https://greenanarchy.anarchyplanet.org/files/2012/05/greenanarchy8.pdf
From Green Anarchy, Issue 8, spring 2002. However the peice they published was from 2001.
Amerikkka’s alleged “war on terrorism” reminds me of Amerikkka’s “war on drugs.” A lot of suffering was caused to people of color and other ethnic groups but never completed its intended mission, because the mission was never meant to be a true war on drugs in the first place. And I see the same thing taking place in this new call for war.
Further, I have a problem with the word “terrorists” coming from the mouths of politicians and the general public who seem to mimic everything the government and the corporate bought-and-paid-for-news media tell them. It is amazing to me that no one seems to call Amerikkka a terrorist nation when, domestically, Amerikkka allowed its police (the new heroes) to drop and use a bomb on the MOVE family in Philadelphia in the 1980s with federal,
state and local authorities instructing the firemen (also new heroes) to let an entire row of buildings burn to the ground as men, women (wimmin) and children died within and shot and beat those who escaped the burning buildings. Or the recent WACO incident with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians where the government’s federal, state, and local authorities, along with the military (Delta Force) used White Phosphorous (one of the most fearsome incendiary devices imaginable, favored by the CIA’s “wet” teams), murdering men, wimmin, and children in that horrible fire.
Who had the MOVE family or the Branch Davidians killed? Who had they terrorized? Yet the government officials and their news agencies SOLD the Amerikkkan, and the world, a tale that it was necessary to act in such an unmerciful and extreme manner. I am also amazed how, in the wake of September 11th, 2001, all New York City police officers and police officers in general, have been categorically elevated to the status of “American Heroes,” and suddenly, all the brutality and ASSASSINATIONS committed by police on Black people and people of color, and their hostility toward them have vanished due to the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. Which now says that the government and their various police agencies have a green light to assault, maim, brutalize and assassinate at will and there will be no accountability, because they are now “American Heroes.” And why? Because the politicians and news media says so?
Daily some politician has made his/her way to the television network’s airwaves and have boldly said, “The Amerikan people may lose some of their civil liberties,” and yet few are paying really close attention to the message being delivered. They are telling the Amerikan people, and the world at large, that there is going to be a new assault and an erosion of the Constitution and the laws that govern this society. It is you-Amerikan people-that will have to put
up with and accept whatever the government decides to do under the guise of “Homeland Security,” which is the perfect cover to deny and denounce all liberties. [We note here that truth has become a valuable commodity that the government of the United States and the media have economized. As Richard Salent, former president of CBS News stated, media’s job is to feed the public what media thinks the public ought to know.] This alleged war on terrorism doesn’t mean a war on simply outside forces, but also, against anyone and anything that “they” deem is, will be, potentially perceived as, or may cause a problem to their hidden agenda. That includes many of us who voice our dissent in word, print, by demonstrations or other forms of actions. It will be Amerikkka’s Heroes who will insure that you and I stay in our place or we will risk being outright assassinated and branded terrorists, or a threat
to homeland security.
(c) Ali Khalid Abdullah 2001 (Ali Khalid Abdullah is an
anarchist prisoner serving a sentence of 10-20 years in
the Michigan state prison system. For more information
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