The right to riot

Young people in France really know how to riot. They also know how to shake a government to its knees. France is a 1st world country so such widespread violence and turmoil is unusual. In today’s riot, there were shots.


From Yahoo News:

“Patrice Ribeiro of the Synergie police union said rioters this time included "genuine urban guerrillas," saying the use of firearms — hunting shotguns so far — had added a dangerous dimension.”
Urban guerrillas in France? Supposedly such groups have been wiped out over the last two decades. So who are these guerrillas?

Also reported:

“By NICOLAS GARRIGA, Associated Press Writer 1VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and — in an ominous turn — shot at officers. A senior police union official warned that "urban guerrillas" had joined the unrest, saying the violence was worse than during three weeks of rioting that raged around French cities in 2005, when firearms were rarely used.Bands of young people set more cars on fire in and around Villiers-le-Bel, the Paris suburb where the latest trouble first erupted, and 18 people were detained, the regional government said. In the south, 10 cars and a library went up in flames in Toulouse, police said.Despite the renewed violence, France's prime minister said the situation was calmer than the two previous nights.The government was striving to keep violence from spreading in what was shaping up as a stern test for new President Nicolas Sarkozy. The unrest showed anger still smolders in France's poor neighborhoods, where many Arabs, blacks and other minorities live largely isolated from the rest of society.The trigger was the deaths Sunday of two minority teens when their motorscooter collided with a police car in Villiers-le-Bel, a blue-collar town on Paris' northern edge.”

Maybe the 1st world is not as stable as it would like to think.

Vet parade silences vets

With turmoil beginning to break out all over the Middle-east, including Pakistan, the US's main ally in it's phony war on terror, it is not surprising the US version of "brown shirts," such as the American Legion would celebrate Veteran's Day by supporting the silencing of Vets who are tired of endless and unnecessary wars. With talk of US intervention in both Iran and Pakistan, it's not surprising that our pro-war government is out to stop all opposition. The American Legion has the support of the police in enforcing it's pro-war stand.

The following is from communistpartyofpakistan-owner@yahoogroups.com:


More than a dozen members of an antiwar veterans group were arrested yesterday as they protested the exclusion of their message from Boston’s Veterans Day parade.Members of Veterans for Peace lined up in front of a podium at City Hall Plaza holding antiwar placards, as color guards from Massachusetts military units and JROTC bands from across the state filed into Government Center for a ceremony, sponsored by the American Legion, to honor veterans after the parade. Some protesters wore gags, which they later said symbolized the fact that, while they were permitted to march in the parade, they were prevented from carrying signs opposing the war in Iraq.“We were exercising our First Amendment rights,” said Winston Warfield of Dorchester, a member of the group. “The First Amendment protects free speech, even when you don’t agree with what’s being said.”When Boston police asked the demonstrators to move from the front of the podium so that the Veterans Day services could continue, they refused. As the Boston Firemen’s Band played The Marine Hymn, several protesters were placed in plastic handcuffs and led away.“Our free speech and civil rights are being abridged here,” said Nate Goldschlag, a Vietnam-era veteran who was among those standing in front of the podium. “We are veterans, too, and we should be allowed to express our opposition to this war.”© 2007 Boston Globe
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'Shining Path's Resurgence in Peru

This is a report posted on: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

19 November 2007
''Shining Path's Resurgence in Peru''
Between August and September 2007, Peruvian soldiers captured as many as 45 members of the Peruvian insurgent movement known as Sendero Luminoso, or Shining Path. In September, there were intelligence reports that there had been a summit of Shining Path leaders in the Peruvian region of Huánuco. Later, in early October, Peruvian Admiral Jorge Montoya expressed his concern about the spreading of Shining Path's ideology within Peru's major universities. Events and declarations like Montoya's, in addition to continuous attacks by the militants against the country's security forces, seem to confirm that the Shining Path is reestablishing some influence.How Strong is Shining Path Today?In 1980, Abimael Guzman, a philosophy professor who called himself "Comrade Gonzalo," founded Shining Path to carry out an armed struggle to seize power and name himself president of the country. The group launched the uprising on May 17, 1980, with an attack on the town of Chuschi, in the southern province of Ayacucho, but collapsed in 1992 with the arrest of Guzman and his chieftains in downtown Lima. Approximately 70,000 people died as a result of the war.Currently, a fighter known only as "Artemio" is the only high-profile Shining Path leader still on the loose. He operates the insurgent group's remaining units in Peru's central jungle region. The force calls itself Proseguir, and compromises 200-300 insurgents. An example of the Shining Path's remaining strength and organization is the so-called Southern Company of the Central Region Committee, which operates in the region of Ayacucho (Shining Path's birthplace) and constitutes a force of approximately 80 men, moving in units of 15-20 rebels.Shining Path's Current Attacks and Propaganda CampaignThe new version of Shining Path, in spite of being a relatively small force, has managed to inflict damage on the country's military and police force by resorting to hit-and-run ambushes of small convoys and patrols. In December 2006, Shining Path killed five Peruvian police officers and two workers from the National Coca Company -- the only authorized seller of coca in the country. In January 2007, the rebels ambushed two Peruvian policemen while they traveled in their vehicle near the town of Churcampa in the region of Huancavelica. One policeman died and another was injured. In September, Shining Path rebels utilized long-range rifles to shoot at counter-insurgency army bases in the Peruvian regions of Junín and Ayacucho. In order to strengthen their group, Shining Path fighters resort to taking equipment from the soldiers and policemen that they attack.
November 2007
In addition to attacks, the Shining Path leadership is also attempting to gain sympathy among the masses, particularly the inhabitants of the Andes and the Amazon regions.
Whenever Shining Path insurgents visit an inhabited area, they also leave leaflets praising "Presidente Gonzalo" (Guzman) and calling for a renewed people's war. In early September, witnesses detailed how they had seen groups of Shining Path insurgents walking across the small towns of Huánuco region. The belief is that there was a high-level meeting among the remaining Shining Path leadership, with Artemio as the "keynote speaker." At least two Shining Path leaders ("Comrade Lee" and "Comrade Maradona") are believed to have attended the meeting, each with a security detail of 20-25 insurgents. Counter-Insurgency OperationsThe Peruvian military has also engaged in several operations with somewhat encouraging results. In mid-April, in the town of Tingo María (some 500 kilometers, or 311 miles, southeast of Lima), the police arrested Jimmy Rodriguez, a senior Shining Path leader believed to be close to Artemio and wanted for four murders. So far, the biggest success story for the Peruvian government was the capture between August and September of as many as 45 Shining Path members, ranging from fighters to supporters.
In addition, in late October, three Shining Path members were detained: "Comrade Alex," "Comrade Shego" and "Comrade Huamán," all alleged members of the insurgent group's death squad in charge of selective murders, including a June ambush that killed three policemen. Nevertheless, Artemio has yet to be captured (his identity is still unknown), and despite the capture of dozens of Shining Path members the movement continues to exist, suggesting that its numbers may be greater than originally thought.ConclusionToday, the Peruvian government lacks a concise internal security plan, as well as the necessary funds and equipment required to combat guerrilla movements. Although the Peruvian military has made notable efforts in recent months to capture the remaining Shining Path leaders, much more would be needed to stop the movement.The inability of past administrations, particularly Alejandro Toledo's in 2001-2006, to develop the rural areas of Peru's Andean and Amazon regions where Shining Path is located has allowed the group to once again gain support Unless immediate action is taken by Peru's government and military, Shining Path, in its new Proseguir version could become a more threatening force with which to contend.

Scary monsters

The ruling class of our empire needs to keep people in line and to do so they have enlisted past leaders that they use as horrible scary monsters the way ancient Christians used wolfs ghosts, hobgoblins and other spooks in horrid fairy tales to scare children from danger. After all, no child would go near an old Witch woman living in the woods after hearing fairy tales of them pushing children into ovens to cook an eat them.
Today’s modern spooks include Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Сталин), Pol Pot, (ប៉ុលពត) Mao Zedong (毛泽东), Adolf Hitler and even VI Lenin (В. И. Ленин). Some of these people did kill large numbers of people unnecessarily, Stalin, Hitler and Pol. Others, Mao and Lenin, have become the focus of modern historical revisionist who get published by and for those who want to exaggerate these people’s mistakes to make them look like mass murderers of history, along with Hitler. Hitler grew out of a movement supported by capitalist and he inspired such historical villain as Francisco Franco, of Spain or António de Oliveira Salazar, fascist rulers who came from the same mold as Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Franco still has supporters and apologists of US conservatives pundits. Hitler only became an evil monster after he turned the capitalist western countries.

Иосиф Сталин

В. И. Ленин
ប៉ុលពត

Che Guevara and 毛泽东

When Ronald Reagan was president, he and Televangilist Pat Robertson described the Sandinista Revolution as if it were the same as Pol Pot. Former President Richard Nixon treated the elected Marxist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, as if he were Stalin and he made every effort to remove him. Many in the press treated Augusto Pinochet, the bloody military dictator who replaced Allende, as a hero. It seems the term totalitarian has begun to mean a government of egalitarianism and it is that egalitarianism that the ruling elite can’t stand. It’s not the killings or repression. It’s the idea that rich and powerful people are the first to go in a socialist revolution. What they don’t want us to know is that the poor are usually the last to suffer.
It was Herbert Marcuse who, in his book One Dimensional Man, Warned that “Society takes care of the need for liberation by satisfying the needs which make servitude palatable and perhaps even unnoticeable.”
So our large middle class is bought off with TVs cars and other toys that make it seem as if we are living the good life. But our democracy is a farce. Powerful corporation buy political power for our election candidates, who pay lip service to issue the spend little time on, such as abortion, while providing nearly nothing but lip service for the people who vote for them. This creates the façade that we are using “democracy” to control our fates when the US bourgeoisie ruling class is providing us a patronizing façade, of nor more value than a pacifier.
In the third world, there is much less façade. Poverty is deep and obvious. Opponents of the system are met with harsh repression. Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are prime examples. In Iraq our leaders bring them meaningless elections that do not improve their lives at all, they have lines and rationing for gasoline, yet they sit on the worlds largest oil reserves. Pakistan is a complete dictatorship. But are we all afraid of these scary monsters and super creeps. Much of the third world has long lost it’s illusions of the first worlds “scary monsters.” Stalin and Pol have their supporters and Maoism has inspired insurgencies that have made great strides in Nepal and India.
As for America and the west, even here disillusioned youth question the idea that Mao or Che Guevara are such “scary monsters.” They have seen through the façade of US “democracy,” especially with the war in Iraq and the hypocrisy of our president and they are beginning to see the scary monsters for what they are:
paper tigers made from historical people in the past.
They know the ruling class is only using these people to scare everyone away from change, revolution and socialism. More and more I see signs that young people in the US, as well as those in the third world, are not afraid to change society.
So let our elite leaders sleep at night with nightmares of Stalin, pol and Mao victories, while the rest of us sleep well with dreams of a better tomorrow.

News from Pakistan

From the

From communistpartyofpakistan@yahoogroups.com:

Darul Ulooms, Madrassas and Mosques V/s Rotman schools of Managements


Since the defeat of the Roman and Persian empires, there have been many wars fought for the leadership of men and the material wealth of the world.

For over one thousand years Muslims were the leaders of the Civilised world with interruptions from the Mongols and Crusaders. Finally the leadership came in the hands of the West since 1922, with the abolishment of Khilafat.

Since the collapse of the Roman and Persian empires they have conspired against the true leaders of humanity – Adam, Noah, Jesus, Mosses and lastly Muhammad (mpbut).
In 1922 the crusades and Russians have succeded.

Now the control of political and economic power lies with: US, Europe , Russia , China , Japan , India , Veneuzula..

Before another war front against another Muslim country begins, war to dominate and control the minds of men has already begun. Church and Rotman Schools of management are producing new leaders against Muslims Mosques and Dar Ulooms. In Serbia, they destroyed over 90 percent mosques, madrassas, and libraries. In India they have destroyed Babri masjid, Lal masjid complex and Dar uloom in Pakistan . All the schools and Universities are shut down in Palestine . Since last 5 decades Muslims have lost trillion billions of dollars of material loss and over 2-3 millions of civilians have been killed.

Allah says, falsehood is a vanishing thing and the truth will triumph.

Sat., Nov. 11
Since former CJ Iftikhar is saying he is in Virtual Arrest (though his stupid statements keep getting published), we should arrest him now to show him, what Real Arrest looks like and all these Punjabi Ethnic Bigots on the streets of Pakistan and protesting in the West should be given a taste of Jail the kind their Ethnic Brother Zia had given to 27,000 people that he had kept in Jails for years and he wouldn't let them go until the they beg for his mercy and sign a 'Maafee Naamah'.
These jerks in the West can promptly be arrested, whenever they arrive in Pakistan to see their relatives. We can pass this law in National Assembly, no problem. They have proven to be dis-loyal to the countries that provided them a lot better Standard of Living, Govt. Subsidized Housing, Poverty Allowance, Free Health care etc. Case and Point?
A JehaaDi Imam of a Mosque had been one of the people, who went to Tajkistan and then illegally entered China supplying money and Arms he had gotten from Taliban or Mollas in renegade part of ISI to Moslims in Western China causing a revolt. Hundreds of Moslims were killed there and when revolt had failed, he had fled. When he arrived in Tajkistan again, he was arrested and handed over to China charged with inciting rebellion and sentenced. Mollaas had tried their best to make Canada force China to let that Canadian Citizen go. Canada did nothing and never even filed a complaint for execution of one her citizen.
Zia had no National Security problem and had no reason to keep them in jails for so long. Musharraf has part of Pakistan taken-over by Taliban and there fly Taliban Flags on Govt. Buildings in Swat and some other places. No 3000 Policemen and Soldiers were dead and no bombs going off everywhere in Pakistan. Punjab slaughtered 16,000 Mohajirs to avenge 156 Policemen and including some Soldiers. That was 100 times more. Has an educated Mohajir Moderate Musharraf done the same to avenge his 3000 Policemen and Soldiers? Pres. Musharraf has been taking no action without getting it approved from National Security Council that his predecessor a Punjabi C-in-C Gen. Kramat had proposed and he was dismissed for doing that by our Elected Emperor Nawaz Sharif. Almost all the members of NSC are Punjabis. Punjabi Generals had been begging him privately to impose Martial Law since 2005. Even if he had resigned, the next C-in-C in line Gen. Kiyani had imposed Martial Law because he had been begging Musharraf to do that for more than few month. In light of above, I guess, Ethnic Punjabi Bigots have lost their sense of direction because they were going not against majority of Punjabis but also their own Army and Police just because of the burning fever of their hate against a 'tilyer' under which Pakistan has been progressing faster than anytime ever in the history for last 6 years.Musharraf didn't know, the Freedom of Speech, free Media and independentce of Judiciary that he was providing more than even any elected leaders of Pakistan is going to come back to bite him because all people using it are just like Scorpions, who can't quit their habit of stinging. You make a Scorpion happy, it would sting, you make it unhappy it would sting. * Who the hell had ever provided Judiciary so much freedom before him in the 60 year History of Pakistan? * In Benazir and Nawaz regimes anybody filing a case against government for un-constitutional acts of Police, Pak Rangers or Army used to get arrested inside the compounds of High Courts and Supreme Courts because it was assigned duty of the Registrar of the Courts to get that person or those person arrested as Terrorists or Terrorist Sympathizers. Has Musharraf done that?* Because Musharraf didn't do that Judiciary thought he was a Weakling and had no authority to rule the country and became wild since it was on JehaaD against him because either it was made up Ethnic Bigots or Mollaa and Sympathizers of JehaaDis. Didn't he have right to go against them to save Pakistan just because he was a heathen 'tilyer'?* Which Pakistani Ruler had permitted so many private Radio and TV Channels and permitted them so much freedom to even spread lies against him so consistently trusting the judgment of masses? Didn't he have a right to go against them just because he was a 'tilyer'?Well, your own 90 % Punjabi Army of Pakistan doesn't think so, Ethnic Bigots. To them, he is one of their brother and not a 'tilyer' but an honorable Shah Jee or a respectable Syed. Army Soldiers respect him more than they respected you brother Mollaa Zia so, now Allah has pitted you against your bigger brothers finally. Oh, why so many people have disappeared?How come you never had cared to ask this in 1971, when that was happening to 56 % of East Pakistanis and then in 1990's to tens of thousands of Mohajirs? Why had you thought those heathen people were lying and it was impossible that anybody could dis-appear?Have you heard, what comes around, goes around?You can't expect laws should be changed, when your turn comes because of your own Ethnic Bigotry. May be Allah found a way for you to learn, how it could happen Bigots. He knows in your hearts and what you are. Go ahead make my day by going on your Ethnic JehaaD against Musharraf ...!These people are so stupid, they don't care if Pakistan remains or not. They just want 'tilyer BHaiyaa' Musharraf out of power. Check it out in the West, almost all the stupid protesters are Punjabis and Non Punjabis have a Beard. The Beard one's are Sympathizers of JehaaDis and Osama though majority of Punjabis overseas are too. You may hardly find any Sindhi, Balochi or Pathan in them if they are not Ethnic Bigots or pro Mollaas. Posted by: "Khan Arif" ank2000pk@yahoo.com



Communist Workers & Peasants Party
Pakistan:

September 06, 2004
Bahawalnagar Rally

The CMKP offered its condolences to the great Bahawalnagar leader of our party Comrade Ghulam Bahu who passed away recently. On the 5th of September CMKP Central Committee and Punjab Committee members attended a chaleeswan and later a political rally held in honor of our great party leader. The rally was attended by all the left political activists of Bahawalnagar district. From Bhatta Mazdoors, Rickshaw Unions, different Labour Fronts, to political activists of different left parties, all came to pay tribute to this great Marxist-Leninist who stood by socialism and the party his entire life. At the rally those who knew Bahu Sahib and had worked with him for decades narrated their experiences feelings and thoughts and expressed their deep sadness at the departure of one of one of the staunchest soldiers of the CMKP. People spoke about his commitment to the working-class through his legal profession, about his bravery and the four years he spent in jail under the terrorist courts, about his legal advice and work which he did without any cost for the working class and peasants, about the solid consistency of his work, and about his steadfastness in the face of opposition. Bahu sahib had an indefatigable confidence in the historic mission of the communist movement. Despite the breakup of the Soviet Union, the defeat of the left internationally and in Pakistan, and through every crisis or split that the party faced, he stood confidently and without hesitation like a solid rock holding aloft the red flag of the proletarian revolution. Despite the fact that he was from a middle-class family, and therefore had no direct stake in the proletariat revolution, he became convinced intellectually of the superiority of the socialist system. In his youth he was with the Pakistan army but when he saw how the army was an instrument of imperialist oppression, he joined the revolutionary movement. For his activities with the left he was summarily tried by special courts of the army and served four years in jail. He retrained himself to become an advocate so that he could enter politics and help the oppressed. This staunch soldier of comrade Major Ishaq never hesitated in the face of opposition and was known for his courage and determination. At the rally President Punjab CMKP said that we should learn from comrade Ghulam Bahu’s life. The best form of appreciation of his life and struggle is to adopt the views and the organization that supports the views. He said that the working class has already learnt that without destroying capitalism there can be no end to hunger, poverty, and misery. The next lesson that the working class is learning is that without a communist party built on Marxist-Leninist principles capitalism cannot be destroyed. In the history of the last 150 years only the communists have destroyed capitalism. No populist party, NGO, non-political trade union or non-political peasant committee has ever defeated the capitalist system. Only the communists have done so because only the communists have the correct ideas and are tied to the struggle of the working class. At the rally the senior Vice Chairman of our party said that the exemplary character of Ghulam Bahu is not separate from his affiliation with the communist movement. Every individual is tied to a social class and a social movement. Ghulam Bahu sacrificed for the poor because he was a die-hard communist, a representative of the oppressed, and a leading figure of the CMKP. If we communists have exemplary behavior it is because our movement is the wave of the future. He said that reactionaries accept science in every field, if they need medicine they rely on science, if they want to talk to people in this very rally they have to talk through a loud-speaker which is a product of modern science and so on. But when people want to apply the rules of science in order to analyze society, they call them kafirs. This is because they want to obscure the relations of exploitation in a religious garb and prevent a scientific analysis of the roots of oppression. Speaking about the Baloch issue he lambasted the federal government and all opportunist elements that are failing to support the Baloch. He said, “Let no one doubt this, THE CMKP IS WITH THE BALOCH PEOPLE”. He said no one has the right to sit in Islamabad and take away the resources of the people. “As far as the Sardari system is concerned”, he said, “this is mainly an attempt by the establishment to confuse the issue. Naturally, every leftist is opposed to tribalism but the central issue is that the people of Balochistan as a whole are being robbed of their resources by the central government. And those who refuse to speak against this open robbery are complicit in the oppression of the Baloch”. He said Pakistan is not a nation-state but a multi-national state. Failure on the party of the establishment to recognize this central fact is leading to another 1971. He concluded “The path of Ghulam Bahu, he is said is to swim against the tide, against the establishment, and never to bow to its pressure.” The response of the people at the rally was unbelievably amazing. People from the audience responded by requesting that a political conference of workers and peasants be held on a yearly basis on the death anniversary of Ghulam Bahu. In the end of the rally, CMKP Bahawalnagar leaders thanked people for their support and active participation and pledged to carry forward the torch of comrade Ghulam Bahu, the torch of communism. Long Live Comrade Ghulam Bahu Long Live the CMKP

More on censorship

To give a background on my last blog here is an excerpt from Can You Pass the Acid Test?: A History of the Drug and Sex Counterculture and Its Censorship in the 20th Century


Brownback Hearings
Congressional Hearings were held on the subject of rock music and its impact on youth, in November of 1997. The hearings focused on violent and anti-social song lyrics. Much of this criticism was aimed at rap. Senator Sam Brownback, of Kansas, led the hearings and focused on songs with titles as "Smack My Bitch Up," by Prodigy, "Don't Trust a Bitch," by Mo Thugs and "Slap a Ho," by Dove Shack.[1] There is almost a tinge of racism here. Rap, like many black musical trends, creates an outlet for the frustration and problems of the inner city youth. Black youth identify with the feelings of frustration that are displayed in those lyrics. Even though these lyrics are clearly derogatory toward women, they symbolize a deterioration in the black communities. If the quality of life deteriorates in black neighborhoods, human relationships are affected by it. What these artists are saying is that life has become cheap.
But members of the status quo, such as Brownback, feel threatened by this raw expression and the fact that these songs remind society of its failure to deal adequately with the problems of Black youth.
Shock rock was also a target of the hearings, focusing on such singers as Marilyn Manson. The focus was on lyrics which displayed violence or sadistic themes. The hearings brought no conclusion. They rarely do. Their point seems to be to "shame" the music industry into policing themselves. The focus is always on music that promotes dissent.
One thing that's become commonly found at these hearings are parents of children who have committed suicide. One such father, Richard Kuntz, father of Raymond Kuntz, described a Marilyn Manson CD as a "hand grenade that was live and it was ready to go off." Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, consoled the father by agreeing with him.
In response to this, pro-rap and anti-censorship advocates staged a news conference to protest what they considered a biased racist hearing. A fight almost broke out between William Tucker, husband of anti-rap activist C. Delores Tucker, and Michael Eric Dyson, an African American Studies professor at Columbia University. After complaining about the witnesses, Tucker tried to shout Dyson down and a confrontation began.[2]
1980s
The music industry came under heavy attacks during the 1980s. Some of criticism came from the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth. "It's as if young people were living in two different worlds," said Joyce Nalepka, associate director of the Federation. "Their parents say no to drugs, but their music says it's fun."[3]
The Federation was organized as a kind of cheer-leading section for the "war on drugs." Their past goals have included: fighting the legalization of drugs, advocating for the creation of the Office of Drug Czar, raising the drinking age to 21 and bringing government attention to the drug issue.
One of the biggest challenges to the music industry, in the '80s, were attacks by the Parents Music Resource Center (P.M.R.C.). They pushed for a record-label rating system. Their main focus was on what they called "porn rock." But they also wanted to restrict music with pro-drug lyrics. In their proposal X would be a rating for explicit sexual lyrics, V for records that glorify violence and D/A for those that promote drug and alcohol use. Besides pushing for these labels, they also worked to get record companies to reassess whether they should renew the contracts of artists, such as Ozzy Osborn, that promote rebelliousness or Satanism.[4] They wanted to encourage music outlets to restrict the sale of certain records. The P.M.R.C. was headed by a small group of politicians wives, most notably Tippor Gore, wife of the vice-president-to-be Al Gore.
A senate hearing on "porn rock" was held in 1985. The pro-label side was argued by Gore and other members of the P.M.R.C. The anti-label side was argued by people in the music industry, including Frank Zappa. Zappa later used clips from recordings of the hearings in a musical piece called "Porn Wars."
In 1986, the Wal-Mart chain removed all rock magazines from their shelves, shortly after company officials met with televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Swaggart, as with several religious right leaders, said in a TV broadcast he believes that rock music is "the music of the devil." He even opposes Christian rock.[5]
Outside of Eric Clapton's song "Cocaine," there weren't many groups celebrating drug use, in the 1980s. Some anti-drug warriors even targeted anti-drug songs such as "I Want A New Drug," by Huey Lewis and the News.

[1] Senator Sam Brownback, "Music Violence," http://www.senate.gov/~brownback/music.html (25 August 1999),
[2] Tom Webb, "Brownback's music hearing inconclusive," The Wichita Eagle, (7 November 1997), year 126 issue 311, pp. 1A, 5A.
[3]Alvin P. Sanoff, Juanita R. Hogue, “Is Show Biz Pushing Drugs? The Big Debate,” U.S. News and World
Report, (16 May 1983), vol. 94 no. 19, p. 59.
[4] Otto, War on Drugs/ War on People, p. 44.
[5] Steven Wishnia, "Of Punk And Pornography, Rockin' With the First Amendment," The Nation, (24 October 1987), col. 245, no. 13, pp. 444 - 446.

Those who like Censorship can kiss my ass!!

I may take a trip to Kampuchea next spring break, both because it will help me understand what I’m writing in my book and the fact that I am interested in Khmer culture.
As for the book I’m writing about Pol Pot, The Pol Pot Journals, it is not the usual “making of a nightmare” style book, which has been over done, neither does it glorify Pol. Ever since my first Pol Pot history site was closed due to complaints, which I believe came mostly from American citizens, I’ve decided the time is right to write on a man who many people find interesting, even if they don’t like the large numbers of people who died during his reign.
All the complaints I got were from Americans who went to Cambodia (I’m sure on a guided tour sanctioned by the government) and they felt they could tell me I have insulted the entire population in Kampuchea. I know that isn’t true because the man still has admirers in his own country. And since when can an American speak for all the people in Kampuchea? I would have taken the complaints more seriously if they did not come from some sanctimonious arrogant Americans.
Even if I wrote a book endorsing Pol Pot, we have a free speech amendment in the US and I have every right to say what I want. Those unhappy about it can kiss my ass.




Frank Zappa has stated the obvious. If the first amendment document does not protect words, then we live under fascism. The little pimp from the Washington Times is a fascist pig who wants to use the government as father figure for immature jerks who never learned how to live their own lives since they left their parents home. They should go back home if they need the government to hold their hand and tell them when to and when not to pee.

News on the Afghanistan front from the Marxists, Maoist Afghanistan resistance

From AWorldToWin NewsService <aworldtowinns@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote: To go to www.aworldtowin. org or http://uk.groups. yahoo.com/ group/AWorldToWi nNewsService/• Afghan revolutionaries: “The resistance needs an ideological- political weapon superior to the invaders and their flunkies”• Afghanistan: Canada’s reasons for going to war------------ ---------Afghan revolutionaries: “The resistance needs an ideological- political weapon superior to the invaders and their flunkies”15 October 2007. A World to Win News Service. Following are excerpts are from a leaflet put out by the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Afghanistan on 7 October, the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of that country. Let’s put all our efforts into laying the groundwork for launching a revolutionary and popular national resistance!Let’s turn the resistance against the occupiers and puppet national traitors into a nationwide and decisive force!It has been six years since the imperialists headed by the US launched their campaign of aggression against Afghanistan. These years have been full of criminal acts and deception. The imperialist “crusade” of Bush & Co that started with the lying clamour about the “war on terror” on 7 October 2001 is still in its beginning and its strategic course is still unfolding. This hated and inhumane dynasty has already created many terrors.The imperialists and their local elements in the whole region of the Middle East, stretching all the way to Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite their repeated false promises of peace, security and social progress, have produced widespread corruption and are laying the ground for more vicious operations. The crimes and terrorism of the imperialist invaders and their flunkies have not gone completely unanswered. They have encountered hard and intensified resistance. But it must be noted that the resistance against them has resorted to an old and outmoded ideological- political weapon. Even if such a weapon inflicts immediate blows on the invaders, the struggle it guides cannot have a positive outcome for the people. The resistance against the current imperialist campaign needs an ideological- political weapon that is historically superior to invaders and their flunkies. This old and outmoded ideological- political weapon suffers from an inherent and incurable limitation, from the social point of view. It is too narrow. In the best case it can only unite a section of a particular nation that corresponds with the interests of a small section of feudals and comprador bourgeoisie who oppose the invasion but in the final analysis are connected by a thousand strings to world imperialism and foreign reactionary powers. The whole reactionary resistance in dealing with the present occupiers has a historical weakness. The forces that are in this resistance were trained by the very same occupiers and they may go back into the arms of their masters at any time.But in Afghanistan there is another problem. The puppet regime officially is a theocratic and religious state. This has been institutionalised with its constitution, which states that Sharia [Islamic] law is the basis of all of Afghanistan’s laws. It is natural that in such a situation a reactionary theocratic resistance would have much in common, ideologically, with the puppet regime. Karzai’s efforts to lure the Taleban into becoming a part of the regime through peace negotiations are based on these common grounds.Launching and advancing a revolutionary and popular national resistance is the only way to build a decisive and uncompromising struggle against the imperialist occupiers and their puppets. Without it, launching a nationwide struggle is impossible. Only a decisive and uncompromising nationwide resistance will be able to drive out the occupiers, overthrow their puppet regime and lead Afghanistan on the path of liberation and real freedom from the grip of imperialism and social injustice.- end item-Afghanistan: Canada’s reasons for going to war15 October 2007. A World to Win News Service. The following article “Afghanistan: reasons for war” is reprinted from Notes on Afghanistan, Spring/Summer 2007, published by the Winnipeg, Canada local chapter of the World People’s Resistance Movement (www.wprmwinnipeg. blogspot. com). Canada has one of the largest and most active contingents in the occupation of that country. This article focuses on the reasons behind Canada’s eager participation, an approach that by extension sheds light on why other “second-tier” imperialist countries like the UK and Germany are deeply involved, and more broadly on the war itself. Since early 2002, Canadian troops have been in Afghanistan both in support of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom, as well as part of NATO operations. The motives that led to Canada’s participation in military operations have gone under- or unreported. Mainstream media, when not out-rightly cheering on the occupation, have refused to dig at all into the deeper reasons why Canada has immersed itself in the bloody occupation of Afghanistan, glossing over the subject and narrowing the framework of debate to simply an issue of “helping out our friend to the south” or “taking on our responsibilities as peace keepers”. But there is more to the situation than that. Due to Canada’s location, its economy is closely tied to that of the United States. Because of this, it is in the interests of Canada’s ruling class, the group of people that control the bulk of Canada’s wealth, to ensure that Canada maintains close and friendly ties with the United States. Maintaining friendly ties often means supporting American foreign policy, which can come in the shape of adhering to American embargoes and sanctions imposed on other nations, or sending troops to support American military operations overseas. The latter is what we are currently witnessing with Canada’s presence in Afghanistan. Currently, the United States is the world’s only superpower. Its foreign policy works to maintain and spread the current imperialist world order. This is a difficult and costly task. Because of this, the United States expects other second-tier imperialist countries that benefit from this world situation (i.e. Western industrialized countries like Canada, Great Britain, etc.) to help with its maintenance. If these countries do not foot their share of the costs of maintaining the imperialist system, they run the risk of being excluded from sharing in the spoils of plunder. Canada, being the world’s fifth biggest foreign investor (New Socialist #54), cannot risk losing access to the cheap labour, as well as oil, gas, and mineral deposits that form the foundation of the Canadian economy. According to the Mining Association of Canada, mining, quarries, and oil and gas extraction inject nearly $40 billion into the Canadian economy each year. Compare that to $15.4 billion from agriculture and $7.2 billion from forestry and logging, and it becomes clear that mining, oil, and gas are of great importance to the Canadian economy, and thus the Canadian ruling class. What is more, other industries like electric/gas/ water utilities ($262 b/ year), transportation ($51.9 b/year), and manufacturing ($184 b/year) could not function without base materials like oil, gas, and metals. It is in this context that we begin to see how strategic Afghanistan is to the particular needs of the Canadian ruling class. Afghanistan has world-class mineral deposits. According to the government of Afghanistan, the Aynak copper deposit alone holds approximately 240 million tons of material. On 14 November 2006, the Government of Afghanistan released a short-list of firms it is considering for the development of this particular copper deposit. Making the list of nine was Canadian mining firm Hunter-Dickinson, Inc. Canada is a world leader in mining. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), one of the world’s largest stock exchanges, “is home to the largest peer group of mining companies in the world,” with “trading activity of TSX stocks in 2005 [exceeding] $167 billion” (mining.ca, Mining Association of Canada). 88% of the global mining industry’s 1,611 public financings in 2005 were conducted on the TSX. London, England ranked second with 9%. Overall, Canadian companies do 40% of world mining exploration. But Afghanistan is not only important for the resources found within its borders. Geographically, Afghanistan is the gateway to a region of the world that is becoming increasingly important to the world’s developed and developing industrial powers: the Caspian Sea region. The strategic importance of the Caspian Sea For the past 10-15 years, the world’s economic powers have been eyeing the Caspian Sea region for its potential natural gas and oil wealth. The Energy Information Administration (US) estimates proven oil reserves in the Caspian Sea to be between 17 and 49 billion barrels. It also estimates proven natural gas reserves to be approximately 232 trillion cubic feet. These resources are of vital importance to any industrial power. As mentioned above, oil and gas are absolute necessities for the manufacturing and transportation sectors, and are of vital importance to a country’s military as well. All of this indicates that the Caspian Sea region is very much a strategically important area of the world, with oil and gas reserves easily outstripping that of the North Sea. The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest land-locked body of water. Five countries border on the Caspian: Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. Afghanistan shares borders with Turkmenistan to its north, and Iran to its west.Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have significant oil reserves, and Uzbekistan’s natural gas reserves rank in the world’s top ten. Canadian firms have been in the thick of things in this region for years. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) website, a Canadian trade mission in May 2004 saw 10 Alberta firms travel to Kazakhstan to meet with the operating company responsible for North Caspian Sea deposits, as well as Canadian companies already active in Kazakhstan. “Almost all of world’s largest oil and gas companies have a presence in Atyrau, the country’s oil and gas capital”. Canadian firms have been active elsewhere in the region. In 2004, former Canadian Prime Minister, and advisor to PetroKazakhstan (a Canadian firm based in Calgary), Jean Chretien, headed a Canadian delegation that met with Turkmen officials to negotiate a deal on behalf of Buried Hill Energy of Edmonton to develop the Serdar block of the Caspian Sea (18 January 2004, News Central Asia). On the same trip, the delegation met with officials from Oman and Turkmenistan to discuss the construction of the Trans-Afghan Pipeline (TAP) (4 September 2004, News Central Asia). The TAP is a network of pipes that would lead south transporting extracted oil and gas from Turkmenistan, though Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ending in India. This pipeline was finally agreed to on 21 November 2006. In 2004, another Canadian firm, ThermoDesign, was awarded a $42 million contract to build an LPG and gas condensate plant in Turkmenistan (20 October 2004, News Central Asia). The interests of the Canadian ruling class are deeply invested in the energy resources of the Caspian Sea region. It is in the Canadian bourgeoisie’s direct interests to keep the region open to Canadian capital. Afghanistan is strategically important in achieving this in that, geographically, it lies exactly where pipelines need to run to export Caspian oil and gas. Containing Iran and turning off the tap to China Iran adds an interesting twist to things in the region. First, it is already one of the most oil-rich countries in the world, and it stands to gain access to more oil and gas reserves from Caspian Sea deposits. Currently, how much it will be given access to will depend on whether the Caspian Sea is legally declared a sea or a lake. If it is a lake, all bordering nations would have to equally share its resources, and Iran would have access to 20%. If it is a sea, each country will have access according to its coastline, reducing Iran’s share to 13%. Iran also has the second largest natural gas deposits in the world. The world’s largest deposits lie in Russia and Central Asia. According to the EIA website eia.doe.gov, almost three quarters of the world’s natural gas deposits are in the Middle East and Eurasia, with Russia, Iran, and Qatar accounting for 58% of the world’s reserves. Geographically, Iran lies at the crossroads between Central Asia and Europe. Thus, pipelines heading from the east to Europe in the west would likely need to pass through Iran, effectively giving Iran influence over nearly half of the world’s natural gas reserves. This would be unacceptable to the US, who aspires to control crucial energy resources and thus maintain leverage over any potential rivals. According to the Washington Post, in 2004 China signed deals with Iran worth approximately $90 billion to purchase Iranian oil and gas, and help develop Iran’s Yadavaran oil field. In exchange for oil, Iran receives many products produced by China, such as computers, appliances, and automobiles. With China rapidly developing, its voracious energy needs are running into limitations imposed on it by the current global political situation… For this reason, it is important to the American ruling class that they control the world’s energy deposits, so as to satisfy their own energy needs and prevent the emergence of any competing military and industrial powers. This necessarily means containing Iran and building alternative pipeline routes that are acceptable to the American ruling class. Any pipelines connecting the Middle East and the Caspian Sea region to rivals such as China or Germany would be wholly unacceptable. Thus, we can see how Canada’s role in Afghanistan is not by chance – some kind of foreign policy quirk or blunder. Canada is in Afghanistan with the aim of defending Canada’s national interests, interests which are rooted in its desire to enrich itself through the natural resource industry as well as maintaining close amicable relations with the US, the country currently playing the leading role in defending the world economic order. And the “national interests” of Canadian capital, it demands to be said, are in sharp contradiction with the interests of the people of the world, including the vast majority of people in Canada

Why they fight us in Iraq

This is a video link from The New York Times, November 1, 2007:
Op-Ed: Know Thine Enemy

Just click on the link.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=8e9862a9f3a8216027ef2f9ecd1c3bc5345b4134

This is an excellent video and should be a warning to all the cement heads in the US who can’t understand that other people don’t want occupation anymore than we would want it here. It would seem so obvious to most of us, but some conservatives just don’t get it and our young kids are dying for their stupidity.