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Thought Bombs #30

By, Anthony Rayson
Greetings! >

1t's been a long time since I burdened you all with
one of these! (smile*) Something like eighteen
months. Like everybody else, my life seems to be on
this sort of accelerating merry-go-round! And here
1am, you basic “Joe Normal” husband, father,
worker — anarchist propagandist! I'm relieved that
my immediate family is relatively healthy and
happy. I'm coming off some nasty surgery for a
hernia, which is how I was even able to getto this. T
had so much other work I felt compelled to deal
with first. Tons more sits a-waitin’!

Ihad hoped to be retired by now, but am not, due
to the usual ~ government treachery and in this
case, basic economic meltdown society. But, my
body broke down, anyway. It's a tough way to get a
few weeks off. At least I'm alive and not
permanently disabled like so many. Lifeis good!

During these many months, I've continued to
provide hundreds of zines to (mostly indigent)
prisoners and any others, while crafting many new
ones. 1still like to seek out and add new sources of
genuine free school education written by others,
either inside of prison or outside. Today I'm doing a
few, including an anarchist analysis from Venezuela
about what is happening down there.

New titles include - Zero to Anarchist in 1.2
Seconds, by Lisa (Lee) Savage, Brain Grenades, by
Coyote Sheff, An Interview with Sundiata Acoli and
dozens of others. Catalogs are available.

Google the Anthony Rayson Zine Collection,
housed and cataloged at the DePaul University. *
Table of Conienf§

1. Empowering Education

Using the Medium of Zines. -23
2. For Whom the Bong Rolls. - 32
3. The Lamprey and the Fish... - 36

4. Sarah and Migs Get Married!.....

5. OBABARAMA, - 48
6. Lenin's “Science" -

Terror to Power. - 63
7. The Crimes of Government...........64 - 67

8. “Long Live Death!!"..

Al essays writlen by Anthony Rayson. | had hoped
1o also have includes some work by certain prisoners,
but ran out of space. Some of my stuff didn't make the
cut, either. I'l put these together in my next project:
Prisoners’ Speak! #5.

This zine was published on April 13", 2009. It is
@nficopyright and available through donation and
distributed by the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro.
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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as
one begins to become conscious one begins to examine
the society in which he is being educated. The purpose
of education, finally, to create in a person the ability to
look at the world for himself, to make his oun decisions,
to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide
for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To
ask questions of the universe, and then leamn to live
with those questions, is the way he achieves his own
identity. But no society is really anxious to have that
kind of person around. What society really, ideally
wants is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of
society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is
about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of
himself as responsible is to examine society and try to
change it and to fight it - at no matter the risk.”

~ James Baldwin ~

Like everybody else in this world, I strove from a
young age to find my own identity, acquire genuine
education, live a full life and interact productively with
other members of the human family. To achieve this, |
had to totally reject the mainstream education
demanded by the system. A huge percentage of
American citizens have similarly reacted negatively to
the “education” forced upon almost every child from
age 4 or 5 until whenever they manage to get out of it -
in their teens or twenties.

Basically, they are being conditioned to function in
society, support the government, accept the
generalized accepting “arguments” of power and limit
their lives to a life of consumerism and immediate
family, vaguely “over-viewed” by some religious belief
system. We end up groping through life, dissatisfied,
not knowing what s really going on and feeling

powerless to have any real impact on an increasingly
degenerating society.

For many people, such miserable and insulting
treatment is viscerally unacceptable and they thrash
out in a number of unknowing ways. They know &
something is seriously wrong but they can't put their
finger on it. No one has ever gone out of their way to
teach them the truth which they so need to know,
understand and blend into their lives.

The government has every reason to obfuscate the
truth from A to Z. They have committed and continue
to commit horrific crimes on people the world over.

We are supposed to accept the Orwellian Big Brother
lie that America means freedom and that there are no
“political prisoners” in this country because there is no
reason not to blindly accept things as they are.
Resistance is supposedly non-existent and otherwise
doomed to failure. This leads to alienation,
atomization and zombification through addiction.

‘Those who disagree fundamentally with this
aggressive capitalist system are vilified as “terrorists”
and “criminals.” The truth that Baldwin spoke about
is muffled, hard to find, and rarely provided in a down-
to-earth, useful way, people can genuinely relate to
and weave into their consciousness and their lives in a
meaningful way. Enter, an updated version of the
Francisco Ferrer School of Free Skool Education, using
the medium of zines!

Zines as Educational Tools for and with Prisoners
1. The Failure of Traditional Education
A. Education is irrelevant to peoples’ lives
Many young people are tuned out to the types of
things teachers attempt to teach them, such as

“American history” that extols the system, candy-coats
any “problems” and serves up a white settler type of
spin. Non-white students aren't taught their own
history in any real way and often, their miscrable
home lives make a mockery of the depiction of 7
American society that they are all too familiar with.
They’re taught math and science, all the “subjects”
while their lives are being ones of subsistence,
violence, addiction, criminality, both on the streets
and by the police - cold reality. Even for so-called
“white” people, if they have any perception at all, they
realize they are being fed a huge, endless pile of
garbage. i

They are not taught about the great revolutionaries
who fought the United States government, whether
they were Americans o from other countries. They are
not taught alternative analyses or the perspectives of
people in other countries. It's more like just getting
endless truckloads of cement to try to cover up the
toxic, Chernobyl-like reality, than being inspired by
the real deal education.

Granted, some students manage to seemingly
harmlessly conform and go through the channels and
fashion oblivious to struggle lives and fill various roles
in the system, justify their lives, go with the program
and even have relative psychological health. But, they
have no real understanding nor any sympathy or
empathy of others less well-off than them. Others are
groomed to power positions and may become monsters
perpetuate an evil social, political and economic
system.

B. High drop-out rates and illiteracy.

A huge percentage of people arc tracked for failure,
categorized, drugged, disciplined and otherwise
drummed out of the educational system with often
frightful consequences. Others go through the
motions, get degrees and still can't read, write or
think, but may function at some level or other.

People come out of it really turned off even by the
very idea of “education.” Many won't read books or try
to study much of anything. They just cocoon
themselves in their iPods and go in the direction that
holds their interest. They watch a ton of T.V. and play
video games, which aside from helping them pass their
lives in an addictive manner, really don't teach them
consumerism and dull their senses and make
“violence” an entertainment, instead of the horrific
reality it is to so many. They get zombified.

Illegal drug economies fill in the huge gaps that
non-white, inner city dropouts pour through. The
police focus their drug busting energies in these
communities, even though the drug rates are the same
in all groups. Thus, many, many of these people
become prisoners and family members of prisoners.

Gangs offer affiliation and the support of a group.
But, all too often, desperation, poverty, a warped sense
of “respect” and the targeting of them by the
authorities, coupled with their own non-education,
send these young men into prison.

The punitive nature of their treatment, coupled
with accelerated “tough love” - conform or else -
“education,” only serves to add to their bitterness as
they go from juvenile detention to the big house. It's a
stark reality that many of these young people find
themselves in the hells that are the prisons, before
they even really had a chance at figuring out what they
really wanted to do with their lives, let alone what
society was all about. They look to hip-hop, “gangstas™
and prisoners for direction.

Their developing years, where they go from children
really through puberty, to young adulthood to
becoming mature adults is being spent in a vicious all-
male, locked-down nightmare reality. During this vile
sacrifice of their lives to the punishing judgment of a
criminal state, is the only chance they may finally
come across education that they can relate to, feel
respected by and can genuinely weave into their lives
to begin their journey of genuine development. ¢

C. Poverty and criminal convictions

Prisoners do not accept their punishment as “just”
seeing as they see their conviction as race-based and
class-based, and rightfully so. They see the big
criminals (government and business) engage in
nmonstrous criminal behavior such as murder and theft
with impunity. The rare times a “big shot” is charged
with some crime, he or she can buy their way out of a
conviction o get a light sentence and a country club
type prison. Their *crime” was being black and poor
and getting caught.

As well, recidivism is built into the system, and like
the huge dropout rates for high schoolers (over 50% in
Chicagol) the recidivist rates are off the charts - like
75%. The fact genuine rehabilitation and drug
addiction programs, jobs programs and etc. actually
work to greatly reduce recidivism and compulsive
criminal behavior in general, is ignored. There are
powerful forces that want to see a high incarceration
rate as the companies servicing them are highly
lucrative. The profits are guaranteed as they are
extorted from taxpayers.

The punishment industry may drag Christian
religionists into the sham of “offender rehabilitation”
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behavior, once they are released from prison.

1L The Failure of Prison Programs
A. Punishment has replaced rehabilitation.

The incessant propaganda from government that
our problems are caused by “terrorists” and “gang
bangers” is taken up by the lawmakers. They have
stumbled on the formula which will more likely get 1o
them re-clected. A public constantly whipped into
state of fear, combined with their ignorance, as they
%00 have never been taught the truth, allows for “lock
them up and throw away the key” demagoguery. They
pass more and harsher laws, pouring more moncy and
Tesources into mass incarceration, with lengthier
sentences.

Once incarcerated, they are subjected to more and
more brutal treatment, sensory deprivation, bad food,
deplorable living conditions, lack of resources, etc.
The only thing these sick “lessons” teach is how to
embitter a man - and also how a person is driven
insanel There’s no accountability all along the line
and prisoners are degraded, humiliated and assaulted
all the time, especially if they show hints of somehow
acquiring genuine cducation and show the courage to
fight the system - at no matter the risk.

B. Prison Censorship Zealotry

Each and every prison has a huge laundry list of
reasons of what kind of publications will be denied a
prisoner, why they are “detrimental” to the prison, how
they must be sent and so forth. By the mere receiving
of said “offensive” literature, a prisoner can have all
sorts of bad things happen to him o her. They can
even be punished for receiving a letter they never even
get a chance to see! They may be threatened in
various ways, assaulted, have all their possessions
stolen, be thrown into the hole or sent to other
prisons.

The latest ghoulish phenomenon is the proliferation
of the highly psychically toxic control unit prisons.
These, the authorities tell us are constructed for the
“worst of the worst” - the incorrigible, hardened
criminal. So, it's beyond disingenuous to find that

people they do have and help drive insane are locked
up here along with the so-called “jailhouse lawyers” Iy
activists and educators. It's the ultimate punishment
for the person who “thinks of himself as responsible.”

Basically, it is the modern version of a slave system
that has never stopped being a slave system. And just
like back in the day, one of the worst “crimes” you can
commit against such a system is to educate their
slaves. So, the contradictions between an oppressive,
fear and lie-based social order - the hallmarks of a
society “about to perish” and the responsible truth and
those with the highest courage to teach it, are
crystallized in the prisons.

It's the ultimate paradox - ground zero in the war
here at home. YouVve got the “argument” of punishing
government - lies, coercion, violence and its threat
pitted against the insight and brilliance of the most
learned prisoners, which is the source of the most
useful and profound lessons for those in prison and
those targeted for prison. The truth is revolutionary.

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recidivist rates.

These programs are just shells of whatever genuine
rehabilitative effect they once might have had. They're
used punitively. They are tied in with privilege
granting and removal. What few activities allowed are
used as bargaining chips vis-a-vis their behavior (or
level of conformity.) They don't pay attention to it,
much less actively work it into their mental hard drive.
And if they don't meet stipulations that are next to
impossible to do correctly - especially from a recently
released prisoner forced through that meat grinder
and taught not how to think, but rather, how to avoid
being assaulted, how to express rage and just have a

rebelling reaction to everything they were forcibly
subjected to.

The system doesn't want a person to know how to
think, overcome their fears and examine society ©
change and fight it. But by denying them real 1%
education, they also cannot decply understand
everything else they need to know just for simple
survival. They don't know and may not even get along
with themselves! It takes a lot of effort to learn how to
approach situations and deal with them positively on a
consistent basis. They don't know what love means or
how to build a real relationship. They've been blinded
by the light as they get out. They're sick, broke, have
no job and nowhere to stay. They need to be able to
live and that is a learned, survival skill - especially in
this fast-forward madness maclstrom of today. They're
nowhere near ready for the “outs” after their lengthy
and heartless, ordeal. Many soon return to prison!

ML The Failure of Street Education

A. “Gangsta” culture doesn’t provide genuine
education

A lot of what these young, often genius performers
are rapping about is true! They're reporting about
what's going down in the ‘hood! But where are the
“Hip-Hop" schools? Where is the literature that is
accessible to people? Where are the storefront
community organizations filling some real needs of
those in that neighborhood? The big names have all
gone shamelessly, Hollywood. Who's putting up big
bucks to free Zolo Agona Azania or Khalfani Malik
Khaldun? Nobody! They're afraid to really deal with
what Baldwin explained about. They're carried away -
awash on the tsunami of greedbacks! They're
unwilling to give up a hotshot go ‘round,.to do the
hard, arduous work necessary to “examine society”
change and fight it. In my opinion it takes written,
well-written literature dealing with real issues, as
timely as possible, available to anybody - especially to
those who can't otherwise afford it, i.e. indigent N

1t's kind of like sports. A lot of people get caught
upin it, its grooves and vibes and rebellious message.
That’s what a lot of people aspire to become
themselves. But they're chasing a mirage and not
learning how to become themselves. They're carried
away in the great flood to prison, themselves. It's an
industry. It's a money-making thing for some and an
expense for most. Music is great Jjust for itself, and
insights can be had, but it needs to be developed as
education much more fully - on paper for people to
read, and made easily available. Ragging about the
man to a hip beat doesn't help a young person deal
with getting busted!

The whole drug-glorifying, women abusing, cash
and bling flashin’, hedonistic, gun-playing lifestyle is a
ticket to disaster and certainly not anything related to

that's the only message these vulncrable young people
in the inner cities receive, they are not being helped,
are they? They're being set up like bowling pins!

B. Failure of various religions

Religions usually have a rather extensive bunch of
dogma they try to get you to make yourself learn and
belicve. Basically, they're into perpetuating their
church and belicfs, get people to support them and so
forth. An overriding belief in “God” is usually
required. None of that stuff really has much of
anything to do with the grimy reality people are facing
on the strects and in the prisons. Some religious stuff
foisted on prisoners is in partnership with the prison
administration. Some religionists are motivated to
offer some prisoners friendship or something.
Churches help ex-offenders to a point, drenched in
religious rituals. Butall that “Praise the Lord” swfl is
ill-suited to deal with everyday stark struggle these ex-
prisoners have to face. It takes a quick-thinking,
imble and adaptive, shrewd and thinking mind
focusing on the tasks at hand. This comes as a
product of a truly and effectively self-taught mind.

‘Some prisoners have a lot of problems trying to
exercise their own religion - like procuring a Muslim
dict, a vegan diet, getting prayer rugs or other things
to practice their religion according to the way they
want. But religious “education” is pretty blindered
They want you to believe in a “God.” And they make
up & whole scenario from there. But it’s not the reality
check education a person needs to deal with Earthly
living. It clouds their thinking more than anything.
And none of the religions really want to rock the
government’s boat. They work together with the
government. Like Martin Luther said centuries ago:
“Reason is the mortal enemy of faith.”

C. Failure of present day politicians

Well, politicians have always been a disgusting
collection of perverts, liars and power hungry
bastards! Today’s bunch isn't much different, except
for the tactic they use, which | mentioned earlier.
They push for the cver-increasing criminalization of
the inner cities. It’s total madness! They pour gas on
the problem and act stunned at the conflagration!

This global war on what is all-inclusively labeled
“terror” i$ being waged against the citizens of America.
Not only tax payers, home owners, parents of soldiers,
prisoners, workers - everybody - all of us are being
menaced by this hideous government and their various
failing systems, such as the “education” system.

Many young people feel they have no choice but to

join the military, where they are taught to obey orders
with a vengeance -~ to the point that if ordered to kill
people - they will do so, automatically! This type of
brutal indoctrination destroys a person's opinion of )5
themselves, many a time. They have really been
brutalized by what they endured, did and saw.

Most people scc politicians as a bunch of liars and
rightfully so.” But, they are always plotting more
hardships for us and brutal treatment for people in
other parts of the world.

Even the so-called “activists” like Jesse Jackson,
Jr. have sold-out and merely voice the lame *left-wing”
of mainstream society. They don't want to talk about
the real deal, either. A whole new slew of voices needs
0 be and actually is being belted out, lately. We gotta
pick up the banner of articulated revolution, where
others have left offt Use that understanding in the
context of what is happening today!

IV. Zines as a Means to Self-Actualization
A. Zines can provide genuine education

Zines are just self-published pamphlets. Genuine
education is out there. Often, a good chunk of
education on some topic can be found that is under
say, 76 pages. These can be made into zines. It's a
highly versatile, useful, economical and accessible
form of media. Multiple submissions from different
people can be put in the same zine. In short, any
combination you want can be used, any way you want.
It's an open-ended media, made revolutionary by its
insistence on @nticopyright and having the zines be
free. It's free cducation! The truth should be freet

S0, you can learn a tremendous amount through
the reading of zines. Often, it's the only way you're
going to find a subject covered so thoroughly or with
such intense fervor. You develop relationships with
people because of zines, learn to write and appreciate
long letters and develop your understanding on an
ongoing basis.

B. Zines offer a voice to prisoner writers &
artists 13

Prisoners provide their written insight to all kinds
of publications. As well, they send graphics they've
created. Almost invariably, they were given freely and
the only “corhpensation” they will receive is some ill-
treatment by the screws! But, there’s a difference
between a magazine or newsletter and the unique
tomes, known as “prisoner zines.”

Perhaps as a group, prisoners are the connoisseurs
of zines. They know what the best ones are and often
they are written by prisoners and those who are in the
trenches with ‘em. More and more, the most stunning
Zzines are being produced by prisoners. This takes
coordination through a person such as myself, due to
all the restrictions and difficulties in communicating
with each other we are faced with.

As a zine connoisseur myself, I make it my
business to make the brilliant writings and deep
graphics of prisoners actualized in strong zines. It
allows for the for real language and clearest voice.

Some of the most brilliant thinkers are prisoners
and they don't have access to the internet. They focus
on the written word, which almost everyone can
understand. Those who are illiterate can be read these
zines. So, it's also important to make them very
plainly spoken and understandably written. This
insurrectionary activity will continue to catch on as an
important part of genuine free school education.

C. Exceptional prisoner zinesters.

Over the last ten years I've worked up maybe 500
zines and made them available for stribution.
Perhaps 350 to 400 of them were written and
illustrated all or in part, by prisoners. Here are just a
few of these authors and the gist of their message. 17

1. Theodric (Tacuma) Vari Smith. He talks plainly
mainly to the prison population he is a part of. He
exhorts them to realize that fratricidal warfare among
each other isa. self-defeating activity. He stresses
unity, is religious (Christian) and speaks in the
vernacular prisoners readily understand.

2. Coyote Shefl. Coyote is a passionate and active
anarchist prisoner, who spearheads the Nevada ABC.
(Anarchist Black Cross) prison chapter. He speaks
directly in challenge to this cruel system and details
his painful ordeal in very visceral ways that other
prisoners can most definitely identify with.

3. Kevin (Rashid) Johnson. Rashid is the most
searing political artist in the world today, aside from
being a brilliant writer and analyst. In my opinion, he
is the George Jackson of modern times. He's
horrifically brutalized in a control unit prison in
Virginia and is the Defense Minister of the New Black
Panther Party - Prison Chapter.

4. Abdul Olugbala Shakur is a similarly ultra-
confined Panther partisan locked down in the
infamous Pelican Bay Prison in California, He
hammers away at the racist system and the
criminalization of his people. He chairs the New
Afrikan Institute for Criminology 101.

S. Russcll "Maroon” Shoatz. Maroon is a legendary
Black Liberation Army fighter, locked down in
Pennsylvania. I believe he is the only person to escape
from a secured housing unit - twice! This well-known
political prisoner is a brilliant analyst, historian and
strategist.

6. Todd (Hyung-Rac) Tarselli. Hyung-Rae is a very
talented artist, given political mentorship by Maroon.
His artwork focuses on the cruel injustice and pain of

Amerika and the lives forced to be led by her captives.
He also has a playful side as a cartoonist. His Glee
Club is the Calvin & Hobbes of prison.

7. Sean Swain. Sean is a very talented anarchist
writer and agitator. His collaboration with fellow /¥
anarchist prisoner Travis Washington, entitied The
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modem day Animal Farm. His pen is ablaze with the
cry of freedom!

8. James Scott, Jr. James is an Afrikan anarchist
prisoner cooped up in a dungeon in Georgia. He's a

ific writer and deep thinker who provides a first-
hand and personal account of how Afrikan youth are
criminalized and brutalized in Amerika, particularly
the deep South. It's so damning of this system that
such brilliant modern-day educators are treated so
vilely by this monstrous system.

9. Khalfani Malik Khaldun. Khalfani grew up in
Gary, Indiana and has spent his entire adult life in
prison, most of those twenty years in the most hideous
of control unit clinical torture chambers. He's been a
determined advocate for his fellow captives, constantly
exposing corruption and brutality, injustice, etc. He
makes it his business to help educate fellow prisoners
and help them cope with control unit repression. He is
the Midwest prisoner voice of the STOPMAX campaign.

10. Ali Khalid Abdullah. Ali has recently been
released, after twenty years of prison in Michigan.
During his incarceration he founded the PPWC -
Political Prisoners of War Coalition. 'He has written
voluminously about all kinds of subjects, both having
to do with prison and the world in general. He
considers himself a New Afrikan anarchist and also a
Muslim.

11. Talib Rasheed (C. Anthony Taylor). Talib is
also a terrific writer who focuses on the psychological,
spiritual and moral development of prisoners. He’s got
alot of insight concerning compulsive criminality,
overcoming recidivism and developing a spiritual
humanism, which he has developed into a genuine
and very viable set of ethical principles. 19

‘These are just a few of the dozens of prisoners |
work with. There are many more all over the country.
These materials do focus on the issues of utmost
concem to prisoners, mainly. These issues are
universal and anybody can leamn a great deal from
these publications.

Every day we receive much mail, mostly from
prisoners. From the most illiterate to the most
studied, the response to this work is overwhelmingly
beyond enthusiastic. We have definitely struck a
chord with prisoners and have earned their trust and
respect. Many are proactive towards it and reprint
them, share them and use them in study circles. This
growing phenomenon of actually seeing the emergence
of a heightened consciousness, due greatly by the real
education delivered in these zines, has confirmed in
everybody’s mind the veracity of cut and paste reality
check zines as a fundamental tool for the type of
education James Baldwin wrote about.

V. Logistics of Creating Prisoner Zines
A. Prison (and mailing) rules of prisoner zines

Most people have no idea what goes on in prison or
that brilliant thinkers dissecting modern-day reality,
incredible artists and cutting edge writers and poets
are forced to subsist there. Theirs is a struggle and
with every real struggle, there is an underground of
literature - education and agitation.

Each prison has a blizzard of rules concerning
every conceivable type of behavior and restrictions
about what prisoners can do and read. All
publications must come directly from the *publisher.”
So, the solution to that is to become a publisher - of
Zines. Simply think up a name, get a P.O. Box and
combine the two on a stamp. Stamp the publication
on the back page — whether you created the zine or are
just distributing it further. Stamp the envelope’s 20
return address with the same stamp and you are the
publisher of that zinel

It takes a while to become recognized. You could
advertise yourself in various zines or prisoner
publications. Almost invariably, prisoner zines come
with contact information of that prisoner, others,
outside support groups and so forth. Contact these
people, check the internet and make a real effort to
connect with people who are prisoner writers, artists
and activists.

With the new rules and restrictions placed on mail
since June 1, 2008, I find it most appropriate to send
6 x 9 envelopes, which just barely are still in the size
category for “letters.” These hold digest-sized zines
perfectly. These are 8 % x 11 folded in half. The size
limit on a “letter” is % inch thickness of the envelop
and 3.5 ounces in total weight. This is 19 sheets of 20
weight copying paper. That makes a “maximum” zine
size to be 76 pages. Bigger zines are possible but get
t00 much more expensive to print and mail.

It's best to go right to the limit with your zines.

One ounce (4 sheets) cost $.42. Two ounces (ten
sheets) cost $.59. Three ounces (16 sheets) costs $.76
and 3 % ounces (nineteen sheets) costs $.93. Some
prisons insist on regular, letter-sized envelopes. Some
don't allow stapled zines. Some reject them if there is
more than 3 % ounces, even if the inflated postage is
correct. Rejections abound and often depend on
caprice. There’s no accountability, either.

So, it's a good idea to keep the really provocative
artwork and content off the outside covers, to help
insure it gets to who it was intended for. If you're
serious about this fascinating type of work, ask folks
who has some experience with it.
B. Becoming a publisher & running a zine
distro.

This type of publishing is the antithesis of what
“publishing” or any other type of money-making 2!
venture is all about. The goal is not to “make money”
atall. The whole goal is focused on finding and then
collaborating with the most revolutionary modern-day
thinking, edit it in such a way that it is relatively
cheap, timely, legible and evocative and then get these
publications into the hands where it will do the most
good, which for us, is right back in the prisons.

This is a deep commitment, as it flies into the
teeth of the most repressive system of government. It
takes a strong resolve forged by a willed concentration
on the goals ~ creating powerful literature, gathering it
and providing it - free to prisoners!

It's nose-to-the-grindstone constant work and is
not for the faint of heart. You'l pour a ton of time,
money and effort into it but you can't expect any kind
of compensation - other than knowing that you are a
fundamentally important piece of the conscious
development of others - prisoners - where every other
form of “cducation” has failed them and indeed,
targeted them for failure. Its validation is its realness.

C. Building connections - networking, inside &
out.

Just as the actual crafting of these publications
takes a lot of ongoing brainwork, letter writing,
correspondence, research, exchange of ideas and all
the things collaborative projects take, 0 too does the
outreach to others. Placing ads in other prisoner
support newsletters, submitting articles, poems,
graphics, etc. to other publications, donations, letters,
exhibiting solidarity when they face troubles and
generally, developing a respectful, comradely
relationship with other groups and individuals inside
and out, will stand you in good stead.

Prisoners arc famous for “word of mouth"
endorsements or condemnations. Reliability,
truthfulness and “delivering the goods™ earn their
respect and they will be your biggest avenue of
outreach! And when other prisoner Support groups
keep hearing about your projects and prison authors
receive mail from strangers who have read their zine,
then the chain reaction of genuine education that was
intended is becoming actualized.

Seek to work with others doing this distro type
work. Add powerful publications wherever you run
across them. Make them available to infoshops, zine
libraries, archivists or anyone interested in them.
Make yearly catalogs and spread them far, wide and
freely.

How do you pay for all of this stuff? You work
hard, live frugally and spend resourcefully. A lot of
former zine makers have quit publishing paper zines
due to increased costs and restrictions. Maybe their
focus was soft and took the easy, cheaper way out by
just making e-zines or doing a blog or whatever. Their
focus certainly wasn't on providing free school
education for the most abused and downtrodden. If it
was, these minor adjustments would be casily
overcome. That's another way people can tell the real
deal from the tepid - whether anything is capable of
stopping their message or not!

By forging ahead with a mindset of total
determination, many wonderful zine projects become
reality. Once a powerful zine is created, it is done —
finished! You can't just press the delete button. As it
proliferates into and through the hands of likewise
determined people, it gets duplicated. Originals and
masters are kept for reprinting. Perhaps they're being
archived somewhere - even a prestigious university,
where they end up on a shelf of a library - accessible

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to anyone, even though none of them went through a
copyright situation, were all self-published, have no
advertisements in them and are subject to nobody’s
censoring or mainstream “editing.” They depend solely
on the integrity and wherewithal of those who created
them. So, the message becomes undiluted, 23

This type of dedication and intensity does not go
unnoticed by others with a similar modus operandi,
Before long, you are a respected comrade and
collaborate intimately with the most explosive writers
and artists in the world. And s, selfless solidarity
work and the exercise of mutual aid becomes its own
reward for those who dedicate themselves to it. Others
learn like they never thought possible and repay your
efforts by embarking on their own road to self-
actualization. It's anarchy in action through zine
education. And that my friends, is the direct action of
free school education. Educate to liberatel

Anthony Rayson - curator, editor, publisher &
distributor of

South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
P. 0. Boc 721
Homewood, IL 60430

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Monday: sumao sezEa/as
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1heard bn the radio on my way to work today that
some piggic down in South Carolina was
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Tooking Michael Phelps for that My Space bong hit being
shown * the world. Unlike the liar Bill Clinton, he
looked interft on inhaling. The sports guys condemned
him for beirlg “stupid.” I hafla listen to these guys
because thefe’s no real “politics™ stations, except the
dishwater liberals and the out-and-out Nazis.

What's ‘Stupid” s the pandemic ignorance given as
understood {common sense™ by society’s mouthpieces on
this and all other incidents, subjects, motives,
Justification$ and every which way of looking at,
analyzing, ing and responding to any situation,

That cracker piggie s the last line of defense for a
sick system of locked-down laws and lick spittle
conformity t0 real time vicious human enslavement and
crippling ideas-wide, meticulously inculcated mass

Plants and animals have a fundamental, symbiotic
relationship | so much so that our mutual survival
depends on it. Marijuana, cannibas sativa, is a very
complex plat chemically, perhaps the most compiex in
the plant kinfidom. It is the human being of the plant
kingdom, without the horrific downside humans display
(evil and its folerance.) Perhaps the only things
‘marijuana is kapable of destroying are illusions, which
accounts for why this benign, medicinal and incredibly
applicable and useful psycho-active plant, has been so
criminalized land lied about by the trigger-happy, tasering
government and their police dog-trained cops.
Its big “threat” to the system is the very nature of its
existence. Here’s a plant that grows wild everywhere,
whether cultivated or not, that has the ability to be used
for practically any conceivable application. 2%

Yeah, it’s also a lot of fun to smoke or otherwise
ingest for purely pleasurable purposes with practically
zero side-effects, but can also be used for a vast array of
highly useful purposes — from rope, sails, clothing, many
types of oils, as a food source and many medicinal
purposes. Cancer patients, AIDS patients and others
suffering various ailments and debilitating conditions,
such as chemo patients, have found that no other natural
or developed medicine provides anywhere near the
necessary relief that pot does — with next to zero side-
effects. It’s true! The cannibas plant is far superior to
any other medicine concocted by pharmaceutical
companies using any other plants or chemical
compounds. That's incredibly amazing, especially when
you consider how hard the government has worked to
prevent the study and development of the no doubt huge
number of valuable applications it could and should be
adapted for. People suffer and die painful deaths because
the government refuses to allow them to use it and
refuses to allow scientists to discover better uses for it.

Yet, hundreds of thousands are forced into this
‘monstrous caged life known as prison because of the
reaction by government to marijuana — not because of
this brilliant plant, but because of government’s insane
and cruel reaction to it!

Why is the reaction to marijuana so severe and life-
ruining for so many? It’s because like I mentioned
earlier, by its very existence, it blows out of the water all
the lies this putrid society is fundamentally based upon!
All the other drugs foisted upon the population — Ritalin,
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Psyche to cope with having these harmful drugs in their
system. They are forced to “maintain” come down and
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part. They don’t know where Iraq is on a map, but they
do know who Scooby Do is. 1t’s beyond shameful that
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gip‘hw&edenbammqﬁﬁuﬁonol‘mwopk!

This is basically why marijuana is o detested by the
authorities. It is insidious, cheap and readily available.
Approximately 13 — 14% of people use it and this is true
along every demographic — every ethnic and social
egoup, among cops, politicians — everybody! I1's so easy
to use, fun and harmless. Right there, the lie is shown to
everybody. This stuff isn't “harmful” at all! The only
“harm” is when the uniformed and heavily armed 2¥
kidnxppinggmgudn&dkg‘ﬁncpaw:myoumd
force you through their vile, for-profit “justice”
nightmare. Agpill,mkinglhiloﬂ':joi.l\l—quile
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very harmful: Smilingh!mlm—gﬁﬁngshm,hmﬁi
So, what's “harmful?” 1s it marijuana or the goddam
government??? Half the people have tried it and none of
them have keeled over because of it! So, if you refuse to
stay i the psychological cage, they will put you ina
physical one.
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liar when they wage their insane campaign of lies and
Kkidnapping / arresting & etc. People feel government lies
about everything and basically they do. But people don’t
Kknow how to cope with the realization that most
everything they"ve been taught and made to o has been
wrong, and an endless series of lie-based manipulations.
ﬂlis.ﬂlusisl’mdnn‘sBﬂXbeingupmﬂd. ‘Where it
Jeads to - confusion, possible incarceration,
accommodation / assimilation, more addictive substances
or the path of actualization, realization and ongoing
adapmﬁonwﬁndwnyswpnimnsocidp\w\iuinsigm
and a real education and what it can accomplish (self-
respect driven humanist action!) is up 1o each individual,
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(selectively) and thus “it” is a huge social “problem.”
The “problem” is that the insane government has
criminalized all these people for no good reason, sort of

like how they murdered a million Iragis based on some
non-existent “weapons of mass destruction!” 29

Yeah, many move onto harder drugs, like cigarettes,
aleohol, TV, cocaine, heroin, prescriptions, violence,
capitalist exploitation and so forth. Before smoking
marijuana, these people were on junk food, T.V., movies,
the brainwashing in grade school, mother’s milk. etc,
How are all the poor choices people make afier smoking
Pot, marijuana’s fault? All those other drugs (before and
after) are much more harmful (except mother’s milk?)
and way less able to help free one’s mind to actually
think “out of the rat race” thoughts. Of course, many
new mothers don’t provide their babies with breast milk
but rather, crappy powdered milk and sweetened drinks,

The good marijuana can possibly do - as recreation,
as medicines or useful products or as whatever, i
constantly being ignored, illegalized, purposely refused
to allow to be scientifically developed, lied about,
demonized and criminalized. So, all the other drugs are
bad and the one good drug isn’t allowed to be good.
Everybody loses! The.only "winners” are the
pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs and the
govemment for-profit punishment indusiry.

Years ago, back in the sixties, all kinds of new people
were getting hipped to smoking weed, something that
people have been doing for thousands of years, as it is
merely the dried leaves and flowers of a widespread
plant. Many other such psycho-active plants throughout
the history of the world were also used then and now,
extensively. Marijuana may well be the most useful and
least harmful of any of them. The only thing close to it
‘would be caffeine and that’s back with the pack, too! - in
my opinion. And most despised of all, pot’s the one
carrying the black flag of anarchy! The “danger” comes
with the extent of the realization that we are faced with
lunatics and monsters of a singularly rabid variety!
Remember —lies are the truth, love is war and greed
good. If you don’t believe our fascist lies, we’ll kill you!

In Vietnam, soldiers were blowing each other stingers
out of their M-16’s instead of blowing peoples’ brains
out. They came to realize what Muhammad Al had said
was also true for them, namely — “I got nothing against
no Viet Cong!” This expressed their sentiments in a very
immediate way. For, to follow the orders of their officers
was highly dangerous, to body and mind! 30

Getting high instead of forcing themselves in
dangerous, nightmare firefights made them think...
“Why should we go out on patrol and get our asses shot?!
Let’s just frag the frigging Lieutenant!”

‘When your soldiers realize who their real tormentors
aro (ala the Russian soldiers in 1917) then it’s “Katic Bar
the Door!” This is what ultimately ended that horrible
bloodbath — the insurrection and mutiny of the U.S.
soldiers themselves. The policy makers of mass death
blamed this “loss” on the effect marijuana had on these
soldiers. They came to realize that their own lives and
those of the Vietnamese they were ordered to murder,
were more important than the career advancements of
their officers and the political viability of the criminals in
Washington. Smoking pot had made these killing
machines turn back into humaa beings!

This evil government, who had murdered 3 million
souls in Southeast Asia, had to leave with their tails
between their legs, punching their way to their seat on the
evacuation helicopter atop the U.S. embassy. They
blamed pot for letting the cat out of the bag and turning
scared and obedient soldiers into anti-war heroes!
Just like the “hot summers” in the mid-sixties in the
urban ghettos, when young Afrikans basically revolted
like the oppressed people they are (only to be brutally
shot) the government has declared war on a whole group
of people. Young Afrikans — males in particular — have
en masse ever since. S0 t00 are marijuana users paying a
monstrous price o this day for our “insubordination” —
smoking pot and reminding everybody in the world that
ﬂnU,S.wu(Mi:)nndahﬂzlmpﬂﬁm_ The cry of
“Freedom!” and “Make love not war!” results in the 32
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hundreds of thousands of “vicious™ pot smokers!!! So,
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persecution, not for doing anything harmful, but for what
they represent — refusal to live their lives under the boot
heel of government.

‘This criminalization serves multiple purposes as an
aﬂmmdmuemmd:downmmymdlﬂacﬁvi(y,
especially those “outside the box.” Alternate lifestyles,
co-aps, palitically organized oppositian, any kind of
group, can be said to be in a “gang™ and thus up to
criminal behavior, such as.... “drug dealing.” So whole
sections of society are basically cordoned off like a
home-grown Gaza and made to suffer — while everybody
is doing the same thing, too!

Michael Phelps smoked a bong. He was contrite, lost
his Kellogg’s endorsement deal and was suspended from
swimming for three months. Nine people were busted by
that cracker cop in South Carolina, supposedly involved
inthis, somehow. Every day, thousands of people go to
‘court over minor pot possession charges and other
tacked on. There are a million laws to choose a
“criminal violation” from. The prisons are bursting at the
seams with brutalized prisoners. The economy is in the
toilet thanks to the real criminals being hard at work — the
corporate vipers and the mass murderers of government.
1t looks like the only thing to do in these desperate times
is to overcome our ignorance and fear and realize who
our real enemies are. Is it a medicinal plant — or this vile
system of exploitation??? Now, can we flick off the idiot
box and determine “What is to be done?”

32

Ty B SLAMHET B L ENTORCEERT A
P.0. Box 721

Homewood, IL 60430
The Lamprey and the Fish

The government is a lamprey on a fish. The blood cells
of the fish are the military personnel. These are mostly
young men, looking to make a future for themselves and
provide for their families, but can't find work &/or have
had problems with the *Law.* They desperately want to
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But the lamprey has attached itself to the fish with
powerful, spiked suckers. They bore through the scaled
skin,pa’fﬂlcmsckmdbu:nﬁdmchﬁghfu'he
bloodstream. 3

The lamprey sucks the blood right out of the fish and
devours it as food. The fishes' blood serves the needs of
the lamprey, even though it was designed to nourish the
fish. The lamprey, like government, is a parasite on the
body of the fish, just as government is a deathly parasite
on society. Alnuhmdmrkmmmedbypmplno
better themselves, their families and their communities
isbeivgazkedunmdudfar'ﬁ:vilemand
interests of government, which are antithetical to the
growth and sustainable development of human society and
life in general,

The lamprey sucks the blood at a steady pace which is
very stressful for the fish but it doesn't kill the fish - at
least not for a while. The lamprey needs the fish to stay
alive so it can consume food, which it processes to
nourish and sustain itself. It does nothing on its own.

This gets more and more difficult to do for the fish
because the longer it lives, the more difficult it becomes
to survive because of the bloodsucking presence of the
lamprey. The lamprey gets bigger, which makes it more
difficult for the fish to swim. Tt becomes less
Mmkinifsquamd:muaﬁsnuoﬂw
organic matter that it needs to attain the nutrients it
requires for ifs life. 39

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the fishes' very survival. All systems are being
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<ucks more and mare blood, getting bigger and bigger and
more lethal. The fish can't function amidst other fish,
either. You can forget scooting around with the rest of
the school, having sex and all that.

If the fish doesn't somehow manage to shake free of
1his hideous, endless nightmare lamprey, it will eventually
die after an ogonizing, slow death struggle. And even if
it does manage to shake free, it will have a gaping, deep
wm.m'o'fyuhmlfmm.-imdlmrmm
associated with such a mortifying experience. It may be
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much diminished capacity.

The death of the fish is for sure, at least an
inconvenience for the lamprey. For now, he'll have to
disengage its spiked sucker mouth from the now dead
fishes carcass and latch onto some other unfortunate
ligtnsvarnhqmuudlmogdnnfukingm
those little soldiers from their rightful bodies - killing
them, breaking them down and using the parts they want,
fhrowing away the rest, in service fo their own parasitic,
otherwise useless “life.”

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*_Well, no matter what you may think of the war, you've
gonoerrspu"h:ul&afwm-virgw
country.” Nol He's a victim turned into an accomplice to
commit the ugliest forms of arganized criminality. Like
the vicious warlords of Sierra Leone who send their
gangs to murder and rape - and kidnap young boys and
train them to murder and rape - so does the U.S.
government, in its more “refined" way. 35
They may not need the overt terror and coercion
their African counterparts do, but that's because they've

and minds and souls and rational thinking apparatus by
using a birth-to-death conditioning process - an airtight
commercialization and trivialization of all of society.

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faﬂwsdb"’!irmmddﬂ@'ﬂsmbe lied to and
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the lamprey) where they will be broken down and made
imadﬂgn-un,ynmwﬁampmof'hemmive
lamprey that is what the U.S. government actually s!

‘Cuz we're supposed to just bite our lip and take it as
we're mentally gang-raped by the government, when our
child comes home dead in a box - with a fucking flag
draped over his coffinl

Maybe, we'l get “lucky” and he'l come home hideously
disfigured, frighteningly alienated &/or homicidal, So,
when maybe he kills somebody (quite likely himself) we're
only capable of shaking our heads and wondering why
instead of knowingwhy! This, when we should have never
allowed this generation-ruining scenaris to play out in the
first place.

Any parent who allows their child to *join* the U.5,
military is guilty of the very serious crime of child
abandonment. The punishment for this crime is
extremely harsh - a ruined child that you had a hand in
destroying through a combination of ignorance and
cowardice.

Another sinister possible outcome is that this bullied
raw recruit turned “soldier” will furn into a serious bully
himself. These fypes are a ulgar menace to any and all
they run across - from the wives they batter, the 3¢
children they abuse or anybody, anywhere. They're prime
prospects for other recruiters - police forces, prison
guards and corporate (mercenary) armies - where it's
fiterally “legal* to kill - while “on the clock!®

The U.S. government, like their Sierra Leone wannabe
counterparts, who were still trying to butcher their way
o power, aren't averse o using extreme coercion and
torture. In fact, they've brought this longstanding
<adistic bulwark of governments throughout the history
of these social lamprey institutions, to an advanced level
that would make Josef Mengele cringe - the control units.

Charles A. Grainer, who became the fall guy for the
~embarrassment” of Abu Ghraib, was contracted by the
occupation forces in Iraq, who eschewed their own
ilitary police chain of command and decided not fo use
MP's (military police) because they wanted the top
torturers / interrogators available and these are only to
be found in the civilian U.S. prisons, in this case in PA.

For modern day Amerikkka runs the largest gulag
archipelago in the despicable history of governments and
their morbid repression of their own citizens - outdoing
historically evil regimes fronted by such monsters as
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Thieu, Suharto, Pinochet, Margaret
Thatcher, Idi Amin, Franco, etc. etc.

For, “heroes” don't terrorize foreign children. They
help the fish destroy the lamprey and heal the body.
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(and prosecutors) of his He was on boards

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‘Senate seat, bypassing the usual stops as a local official and
‘State Representative. Having Emil Jones as his mentor,
bis.

Crook County, aiways goes to the Democrats. Todd's
tatents ie in unabashed grrogance and a unique fordness
for blatant nepotism.
So anyway, Barack, whose wife is also a high-octane
lawyer, was able to becoms a millionaire without bribe-
- He wrote a best-selling book about his African
father, leamed how the political game was played and

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conviction of Republican govemor, George Ryan.
Obama, who has always kept his eyes on procuring
political power for himself, jumped in and ran for Fitzgerald’s
senate seat.

| remember during the ‘04 primary, | was working with a
group of Afrikan preacher-politicos called B-PAC

Obama,
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smmwl—lﬂ. (iike the Pope’s?), | asked

Interestingly, Peotone came up in the news, just
yesterday - December 11%, 2008. It was revealed that JuJJ,
whose pet project obsession - his only thing seemingly - is
this outside his district pipedream airport, was rebuffed by
the aforementioned Blago’s bagman, Tony Rezko,
cancerming Peotone. He told Junior, who wanied the Jand
the State (under George Ryan's machinations) had so far
wrested from the stressed-out farmers in this targeted
“foatprint” that Blago waniad cantrol of the airpart. Juniod
has a group of Chicago, suburban and northwest suburban
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entitied ALNAG that are pining 1o contral thia mythical
airport in Eastern Will County, which Junior has vainly
dubbed *Abraham Lincoln Airpot.” ys

Anyway, since Blago rebuffed him oa his and grab
designs and tried to charge him $25,000 to get his wife,
Sandi, appointed to run the state lottery, Junior had a fit of
“ethics.” He tald the Feds hed help rat out Blago, feed them
leads and testily, if need be.

‘Alas, due to Junior’s fervent pining for Obama's now-
vacant senate seat, which Rod had put up for auction,
Junior’s brother and some Indian physician | pharmacist
buddies went to bat for him, offering Blago a bid of $500,000
-$1,000,000. Funny, George Ryan used to be a pharmacist,
himself!

‘Once the Feds grabbed Blago and the tapes sort of
indignant, and of course, knew nothing of it.

w,wmmmmm's
virtues in speeches and editorials he writes for the Chicago
Sun-Times. This, even though he spoke of castrating
Obama, during an unmuffled moment on national T.V. Me
thinks Barack somehow got hold of the Jackson family
heirloom (their rolodex) and ran with it. Once it hit the
internet, coupled with the golden-throated pretty boy
Obama, it was Katie bar the door! The Jackson’s 10— 20 mil
accumulated so painstakingly during a lifetime of indictment-
avoiding shakedowns, looks like chump change to Obama’s
overmight billion! This vuigar threat by Poppa Jackson may
be why Obama’s attack dog Chief-of-Staff to be, Rahm
Emmanuel, left Junior off the preferred by Barack short list,
given to Blago (and ignored because there was no money in
it)

So, you really can't begrudge the old man a good cry in
Grant Park. Hell! Oprah cried too! Oprah cried too! And
Oprah’s abillionaire herself!
Getting back to Obama’s senate run, he had the
‘sewed up because the democratic front runner, Blair Hull,

Sa, Barack had a gimme putt 1o the U.S. Sensto as his two
‘opponents were forced to shamefully disquality themsetvo.
He'd be the only “Black” Senator, too The flinois
Republicans were floundering, with both Jack and George

‘Soon aftar minimal aciual senate work, Qbama launched
his presidential bid. The republicans didn't really have
anybody and neithes did the Democrats, although Hillary feit
antitiod bocause she was Bubba's wife 3nd bad dodged 47
some. 'bullets in Bosnia. | won't further bore you
with details of ali that we just were forced to endure these
Ingt many months. ‘Suffice 1o say, this lengthy social misery

Pakistan to do this.
‘Obama managed to raise $1 billion during his campaign
and promised the moon for your vote. He got the “Black

big business line of the establishment.

‘He's been amazingly fucky to get this far, this fast - with a
non-existent track record. But, Bush had no “qualifications™
either unless you consider being a failure at business
ventures (falling at running an oil company & major league
baseball team) and being the world's most renown serial
kitler. Bush Junior sent over 100 men and two women (o the
Huntsville death chamber without ever even considering
leafing through their case studies. He didquit drinking and
‘stopped doing cocaine, though!

Much of the establishment saw no problem with Barack.
Guys like Colin Powell endorsed him. This Republican set
the table for the genocide in Iraq, by lying his ass off at the
U.N. about “weapons of mass destruction” that only existed
in the U.S.'s arsenal.
However, Barack will face a huge set of problems - a
major depression, two wars (and counting) a sizable fascist
‘economic and political opposition, juxtaposed against the
naive yearnings of a destitute undarclass. How he Gan and
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accelerating crises, home and abroad.

My bet s he will soar to new rhetorical heights to attempt
to appease those who year for a dignified life for their hard
tabors, but offer them refatively nothing — because the
system is set up 10 assure that they rceive relstively
nothing. Meanwhile, he will in actuality, hunker down with
the militarists and the monied, which is the class he had
early-on decided to align himself with.

Lenin’s “Science” - Terror to Power

Fve a lot of respect for certain individuals. ‘That's because
they've shown me that they intend to “bring " That's good,
because that's what | am interested in. Y9

‘But basic outrages and liberation-ruiners cannot be glossed over!
“True believing communists smirkingly shake their heads at “petit
‘bourgeois” anarchists, because they insist on a revolutionary
*science” spelled out by their gurus, Marx, Lenin, Engels and
sometimes Mao or Stalin, mostly. Their quotes are like gospel.

1 want to focus this picce on one of the “owin peaks” of ML type
of commanist dogma - Viadimir Lenin. Since his explosive

, he has often been revered as a truc liberator of the
oppressed. Nothing could be further from the truih! Under his
tyrannical, jacal, bloodihirsty reign (1917 - 1924) many
‘millions lay dead - including the “flower of the revolution” -
Kronstadt and many other workers and peasants who struggled 1o

«_ ifthe gendarmes of the Tsar should have had tie power not
oaly to arrest but lso o shoot us, the situation would have been like:
the present one. That s whatis happening before my eyes every
the Revolution. But I canmot agree with them that persecution and
constant shooting willscrve the interests of the people or of the:
‘Revolution. It was always my canception that revalution micant the
highest expression of humanity and ol justice. In Russia -day bot
arc absent. Ata time when the fullst cxpression and cooperation
‘of all intellectual and spiitsal forces are necessary to reconstruct the
country, a gag has been placed upon the whole people. To dare
question the wisdom and efficacy of the so-called dicatorship of the
proletariat ar of the Comamunist Party leaders is cousidered a crime.
‘We lack the simplest requisites of the real essence of a social

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Ah, lucky Russian people! They had the of Stalin

Lenin - many during Lenin's legacy of Khmer Rougeian hell -
forced colletivizaion. He made a pact with the Dewl himelr

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soldiers and sailors - revolted! It took off like wildfire and stormed
the country, effectively eliminating the centuries-long rule by Tsar.

Everything was new. The people had done what was necessary
10 totally redo their society. They were engaged in far-reaching
heroes were welcomed back to the fray. St

The people, quite understandably, wanted peace, tand and
bread. ‘They wanted frecdom and they wanted equality. They
wanted a determining say in their lives and surroundings. They
wanted autonomy, cooperative non-coercive relationships,
‘economic self-sufficiency and true justice - both within and without.
They wanted an end to economic and political slavery. They
wanted to live their lives without being bullicd. These are universal,
timeless aspirations of people throughout the world. To their
undying credit, the people of Russia did what they had to do to
‘make this a real possibiliy.

The Russian people have a long, admirable history of resistance
1 tyranny. The literature, for me, is unsurpassed. The country bad
several strains of conscious social and political awareness. The
forees for revolutionary change had presty much everybody
convinced, save for those connected to the Tsar, his military, the
holdings or those hopelessly clinging o reactionary religions, sexism
amazingly bloodless and true, countrywide liberation was possible -
if the various revolutionary groups could work together and
Senuinely struggle wogether with people to actualize a new society,
based on the principles so ofien voiced and 5o fervently
championed by the collective will of Russia.

But, that’s not how it came down, is it? One man - Lenin - had
afar more Machiavellian pian. He would take on the popular
anarchist slogans and the land liberation program of the Social
Revolutionaries and proclaim them as bis own = but only as a tactic
of expediency, during the critical months of mid t late 1917.

During this volatile window of opportunity, he advocaicd a sort
of inclusive *democracy.” That was all total bullshit, of couns. His
real plan was to shoot his way into power and then, construct a
terror state to bend, break, shoot or starve anybody who offered any
real or contrived opposition to his regime.
He would teach us all a vital lesson. As Mikhail Bakunin had
predicted, a “communist dictatorship® would be the most vil state
ever created - unti the copycats kicked in = Mussolini, Hitler,
Franco, Pol Pot, eic. The entire lives of Russians henceforth, would
be pronounced by cndless sorrow, deprivation, government-directed
genocide and a whole society catatonic with fear. <2

‘The real history of the Russian revolution and communist
domination has been suppressed by the Russian government and
Marxist-Leninist ideologues. They dismiss this decades-long agony
and suffering and death as unimportant. Soviet “culture” tumed
into a hideous nightmare image of is true, brutalized self.

Lenin tmed the potential of the Russian people into a torture
and murder state. He ruined everything!

The West reported the horrors of Lenin's evil experiment as
what inevitably happens when you challenge capitalism. You get an
even worse resul! As exampled by Russia, they were at least in part,
correct. But,like the Soviets, they kept the truth of the real, untold
revolution by the Russian people, carefully hidden. The hopes for
world liberation desired by the oppressed of the world were crushed
by capitalist exploitation and misery on the one hand and brutal
tyranny and gargantuan bies on the other. Indeed, Lenin pushed
back genuine liberation many decades and possibly, forever! Why
struggle and sacrifice for a new world if the outcome is even morc

Lenin was “charismatic” (ike Hitler) and was amazingly adept at
getting people to do what he wanted them to do - shoot peoplc!

The Military Revolutionary Committee, which planned the take-
over of the Winter Palace, was a seven-man deal, led by Trotsky,
including two anarchists. An anarchist shut down the Constituent
Assembly. Many fought in the Bolshevik-run “revolution.” Many
non-Bolsheviks fought reaction all over the country, saving
Petrograd on more than one occasion.

‘When the righists were routed (and many needlessly killed by
these rightists and the Bolsheviks, the Leninites turned their guns
and dungeons on all other non-Bolshevik politicals and then,
everybody else, including fater) most of the original Bolshevik
leaders.

+__ They did this because this is what Lenin insisted must happen.
This power of intellect and personality 2s an instrument of terror to
power was copied by Hitler to spellbind his band of mass killers.
Thats why I am not a comumunist, in the Leninist sense, for I do
not believe in murdering innocent people or starving them or
torturing them 1o death and lying about it to make it sound like the
necessary tactics for real iberation. Evil - especially as s3
demonstrated by government (organized mass murder and error) is
the hicight of evil and can't ead to anything good. Those who
commit such horrible acts, egged on by a guy like Lenin are the east
capable of helping t facilitate a just and free society. I¢s like
running a kindergarten with child molesters. Lies and torturously
written tracts by the Lenins of this world, do not and can not change
any of that. For, you can't save a patient rushed to the emergency
room, by first shooting him! What becomes is a result of whit is
happening. A political statc begun by way of organized terror can
only develop into an even more terrorizing society, not some
“worker’s paradise.”

Before I get more specific and detailed about the scinial and
detailed crimes of Leuin, | want to say something about belicl and
religion. I'm about as arcligious a person as you are likely to find. 1
don'tbelicve in any type of God or *Creator” or anything. I'ma
plain and simple atheist. I also don't believe in any type of cult of
personality, “scicnific” socialism or infallible type of thinking that by
invoking their name (such as Marx, Lenin and Mao) then quoting
from them, that it is signifying something aliogether more profound
and indisputable: than anyone clse. Like every word in the Bible, it
s all man-made, agenda-driven and full of fauly conjecture. But, [
will quote at length latr in this picce from an eyewitness 1 the carly
days of Bolshevik rule - Anarchist, Gregory Petrovich Maximoll.

11l do this not because 1 hold him as some sort of special,
knowing voice, but because, in my opinion, he s interest
the truth. You can judge for yoursclf.

Granted, some men and women are insightful to a very
impressive degree. But to think that Marx, or Lenin, or Mao - or
even Bakunin or Kropotkin for that matter, somehow have
unlocked the key to political understanding and created the tr

intelling

a2 communist paradisc, is delusional. People from the past can't
possibly be expected to predict the future. “They are not end-alls
and thinking they are, is not just bad news, but dangerous. We need
10 be clear-minded and deal in the truth. We can and must learn
from the past and from formers teachers and thinkers. But we must
think for orselves in real present day time (o best deal with
modem-day reality. S

‘Ways and means are inextricably linked. You «can’t butcher your
way to power,in order (o create an egalitarian, cooperative socicty,
infuscd with liberty. Allyou do is create a brutal topaown
dictatorship - regardless of the government propaganda and the
delusional thinking of those who echo is lics,

The horrible, oppressive, blooddrenched governments of
Russia, China,the U.S,, Isacl - cvery government on Earth - need
and deserve 10 be ended, for the possibility of 2 futre for our
planet, with peace, freedom, justice, cqualty, iberty, susainabiliy
and lack of coercion. How s this to be made to occurd 1 can't
really say as | can't know the foture ither. Bur, 1do think that
information and cducation grounded in truth (however brutal or
discouraging) is of the uimost importance. A genuine humanist love
of humanity and a respeet for lfe and an antiauthoriarian mindset
is the only precedent possble for humanizcd future.

Trcating child (or 2 puppy) with love, care and warmih, gives
hat baby the best chance to take on loving and friendly atributes as
they mature. But,if they arc brutalzed, nothing good can come
from it

“The oppressive governments of today, ke their predecessors,
will not abdicate or give up. Nor wil their cutthroat sponsors (the
pitalits) withtheir sweashops, bosses, and corporate private
armics. ‘The reactionary, government-cnabling religions won' relent
on their own accord, either! Organized resistance on a worldavide
scale nceds to become actualized and made cffectvely put nto
government-nullifying action.

“This necessitates a strong ant-authoritarian consciousness,
srounded in the trath and driven by the effort to positvely deal with
the real necds of people - not what a few Leninist “vanguardists~
determine what the “people” should do.

Such a consciousnes, capable of effectively dealing with a
present fluid reality, nceds a fandamental and truthful
understanding of history 0 cvolve from.

‘The “Russian Revolution” is a major historical phenomenon, but
Lenin and the Bolsheviks weren't “peoples’™ revolutionarics. Sadly,
they were murderous, dictatorship-minded counferrevolutionarics,

who used the cover of a mythical “worker's state” 1o gain credibility
‘among genuine working dass revolutionaries, ouly 0 undermine
genuine liberation movements. In short, they were fascists, posing
‘as communists!

Let's take a much closer look at the Bolshevik (counter) S
revolution, with a particular emphasis on the role of Lenin.

1am going 10 use the documentation and argumentation of the
Russian revolutionary, Gregory Petrovich Maximoff. He was there:
in Russia during these tumulfuous times and although, he at first
were willing t0 work with the Bolsheviks and help carry out the
“Revolution” it soon became apparent what the Bolsheviks were
actually doing and chose 1 tel the world the awful truh, in
unambiguous detail

“The “red Terror” was Bolshevik policy and pushed by Lenin at
every tumn, even when Stalin and the others in the politburo recoiled
atit. Lenin stated that he was proud that he caused sucha
devastating civil war, He said (of the forced grain requisitions that
subscquent brutal and bloody suppression) “That we brought civil
war 10 the village is something that we hold up as 2 meric”

Afer the crescendo of pointless slaughter at Kronsiads, Lenin
abruptly did a 180 and pushed NEP (New Economic Policy) which
re-introduced capitalism, as if all that suffering and death t0 force
march the country towards a mythical “communism” was a mockery
of his own ideals. It was as if all that slaugher throughout the
country was merely (o satiate the demented evil of a mass murderer,
‘who had no limits placed upon such awful bebavior. Afier all, he
was armed with the *science” of Manxism.. 50 in his mind, any
murderous action was not just acceptable, but “necessary.”

The civil war cost 10 to 12 million lives, 200,000 1 1,500,000
done to death by Bolshevik firing squads. This occurred because
Lenin refused 10 allow the people themselves 10 establish
autonomous and federated revolutionary structures, but rather,
insisted that a single regime, headed by him of course, should rule
over all the nationalities of the former tsarist empire.

Dauring his risc to power, be had promised such autonomy. This
was a common theme with Lenin. Usurp the platforms and slogans
of other revolutionaries, such as the Social Revolutionaries and
Anarchists, then, instead of providing “peace, land and bread”
Take Kronstad for example. They were, according to the then
i favor Leninst, Leon Trotsky, the “flower of the revolution.”
‘When they demanded the right to speak and publish and organize
genuinely free soviets, as per the October Revolution, Lenin sent
Trotsky to slaughter them en mass “like pheasants” - up to 18,0001
‘This mass slaughter was led by the Tsarist general Tuckhachevskii,
who, like Trotsky, was later done o death by Stalin. sC

Lenin called his heavily bureaucratized dictatorship a *worker's
state” and thus by his logic, any striking workers deserved death.
The gains won by the workers and peasants beginning in February
of 1917, such as genuinely workers’ control of the factories was
forcibly ended and he put 1-man rule in its place, ofien using the
very capitalists that the workers had ousted! He re-nsttuted special
privileges and higher pay for specialists and managers and sought to
follow the German capitalist model to accelerate the Westernization
of Russia and “gover with greater fimness than the capitalists did.”

As for the peasants, Maximof writes:

cconomy, by cxiling thousands of peasants from their native places,
by the policy of grain requisitions, etc. Lenin prepared one of the
ghastliest famines in the history of Russia - the famine of 1921,
which carried away millions of lives and crippled physically and
morally, tens of millons.”

Lenin's “scientific socialism” was the bhcprint used by future
authoritarians, be they fascits, “communists” or “democracies” on
how a small band of determined terrorists can lic, manipulate and
bludgeon their way to power without any regard to human lfe or the
“ideals” they purport to advocate. Does this sound ike a
‘monumental setback for the forces of geriuine liberation for
humanity? Just look at how hopeful the world was at the end of the
bloodbath known s World War 1, as the Russian PEOPLE
‘overthrew Tsarism, opened up the prisons and swept through
Russia, iberating themselves (while Lenin & Trotsky were sillin
exile)

Then look at the history of death and subjugation via
authoritarian regimes (“communist” fascist & “democratic”) sincel
Capitalism had weakened itself and lost all credibility among the
working masses in 1917. World liberation was a real possibility and
Russia scemed 10 be pointing the way... Now look at our poor
world - authoritarian regimes, armed (o the teeth, have 2
strangichold on cverything on this planct - and the toilers arc beat
‘down and confused, disorganized - bitter at the betrayal of Lenin
and his decades of horiic “scientific socilism.”

Eyewitness Account

“There is no question but that the Russian Revolution was a
bloody affair. It would be unfair for anyonc to attribute all of the
deaths 10 Lenin’s policics, all 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 lives. Any
were certainly responsible for many deaths. The point is that many,
i mot most, of these millions of lives were shd not just because of
the incvitable cost of revolutionary struggle but because Lenin
insisted on implementing his own view of how the struggle should
develop.” P. VI

“Lenin had been in Zurich when the revolution broke out,
Trotsky in New York. The Bolsheviks were a minority party with
itk real following, even among the workers. The other
evolutionary groups represented a threat to Lenin's domination.
The left sociab revolutionaries had the support of by far the
overwhelming mass of the peasantry. The anarchists had the mow
popular slogans. Lenin moved swifty to crush both... The sailocs
of Kronstadt had an unblemished record as being at the forefront of
any revolutionary struggic. When they called for the Bolsheviks 1o
pespect the rights of sineere revolutionists (0 speak and o publish,
and to permit the organization of free soviets, the response was a
military assault in which thousands (up to 18,000) of the most
edicated revolutionists in all of Russia were shaughtcred because:
they dared to challenge the uniformity of Bolshevik rule.” P. VII.

“Much of the struggle in the civil war was due to Lenin’s efforts
to subordinate the spontancously created autonomous workers'
councils, tradg unions and peasant organizations, Maximoff quotes
Lenin: “We leave to ourselves the state power, only to oursefves... It
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and all the illusions about some kind of independence on the part of
detached layers of population or workers' co-operatives should be.
fived down as s0on as possible... there can be no question of
independence on the part of separate groups...” P. IX s¥

“The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels is a reactionary
manifesto and isin striking contradiction to science, to progress in
general, and humanism in particular. The demands of dictatorship,
of absolute centralization, of politcal and economic ife in the hands
of the state, of forming industrial armies, especially for agriculture,’
of a regimented agriculture in accordance with a single plan, of
raising the state to the position of an Absolute and the resulting
stulification of the individual, tsrights and interest - all thatis
nothing but the programme of reaction which is incompatible with
realization of these demands carries with it state stavery.” P. XI

The food policy which reduced itseff to grain requisitions carricd
out by armed detachments who were indiscriminately taking away
the grain of the peasants - rich and poor alike = resulted in a.
number of peasant rebellions throughout the country. Fixed grain
prices under conditions of great searcity of commodities and total
depreciation of currency, were in fact but a form of ordinary
plunder perpetrated not only in regards of the kulaks but the entire
peasantry. Rich peasants, middle peasants, as well as poor peasants
refused to sl grain. It was then that Lenin declared them “enemies
of the people” and friends of the capitalsts, opening up a mad
campaign against peasants with the help of ‘the committees of poor
peasants.” P. 39 - 40

“The ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ is thus a slaveholders
democracy which, as distinguished from the one of the ancient
world, has for ts aims freedom, economic equality, freeing the
entire population from slavery, and all this s to be realized... by
enslaving the entire population!” P. 41
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“Jtis improbable that they would believe that freedom can be
arrived at via enslavement, cquality via inequality, humanity via
inhumanity, the abolition of the State via its strengthening and
initative can be developed by first having it siflcd.” P. 43

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stronges methods of terrorization, methods which combined il
the guilotine would transcend anything the world had known uniil
now. Those means be discovered in the ‘miltary socialism’ of the
warring capialiststates - ferror by starvation” P. 45

“It was necessary 1 rain the working masses o become
indifferent toward executions and t0 regard them as maticr-offact
and agiatons rised a furious campaign against the other partics,
groups, movements and persons. Skanders, lies, deceit, the most
frightful frame-ups began to rain dow from this inspired source, far
outstripping the propaganda methods ofthe pre-October period. At

and the leaders of the party, terror in all its forms - that is,
persecution and assassination, was gathering momcntum.” P. 46~
47.

Here he quotes Lenin the liar. “Being a democratic government,
we cannot ignore the decisions of the masses of peopl, even when.
they run counter to our own opinions... Aud cven if the peasants
follow in the future the party of the Social ~Revolutionarics and give
that party a majority in the Constituent Assembly, we shall s2y: -let it
be 50... We have to continue the line of democratization and to
‘make the right of recall essentia in the functioning of the Soviets as
the most consummate bearers of the idea of sate and compulsion.
And then the transfer of party from one party to the oiher will
proceed in a peaceful manner, by way of mere elections.” P. 54
“Thus in the period lasting from April 99 to August 30 (1918)
the day on which the attempt on Lenin’s lfe (made by Dora
took place, Lenin in his specches and artickes caled for murders,
shootings, in the name of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in the
name of Socialism. And he did it while the decre abolishing the
death penalty was il in foroe, Lenin demanded, insisted and

crime, ‘menshechniks’ that is, hungry workers, who were trying to
gt for their familics 2 pood - 40 Russian pounds - of flour without
government permission); he called for an armed phinder of
peasants; he organized an internecine war within the working class;
he demanded iron and blood and called for the highest penalty for
more and more cruelty and ferocity.” P. 72

applied these three basic clements of his terroristic theory,
combining them to suit the circumstances.” P. 81

Ah, the great October Revolution of 1917! How did Lenin’s
“scientific socialism” manifest itself in the coming months?

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those who were accusedl of posting on walls anti goverment
proclamations, of agilation against the Soviet power or just of
performing ‘heroic deeds’ ike Captain Shichasay. The year was
replete with executions on account of red tape, administrative
‘myopia and swpidity, intellectual conceit,etc. It was a year taken up
with the organization of the ‘guillotine of public opinion,that is, e
“hounding of the unfit’ by skander, lics and deliberately false charges,
a year crowded with murders, shootings and mass arrests of
‘peasants, ruthless suppression of peasant rebellions brought about
by the pilage and violence of the Commitees of Poor Peasanis.
‘Oceans of blood; mountains of corpses, tens and hundreds of
thousands of people rotting away in the prisons and concentration
camps.” P. 84

After a few years of this barbarity, famine cnsucd. Here's a copy
of a report about ife in the Samara Gubernia, issucd on August 25,
1921.

“The peasants have been feeding on all kinds of subsiitutes since
carly in the spring. In the wooded section they lived on acoms and
grass. Right now, however, acoms have become a lusury. The
price of acorn flour s 120 thousand ruples a pood. (Note: that was
before the official devaluations of Soviet money) The peasants arc
ruthlessly saughcring their cattle, using for food even the skin of
the animals. All the marmots found in the fields have been caten
up, there are numerous cases of cats and dogs being used for food;
young puppies are considered a delicacy. The drought bured the
grass in many places. The population is now beginning to use for
food roots, special sorts of clay and some sort of stone derived from
peat. Here are some of the food substitutes used for food: chaff,
horse sorrel, the pith of sunflowers, birch tree cones and lima tree
leaves, roots of forest hemp, clays with an admixture of ferrous
acids. The Public Health Department formed a specil research
institute for the study of substitute foods. The use of those

substitutes results in stomach ailments and death from starvation.”

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‘With “revolutionary” examples like Soviet Russia, is it any
wonder a monster such as Adolph Hitler synthesized the modus
operandi of America (“white” power invasion, continentwide
genocide / slavery to build up a capitalist “democracy”) and the
quickened pace of mass murder and enslavement posing as a
gorious “socalist” revolution of Lenin / Stalin into the Big Lic,
lebensraum, holocaust megalomaniacal horrors of “National
Socialism?” The examples of Lenin's monstrousness and those of
hislicutenants ar vas, s are the horrors of others who took up
“Leninism" in other countries, or just copied his methods. Herc's
one bast quote from Maximoff,

“Lenin, as the high-priest of a sect, bears the responsibility for
the degradation and cheapening of human personality which is
unprecedented in the history of mankind; for the absolute lack of
regard for human lfe, for the moral disintegration of the horde of
his followers and the comrosion of the basic moral principles without
which men sink to a state below that of a brute. He set up medieval
torture-chambers, an outwardly “modernized” inquisition in Russia
which is sill flourishing... Lenin's works were determined by a
determined philosophy - the philosophy of Marxism or as it is
wrongly styled, the *scientific” Socialism; and it follows that it is this
essentially absolutist, barbarous, reactionary and anti-scientific
philosophy that bears the entire responsibility for the mountains of
corpses in Russia, for the racking and tortures, for economic ruin
and famine, for brutality and slavery, for the Asiatic absolutism, for
the German barrack system ~ and for Lenin as its end-product.” P.
255

The present time is April of 2009. Capitalist domination still
fords over our poor planet. Marxist regimes still exist and also
repress their peopl in various forms of state capitalism, some.
masses of people for freedom, jusice and equality remains
unfulflled. The voice of opposition to these authoritarian regimes
isrising, including the anticapitalst voice of Marxism-Leninism.
Like 1 mentioned in the begiuning of this picce, ere are 63
individuals, some who profess to be “scientific sociaists” who I
respect because they genuincly siruggle against capitalist oppression
~ even though they consider me *petit-bourgeois” as their god
(Lenin) instructed them w see anarchists as. But 1 will not be quict
about the idcology of tyranny - whether it is pro-capitalist overtly or
also dictatorial, posing as the science of libcration - Mandism-
Leninism.

The Crimes of Government

the crimes of government, state and local governments,
industry and the social wounds and diseases that ran
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and how our economy will “rebound.”

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a population of only 4.5%. We have our jackboot to the
neck of a poverty-stricken and terrorized world in order to
see that thiauﬁomn-inuoﬂummu-ly high. So what

revenge-seeking taunters?

Where's the “hope” for the Amerikan kids in the
despairing ghettos, you know, the ones with 50% plus
unemployment, no opportunities, rundown schools run
like prisons, where the cops funnel them into juvie
centers, then the big boy prisons, run in draconian fashion
by racists and sadists?

Oh, and all past crimes foisted on the world by the US.
(mass murder, slavery, military puppet regimes, /¢
uranium, sweatshops - all manner of exploitation, merely
gots a frosh coat of whitewash. How else do you think &
‘country with 4.5% of the world's population gets 26% of
the world's stuff???

Obama's not going to do anything about what big
business and the military do— or the police / suppression
‘apparatus (prisons). War reparations are not going to be
paid to the descendants of African slaves, prisoners are
Dot going to be released and the “drug war® won't be
ended. The ghettos won't be changed. Nothing of

‘Sure, hell talk a much better game than the borderline
illiterate Bush, but he'll keep pouring tax money and
impetus into Bush's existing programs of repression and
aggrandizement of the very rich and their voracious lust
for greed.

Many rightists will seethe due to Obama's feel good
rhetoric and the crumbs he throws the poar and they'll
take their anger out on their victims — the poor and
imprisoned. For the dedicated fascists have made sure
they control the levers of torture in the most venal
institutions, here at home and abroad.

Decades of propaganda, trillions in military hardware,
schooling in aggressive kidnapping, torturing and
‘murdering any and all opposition to the “American Way”
isn't going to be undone by a glib guy with the gift of gab
and a sweet family! He's signed onto this system and will
support the “interests” of those who steer the ship of
state.

‘The system will receive a few more band aids, but this
patient has huge bed sores and rampant, runaway
cancers!

Do you think other people in other countries who have
been 80 horribly treated by the U.S. (and their lackeys)
are going to forget about all of the aerial death, sufforing,
U.S. supported death squad governments, thefts of
resources by U.S. corporations, IMF and World Bank .
plunder, etc.? Why should they? How could they???. &

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around a little bit — less here, more there. The
commanders trained to repross and kil the peopl they
were ordered to menace will keep doing their job! These
people native to those countries, will till have family
members get killed, have no heat, no food, no “hope.”
Obamat They1l conclude that their only option is to
retrofit young Abdul with a suicide belt! You can't blame
them because the game is called surviving — even if you're
driven to have to kill yourself to play it!

Look at Obama's attack dog - Rahm Emmanuel, He's

tunnels for commerce as they have been choked off much
like the Vietnamese, who also used extensive tunnels to
live and fight the U.S., most notably in Cu Chi. Of course,
0o mention is made of the massive infusion of high tech
high explosive weaponry the U.S. sends to Tsrael, nor the
many atomic bombs they have in their possession. We're
only to deplore the occasional death by freak oocurrence of
Israeli settlers, provocatively camped out on Palestinian
land, but are to be oblivious when the Israeli's murder
‘hundreds, even thousands of tightly packed Gaza
civilians, who have no where to go and seek shelter at
U.N. compounds, which are also bombed.
Ignorant Americans have never learned the truth
about their monstrous government. They've been
indoctrinated with the opposite — lies about the reality of
this endless rip-off situation. é7

We're supposed to extal the infallible brilliance of the
“Founding Fathers” who were mainly racist, sexist,
“White,” male, land-owning slavers! And Abraham
Lincoln is revered. But sending bundreds of thousands of
young men to their deaths to help build this country into
bogart it is today, is not “progress.” I agree with
Constitution is a pact with the Devil”

Nothing of genuine significance will occur until people
gain a much deeper understanding of the reality of the
ain &

Putting a fresh face on the U.S’s reign of international
terror and maybe a little more government cheese in the
charity baskets, isn't going to halt the playing out of this
tragedy.

People need to seek and absorb genuine political, social
and economic education and get with others around them
to deal with their own problems and go from there.
Change has to come from these local, grassroots
initiatives that can grow and forge common cause with
other such efforts, which can grow into a sustained and
effective social movement.

1t doesn't happen otherwise. It doesn't come from on
high. The system’s main goal is to perpetuate itself — not
significantly change for the better! Pulling a lever for the
new kid on the block, who speaks well and likes to play
pick-up basketball is an adaptation to facilitate this
perpetuation. Sadly, the longer this system i
perpetuated, the grimmer are the chances for every living
thing on Earth....

~ Anthony Rayson ~
South Chicago ABC Zine Distro
P.0. Box 721 | Homewood IL 60430
“Long Live Death!”

For us, it started from the “good war” — World War II.
A massive crescendo of aerial bombardment was
somehow noble and fitting “policy” — unlike the stripping
and gassing to death by the Nazis. Whole cities— 47
DnsduyTokyo,Nogmﬂd,Hixwhinumdmmymhﬂs
were literally engulfed in firestorms of mass incineration.
Tens of thousands perished in a single bombing run.

General Curtis “bomb them into the stone age”
LeMay led the planners of the U.S. air force during this
time. h(nhewmddmuupwﬂh(hvmﬁeorge
Wallace, as his running mate, during the '68 presidential
campaign.

Recently, after fifty-plus years, it has been “revealed”
that many, many mass shootings occurred in Korea,
overseen and participated in by U.S. forces. See, we
didn’t want these people possibly siding with the North
Koreans, so we had to murder them instead. Then, in
Vietnam, we had to “destroy the village to save it.”

I remember the “Christmas Bombing” over the
holidays in 1972-73. Massive “death from above”
delivered by waves of B-52’s pummeled the
infrastructure and populated areas of North Vietnam.
Huge dikes were destroyed and tens of thousands ‘were
done to death. Soon after, Nixon was feted at his second
inauguration and Henry Kissinger was given the Nobel
Peace prize in 1973! Le Duc Tho, his North Vietnamese
counterpart, also was bestowed this coveted prize. But
he had the human decency to refuse it. Kissinger, a main
architect of the Southeast Asia camage (3 million
muldend)mdmmymlmylocida,smeduplbe
USS. involvement in Vietnam this way: “We should have
never been there, but that's history.”
Well, it’s no wonder Hitler felt pimped! Here he was
junbdngagaodsmdﬂllofhixmrylndusingxhc“U.S.
‘model” of continent-wide genocide for Europe. He read
slavery (for prisoners) and used it as a “legal blueprint”
for the Nuremburg Laws, much as South Africa did to
institute apartheid. He demonized the people he didn’t
like (Gypsies, Jews, Slavs etc.) and did them to death,
‘much like the U.S. did to the native nations. Others, he
gang-pressed into slave labor, again much as how this
continent came to be as it is today. He proclaimed the
Germanic “race” to be superior and thus, above any and
all “law” while maintaining a respectable petit-bourgeois,
capin.lisuocio-wnmmicsyﬂ:m,mnﬂllyandethicaﬂy
validated by conservative Christianity, again just like you
Kknow who. 49

So, death delivered by a supersonic plane or even a
drone is cool because it is performed by one of our
flyboys pushing a knob on a joystick, much like all the
kids and their video games. But if a person tried to kill
mhupeoplewiuhapismlmdumunmeasofchingo
or is willing to blow himself up somewhere, this is the
worst crime imaginable. Now, think about that. Mass
death is celebrated and those who sign off on it are
considered brave heroes and patriots, but the individual
Killers are “cowards” or “gang-bangers” or whatever you
can think of to mean the most despicable among us.

Which brings me to the latest news. As the Bush /
Cheney cabal comes to a close, Bush and Cheney are sort
of wistful in their appraisal of themselves. Bush is trying
to soften his image as a “compassionate conservative”
whereas Cheney has no regrets and sees himself as a
“Churchillian gatekeeper.” People disapprove of these
modem-dny]-lillu!ypﬂ,hnhud]ymybodydﬁnksﬂiey
deservemun'sfne—mlmmhnhisemnmy Before
Churchill ran Britain against Hitler, he was heavily
involved for a long time in the imperial pursuits of 77
England. He was a major player in the theft of Iraqi oil
in the early twentieth century. With a stroke of a pen, he
carved off the oil rich Iraqi province of Kuwait, and
made it a new “country” which England could casily
control. So, yes, Cheney is functioning in the tradition of
Churchill.

Look at the crescendo of violence unleashed by Israel
upon tiny Gaza. Made in USA bombers are pulverizing
this highly populated area, killing hundreds and
terrorizing millions. This camage has been in the
planning stages for many months by Isracl’s present
leaders, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister
Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni because an
election is approaching and polls suggest Benjamin
Netanyahu may win if they don’t “do something ™ After
all, Olmert is leaving in disgrace due to accepting money
from an American Jew and the aftermath of the mass
death campaign in Lebanon, which wasn’t “good
enough.” Taking cash is a “disgrace” but slaughtering
people is acceptable, unless you don’t do it conclusively

Now, I don’t condone violence any way, shape or
form. Killing one or a dozen is horrible but killing
thousands is that many times worse. Governments are
the worst killers of all and all killers need to be stopped.
Wepaymgovumncmnlmefmoneymdﬂneyuseiuo
mass murder people. That’s utterly and totally insane!

The only conclusion is that they have managed 10 destroy
our ability to think rationally and compassionately about
the horrific crimes they are committing. We are their
facilitators. T
‘War is not peace, folks! The biggest obstacles to a
peaceful and sustainable world are our own
“Churchillian” leaders. The worst criminals in the world
run governments. They have huge arsenals at their
disposal which they send young people to use on those
They are liars and monsters of the worst type. Leam the
truth about what is really happening in this world and get
a grip on your own sense of morality. Sloughing off a
conscious life is invalid as it leaves a bombed, melting
and poisoned world to our children and grandchildren —

let alone the “seventh generation.”
Anthony Rayson, January
2" 2009
On Writing

Notice. in this post- Obama acceplance of woridwide capilalist
domination how fenible the wrifing keeps gefling? Yesterday, he
sweet falked G-20info coughing up a filion for the IMF
(intemational Monetary Fund). They set the one and lie outright,
s Hiler taught them. This money i fo “aide poor countries.”

Starying people in teeming Countries, exploited for centuries and
stil that way. Funding projects that aid corporations and saddiing
Ihese pocr counties wilh creaiming debi s wha the IF ociuoly
I'm folking aibout the mundane brainwash or morbid, everyady
fife. Over and over many people (myself included) hear the same.
commercial on radio, T.V. or whatever. ol the fime, everyday.
They may be midly amusing or infiguing on first sight or isten, but
s00n they are loathsome cancers wasting valuable space in our
brains| The “wriing™ of the every fime insipid pilch, often as

be responded fo by 1.G. fessness and unquestioning accepfance.
Uike spam, as long as a few dolts buy info this, it has “worked.”

For example, fhere's been a series of radio commercials about
@ men’s haircut place. The feeble-minded premise is that without
wonying about his shupid hor, a man's “mind is free to wonder...”

50 where does this everyman’s mind wonder off 102 Why he.
thinks homophobic thoughts about why some men cary the
accoutrements fhat, in a sexist way of fhinking, i reserved for
women. Thi, fo sell haircuts?! And the hideous thing is played
‘overand overl He neatly fies fhis ignorant smear with reat
monhood - bl paofim and Cut ha. Sheesh! After they're
done cutting. they probably rub steroids info their pea-brained
scalpst

People have no idea how relenfless are the vampires who run
his worldwide homor movie of a reality. The Obamas are
chomming everybody around, while they're fronfing he shoveling
of tifions fo the banks and at the same fime. revving up
‘poentially huge wars. This speaks at the bankrupicy of
understanding of reaiity by most everybody and their
disconnectedness fo red socicl fle and how far away we are fo
‘any real decision-making.

Germany, in the thirfies and half the forfies. demonstrated fo
the world, how a country of people can be hoodwinked info
The country is and has been for along fime in the grip of the
‘endiessly fold, mainsiream fake on ol things. Incredible
contradictions aren't explained, but come off ike some.
distant thunder and fighining. Public discourse is blathered info
the insane glbberish used i the court rooms, used fo rafroad the
Young black. afino, native and poor info the vast, domestic
qulag system.

The mad {accepted as the only solufion) reasoning, goes, “we'l
make more lawst” It's ike going fo get more butter, as your house
‘bums down! Only the cops can.*lake care of” any anythings.
“The People” are fofally out of the piciure, dla, affer fhe
Bolshevik's murdered their way 1o power. Only here. fhe moss
bloodshed, in this area, is moslly centuries oid. S0 to keep the
slave systemn humming., control of the “minds” and “psyches” of
people is used s an expedient. It reminds me of the biggest way
Ihey keep inmates in prisons and *hospitals” dociie (televisiont)

We lock ourselves in and out of our own homes - like that drunk on
the Andy Griffth Show — Ofisl 73

There was an off-handed remark by some pundit that |just
glanced at. He said we should “isten 1o the protesters” meaning
#he ones in Europe right now, challenging the G-20 coming out
party for the Obamas. Yeah, we should! A man died fighting this
global body of concentrated tyrannyl Obama s smart and
smooth, amidst @ word of polifical dullards. He looks fo
accelerate the plonetary meltdownl He's decling tilions like:
caras in a high stakes poker game, with gunmen behind himl Butl
He's got a helluva smile and his wie s infectious. Hilier was so
creepy-ooking!

‘Who s doing the serious and honest willing about all this in this
country. huh? The Obama guy who called out America for being
50 “cowardly” isjust hinling at fhe stench of mass rof that passes
for understanding and doing! So much waste - and 1o destroy the
‘world for this! Some writers wiite drama - fiction!

A few communists can get fo the core of the situation —if it is
about copitalism or imperiaism. But, don't expect much critical
analysis of their favorite “communist” Countries and Manist heroes.
They want o claw their way fo power, foo biind fo see power over
people is not power of and by the people! Coercive.
governmental authority (iicense o murder given 1o ifself without
‘any accountabiity) is what s evill

Some anarchists are willng and able 10 tell the fruth s that
supposed to “rouse the masses” oul of their lielong lack of real
education and patterns of selfinvolvement and dirth of soidarity
and empathy for and with ofhers? It should help! I should help.
Bul recly. each person has 1o take that step hersell (or himselt.)
There's a chasm of doubt there that's pretty wide. You don't
know f ying fo live your own life and actuiize your own falents
and punsue your own interests wil develop thiough the confusion
of the upcoming unknown. It's such a struggle just fo stay alive
and have a foof over your head! What if everylhing comes to
naught and this whole thing i ike just some crappy diet that
doesn't work?

Of course. the difference is thought and action, based solely on
your own thinking abilfies, on the one hand - o following what
somebody says. You have 10 frust and befieve your own inner
thinking mind fo be ane of reason, one of compassion and one
inferested in “doing the fight thing." Once you realze you are your
‘own best fiend and advisor, then you can go on to the task of
figuing out the best way fo do that. Once again, | befieve that
‘people wil be plecsantl surprised at what they are able fo deal
with, once ey genuinely “put their minds fo it 7

Ican't tell people how 10 live thek fives o affect their
personaiies. | can befiiend them — and bounce ideas around
‘with them. That's what I ike fo do, anyway. 1 just think that people.
‘who have crossed what | caf the “fear ine” should focus a lof of
effort info their wiiing. We need people ~ without hidden
‘agendas (such as the attainment of power) fo wiite about afl the
issues of our present doy ~ in defaill People need fo be helped fo
reciize things by hosé who make a point of studying, anatyang
‘and reporting on things. We need dreamers, fool Not just blood
‘and guts horror movie books! How honid o waste of writing falentt
Ughl 1 wonder, who wriles ofl fhe cop and court shows? Tk
‘about morbidl

Do think things wil get worse and social strife wil get
increasingly unbearable? Yes, | do, but I'm not looking forword fo
more generdlized suffering. | want fo heip increase the level of
humanist understanding. so afleviation of repression can be
aftempted and attcined. When things get unbearable, people
finally hit the streefs. Whether o successful outcome franspires
greatty depends on the conscious reaction of people. If people
oren't very conscious and unified, the “revoll” has no staying -
power. If's easier fo co-opt and have degenerate info senseless
violence and the re-emergence of a new form of coercive
authority or the clamping down by the same authorifies. We need
fearless ond knowledgeable people who achudlly are driven by
theirlove of humarnity and who have no personal agenda other
than the basic diive for love and respect. And yes. we also need
People who can write ard convey thésé ambulés, while clecrly
explaining what & going down in red fime.

1 think fhe “good" in people needs fo be raised 1o such a level
fhrough humanist educafion. that peopie wll band fogether to
save each ofher. They'llimply have fol Wi the powers of doom,
50 amed to the teeth, smply destroy the word? Could be. could
be. But, they're doing it sowly, anyway! And things ore
accelerating! Injust a few years, there wit be no polar ice! Think
of thatl What are we going 1o do when the i s 100 poisoned fo
breathe - wil cameras and guns in our face solve any of these
‘cotastrophes - or exacerbate them?22
What esse are we going 1o doZ Remain slugs and cowards?
Forwhat? Live ow lives and die having just vegelated thiough lfe
ke acow? Man, thatis cowarclyl 75

Witers need towritel Not for an editor and not for some niche
“readership” o “audience.” We need fo call this madness oul —
like guys ke Herny David Thoreau didiin his day. Like Maicolm X,
Thoreau was a genuine educator and revolutionary, but the.
‘educational powers that be have been busy homogenizing his
message and making him into not just a ciific of society, but really
just another American “patriot.” They use his example of strong
‘wiing as an exampie of how wonderful this country i, | guess for
“allowing" i, whie ignoring what he actually saidl

So what did Henry David Thoreau actually have fo say? Here's

Who can be serene in a country where both rulers ond ruied.
are without principie? The remembrance of the baseness of
poliicians spoils my walks. My thoughts are murder fo the State. |
endeavor in vain o observe nature. my thoughis involuntarily go
plotting against the State. | frust that oll just men will conspire.

starvation. destitution, peonage and wage siavery, offen under
brutal militarized govemments. supplied by U.S. arms
manufaciurers and propped up by the U.S. government. It's our
toreign policy" fo prop up dictators fo keep those people as
sources of cheap labor of infemational corporations (most
especially US. comorations) and their raw matericis accessibie for
profit-making, wasteful expioitation.

Wilers need o wite. stipped of al the gimmicks and *special
gtfects” of skiding the issues. Deciare yourself on one side of the.