Posted on 08/20/2014 4:27:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The following statement was released by John Bachtell, chair of the Communist Party USA in the wake of the police shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent police attacks on peaceful protesters and journalists.
The grief and heartbreak of Michael Brown’s parents and Ferguson’s largely African American community is unimaginable. We share that sorrow and grief.
We also join the universal demands to prosecute the officer who committed this horrendous killing.
Our nation should be deeply disturbed by this murder. Michael Brown’s story and those of Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Stephon Watts, John Crawford, Ezell Ford and countless other young African Americans murdered by racist police officers is all too familiar.
We should also be outraged and alarmed by the presence in Ferguson of police laden with weapons suited for a war zone confronting its citizens and denying the right to protest. It is a scene reminiscent of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan or Iraq.
This is a moment for deep national reflection. It strikes at basic issues of humanity, equality and democracy. The cause of Michael’s death is not hard to see. It is the fruit of institutionalized racism and hate within the police department. Ferguson is 67 percent African American, yet only 3 of 50 officers are black.
In Ferguson and communities across the country, policing is routinely based on racial profiling and “stop and frisk” policies targeting young African American and Latino men.
Instead of guaranteeing public safety, police departments are occupying powers. Communities of color are dehumanized; residents are constantly under suspicion and viewed as animals. Police officers imbued with racism and hate, armed with guns and impunity to commit crimes against citizens makes for a deadly mix.
It is in the vital interests of all communities – black, brown and white – to have police departments that are not above the law, that serve and protect all residents, including African American, Latino and other people of color – not just white and wealthy residents.
The investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and FBI into Michael’s killing makes it possible to bring the light of day to Ferguson’s police department and attain justice.
But we must go much further and take steps to actually change police practice. It’s time to bring police departments under the authority of the communities they serve.
It’s time to establish civilian police accountability councils with public authority to investigate, subpoena and charge officers engaged in crimes and corruption.
It’s time to fully integrate police departments at every level, end the practices of racial profiling and stop and frisk, policies that emanated from the failed “war on drugs” and which have resulted in mass incarceration of mainly African American and Latino youth.
It’s time to repeal the section of the National Defense Authorization Act which arms local police departments with military style weapons, armored vehicles, helicopters and combat assault rifles.
Let us turn our grief into action. Let us honor the life of Michael Brown by changing that which led to his tragic death.
“.....and change”
I heard that somewhere before!
What a responsible way to start an essay. It really doesn't matter what follows, reasonable people are excused if they refuse to read further.
The more I read the commies chiming in, the more I hope the cops really gun down these thugs/protesters en masse.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and their “Useful Idiot,” Barack Hussein Obama, believe a diverse population can be manipulated and used to fundamentally change/destroy this country, and they just might be right. One look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.
Countries don’t naturally form with diverse populations, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.
Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.
This most basic of all survival instincts is self-preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.
The current “celebration” of diversity and multiculturalism in the American population was introduced in the 1960s and 70s as a deliberate divisive revolutionary tool wielded by Marxists like Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Richard Cloward, Francis Piven and other radicals. It became dogma taught by Marxists in our universities, then spread by our leftist controlled news media and leftist controlled Hollywood. The intent was, and is, to split American culture along race and class lines and set off a “proletarian” revolution to destroy capitalism. The Left has now managed to elect a half-Black radical as President and their revolution is proceeding along very predictable lines, with him using every opportunity to stir up more division and discontent. A reading of the Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA at this link should make clear their goals and methods: http://revcom.us/Constitution/constitution.html
At the beginning of the 21st Century, the American people are about to learn the savage lesson of Communist Revolution the Russian people learned at the beginning of the last century. Millions died in Russia’s Communist “experiment” before they learned Communism just doesn’t work, as the concept of Communism (“You didn’t build that”) is completely alien to basic human nature. Now it’s our turn to learn what Russia after a century of death and misery now knows.
However, the coming American Communist Revolution that Karl Marx and his acolyte Barack Hussein Obama is bringing upon us won’t progress in the comparatively orderly fashion as it did with the Bolsheviks in Russia. The cursed diversity within the U.S. population will quickly turn this Communist Revolution into a no-holds-barred, and to-the-death, Race War. How our country with its Constitution intact could possibly survive such a blood-bath is a near impossibility. It once appeared as if our country might one day become a mixed race people of olive skinned, brown eyed, black haired, Spanish speaking Muslims, but Barack Hussein Obama has started a Communist Revolution that will undoubtedly destroy any possibility of that ever occurring.
There is no expiration date on any of our survival instincts, and white Liberal Democrats in their “Gun Free” zones will be the first among us to be reminded of this at the very beginning of our coming Communist Revolution turned Race War, as the American experiment in Democracy joins all previous Democracies in the dust-bin of history.
DJ Taylor
Yeah, but I’m also afraid it will be American patriots that will get targeted when those days arrive. The Socialists are running things right now.
The Communist Party press release sounds exactly like the articles in the MSM. They use the same phrases, often word for word. They repeat the same themes and they spread the same false narratives.
Liberals always seem to be motivated by the most negative emotions.
And their fellow travelers, the One Big Union thugs (Wobblies), IWW, still have a website. Commies of all stripes never fade away or die. They just enter a period of dormancy and are always poised to strike at liberty and freedom.
Hey now.
I’m gonna say if he beat on a cop then the outcome is justified, though sad for his family.
You don’t beat on a cop and not, at a minimum, expect a hickory stick shampoo if not being arrated...
Johnny Law is within his right of self defense to put four rounds in you, as you charge him, like a bull or bear and those rounds failing to stop you, he should put two in yer noggin.
I will bet I can plagiarize that story and get it printed on the editorial page of our local rag here in western Washington.
We definitely need change.
1. Make it legal for blacks to rob stores.
2. Blacks should have the right to smash cops in the face.
Imagine if they said that every time a gangsta killed a kid? I read last weekend 25 blacks were killed by other blacks. Reaction by the black community? *crickets* *crickets* Well actually there is a reaction isn't there? They blame whitey basically endorsing the shootings.
In other words, we are totally screwed. I have been thinking since the 70s, that there is something dreadfully wrong in America, I was just not able to connect all the dots. Now I see it much more clearly. After the communist takeover, it might take as long for America to throw it off, as it took Russia. I think there might be many many communists still left over in Russia too.
“Reggie will be here soon? Alright!!!!!”
What you got in mind Johnny boy? A shooting war between Americans and the commie piggies infesting our country?
I think many here know what has happened in the past and what is happening now regarding Marxist takeovers. These takeovers can be by revolution or progressive incrementalism. Here in the USA the left has been trying the progressive approach, but I believe they are getting impatient and may try to trigger a revolutionary event like a race war. The big question is who will the police and military side with.
FU commie bastards.
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