By Ana Hurwitz
Whenever we seek to change the world the first thing we are asked is, “Do you believe in violence?” We are asked this because the violence of the oppressed is seen as morally equivalent to the violence of the oppressors. But the two are not the same. Here’s why….
1. Oppressed peoples have a fundamental right to self defence. This self defence is characterized as “violence” because revolution is only seen as legitimate when it’s on the terms of the oppressors. By their rules. Because they set the rules.
2. Non-violence is a means of controlling the most rebellious of the oppressed. Non-violence as an ideology is most often used to portray the violence of the oppressed as ‘irrational’ and the violence of the oppressor as ‘rational.’
3. When the oppressed fight back we actually stand a chance of winning. Those in power know this. So they discourage the masses from fighting back. They may even sanctify our revolutionary ideals (“justice, freedom, peace”), so long as we petition for their mercy and disarm ourselves. (Editors note: That’s why the FBI has a Terrorist Watch List. See here and here for who the cops are looking at as potential "terrorists")
4. There is honor in fighting back. We’re taught from a young age that non-violence is noble. We’re taught this because non-violence benefits those in power by incapacitating the masses. By making it harder for us to get free.
5. Armed struggle is often an act of love. However it’s portrayed by those in power as not just ineffective but also as “hateful.” But armed struggle is a love of freedom. Love of one’s people. Love which is sacrificial and brave. Love which risks imprisonment and death.
6. There is nothing justifiable about domination. That’s a lie told by those in power. What is justifiable is winning freedom. And the path to freedom has always been blood soaked and hard won. This is not glamorous but it’s real.
7. Nonviolence’s philosophical appeal may be understandable but it’s mostly ahistorical. The French Revolution didn’t abolish the monarchy by pacifism. And so on….
8. The violence of the oppressed is part of achieving liberation. The violence of the oppressor is part of achieving domination. Revolution is a process. It’s not always victorious at first. Or sometimes ever.
9. The violence of the oppressed is frequently a ‘necessary evil.’ Ask the King if he’d like to leave, chances are he will choose to stay – and we will likely have to remove him by force.
Violence may not be a political cure-all, of course. Historically, violence has rarely been a first resort. Oftentimes it is regrettable and must be strategically implemented so as not to lose popular support for a revolution. It often evolves in the later stages of liberation struggles which usually begin by nonviolent means. Nonviolence is brings awareness to injustice but rarely ever topples states in order to create new societies.
10. Violence is the cry of a people who are so desperate they have no other realistic way of achieving emancipation. This is why nonviolence carries favor among the privileged. Rebellion may not always be executed thoughtfully or strategically but it always justified.
11. Violence” as a designation is used to legitimize the use of force. Basically what gets called violence is decided by those in power. Yet where did the US get its power? From pacifism? Or from the gun? If force secured their aims, then force can secure our aims too. It’s not a matter of “two wrongs, don’t make a right.” It’s a matter of what works. The question isn’t if we will use force or not. The question is what will our aims be?
12. Nonviolence has rarely ever benefited those at the bottom of society. We learn in school that Gandhi’s nonviolence brought the British empire to its knees in India. But that’s a story championed by those at the top of society. Because it encouraged colonized peoples to not overthrow their colonizers. In actuality, it was the economic drain of WW2 which caused Britain to give up its colonies in India, Jordan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Israel-Palestine, and Sri Lanka. It wasn’t fasting or marches.
13. Empires have never trembled before nonviolence. Empires are only concerned about nonviolence when it raises consciousness to a level that could lead to violence. The state classifies as “violence” that which threatens its power.
14. Arguing “violence is the same no matter who does it” obscures who really has power. Think about it. Someone shackles you and you strike him to get him off your back. Are you in the wrong or is your attacker? What else were you supposed to do? Palestinians who throw rocks aren’t comparable to the Israeli military that destroys their homes. Equating the violence of different social classes benefits the 1%. Because it’s easier to preserve your power if it cannot be named. As cliche as this metaphor may sound, the greatest trick the devil ever played was to convince the world he didn’t exist.
15. Acknowledging class divisions is conditional. What does this mean? Ask white people if they are racist. White people often reply ‘I don’t see color.’ Yet ask them if they’d like to trade places with a person of color. Or ask them if they’d like to live in a third world country. Suddenly they see color.
16. Nonviolence actually pretends that defending ourselves against our oppressors is immoral.
17. Even Martin Luther King, pointed out the differences between the violence of the oppressed and the oppressor. Let’s use a quote from MLK’s 1967 ‘Beyond Vietnam’ speech: “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”
18. Nonviolence is usually championed by people who don’t have to fight everyday for their immediate survival. People who don’t identify with the deep pain of wishing they knew how it feels to be free. This isn’t to say we should “champion violence” or something. But we would be foolish to not ever use it if necessary. This is not a game. Liberation can’t wait. Seize the time. We haven’t got time for paternalistic pacifism.
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Phony Intelligence Websites: Meet the Judas Goats - The Two-legged Kind Are Worse Than the Four-Legged Kind
Please see my previous posts on this topic located here, here, here and here. The classified technology they use can be found here and the Stasi tactics they use can be found here. “ A Judas Goat is a term used to describe a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination."
“In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter,while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks. The term Judas Goat is derived
from a biblical reference to Judas Iscariot [who is known for betraying Jesus Christ to the Pharisees].
“The phrase has also been used to describe a goat that is used to find feral goats that are targeted for eradication. The Judas Goat is outfitted with a transmitter, painted red and then released. The goat then finds the remaining herds of wild goats, allowing hunters to exterminate them.
—From Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia.
“. . .Lambs were being led by a Judas goat into the chute. Two workers stood at the end, jolting the animals with enough electricity to render them brain dead. In an instant, prongs at the sheep's brains and in the fleece near their hearts delivered a zap that collapsed them, after which they were handed through . . . to the kill floor.The Judas goats . . . then returned to the pens, where they collected another batch of sheep.”
—From:“A Slaughter House Tour”
“In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter,while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks. The term Judas Goat is derived
from a biblical reference to Judas Iscariot [who is known for betraying Jesus Christ to the Pharisees].
“The phrase has also been used to describe a goat that is used to find feral goats that are targeted for eradication. The Judas Goat is outfitted with a transmitter, painted red and then released. The goat then finds the remaining herds of wild goats, allowing hunters to exterminate them.
—From Wikipedia, the Internet encyclopedia.
“. . .Lambs were being led by a Judas goat into the chute. Two workers stood at the end, jolting the animals with enough electricity to render them brain dead. In an instant, prongs at the sheep's brains and in the fleece near their hearts delivered a zap that collapsed them, after which they were handed through . . . to the kill floor.The Judas goats . . . then returned to the pens, where they collected another batch of sheep.”
—From:“A Slaughter House Tour”
Monday, May 16, 2016
Inside AIPAC And The Pro-Israel Lobby
COINTELPRO Part 2
Besides the videos below, see here for the classified technology they use and here for the Stasi tactics they use. Also, see this previous post on COINTELPRO. On December 22, 1974, Seymour Hersh exposed MK-ULTRA in a New York Times article. Headlined, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in US Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years," it documented illegal activities, including secret experiments on US citizens during the 1960s and earlier. Church Committee Congressional investigations followed, headed by Senator Frank Church, on abusive intelligence practices, replaced by the Pike Committee five months later. The Rockefeller Commission, under vice president Nelson Rockefeller, also examined the domestic activities of the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence agencies.
Cointelpro FBI - Part 1
Cointelpro FBI - Part 2
Sunday, May 15, 2016
COINTELPRO and the Phoenix Program
Please see this previous posts here, here, here and here about COINTELPRO and the Phoenix Program. Elements of Homeland Security are based upon the Phoenix Program. See here for the origins of Homeland Security. See here for the technology they use and here for the Stasi tactics they use. See here for the Wikipedia entry about Electronic Warfare. See here for Dennis Kucinich's attempted ban on space-based weapons. See here for documented radio frequency testing, torture and experimentation.
On December 22, 1974, Seymour Hersh exposed MK-ULTRA in a New York Times article. Headlined, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in the US Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years," it documented illegal activities, including secret experiments on US citizens during the 1960s and earlier. Church Committee Congressional investigations followed, headed by Senator Frank Church, on abusive intelligence practices, replaced by the Pike Committee five months later. The Rockefeller Commission, under vice president Nelson Rockefeller, also examined the domestic activities of the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence agencies.
On December 22, 1974, Seymour Hersh exposed MK-ULTRA in a New York Times article. Headlined, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in the US Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years," it documented illegal activities, including secret experiments on US citizens during the 1960s and earlier. Church Committee Congressional investigations followed, headed by Senator Frank Church, on abusive intelligence practices, replaced by the Pike Committee five months later. The Rockefeller Commission, under vice president Nelson Rockefeller, also examined the domestic activities of the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence agencies.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
A Perfect Example of a Counterintelligence Website
Special introductory note: The website that I talk about below has been taken down. After I started drawing attention to it as a Zionist counter-intelligence website. Here is a Wayback Machine link to see what it looks like.
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This website www.radicalpress.com is a perfect example of what a COINTELPRO website is. It is also in Canada. These websites are connected to the intelligence agencies and the ADL. Most of them are located in the 5 eyes countries.
As I wrote here, the RCMP and the FBI work with the intelligence agencies and the ADL. See here for the corruption of the RCMP and how it is working with organized crime. See here for more about Homeland Security and the alternative media. See here for more about Homeland Security, organized stalking, and militant Zionism. See here for more about the origins of Homeland Security.
See here for how the FBI Memo Labels Patriots, Truth-Seekers as Potential 'Terrorists.' See here for the 72 Types of Americans that are considered “potential terrorists” in official government documents. See here for the tactics they use and here for the technology that they use once they find you. Specifically this post.
It is important that you learn the tactics of slander and Zersetzung, which were tactics developed by the East German Stasi. See this post about how one of the favorite techniques of the Stasi was to label someone a pedophile.
See here for articles about how you can use a computer program to control someone else’s face. They also have the technology to record someone's voice, (they only need a few seconds,) and put it into a complete video. You can see what is said here and here about what is happening.
Intelligence agencies, under the new Homeland Security laws that passed September 11, 2001 --- are isolating political dissidents and stalking, harassing and slandering them. They are using technology that can read the targeted individual's thoughts, influence their behavior and injure them. You can see these videos about how they are using divide and conquer techniques and selective editing of media that they are recording. See here for how they can discredit someone with Hi-technology.
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This website www.radicalpress.com is a perfect example of what a COINTELPRO website is. It is also in Canada. These websites are connected to the intelligence agencies and the ADL. Most of them are located in the 5 eyes countries.
As I wrote here, the RCMP and the FBI work with the intelligence agencies and the ADL. See here for the corruption of the RCMP and how it is working with organized crime. See here for more about Homeland Security and the alternative media. See here for more about Homeland Security, organized stalking, and militant Zionism. See here for more about the origins of Homeland Security.
See here for how the FBI Memo Labels Patriots, Truth-Seekers as Potential 'Terrorists.' See here for the 72 Types of Americans that are considered “potential terrorists” in official government documents. See here for the tactics they use and here for the technology that they use once they find you. Specifically this post.
It is important that you learn the tactics of slander and Zersetzung, which were tactics developed by the East German Stasi. See this post about how one of the favorite techniques of the Stasi was to label someone a pedophile.
See here for articles about how you can use a computer program to control someone else’s face. They also have the technology to record someone's voice, (they only need a few seconds,) and put it into a complete video. You can see what is said here and here about what is happening.
Intelligence agencies, under the new Homeland Security laws that passed September 11, 2001 --- are isolating political dissidents and stalking, harassing and slandering them. They are using technology that can read the targeted individual's thoughts, influence their behavior and injure them. You can see these videos about how they are using divide and conquer techniques and selective editing of media that they are recording. See here for how they can discredit someone with Hi-technology.
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