreign adventures abroad. If
they can just shut that damn pesky anti-war movement up, put more youth of
color in prison, and get more central powers for the President, so that the
can rule entirely by emergency decree!
This political strategy is no different than Hitler or any other tin-horn
dictator. The need a free hand for the secret police, military, and
financial capitalists. They are angry that the media is not even more
slavish toward the state, and when the US Patriot Act 2 goes into effect,
which has even more authority to strip civil liberteis, perhaps they will
place the media corporations under government control. After all, that's
what a fascist state is, a corporate state. Corporatations which produce
for the military, a military-industrial complex.
The other day, some stupid white "radical" made a comment to me that there
clearly was no fascism existing now because there were no concentration
camps in America, nor were people being tortured or killed in the streets,
as the Brownshirts and SS did. What world does he live in? Upwards of 1,000
persons are killed each year in this country by police SWAT teams, and San
Quentin, Marion, IL., Attica, Leavenworth, and other penitentiaries which
hold over 2 million people under maximum security, sure look like
concentration camps to me. The immigration detention centers have become
the new political detention centers, and now they are holding people under
a special category as "enemy combatants", where they don't even have access
to attorneys or legal process of any sort to defend themselves. Agents of
the government have now even been authorizedby the Bush administration to
kill or capture American citizens and foreigners, with no legal process
except their suspicion of "treasonous wrongdoing." They can use weapons of
war, such as bombs, missles, assassination rifles, poisons, and other
things to kill any critic of the regime. We are in the midst of fascist
state building, we don't need Il Duce (Mussolini) or Der Feuhrer (Hitler),
we have Bush. Not just to engage in hysterics or alarmism, but we may never
even see another election. Bush has his Shadow Government at the ready,
this is a political-military coup. They just haven't come for you yet.
For years, I have heard this bull about "...it can't happen here". Wake up,
it has happened here, and it's just unfolding! The point I am making is
that every government is a dictatorship, differing only in the amount of
political repression it allows by state security forces. As an Anarchist,
you clearly have to understand that about government. Under certain
conditions it will operate with a democratic facade,while under other
conditions, it will operate with an iron fist. It decides whether to even
allow a middle class political opposition to itself.
Some grave days are ahead, and we cannot allow ourselves to be confused
about the real role of the police, the army, or the government. This is not
organized for our longevity, as much as it is for government officials. We
must build a broadbased movement to combat power, and give it to the people
on the bottom. We will have to fight all manner of murderous repression
along the way, and to fight against the worst instincts of the people at
large who have been indoctrinated by the state to want war, racism and
militarism. Well, we want war too, but we want the revolutionary class war
to finally destroy capitalist imperialism and its bloody agents.
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