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Mumia, MOVE, and Michael Vick

Two noteworthy radio pieces overlap in interesting ways:

In Mumia's latest Prison Radio broadcast, he addresses the fanatic outcry over Uncle Sam's conspiracy charges against Michael Vick. He notes the the striking contrast between the Vanilla Sam's venom towards Vick and the apathy over the brutal bombing of the MOVE headquarters on 13 May 1985, when Philadelphia's Pigs used C4, tear gas, explosives, and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition to murder 11 men, women, and babies - along with several dogs.

The second interview features Ramona Africa, the only surviving adult member of the MOVE bombing. She gives an historical background to the attacks on her family beginning with the capture and frame-up of 9 MOVE members in 1978, when the Philadelphia Pigs assaulted the MOVE headquarters for the first time.

In different ways, both of these interviews illuminate the ongoing struggle for freedom on Uncle Sam's Plantation. They are both worth your time.

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A Belated Congratulations to Barry Bonds

Despite being huge sports fans, we at Savage Justice recognize their chief value lies for the ruling order in their ability to distract and propagandize the masses, thereby making them easier to manipulate and control.

Lacking the patience of Dave Zirin (author of What's My Name, Fool? and Welcome to the Terrordome), who has entered full-boar into the lion's den and taken on the most reactionary elements of the Athletic Supporting Industry, we ordinarily opt for other issues and causes. But here, we make an exception.

Zirin's work has shown that just as sports can serve as a safe-haven for nationalistic barbarism, it can also act as a catalyst for revolutionary growth and education.

Which brings us to the instructive case of Mr. Bonds.

Bonds is unquestionably the best baseball player - and perhaps the best athlete - of the modern age. No player has parlayed his skill-set into results with Bonds's devastating success. His combination of power and speed, his selective eye, his defense, and his competitive fire - evidenced by both his longevity and his consistency - make him, without question, the best player anyone under 33 years old has ever witnessed.

So why, rather than lauding his accomplishments, has the Athletic Supporting Industry attacked Bonds with such vitriol?

The claim, of course, is that Bonds cheated... that he used steroids.

This is simply smoke & mirrors. The assertions of Bonds's guilt have no foundation in either fact or law. Rather they are based on grand jury testimony illegally leaked to reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle by attorneys for the steroid-maker BALCO.

The leaks, in other words, were a criminal conspiracy by Uncle Sam and steroid-makers primarily to indict Bonds, preventing him from breaking the record. Secondarily, they used the unsubstantiated accusations, treated as fact, to attack him in the media.

On the first count, they failed miserably. But their success in using steroid-lobby propaganda to taint Bonds's achievement is unquestionable. The failed conspiracy to prevent Bonds's run only heightened the rhetoric and exacerbated the degree to which the Athletic Supporting Industry disregards even the pretense of due process.

Vanilla Justice strikes again!

Ignoring facts, Vanilla Sam has opted to use the self-interested and self-righteous accusations of steroid-makers to justify their on-air lynching of Bonds. So much for the anti-steroid crusade!

But of course their assault on Bonds has nothing to do with racism

Of course!

I mean, some of Bud Selig & BALCO's best friends are Black!

Right?

Just as Uncle Sam's system of Vanilla Justice uses trumped-up chargers and baseless accusations to frame and lock-up the innocent every day, the Athletic Supporting Industry has use the fabricated steroid accusations against Bonds to delegitimize his historic accomplishment.

In other words, the 'steroids' canard provides cover for White Supremacy.

In a piece entitled "Home Runs, Heroes and Hypocrisy: Performance Enhancement in Black and White," well-known activist Tim Wise cuts to pieces the hypocrisy of an Athletic Supporting Industry that deifies the "Good Old Days" of Jim Crow Baseball, contrasting it with their sanctimonious crusade against Bonds.

Fundamentally, Wise asks, "how can white Americans call for Bonds to have his records marred by an asterisk, while continuing to revere the records and performances of their white baseball heroes of eras past - folks with names like DiMaggio, Williams, Ruth and Cobb - who benefited from a much greater 'performance enhancement' than that which steroids can provide: namely, the racist exclusion of black athletes from the major leagues?"

It's the perfect question. Wise continues:

From 1887, when blacks were run out of white-dominated professional baseball leagues, until 1947, when Jackie Robinson first stepped onto a field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, every white baseball player for six decades had been protected from black competition. And protection from competition is the most profound form of artificial performance enhancement imaginable...

All of the records set by white players prior to 1947 are tainted. Any time that someone is protected from competition (be that someone an athlete or a corporation), the one who is protected gets to shine, without having to prove themselves against the full range of possible talent. Barry Bonds, on the other hand, even if juiced by steroids, had to compete against the best (many of whom were no doubt also using such medicinal enhancements), and as such, enjoyed far less of a relative boost in his career than white players did for nearly half of the twentieth century.

After making this point with compelling clarity, Wise wisely anticipates the Vanilla Sam's time-tested caveat:

Confronted with the argument that maybe Williams, DiMaggio, and especially Babe Ruth wouldn't have been as good, had they been required to play against black players, most white folks fall back on what they consider their trump card, which, to them seems to differentiate the performance enhancement of steroids from the performance enhancement of white privilege and institutionalized favoritism. Namely, they suggest, Barry Bonds broke the rules, while Ruth and company merely played within the boundaries of the rules, as they existed at the time...

But there are several things about this argument that are wrong, illogical, or ethically indefensible. To begin with, during the period of Bonds' steroid use, there was actually no rule against steroids in major league baseball. So, in point of fact, Bonds - assuming he used steroids - did not break the rules of the game. Yes, using the substances without a prescription is illegal, but we don't take records away from players for breaking the law. If we did... what of Ruth, who once tried injecting himself with sheep hormones to get an edge on the competition, and who kept right on drinking, even in the age of prohibition when booze were outlawed?

Even worse, the argument that segregation was "just the way it was," implies that we are not under any obligation to challenge injustice, unless we ourselves created it, and that if we collaborate with it, we bear no moral responsibility for its perpetuation...

Had Gehrig ended his long-standing record of consecutive games played because of opposition to racism, it would have been one of the most important sports stories of all time....

In other words, whites, by knowingly protecting themselves from some of the game's greatest players, "cheated" every bit as much as Bonds may have, via the use of anabolics. That the method for cheating was institutionalized, so that the rules themselves amounted to fraud, and that racial cheating was given the imprimatur of law hardly provides moral cover for the practice's ethical failings, and the failings of those who took advantage.

Oh, and not to put too fine a point on it, but in parts of the country (including most of the Northeast) the laws of the local communities actually prohibited segregation by race... So perhaps we should erase the records of the Yankees, erase the Babe, erase Ted Williams' 1941 season in which he hit .406 for the Red Sox: another team in a Northern city, with laws against segregation, but which remained segregated anyway (and in Boston's case, they were the longest holdout against black players due to the legendary racism of their owner).

Wises's piece continues, relentlessly demolishing Vanilla Sam's sports mythology in systematic fashion.

I would strongly encourage reading the entire piece.

But the point is made. The Bonds case exposes the cowardice, hypocrisy, and ignorance of the Athletic Supporting Industry - their Whitewashing of history and their use of steroids as a convenient pretext for more Vanilla Justice.

George Carlin on the Ruling Class & the 'American Dream'

In this short (4+ minutes) clip, George Carlin encapsulates, with humor and precision, the all-out war that the ruling class here on Uncle Sam's plantation has waged against the masses of people. Carlin rightly points out that until those getting screwed over worst ignore the ruling class's propaganda and lies, take stock of the situation, and begin fighting back, the war - and the one sided casualty totals that result (poverty, bankruptcy, foreclosure, unemployment, etc.) - will not diminish.

"The owners of this country don't care about about you at all... at all... at all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

"That's what the owners count on - the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that's being jammed up their asshole ever day.

"That's because owners of this country know the truth: it's called the 'American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it."

The Case of Victor Toro:Uncle Sam picks up where Pinochet left Off

While hardly surprising, the news that on 6 July child pornographers working in Uncle Sam's Department of Homeland Security had torn long-time community organizer Victor Toro from his seat on a passenger train and arrested him on trumped-up 'immigration' charges serves as a depressing reminder of the direction in which the struggle for immigrant rights has moved.

In his piece on Toro in the New York Times, Anthony Ramirez summarizes his political 'odyssey' of nearly 40 years.

It began in the 1970s when he was a political prisoner in the jails of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in Chile, veered for a time into Europe and Mexico, then into New York City, where he became known for more than two decades of community and political activism...

When he was a left-wing political activist, General Pinochet’s regime tortured him after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973, he said.

Both he and Nieves Ayress, now 56, who later became his wife, have said they had electrodes attached to their genitals in Chilean jails.

As a dutiful New York Times propagandist, Ramirez avoids any mention of Uncle Sam's complicity in the rampant torture carried out during the Pinochet dictatorship. He continues:

In 1976, he fled Chile... For years, Mr. Toro went from country to country, finding himself at last in Mexico.

In 1984, he... crossed the border into the United States at El Paso, settling later in the Bronx....

Mr. Toro and Ms. Ayress... started Vamos a la Peña del Bronx in 1987, a storefront group that provided clothing and food for poor people, help with immigrants’ problems, shelter for battered women and health education for those who were H.I.V. positive.

In 1998, the group won an award and a $50,000 grant from Union Square Awards in Manhattan for community service. “We were looking for groups that were operating on pure passion but who had no economic resources,” said Iris Morales, director of the philanthropy.

Once DHS saw the grave and gathering threat posed by the longtime homeless advocate and AIDS activist, they took action. Bang-up work, fellas!

Last week, Toro posted bail but the charges remain and deportation still looms.

Declared dead by the government of Chile and under attack by Uncle Sam here on the Plantation, the next step for Toro is unclear. Thanks to his work in The Struggle, he has many comrades on whom he can rely. But one mustn't harbor illusions that this support will make a request to Uncle Sam for asylum more likely to be granted. If anything, the opposite may be true. His popularity in the community has grown out of his anti-imperialist politics, and just as the decision to torture Toro in the 1970s ultimately rested with Uncle Sam, so too does the decision to torture him by other means today.

Slave Revolt RadioUtopian Capitalism on Sam's Plantation

Slave Revolt Radio
Utopian Capitalism:
Over-spending, Over-consumption and Intentional Economic, Psychological, and Physical Debt Servitude
by Tracey James

The over consumption over spending 'Life' style of much of the American population is a trap. It's a poor imitation of the Elite. It's a labor class that's been beat down and in turn lost of much of it's own class identity, only for it to be replaced with the decadent destructive 'life style of the rich and famous' class groupings. The real 'price' for such Utopianism is devastating mentally, emotionally, economically, and culturally.

In this (Ruins of Empire) segment called Utopian Capitalism: Over Spending, Over Consumption and Intentional Economic, Psychological, and Physical Debt Servitude' Slave Revolt will try to explore some of these dynamics.

Clips from Juliet Schor, Monie Love, Ayesha aka Najahface, John Coltrane, and others help bring this debt servitude to the light. A 'life' style where the labor masses are putting on a minstrel performance of the rich.

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852

"What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?"

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been tom from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!

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Slave Revolt Radio'Snow Job': Democrats, Progressives, and the Imperial War Machine

Slave Revolt Radio
'Snow Job': How the Democrats and the Progressive Movement are a Component of the Imperial War Machine
by Tracey James

When the Democrates and Republicans worked out their funding (in the form of the Nancy Pelosi Bill) for the imperial war expansion in the Mid-East theater, many of progressives in America labeled it as a 'sellout'. A 'betrayal' of the will of the American public. In reality the Democrates and their 'progressive' side kicks like Moveon.org did what they were set up to do. Snow the public by portraying themselves as a opposition force to the Imperial war agenda while helping to carry out the mandate of Empire and the Administrators within it.

In this (Beyond The Shadow) segment called 'Snow Job: How the Democrates and the Progressive Movement are a Component of the Imperial War Machine' Slave Revolt attempts to expose just that. Clips from John Conyers, Hometown Baghdad, Nancy Pelosi and others help expose the grand illusion that many of those who claim their 'anti-war' yet support a Imperial war party (Democrates), in the hopes of stopping a genocidal war for Empire are in. And how their relationship to the State makes them easy 'Snow Job' candidates at the very least.

The program wraps up with a Tracey James Sound Design called 'Be all that you can be'. Which for the Slaves in Revolt means more than being disposable connon fodder by the Machine, and confused Snow Puppies for the 'Order'.

Klanwatch Korner: Open for Business

Introducing a feature to this blog: the Klanwatch Korner.

Without a doubt it will start as a disturbing sidebar of pure sadism and sexual perversity but over time, as the number of stupid and ridiculous posts grows, it will become increasingly humorous.

Especially so since most of the contributors earned a spot on the Klanwatch by censoring their own blogs of serious content.

Enter the Klanwatch Korner

A Modest Proposal for 2008:MUMIA for PRESIDENT!

We at Savage Justice have followed the 2008 elections with a passing degree of amusement.

Uncle Sam's electoral campaigns chiefly test a man's ability to beg for Corporate Welfare Checks, and it's remarkable to see how low men will go in order to grovel. When it's all over, the winner usually becomes the next ShellGame Despot chosen by Uncle Sam to augment his historical legacy of imperialist pillage and slaughter.

Within such a rigged system, the main task for a revolutionary must be to highlight the contradictions and hypocrisy embedded within it. The degree of success or failure in achieving this objective, and not just the number of votes, serves as the measure of ones effectiveness during a bourgeois campaign.

For many years, millions and millions of people, awake to Uncle Sam's ShellGame Politricks, have sought an alternative to and concrete negation of that system, but had no candidate with an organic connection between themselves and the masses of people. Perhaps because Uncle Sam assassinated so many of the best young leaders. Perhaps for other reasons as well.

A campaign that puts Mumia at its head could reverse that.

Mumia Abu-Jamal makes manifest Uncle Sam's blatant hypocrisy on Human Rights and Press Freedom. His forced captivity calls attention to the plight of the countless Political Prisoners languishing in Uncle Sam's Concentration Camps and Torture Chambers. And his innocence exposes the Vanilla Justice that locked him up in the first place.

Any campaign must call attention to the racist Death Penalty and to the plight of the poor on Uncle Sam's Plantation. Any campaign must call attention to the plight of Black New Orleans, which none of dwarfs has done except except as a PR stunt (right HairDo?).

And of course, any campaign must stand in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, along with the Palestinians and the Iraqis dying daily by the dozens thanks to Uncle Sam's unquenchable thirst for bloodshed and plunder.

The entire cadre of tools standing for coronation refuses to reverse any of this now. They will refuse even less in the future.

The Left has a choice to make: Ralph Nader, his coronated successor, Bill Moyers, and the myriad other Left candidates all perform a needed service in mounting a challenge to the two-party system. Do they have the power and charisma to captivate the spirit and imagination of the people that Mumia does?

These other campaigns are no better financially than a yet-conceived Mumia campaign, which has the potential to be self-sustaining thanks to people's already-existing deep connection with him.

Uncle Sam will release Mumia under only one circumstance: the development of a collective popular will that demands it. Could that demand be made any clearer than through such a campaign? Wouldn't a powerful and organized campaign make murdering Mumia more difficult?

I cannot think of a more brazen or concrete way of exposing and articulating Uncle Sam's hypocrisy of thought, word, and deed than by lifting up Mumia Abu-Jamal as a political leader: a new Mandella! A campaign such as this one - with such potential to unify - could arouse the imagination and catalyze a movement that makes his release one act among many that strikes directly into the heart of Vanilla Justice!

MUMIA in 2008!

Slave Revolt Radio: The Lost Souls of a Militarized Empire

Slave Revolt Radio
The Lost Souls of a Militarized Empire
by Tracey James

Part of the consequences of living in a top down militarized market based society is that much of the population values parrot that of the rulers in that society. One of the most dominant forms of expression in a imperial based society is that of violence. A population or persons with in that society that do not develop a independent code of resistance and ethics (Slave Codes) on their own are often lead into either cheer leading drones for the state, pie in the sky passive/'protest' observers of the brutality of the rulers, or jackbooted soldiers of annihilation for the 'Order'.

In this (Ruins of Empire) segment called 'The lost souls of a militarized empire' Slave Revolt attempts to address these multilayered issues. Here how a man with no 'direction' in life finds temporary 'meaning' and a 'sense of purpose' by being a machine gunner of humans he's never met. A gi jane woman who had to carry a gun to protect herself from sexual violence by men serving in the same military, and serving the same empire as herself. Yet she never stops to question how can this type of human product and institution bring 'freedom' anywhere?. And is this really the true agenda of the American Empire?.

These soulless ones stories along with others high-lite a land where lost souls devoured by the Beast is the daily feast of Empires, Regimes, and Religious based privatized hierarchical societies. Societies that the Slaves of the world must not allow to consume their souls.

Slave Revolt Radio: Facism in America - Simple as a Jog in the Park: The Central Park Jogging Case'

Slave Revolt Radio
Facism in America - Simple as a Jog in the Park
The Central Park Jogging Case
by Tracey James

In September of 2002 when the Central Park rapist and violent assaulter Martias Raye's admitted to being the lone attacker of Trisha Meili. Many thought that police reforms would be implamented in the face of five black and Latino teens being framed up and convicted in this racially explosive case in April of 1989 in New York.

Yet the truth that was exposed about the corruption of the State brought no real changes locally or nationally. Even though the frame up of the teens rung in many draconian police command society laws, tactics, and mind sets. In this (Beyond the Shadow) segment called 'Fascism in America will be as simple as a jog in the park: The Central Park jogging case'. Slave Revolt deals with this tale of horror in this horrible American experiment.

Listen and hear how wretched opportunistic savages in American politics, from the world of capitalistic money, to sick assistant attorney's like Linda Fairstein, mixed in with the iron fisted brutes (the police) took advantage of this case of lies and frame up. Find out how calls for justice for the slaves and their defenders keep falling on deaf ears in a sick society that only hears the vocal tunes of the fascist. The drum beat of the goose stepping 'Order'. And the sights and screams of the modern day lynch mobbers of innocent Black and Latino teens. Which for many in America is as simple as a jog in the park.

Slave Revolt Radio: American made wars, American made myths, Vietnam and Iraq

Slave Revolt Radio
Slave Revolt Radio: American made wars, American made myths, Vietnam and Iraq
by Tracey James

This hour Slave Revolt goes deep into the American psyche to dissect how the American Empire's wars for imperial conquest are believed by most of the public as wars for humanity's freedom.

In a (Beyond the Shadow) segment called 'American made wars, American made myths: Vietnam and Iraq' we explore this American made construct and deception game head on. Clips from H. Bruce Franklin author of the book 'Vietnam and other American fantasies' helps provide some of the ammunition to shoot down the American made lies about the Vietnam war.

So load your clips and mind and be prepared to shoot down the myths of the American way of life, it's wars from Vietnam to Iraq. The myth making machine these myths are manufactured in. And those who wish to carry on in this 'great American lie'.