Comments by "Travis Cutler" (@traviscutler9912) on "Middle East Eye"
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Assange was the canary in the coal mine.
I think it's an important time to remember the history of the most influential, successful, anti-Imperial, anti-capitalist, pro-worker organization ever in America, the Black Panthers, why they were formed and specifically what happened to them.
First, they formed as a result of the police in America being so corrupt and racist that they could indiscriminately beat and murder black people pretty much anywhere, whatsoever, that it necessitated some sort of organized political and or security structure to fight back, which they did as a group with a great aesthetic to boot! They armed themselves legally which coincidentally prompted Governor Ronald Reagan to help implement the first gun control laws in America (If you want gun control, arm, every black man in America). They organized themselves, while also reaching out to the broader community to establish protection from not only the police but also general crime that the police refused to address. They then implemented various community programs such as education, medical programs, business, food programs for everyone in their community.
It did not go unnoticed, as protecting your people from state violence can not under ANY circumstances be tolerated.
"In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group. "
NPR
The obvious result was that everyone from the Black Panthers was either murdered, imprisoned for life or turned into an informant to destroy not only the group BUT more importantly the credibility of the movement broadly. So, just to be clear on the stakes of any endeavor that's challenging power at this level; is if you ever organize anything that's actually successful enough to genuinely threaten The Establishment's iron grip on absolutely everything, whatsoever, lest the bad apple of community solidarity ruins the batch of corporate Oligarchy. You should expexct swiftly and without remorse the same results, if not considerably worse, given the fact that they are burning hospital ridden children alive. Those are the stakes you're playing for and unless you are very clear about that, you not only do a disservice to the mission but also endanger people who aren't prepared for what's coming next and because they don't understand what's at stake, they may further undermine the group as a whole through no fault of their own.
Sadly, the general public believes that there is such a thing as the rule of law, human rights, a legal framework for accountability on government's power that could at least slightly constrain the worst elements of a rogue security establishment's most depraved acts of illegal violence..............they are incorrect and allowing their ignorance to continue turns them into victims of a war they never signed up for.
The system works and it won't stop working until everyone's dead and they own everything. Unfortunately, that's just how it is and it's time we start to address it as such.
Unfortunately, class war is still a War (regardless, personally, I am still a conscious objector to any forms of violence as it only begets more violence). Therefore, it has casualties, collateral damage and massive losses to the side that is losing which is the Left to be clear. Without the acknowledgment of those odds and consequences, you cannot begin to build a credible plan to fight or win let alone survive.
It may be that some people are willing to sacrifice their freedom for decades, their wellbeing or even their lives for the greater good but groups like the CIA aren't as respectful as the Mafia and will 110% involve friends, family, children, lying & fabricating evidence as they have no limits on ANYTHING WHATSOEVER AND ANYONE STARTING TO CHALLENGE THEM MUST BE TOLD WHAT THEY ACTUALLY FACE.
The system works.
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