cops/Re: Fwd: paramilitaries in Ireland

michael pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Jul 3 11:31:34 PDT 2002


Thanks for the reminder on shorter URL's. (Part of why I did that though was to illustrate to Carrol, "kill file, " Cox that one can grab any set of consecutive words and find webpages that are the original source URL.)

And, doofus me, meant to send that reply which implied I sent the KLEZ virus to another list.

Might as well pose a question on Copwatch and other anti-police brutality groups. Folks I remember from student anti-apartheid/sanctions movement from the mid-80's that subsequently wasted time in really tiny marxist-leninist groups like the Internationalist (or was it International?) Workers Party (that group had a brief flirtation with Fred Newman when Newman had a brief linkage with Larouche, pre-Operation Mop-U, aka ," Let's beat up Communists and Socialists.") and who later became the core of Copwatch in Berkeley, simultaneously hold that police brutality is inherent in kapitalizm 'cuz of structural imperitives to discipline the working class and lumpen. At the same time as they (successfully the other day at the Berkeley Civilian Police Review Bd.) strive to sanction the worst Pigs. Mock naive question... Does not this breed illusions in the masses in the reformability of repressive bourgeois state apparatuses? Should not radicals in order to heighten the contradictions demand more Pig Brutality? Michael Pugliese, guess I need to re-read LDT on Transitional Demands!



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