Friday, April 28, 2006
Spittin' Nails
foreign nationals demanding changes in American laws through threats of harm—who could have trouble with that?
Fact: those “people who do jobs Americans won’t do” *cough* are not the most educated or politically sophisticated among us. Which means they will readily believe things like the following:
Immigration Endgame: May 1st and America’s New Race War
We can no longer use the term loosely – America’s war against migrants is real, and the nation’s rulers mean to sweep the nation’s barrios the way Katrina swept the Black wards of New Orleans. And like the military operations visited upon the Black population of that city in the wake of the winds and floods, the war against migrants is a race war – one directed from the highest levels of power.
The recent strikes by ICE against migrant workplaces in dozens of cities across 26 states served as a crystal clear declaration: no matter what immigration bill passes in Washington, “enforcement” is the order of the day.
I only heard about one [1] instance. Damn you, MSM!
Whoever the government “legalizes,” it means to round up the rest in massive raids, ship them en masse to detention camps, then deport them, creating an atmosphere of mass repression and terror among brown people nationwide. Everyone with brown skin will be targeted. The only question still on the table is who will be directly subject to deportation.
News to me—I thought we meant to deport ALL of the brown people.
/sarcasm
So—this statement presupposes that not only has the target group not read the legislation or any MSM coverage thereof, they will not do so now.
The amnesty provisions of the bills being debated can only be summed up as part of a divide and conquer strategy. The government is laying its bet – that those who are offered a “path to legalization” will be too frightened of losing their “legal” status to resist the mass deportation of those still deemed “illegal.”
Such divisions are being foreshadowed today in the struggle over the May 1st Huelga General (general strike and boycott). The current division is based in denial – denial that the main aspect of government policy is a massive crackdown and ethnic cleansing – and that “inclusion” has little to do with it.
The recent mass raids are part of a Homeland Security / ICE plan called ENDGAME. The plan bluntly states the aim of the Bush administration: to deport all deportable migrants by the year 2012.
GoogleCache page ICE Endgame here
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On May 1st these maneuvers will reach a dramatic climax. Those who oppose the General Strike - like the “We Are America” coalition in Los Angeles – are sending a message that resistance is futile; that we should fear an imaginary “backlash” more than the concrete plans of the government to attack our communities, and that the best we can hope for is the “mercy” of the racist Republican Right. They say they don’t want us to “provoke” mass repression or legislative defeat.
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let’s make it plain, as Brother Malcolm used to say: Krystallnacht – the night of shattered glass that marked the onset of the persecution, mass deportation and ultimately the mass death of the targets of German fascism – was not a “backlash.” It was, rather, the implementation of an ongoing racist intent to persecute, exclude and permanently remove unwanted ethnic groups, and to do so by any means necessary.
The Gypsies, Slavs and Jews of Europe did nothing to “provoke” the Nazis; Native America did nothing to “provoke” Europe; African Americans did nothing to “provoke” lynching; the migrants of Australia did nothing to “provoke” the white population to carry out the recent anti-migrant race riots there.
And what did the Frentch do to “provoke” the month-long ‘guest worker’ car-b-ques?
Krystallnacht is rather an obscure reference for this target audience, but they have just called anyone who wants the laws of this country enforced a Nazi.
I call Godwin’s Law—you lose.
Such persecutions operate on their own, internally reinforced racist logic. The only thing those who were targeted had to do was exist – and be vulnerable. And no one is more vulnerable than someone whose very existence is deemed “illegal.”
More of what the Anchoress called the Malevolent Mendacity.
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And that’s what the May 1st Huelga [ Huelga = Strike e-C] General is all about. It’s about our power and their vulnerability,
It’s about threats. It’s about foreign nationals threatening the law-abiding citizens of this country to make US change our laws.
...instead of the other way around. Many of those calling for the general strike understand the power of resistance, and exactly how much is at stake.
Unfortunately, not many Joe SixPacks or Mary SoccerMoms do.
Over a hundred actions in more than 60 cities are planned. Some – even in the mainstream Spanish language press, are calling on us to take as our banner not only the Black resistance of the 1960s, but to follow the example of the recent student strikes and immigrant rebellions in France, as well.
Nice bedfellows. dot ----> dot ----> dot
The future of millions lies in the balance on May 1st – and it is the future not only of brown people, but of Blacks, whites, and of everyone who has an investment in stopping the rapidly escalating trend toward fascism in the US.
Where else have we heard this “Faaascist Amerikkka” and “BusHitler” cry?
Are they coming outta the closet and admitting that they’re all one bunch? World Communists, Islamofascists, and the California Legislature—with the illegal aliens as their useful fools, cannon fodder invading force.
If we fail on that date, there will be no chance to reunite a divided movement. If we fail on that date, a new message will be written on the wall: there was ultimately no mass resistance to the racial scapegoating essential to the development of full blown fascism in the US.
If you fail on that date, will you go home?
The middle ground has fallen away.
On May 1st we will send one of two messages: “We Resist” or “We Surrender.”
It’s up to us to shape the future, to shape our own endgame.
Everything depends on what we choose.
Well, I agree with that last bit.
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