----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Laursen" <laursene at earthlink.net> To: "'NYC-DAN'" <nyc-dan at topica.com>; "'WTO Wall Street'" <wtowallstreet at yahoogroups.com>; "'WTO Nov Message'" <WTO-M-M at topica.com>; "'Seattle on Hudson'" <s.o.h at topica.com>; "'WTO Nov Mobilization'" <autodawg at topica.com> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 10:32 PM Subject: [wtowallstreet] FW: [Ne-anarchists-d] Message from your Oklahoma comrades
> Hey folks, an EXCELLENT response by some Oklahoma comrades to what's
> happened in Genoa. Could be very helpful to us as we prepare to be
> propagandistically assaulted by the authorities as "violent" in coming
> months.
>
> Eric
>
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> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 10:05 AM
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> Subject: [Ne-anarchists-d] Message from your Oklahoma comrades
>
>
> Friends, activists, and revolutionaries,
> Today an unarmed anti-globalization demonstrator was shot twice
> in the head and savagely mauled beneath the treads of a military vehicle
> during the G8 summit beign held in Genoa, Italy. Again, the interlocking
> directorate of corporate power demonstrated that the value of human life
is
> cheap when weighed against the value of private property. Moreover, these
> powers have illustrated their eager willingness to take lives, to violate
> legal civil liberties and disregard all that is decent and moral in the
> pursuit of greater profits for the privileged elite that control the
world's
> wealth.
> Over the past two years of anti-globalization demonstrations, a
> recurring trend of excessive state violence has become evident. Though the
> consistency of violence has been conveniently dismissed by the corporate
> media as a phenomena instigated by "a minority of ultra-left antagonists"
it
> seems outrageous to those of us who have attended these demonstrations and
> witnessed police indiscriminately attacking peaceful, unarmed citizens
with
> various chemical and non-lethal ballistic weapons. However, it doesn't
take
> a witness with first hand experience to observe the glaring contradictions
> between the facts and the media spin placed on these events. For example,
> at the true conception of the anti-globalization movement in Seattle, WA.,
> undisputed reports are available that very clearly show that the first
> incidents of property damage caused by demonstrators came at approximately
> 2pm, whereas, the first indiscriminatevolley of rubber bullets and use of
> chemical weapons on unarmed, non-violent demonstrators came at
approximately
> 9am. Then, once again at the April16th, 2000 demonstrations against the
> International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, property damage came days
> after police began seizing potential demonstrators, filling jails and
> herding over 4,000 others into makeshift prison camps erected at RFK
> Stadium. Still, we tolerate the abuse. Many Americans rationalize the very
> ominousreality that martial law has been declared within our own borders.
At
> each of these demonstrations, civil rights have been "suspended" in areas
> designated by law enforcement as red zones, yet we continue to make
excuses
> and the fact remains that American citizens have been subjected to illegal
> police surveillance, harassment and violence. The Constitution of our
> forefathers, laws that our father's and grandfathers have sacrificed their
> lives to protect have been disregarded and broken. Laws that the citizens
> of this country have democratically enacted to protect our basic human
> rights have been "suspended" justified by meaningless slogans such as
> "national security" and "nationalinterest." Today, America deserves to
know
> what "national interest" supports the suspension of civil rights and
martial
> law. Who defines "national security" while the constitution rights of
> lawful citizens are violated?
> As we attempt define these slogans, we must accept the reality
> that the free and democratic, peace loving America we were have been
taught
> to believe in no longer exists. We must awaken to the reality that this
> nation no longer belongs to her citizens. It is our duty to initiate the
> reevaluation of these slogans. We must all ask ourselves, "What does it
mean
> to be free?" Not a single American is free until all Americans can express
> themselves politically without fear of government reprisal. Only when all
> Americans can equally participate in the political and economic structures
> that determine our fate, can we call America a free country.
> Today we suffer greater abuses than those of our revolutionary
> forefathers, yet we sit idle. We pay exorbitant taxes to make oil
> companies, auto-manufacturers and multi-billion dollar arms manufacturing
> corporations richer, while education, health care and other social
programs
> are scarce and inaccessible to struggling families. We turn a blind eye to
> blatant violations of our Constitution and civil rights. Now we are
> confronted by the widespread use of state violence against unarmed
> citizens. When we go to exercise our right to protest "Globalization
> without representation", will we become the next victims? The lines have
> been drawn. All Americans have unwittingly been united with the nations of
> the world in a common struggle for basic human rights. Today we have been
> given a choice. When pacifists are beaten and killed for their love of
> peace, neutrality is no longer an option.
> We mustn't fail to remember: yesterday's traitors are today's
> patriots. Today's patriots were revolutionaries. When they dehumanize our
> world, brutalizeour bodies, and rape our lands and resources, how shall we
> respond? How, then,shall we be remembered?
>
> In solidarity and struggle,
> General Defense Committee
> The Confederation of Midwestern Anarcho-Communists
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