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Don't Let Panic Force You to Support a Growing Fascist Police State

3/17/2020

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Its important to contextualize what’s happening throughout the world today with the challenges facing us from the potential  growth of COVID 19.  If what we are learning is true, this virus has devastating capacity.  Even if you are healthy and strong, you can hold the virus, without knowing it, for up to a fourteen day incubation period.  During that time, you can unknowingly pass the virus on to countless people who do not have the benefit of a strong immunity system.  This is an unprecedented element that forced me to start thinking isolation, despite the fact I’m really not concerned about the virus as it relates to impacting my body.

Those are obviously real concerns.  Its also worth repeating that millions of colonized and oppressed people across the world are forced daily to live under martial law conditions.  Empty shelves at stores.  Restricted movement.  Lack of food and healthcare resources.  In countries like Zimbabwe, Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela, these stark conditions result in large part due to U.S. led capitalist economic sanctions against them for refusing to tow capitalism’s line.  In other parts of the world the exploitative nature of capitalist dominated production of goods and services continues to maintain this system of very few haves, and millions of have nots. 

All of the above is connected to the real anxiety about COVID 19 in the U.S. and other capitalist countries.  Consistent with what these empire nations do in colonized countries as daily policy, their approach to addressing the challenges of COVID 19 are led with a military, guns first, strategy.  Meanwhile socialist Cuba, despite having extremely limited resources due to the 58 year U.S. economic blockade against them (for daring to implement a socialist revolution 90 miles from the U.S.), is leading the way in confronting COVID 19.  They have worked with China to develop a vaccine called Interferon.  The vaccine works with the body’s natural proteins to formulate a boost to the body’s own immunity system.  Cuba has shared the vaccine with China and virus epicenters like Italy.  In fact, Cuba has sent dozens of doctors to Italy to help treat the virus there. 

The U.S., with its profit over people capitalist dedication, has been forced to announce that the medical resources to adequately treat the virus do not presently exist within this country.  Consequently, the focus on martial law, social distancing, curfews, etc.  Lip service is being given to providing finances to working people.  Some of that may happen or not, but you can bet on corporations, especially large ones, being bailed out with your tax dollars. 

While all of this is happening, this military first approach is setting the stage for some intensified police state realities.  The focus will suddenly be on people “looting” toilet paper or even food and the resources of the state will be loaded up towards stopping people from getting what they need, not ensuring they have the medical and human resources they deserve. 

Its important that in the midst of this we all don’t fall victim to the push to support this police state.  The stage is set for the empire’s “us against them” mentality of “othering” people who don’t fit i.e. colonized people, LGBTQ, poor people, houseless people, etc.  Its these populations who are most vulnerable right now. 

Please accept that under any circumstances, the police are not your friends.  Under no circumstances does it benefit you, your family, or your community, for you to talk to police about anything.  Not even about the weather.  If the virus intensifies as expected, panic will increase.  In their consistent efforts to do everything in their power to ensure we remain afraid of each other so that we never focus in on the superrich who are really responsible for all these problems, we can see things becoming much more drastic.  During these increasingly difficult times, its going to be crucial that people don’t allow themselves to become unwitting snitches for state sponsored repression. 

Establish electronic ways to keep in touch with people around you that you can trust or networks of people you trust, even if they aren’t in your immediate vicinity.  Maintain contact and stay aware of breaking developments.  Ensure those developments are communicated clearly across your networks.  Establish check ins to compare notes.

Talk to people you know who may be more vulnerable to police terror. People who have issues happening like outstanding warrants need help establishing a regiment that permits them to lay low.  Don’t drive around with expired driver’s licenses or vehicle registration.  If you have to go out for anything extended, try to make sure someone knows where you are going.  And, of course, always observe all the frequently mentioned practices to prevent the spread of this virus. 

Make sure you have plans on how you can defend yourself if needed and recognize common sense practices such as if you are traveling at night, even just to the store, etc., have car keys ready before getting to your vehicle so that you can readily enter and be on your way.  The same with your living conditions.  Check on others around you, especially those living outside.  And watch police, military, whomever, and what they are doing with people.  Use your video when you can and when necessary, but be prepared to lend a helping hand.  Its not helpful to video someone being brutalized when you could have helped them.  If you don’t know how, reach to those of us with skills and experience in this area and we will do our best to help you prepare.  In other words, do everything you can to ensure you are not placed in a position where you feel desperate enough to depend upon the police state.

Finally, don’t ever forget that the capitalist system is the core reason behind this situation.  I provide the example of Cuba because their socialist development clearly illustrates that there are many effective ways to serve and protect humanity when people come first.  The fact people aren’t first in capitalism contributes to conditions where a virus can grow out of control.  So, capitalism is at fault, even just based on that reality, not the mention the fact we don’t know where or who the creation of this virus can be attributed to, but we do know the capitalist countries have a history of producing viruses and other biological warfare as weapons for population control. 
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And despite the fact your loved ones may be police and/or military, or you may be yourself, the undisputed reality is that these armed and trained state institutions like police and military are here for one purpose – to protect the interests of the capitalist system.  They are not here to protect and serve you and the proof of that is borne out by the fact they are being deployed to control your movements, not to distribute food.  You don’t employ armed, trained mercenaries to distribute food.  Any of us can do that.  You deploy them to control the movement of people.  That’s what they are going to be doing.  Don’t help them do this.  Instead, build capacity among your groups and people to protect yourselves and your surrounding communities.

4 Comments
Shirley Brown
3/17/2020 10:51:27 pm

Very informational insight. Its a shame that the goverment is responsible for this virus getting out of control and wanting to control us

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ANTIFA JAWORZNO link
3/18/2020 05:55:47 pm

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The gubment po po
3/22/2020 05:21:08 pm

During a world crisis police do not want any part of madness, much less any sickness. They go to work during these times because they help ensure small business owners don’t get robbed blind. Police don’t have any part of national politics and simply do a job to ensure local safety for everyone; not worrying about their class in society. Nobody wants to get sick, but more importantly nobody wants everyday life changing to include law enforcement.

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Tim
3/25/2020 05:24:17 pm

I like some of your thinking on this but I totally and absolutely disagree with the idea that capitalism Is it fault. That is ridiculous. Stop fear mongering

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    I don't see disagreement as a negative because I understand that Frederick Douglass was correct when he said "there is no progress without struggle."  Our brains are muscles.  Just like any other muscle in our body if we don't stress it and push it, the brain will not improve.  Or, as a bumper sticker I saw once put it, "If you can't change your mind, how do you know it's there?"

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