The police work for the state and (in theory) for the people. They claim they Serve and Protect. The organized police lobbies (pretending to be a unions) make demands and acts as if they can defy the state that pays them and dismiss the welfare of the public when it suits them. We know many of the departments and unions have been infiltrated by white supremacist and fascist groups which have ideologies that support anti-science and police state views. The state vaccination mandates are based on science and promote the general health and well being of the American people. Those police who refuse to follow the lawful orders of the state in this regard ( i.e., who engage in mutiny) should be summarily dismissed. If a shortage of police protection results the state should call for, and screen, a popular people's militia to replace them re street patrols. This would involve paying the citizens of the local communities in which they live for policing themselves and democratically selecting the militia officers to carry out the policing function. This is what would be done by any progressive democratically elected progressive local or state government faced with a police mutiny. This is what the people should demand and demand of their elected representatives and what the CCDS, CPUSA, DSA, PSL, WWP and all other groups claiming to be socialist should demand.
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Monday, October 18, 2021
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Pentagon's Tragic Mistake!
Tragic mistake indeed. This is par for the course with US drone strikes. The Pentagon spent a week trying to justify this "mistake." The only reason we know about it is these idiots did it in Kabul in front of the press. Thousands of civilians have been killed in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan out of sight of the NYT. We alienated the population outside the occupied cities slaughtering peasants just as we did in Vietnam. These Nazi tactics never work in the long run but they are the only ones the US knows how to use since people don't like hostile armies in their countries. Biden voted for this war when he was in the Senate and he has learned nothing in the meantime as his current foreign policy is an aggressive one towards, Cuba, Russia, Iran, China, etc., and is supportive of dictators around the world who kowtow to American interests. Trumpism with a "human" face.
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Unauthorized Visit to Afghanistan
The very idea that our elected representatives should need "authorization" to go to Afghanistan and investigate for themselves what the administration is up to ( it is known to lie to the American people about its doings -- as all administrations do) is an outrageous anti-democratic attack on the American people's right to know (Pelosi should resign from the House for supporting Biden on this). This is, at least, the ideal of our democracy. In reality of course, we live in an anti-working class bourgeois semi-democracy controlled by the 1% and that's who is ultimately represented by the members of the House so it doesn't matter what our elected representatives find out over in Afghanistan as the ruling class has already made all the major decisions. Nevertheless, since we are demanding a real people's democracy led by the working class and its allies, we should stand up for the principle of the right of elected representatives to go and do as they choose to find out the truth. This is a principle to support even though we won't (with few exceptions) have real elected people's representatives until the overthrow of bourgeoise rule and the establishment of a people's state.
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Cuba and Covid
There is a crisis in Cuba, but the NYT doesn't even begin to tell us who or what is responsible. These deaths and this suffering can be laid at the doorstep of President (the buck stops with me) Biden and the Democrats who are in power in Congress. Uninformed and ignorant Americans, kept that way by the mainstream media including AP and the NYT, don't know what the rest of the world does and that's "It's the Blockade Stupid!"
