14-21 February 2018: Darkness of Dystopia, Flares of Defiance
22 February 2018
'Hate Speech' Posters Spearhead JesuNazi Offensive in Tacoma Area
One of the JesuNazi posters pasted on walls and utility poles in Tacoma. (Photograph by KD © 2018.)
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By Ryley Knowles
THE WHITE NATIONALIST GROUP Patriot Front has slapped up recruiting posters at seven locations in Tacoma, Washington. Photographs of the posters -- see example above -- were published on 18 February in Washington Front, Patriot Front’s Twitter for their Washington-state activities.
Patriot Front is a white supremacist group that, according to its website and manifesto, believes America belongs exclusively to its white European settlers. The group is based in Texas and led by 19-year-old Thomas Ryan Rousseau.
Spawned by the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America, Patriot Front was formed in the wake of the ‘Unite The Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on 11 and 12 August 2017.
James Fields Jr, who is accused of driving his car into a group of anti-fascist protesters at the rally and murdering Heather Heyer, was photographed marching only a few feet from Thomas Ryan Rousseau earlier that day. Rousseau claims Fields was not a Patriot Front member and had merely asked to march with them.
Patriot Front has plastered its propaganda in Washington state three times this year. The first two incidents were in Gig Harbor, a coastal town about one mile from Tacoma. Each poster asks, “Will your speech be hate speech?” -- with the phrase ‘hate speech’ partially erased. One was pasted on a utility shed near the Tacoma Dome. The others are on utility poles in or around the downtown Tacoma area.
The posters feature Patriot Front’s iconography, a stylized fasces similar to that used by Italian fascists under Mussolini. It is surrounded by thirteen stars and promotes their website, bloodandsoil.com. “Blood and soil” is a German Nazi slogan, popularized by Adolph Hitler, that sums up the goals of a white ethnostate: an aggressively militarized nation with a racially exclusive population.
(Dispatches welcomes Ryley Knowles, a freelance journalist who lives in the Pacific Northwest, to our expanding roster of contributors.)
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More on the JesuNazi Onslaught in the Pacific Northwest and Elsewhere
"...the Atomwaffen Division, a tiny paramilitary neo-Nazi group that has been linked to the suspects in at least five killings in the United States. It is among the most violent groups on the far-right...Researchers believe that some cells are based in Texas and Florida, (with)...others in Washington, near the Seattle area, and Richmond, Va. But details about the group are difficult to confirm." Comment: the unfettered existence of armed and openly murderous groups such as Atomwaffen -- too often protected by the U.S. authorities at all levels -- is precisely why all genuine Leftists should regard any weakening of the Second Amendment as a matter of life and death and therefore oppose "gun control" as a euphemism for forcible disarmament of the proletariat. Regardless of our particular ideologies -- Marxist, democratic socialist, anarchist, even reformist -- we are all equally in jeopardy of the JesuNazis adding our names to their kill lists. In which context note the lessons taught us by the Deacons for Defense.
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"Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges. Filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) last week, the lawsuit against DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and Karl Racine in the US Attorney's office seeks information about the relationship between the prosecutors and police and right-wing political groups.'The police here are really serving the political goals of these far-right organisations,' Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director and constitutional rights lawyer at PCJF, told Al Jazeera. 'We are seeing a pattern of this taking place around the country,' she said. 'While there have always been members of police departments who have acted out in abusive and racist behaviour against the civilian population, we're now seeing it at an institutional level.'"
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"(To build a) philosophical fascist system that was more appealing to Baby Boomers raised on New Left and post-colonial rhetoric...far-right philosophers...decided to reframe fascist values and ideas in the language of popular national liberation struggles...Organizations like Identity Evropa have already been doing this for almost two years, focusing primarily on college-age men...Operation Homeland will expand that pool, becoming another organization that will work as an independent organization and movement." Comment: the USian culture of "manufactured illiteracy" and violent anti-intellectuality has already guaranteed the fascists' success. The question now is how to resist a toxic infestation that's spreading like deadly nightshade in an abandoned garden.
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"While men debated in legislative chambers and listened to challenges on the bench, women headed to school cafeterias, playgrounds and PTA meetings, doing the bulk of the behind-the-scenes work of supporting the politics of segregation. White women organized precinct gatherings to pressure their politicians to uphold Jim Crow laws. They transformed their homes into centers of bureaucratic efficiency — copying fliers, assigning neighborhoods for petition drives and scheduling protest shifts at elementary schools and bus garages. It was also women who shaped the way segregation, white supremacy and ideas about racial identity were knitted into the fabric of their communities." Comment: White women are nearly as hatefully racist as white males. For example, note that 53 percent of white women -- including 45 percent of white women with college degrees -- voted the JesuNazi Trump/Pence Regime into the White House.
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"Trump is worse than almost anyone imagined, and while his critics across the ideological spectrum have begun to go after him, they rarely focus on how dangerous he is, hesitant to argue that he is not only the enemy of democracy, but symptomatic of the powerful political, economic and cultural forces shaping the new US fascism."
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On the Absolute Necessity of Revolutionary Leadership by Oppressed Minorities
"...the Combahee River Collective Statement...made a case for understanding how racism, sexism, class oppression, and homophobia are all connected:...'If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression'...when it comes to electoral politics, even 'progressive' leaders too often leave out those whose lives fall at the intersections of discrimination, such as poor black women or undocumented LGBTQ youth. Under the Trump administration, these groups are meanwhile overtly targeted...White-dominated, ostensibly “progressive” feminism...continues to miss the mark on respecting and centering those women who arguably have the most to lose, such as women of color, transgender women and trans women of color in particular...We can see this disregard...in their voting patterns today, from the 57% of white women who voted for Trump...to the 63% of white women in the 2017 Alabama Senate special election who voted for Roy Moore...” Comment: how many times must it be said we cannot make a successful revolution unless we follow the leadership of those who are the most oppressed and therefore have the most to gain by throwing off the shackles of patriarchy, racism and sexism implicit in Capitalism?
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"Amid the #MeToo movement across the country, the formation of the Silence Breakers, first reported by Crosscut, and their public appearances this week have brought home the reckoning with how women are treated inside the City of Seattle. But the group’s discussions have also gone beyond sexual harassment, folding in concerns about intimidation, toxicity and racial discrimination in the workplace." Comment: once again the Big Lie of "progressive Seattle" is laid bare by its victims of class warfare, misogyny and racism.
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"I’m too weary from watching well-meaning souls on TV who talk earnestly about gun control without admitting what we all know in some dank corner of our souls: the prime source of mass murder in this world, whether it’s in the tree-lined small towns of America or the hamlets of Viet Nam or the drone-blasted deserts of Yemen, is racism. Racism armed with napalm, racism kitted out with bump-stocks and huge magazines, racism poisoning the waters of Flint—the pathogens float easily around the country and the globe, like windblown dandelion puffs. It’s the only disease that is terminal for other people, not one’s-self."
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...we live in a racist country that hasn’t figured it out yet. And it’s always important to bring attention to it, even if it angers some people." Comment: hear, hear!
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Trump/Pence Genocide Scheme Now Criminalizes Humanitarianism
"Based on data, No More Deaths reports that water jugs were destroyed more than twice a week on average. In other words, border patrol are condemning people to death and punishing those who stand in the way of this homicide...Also in the file of punished good deeds: feeding the homeless. This too has been an ongoing attempt at government sanctioned slow homicide. Between 2013 and 2015 alone, 26 cities passed food-sharing bans..." Comment: The USian Empire's methodology of post-deathcamp genocide goes far beyond deliberately murderous cuts in socioeconomic stipends and services and includes making humanitarianism itself a crime, especially when the humanitarianism's intended beneficiaries are targeted minorities.
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"The (Trump/Pence Regime's) changes at the Department of Health and Human Services represent 'rapid destruction of so much of the progress on LGBT health,' said Kellan Baker, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health who worked with HHS on LGBT issues for nearly a decade. It’s only a matter of time before all the gains made under the Obama administration are reversed...Christian conservatives are noticing, and specifically praising, the reversals..." Comment: JesuNazi theocracy marches on.
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"Lambda Legal filed a federal lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The suit was filed on behalf of a same-sex couple who says they were denied the opportunity to serve as foster parents for refugee youth because, according to the lawsuit, they don't 'mirror the Holy Family'...Lambda's lawsuit claims that HHS—a federal agency currently run by Republican donor and pharmaceutical exec Alex Azar—is violating the Constitution by allowing USCCB to impose a religious test on applicants."
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"Bad Bureaucracies Are Fraying the Social Safety Net." The headline tells the story. Comment: the author carefully omits any acknowledgement of the bad bureaucrats who deliberately design the bad bureaucracies to function as weapons of oppression. These include the real "Welfare Queens" -- the regally powerful, mostly white female welfare executives whose primary function is to justify -- often by the dictates of white bourgeois feminism -- the imposition of elaborate schemes for denial of stipends and services. Equally culpable are the legions of caseworkers who for various ideological reasons, typically religious fanaticism and/or reactionary politics, consider themselves gatekeepers rather than aid-facilitators.
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"...20 percent of US children live in families with incomes below 50 percent of the national median income. In the Nordic countries, the same number is 3.6 percent to 6.7 percent depending on the country...But that’s not the only peculiar thing about America’s income distribution for children...While the Nordic distribution looks like a bell curve with the overwhelming majority of kids clustered near the middle, the American distribution is a pyramid." Comment: The pyramid in question, with our overlords and their Ruling Class executives, professionals, bureaucrats, generals and politicians at the top and everyone else beneath their boot-heels at the bottom, is the classic portrait of Capitalist tyranny. It is also a classic portrait of "trickle-down" economics, with the One Percenters and their Ruling Class vassals congratulating themselves and smirking with malicious glee as they piss on all the rest of us and wantonly befoul our Motherland the Earth.
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"'Shame': 12 Democrats Join With House GOP to Attack Americans With Disabilities Act." The headline tells the story. Comment: none of the 12 were from Washington state.
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"A concrete analysis of the explosive contradictions of contemporary capitalist globalization demonstrates that...the paternalistic 'pro-immigrant' discourse of corporate liberals and the multicultural elite (does not challenge) the structures allowing for the exploitation and oppression of immigrants and migrant workers."
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"Interviews with scores of state officials, legal-services advocates and labor specialists indicate that the failure to enforce minimum wages touches every corner of the country, but is especially acute in the six states that have no investigators probing wage violations at all."
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"The Washington Post has long had a hostile attitude toward unions, which it expresses in both its opinion and news sections."
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"Instead of urgent relief and uplift, most people in Obama's America were confronted with stagnating or worsening conditions at work, growing debts and a rising cost of living, alongside ongoing injustices such as police brutality and mass deportations. The groundswell of hope and optimism gave way to painful disillusionment and demoralization, which paved the way for the Trump disaster. But the road to Trump was long and winding, extending back over the reigns of two Bushes, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter--through a 40-year ruling class offensive to constrict the conditions of working class existence, which came to be known by the name of 'neoliberalism.'" Comment: a broader perspective on how and why the Trump/Pence Regime is fulfilling the inevitable transformation of U.S. Capitalism into JesuNazism, a metamorphosis that began with the Bankers' Plot of 1933-34.
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"...on Thursday, the (Federal Communications Commission) will finally publish its rule to revoke network neutrality protections...the repeal will be published on the Federal Register, the official ledger of federal agency rules. It will become the rule of the land 60 days after publication, upon which time internet service providers will be able to block or throttle access to websites or charge websites a fee to reach users at faster speeds." Comment: the result will be economic and technological censorship that is intentionally devastating to minorities. Precisely as demonstrated by the fact polls show 83 percent public support for net neutrality -- this in contrast to the failed and therefore demonstrably delusional efforts to reverse this particularly odious manifestation of the Trump/Pence Regime's malevolently JesuNazi tyranny -- the notion the U.S. is governed by "democratic process" is thus proven to be one of the most devastating Big Lies in Capitalism's arsenal of weaponized deceptions.
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Will the Capitalists Victimize Us with Another (Profit-Taking) Recession?
"Trump’s multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for business, investors and the wealthiest 1 percent, plus his annual trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, plus his phony real estate industry handouts that parade as infrastructure spending together will lead the U.S. economy into recession, most likely in early 2019. Here’s the scenario:"
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'''Many analysts pointed to a seemingly unusual cause for the (stock market) turbulence: rising wages'...No, it’s not an 'unusual' cause at all. When we start doing better—when wages start going up–Wall Streeters shit themselves. This is the norm. They only celebrate when we’re fucked, when workers don’t have the ability to demand better wages, better treatment, health care, coffee breaks and less handsy bosses. Stock markets around the world panic when the workers are strong."
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"The events of the past two weeks, with the largest fall in markets since the crisis of 2008, raising the spectre of an even bigger disaster than that of a decade ago, have provided a damning exposure of (Capitalism's) entire ideological framework...The lie, which forms the basis of all bourgeois economics, that somehow the growth of capitalist economy can, at least in the long run, provide the road to advancement for the mass of humanity, the working class, the producers of all wealth, has been exposed. It has been laid bare by the fact that signs of economic growth and a growing movement of workers against the decline in living standards have raised the prospect of a new financial disaster, even more serious than that of a decade ago."
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The Empire Revises Its Big Lies of War Mongering to Target Russia
"The indictments (of 13 Russian nationals) are primarily aimed at providing The New York Times, Washington Post, and major broadcast media outlets with fodder for their claim of massive Russian involvement in US politics...The campaign has been used to justify a regime of Internet censorship and condition the population for war against Russia...The American population does not need Vladimir Putin to undermine 'public confidence in democracy.' After all, as Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights said after a visit to the United States last year, 'There is no other developed country where so many voters are disenfranchised … and where ordinary voters ultimately have so little impact on political outcomes.'" Update: more details of the fraud, including how it duplicates the Big Lie that justified the neo-colonial conquest of Iraq, are here.
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Relevant Miscellany: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and Sometimes the Inspiring
"Anti-choice protest tactics are on trial in New York amid a marked uptick in violence against abortion providers and clinics."
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"Oxfam, a confederation of charitable organizations focused on alleviating global poverty, is reeling under reports that staff members in several parts of the world engaged in sexual misconduct, including using underage prostitutes. Allegations of a cover-up (have) worsened the situation." Comment: patriarchy in action, whether Abrahamic or otherwise, in which context remember that the artificial hierarchy imposed by male supremacy is the ideological grandfather of Capitalism.
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"Khudoberdi Nurmatov, a journalist and LGBT activist who was detained by Russian authorities last year for violating migration laws, was granted (Russian) court permission to go to Germany after he faced deportation back to his native Uzbekistan...He originally migrated to Russia in order to escape imprisonment and persecution." Comment: Whether in the name of Uzbeki Islam or Russian Orthodoxy, Nurmatov is a victim of Abrahamic religion and its defining hatreds of women, LGBTQ people and non-believers. Kudos to modern-day Germany for giving him sanctuary.
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"Thomas, as a crucial vote on the Supreme Court, holds incredible power over women’s rights, workplace, reproductive, and otherwise. His worldview, with its consistent objectification of women, is the one that’s shaping the contours of what’s possible for women in America today, more than that of just about any man alive, save for his fellow justices. And given the evidence that’s come out in the years since, it’s also time to raise the possibility of impeachment...because of the lies he told, repeatedly and under oath, saying he had never talked to Hill about porn or to other women who worked with him about risqué subject matter." Comment: the impeachment of Justice Thomas could help save us from JesuNazism, especially in a post-Trump/Pence environment.
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History Lesson: Colonial Massachusetts Was Ruled by a Christian Taliban
"There were many subgroups that certainly didn’t enjoy life in early Colonial Massachusetts: religious dissidents, agnostics, free thinkers and, well, assertive women. We’ve all heard of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, but nearly four decades earlier the widow Ann Hibbins* was executed, hung for witchcraft, after having the audacity to complain that hired carpenters had overcharged her for a remodeling job on her house...All told, 344 citizens were accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Massachusetts...Here there was a direct connection between the Puritan religion and the cruelty seen in the Pequot War and King Philip’s War. In the Pequot War, Massachusetts militiamen attacked a native fort at Mystic, Connecticut, and through fire and fury burned alive 400 to 700 Indians, mostly women and children. The survivors were sold as slaves...From the 'City on a Hill' it is but a short journey to Manifest Destiny and the conquest of a continent..." Comment: and it's an equally short journey from the white supremacist rationale for continental conquest to the "master race" concept of "American Exceptionalism" that fuels the Empire's apocalyptic schemes of JesuNazi world conquest today. Once again, welcome to the Fourth Reich.
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*The text erroneously misspells the victim's name as "Higgins," obviously -- given the proximity of 'b' and 'g' on the standard keyboard, a typographical error. Hence my correction.
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More History, This Time as Archaeology
"Archeological finds show that Slavs have been living in Crimea for five millennia."
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A Challenge, Especially for Believers in the Big Lie of "Democratic Process"
Which of these two movements will achieve approved of its demands, and which will fail abysmally? The renewed push for so-called "gun control" (actually the newest manifestation of the fearful, 20th Century effort by the Capitalist Ruling Class to impose forcible civilian disarmament on a proletariat increasingly inclined toward socialist revolution)? Or the growing demand for "Improved Medicare for All" (actually the newest manifestation of a 70-year, life-and-death struggle between those of us who favor healthcare as a human right versus the deliberately genocidal Ruling Class policy of retaining healthcare as a privilege of wealth)? While present-day support for each movement is difficult to track -- polls show variations in wording of the relevant questions produce different, sometimes widely varying results -- available results (see here and here) suggest each movement is favored by approximately 60 percent of the electorate. But which -- if either -- movement will win? My guess is the advocates of forcible disarmament will win at least moderate victories, especially in the imposition of regulations that will further restrict firearms ownership amongst the regime's targeted minorities, while the advocates of healthcare as a human right will suffer yet another total defeat. Such is U.S. Capitalism as it metamorphoses into JesuNazism.
LB/21 February 2018
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