Malcolm X Day (21 februari) en de politie-moorden op gekleurde mensen waaronder Mitch Henriquez

Afgelopen zondag was het Malcolm X Day (zonder belangstelling in de rest van het
westen), deze dag daar Malcolm X, mensenrechtenactivist en voorvechter van gelijke
rechten voor gekleurden en witten in de VS, op 21 februari 1965
werd vermoord door de FBI en de lokale politie van New York……. Brasscheck TV kwam eergisteren dan ook met een bericht en video over Malcolm X en de moordaanslag die op hem werd gepleegd.

Wat mij betreft is het elke dag Malcolm X Day en een dag voor elke activist die vermoord werd vanwege verzet tegen het fascistische racisme waarmee gekleurden dag in dag uit te maken hebben, niet alleen in de VS maar overal ter wereld, óók in ons land….. Daaronder versta ik ook het herdenken van gekleurde mensen die door de politie werden en worden vermoord door hen dood te schieten of door de meer walgelijke verwurging middels de nekklem, zoals Mitch Henriquez in het Haagse Zuiderpark overkwam…… Ongelofelijk ook dat de agent die hem daadwerkelijk vermoordde in verzet ging tegen een voorwaardelijke gevangenisstraf….. (ja ja en dat voor een moord die vreselijke minutenlang duurde!!)

Gistermorgen hoorde ik advocaat Korver, die de zaak Mitch Henriquez behartigt voor de familie. Hij vertelde dat de politie advocatenkantoor Sjöcrona-Van Stigt inhuurde voor bijna drie jaar tijd en daar ‘maar liefst’ € 1.309.380,96 aan besteedde, een bedrag waar de familie van Henriquez natuurlijk niet aan kan tippen…… Zie wat dat betreft ook het volgende artikel van RTL nieuws: ‘Kritiek op ‘peperdure’ advocaten van agenten in zaak-Mitch Henriquez* Ook dat is een vorm van racisme, zeker als je bedenkt dat de politie nog steeds de marteling middels de nekklem mag blijven gebruiken, dezelfde marteling waarmee zoals gezegd Henriquez werd vermoord…….

Ook gisteren maar dan op BBC World Service Radio en WDR 5 het bericht dat in de VS de maand februari wordt gezien als Black History Month, maar wat lullig dat men op beide zenders niet één keer de naam Malcolm X noemde……

Terug naar het Malcolm X bericht plus video van Brasscheck TV. Ongelofelijk
dat de video in dit bericht niet werd gecensureerd door YouTube
Nederland, die tegenwoordig het grootste deel van de Brasscheck video’s censureert en daarbij de leugen gebruikt  dat het adres er  niet vertrouwd uitziet, de smerige oplichters!! (hier één ‘van de video’s die men blijkbaar over het hoofd heeft gezien:)

Beste bezoeker, iets te vlug gejuicht over het niet censureren door YouTube Nederland, gistermorgen stond de video nog in het bericht, maar toen ik deze gistermiddag laat wilde overnemen, was deze verwijderd, alsof het niet waar is dat Malcolm werd vermoord door terreurorganisatie FBI in samenwerking met de lokale politie……. YouTube vindt het blijkbaar uitstekend om berichten over fascistisch racisme te censureren……. Heb gelukkig nog een video van hem uit eerdere berichten….. GGGVD!!! >> Even zoeken gaf aan dat ook de meeste Malcolm X video’s die ik overnam zijn gecensureerd door YouTube!! Ofwel de top van YouTube bestaat uit smerige racisten en daarmee wat mij betreft fascisten!!

Malcolm
X Day

May
19, 1925 – February 21, 1965

Whatever he’s
going to do will not be beneficial to the powers that be”

On this day in 1965, Malcom X was
assassinated.

Malcolm X Day

May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965

Police who were surveilling talk
about their cooperation with the FBI in keeping an eye on Malcolm X.

Whatever he’s going to do will
not be beneficial to the powers that be.”

We don’t have an American
problem. We have a human problem.”

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* Zie voorts: ‘Bouman : i.p.v. betere training van agenten, wil dit opperhoofd van de Nationale Politie dure advocaten…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

 Zie ook: ‘Joe Biden, de nieuwe VS president heeft een ‘grote’ racistische geschiedenis

Alabama 15 september 1963: vier zwarte meisjes vermoord, met een herdenking door Martin Luther King en John Coltrane‘ (met o.a. een video waarin Billie Holiday het nummer Strange Fruit zingt)

Malcolm X Day: 19 mei 1925 – 21 februari 1965‘ (een bericht uit 2020)

Malcolm X Day 19 mei 1925 – 21 februari 1965‘  (een bericht uit 2019)

Malcolm X, de moord op deze mensenrechtenstrijder en de rol van politie en FBI‘ (een bericht uit 2017)

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Voorts links naar berichten over Mitch Henriuquez en de nekklem: ‘Mitch Henriquez, de 2 nog vervolgde agenten behoeven wat OM betreft niet vervolgd te worden en ongeoorloofd overleg schuldigen……..

Mitch Henriquez en de verstikkende behandeling die hij van de Haagse politie kreeg: rellen in de Schilderswijk…….

Mitch Henriques vermoord middels verstikking…… Zelfs zijn strottenhoofd was gebroken!!

Mitch Henriquez: Bouman gaf moordende agenten baangarantie, ongeacht de uitkomst van onderzoek………

Hoe bedoelt u, dat het ministerie van Veiligheid (ha! ha!) en Justitie, niet met de nabestaanden meeleeft???!!!

Gerard Bouman (Nationale Politie) wil politiestaat…………..

Van der Steur blijft nekklem en daarmee martelen en moord toestaan, de volgende dode valt onder zijn verantwoordelijkheid!’

Van Aartsen niet over de dood van Mitch Henriquez en de rol van de Haagse politie daarin………..

Nekklem martelmethode gepropageerd bij Argos………..

Bouman is blij dat er een onderzoek naar de nekklem komt…….. AUW!!!!

Mitch Henriquez, slachtoffer van marteling middels nekklem:  of hoe men alweer zwaar onrecht zal ‘rechtspreken…….’‘ 

Haagse politie zwaar nalatig bij arrestatie, man overleden………..‘ (het eerste bericht op dit blog over de moord op Mitch Henriquez)

Nepnieuws en nep media? Hoe de VS echte journalistiek het zwijgen oplegt……….

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Hier nog een link naar de Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesten: ‘Black Lives Matter: in Brazilië wordt elke 23 minuten een zwarte jongen of man doodgeschoten door de politie……..‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar nog veel meer berichten over o.a. Black Lives Matter protesten en moorden op gekleurde VS burgers door de politie!!)

Joe Biden, de nieuwe VS president heeft een ‘grote’ racistische geschiedenis

Jammer
dat het hieronder opgenomen artikel van CounterPunch niet al
voor de Democratische voorverkiezingen werd gepubliceerd, grote kans
dat oorlogsmisdadiger Joe Biden dan niet door de Democratische Partij zou zijn gekozen als kandidaat voor het
presidentschap Hoewel de grote opzet was om Bernie Sanders de gang
naar het Witte Huis te belemmeren, daar hij te links was en wel eens
werkelijke verandering had kunnen brengen (in tegenstelling tot de
meer dan valse belofte van Barack Obama)……..

Jack
Delaney heeft een uitgebreid artikel geschreven waarin hij Joe Biden neerzet
als een racist en dat al meer dan 40 jaar lang……

Zo was
Biden tegen het federale schoolbusproject waarmee men de integratie
van zwarte en anders gekleurde kinderen op witte scholen wilde
bevorderen…… Uiteraard was dit niet de enige manier waarop Biden
zich inzette om integratie van gekleurde kinderen op witte scholen
te voorkomen, op alle mogelijke (politieke) manieren heeft Biden
zich daartegen verzet……

Biden
heeft zich onder de administratie van oorlogsmisdadiger Bill Clinton
ingezet voor de ‘three strikes out’ wetgeving, waarmee zelfs met
kleine vergrijpen, je na drie van die vergrijpen ‘levenslang’
gevangen kon worden gezet en uiteraard waren het vooral de gekleurden
die hier in verhouding het hardst onder hebben geleden….. Zo werd
het gebruik van crack (cocaïne) t.o.v. gewone cocaïne (een heel
stuk duurder) veel zwaarder gestraft en je raadt het al: vooral de
gekleurden gebruikten crack, daar ze altijd tot het armste deel van
de VS behoorden en behoren…….

Overigens
was het ‘three strikes out’ het gevolg van de inzet van Biden al onder de
totale mafketel en oorlogsmisdadiger (en C-acteur) Ronald Reagan, de
neoliberale republikeinse president in de 80er jaren van de vorige
eeuw….. (die begon met het opschroeven van de VS schulden tot
onaanvaardbaar grote hoogte) Het is zelfs zo dat Biden Reagan heeft
gepord om hardere straffen te zetten op drugsovertredingen. Het
uiteindelijke gevolg van de inzet die Biden liet zien was dat in veel
staten 90% van de veroordeelden door drugsgebruik en andere
drugsgerelateerde zaken gekleurd waren…….

Onder
Clinton was Biden één van de hoofdverantwoordelijken voor het
verhogen van straffen en hij was er trots op dat de Democraten
verantwoordelijk waren voor 60 meer doodstraffen en de verhoging van
straffen. Verder was de Democratische administratie van Clinton
verantwoordelijk voor het aannemen van 100.000 meer politieagenten en het bouwen van 125.000 extra
gevangeniscellen…… Gevolg was dat tegen het jaar 2000 de VS met
5% van de wereldbevolking, de VS een gevangenispopulatie had die 25%
vertegenwoordigde van het totale aantal gevangenen over de wereld……. Gekleurden liepen 5 keer meer kans in de gevangenis te
belanden dan hun witte medeburgers………

Biden
heeft zich van 1984 tot 2018 ingezet voor het snijden in de sociale
bijstand, terwijl juist de gekleurde bevolking daar het meest op was aangewezen…… Voorts was Biden verantwoordelijk voor het opschroeven
van schulden voor studeren en zoals je kan uittekenen, ook hier waren
m.n. de gekleurden het slachtoffer van (hoewel deze schuldenlast nu
zo groot is dat dezelfde schoft nu heeft beloofd daar wat aan te gaan
doen, echter denk daarbij aan de beloften van Obama, die voor het
grootste deel in het ‘grote archief’ verdwenen……)

Over
Obama’s beloften gesproken: ondanks een gekleurde president en een
aantal gekleurden op sleutelposities, is het zijn administratie niet
gelukt om de positie van gekleurden te verbeteren en ook hiervoor was
Biden deels verantwoordelijk…… Sterker nog Black Lives Matter
(BLM) ontstond onder de Obama/Biden administratie…..

Ook de
buitenlandpolitiek van de VS onder Obama en vicepresident Biden was
het ‘business as usual…’ De Obama/Biden administratie was
verantwoordelijk voor het destabiliseren van landen als Jemen,
Honduras (een door de CIA en Hillary Clinton georganiseerde coup),
Syrië, Somalië en Libië (het eens rijkste land van Afrika werd 60
jaar terug in de tijd gebombardeerd en behoort nu tot de armste
landen van dat continent, terwijl er nog steeds oorlog wordt
gevoerd….). Intussen vervolgde deze administratie het bloedige
beleid die de erfenis vormde van het Bush tijdperk: de illegale
oorlogsoperaties in Afghanistan, Pakistan en Irak……

Het
moorden middels drones kreeg ook al een extra duw in de rug van
de Obama/Biden administratie, terwijl zo’n 90% van de vermoorde slachtoffers
niet eens werden verdacht, dus veelal vrouwen en kinderen…….
Biden was ook voor die moorden de tweede
hoofdverantwoordelijke…….

Wat
betreft vluchtelingen uit Latijns-Amerika (o.a. door de coup van 2009
in Honduras) heeft de Obama administratie meer dan 2,5 miljoen
vluchtelingen gedeporteerd en werd er geen onderzoek gedaan naar
massagraven met vluchtelingen uit dat deel van de 3 Amerika’s…….

Tijdens
zijn verkiezingscampagne heeft Biden herhaaldelijk gelogen dat hij
Nelson Mandela ontmoette in Zuid-Afrika en dat hij daarvoor werd
gearresteerd….. Terwijl hij zoals eerder gemeld ronduit een racist
was en eigenlijk nog is (en dan ben je m.i. niets anders dat een fascist)….. Deze fascist
ging zelfs zover om het volk voor te houden dat wanneer ze een
probleem hadden om op hem te stemmen, deze kiezers niet zwart waren,
waarvoor hij later dan wel zijn excuus aanbood…….

Met
Biden zal er niets ten goede veranderen voor de gekleurde bevolking
van de VS en ook het imperialistische buitenlandbeleid van de VS zal niet
veranderen, sterker nog: de kans is groot dat de VS weer nieuwe
oorlogen zal aangaan, zeker als je in gedachten neemt dat Biden al
heeft gesteld dat dit beleid onder Trump slap was als het gaat om
de landen Iran en Venezuela……. Ook de agressieve buitenlandpolitiek t.a.v. China zal niet veranderen, zo heeft Bidens vicepresident Kamala Harris laten weten……. Door de sancties van Trump alleen al tegen
Venezuela, zijn meer dan 50.000 mensen om het leven gekomen, als je
dat slap vindt kan er maar één stap straffer zijn: weer een (illegale)
oorlog……. (overigens ook in Iran moeten grote aantallen mensen, inclusief veel kinderen, zijn overleden als gevolg van de illegale VS sancties……)

December
6, 2020

Jim
Crow Joe

Biden’s Record
On Race

by Jack
Delaney

Photograph
Source: Chuck Kennedy – CC
BY 2.0

It was the days of purple haze and
the post-civil rights movement that President-elect Joe Biden
cemented his political legacy, yet he was rarely on the right side of
history. The era was marked by assassinations of political leaders,
spurred a coalition opposing the Vietnam war, and produced police
violence carried out on demonstrators. The unrest set the stage for
Richard Nixon and advisor Lee Atwater’s southern
strategy
.

Nixon’s ‘68 campaign strategy
relied on polished racist dog whistles and rhetoric promising law and
order, which delivered the southern vote along with the White House.
With a political realignment — where segregationist southern
Democrats found refuge within the GOP — political newcomer, Joe
Biden found opportunity.

Delaware’s Dixiecrat

Before the 1972 elections, then a
city government official, Biden launched a bid for the U.S. Senate.
In his campaign against Delaware’s Republican incumbent, J. Caleb
Boggs, Biden set himself apart from his opponent and supported the
integration of schools through federally mandated busing. Yet in a
few years following his first Senatorial win, he would reverse his
stance and sharpen his words.

After a deciding vote that nixed a
1974
anti-busing amendment
, the freshman Senator faced backlash and
pressure from constituents. Biden’s vote against the ‘74
amendment would stand as his sole exception of supporting school
desegregation through federally mandated busing. After his
controversial vote, constituent outrage ensued. Parents began to
heckle the Senator at a town
hall meeting
and he would promptly change his position to match
his base’s sentiments.

Through 1972 until the end of
federally mandated busing, Biden would join staunch segregationists —
Senators Strom Thurmond, James O. Eastland, Herman E. Talmadge, and
others — backing bills that would prevent the federal government
from enforcing school integration.

After the 1975 white anti-busing
riots in Boston, Biden joined with former Dixiecrat — North
Carolina Republican Jesse Helms — to introduce an anti-busing
amendment
a year later. The proposal’s aim was to handcuff the
enforcement of school desegregation by limiting the federal
government from collecting data on integration. As reported by NPR,
Biden later said in a 1975
interview
he supported a Constitutional amendment to end the
busing mandate.

In support of Helms’s amendment,
Biden would rise on the Senate floor stating,
“I have become convinced that busing is a bankrupt concept.”
Helms’s measure failed but Biden introduced a similar and more
bipartisan amendment
that barred funding for local governments assigning teachers to
schools based on race. Later that year, Biden issued a statement on
busing in an interview, calling
the policy, “[an] asinine concept, the utility of which has never
been proven to me.”

The New
York Times
notes that
Biden proposed a 1976
measure
that would block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from
treating busing as a form of desegregation. A year later the Senator
cosponsored an amendment
that limited federal funding from busing oversight while leading
legislation
that would limit court-ordered busing enforcement.

A year later, in 1977, Biden
remarked that some federal desegregation policies would “cause
his children to grow up in a racialized jungle.
” Biden
continued with rhetoric that echoed Congress’s segregationists,
haranguing against “forced
busing
” and arguing for states’
rights
.

By 1982, Biden joined former
Dixiecrats to vote for a DOJ appropriations amendment that included a
section labeled
“the toughest anti-busing rider ever approved by either chamber of
Congress.” He then voted in favor of an amendment
that granted DOJ the ability “to remove or reduce the requirement
of busing in existing court decrees or judgments.”

A 1991 Supreme
Court decision
would lead to a series of cases that would
ultimately end federally mandated busing. Almost 30 years later, a
2019
report
released by Penn State and UCLA showed that classrooms
are overly segregated
today.

New Jim Crow Joe

From the early 1980s up until
present day, racialized mass incarceration took hold — sponsored
by the war on drugs, heightened sentencing, and through the
empowerment of prosecutors and law enforcement.
The
New Jim Crow
author
Michelle Alexander writes, “Ninety percent of those admitted to
prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the
mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in
race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the
current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.”

Biden’s role in the genesis of
the New Jim Crow began during the Reagan years. As reported by
The
Intercept
, Biden
lobbied the Reagan administration to beef up law enforcement and
adopt harsher sentences. While courting Reagan, the Senator reached
across the aisle to find common ground with an old
friend
.

Biden teamed up with Strom Thurmond
to introduce the Comprehensive
Control Act of 1984
. The bill expanded penalties for marijuana
production and trafficking, permitted punitive legal strategies, and
included a civil
asset forfeiture
clause. By 1986
and 1988
he would support and partly author two Anti-Drug Abuse Acts that
imposed stricter sentencing on crack compared to powder cocaine and
bolstered prison sentences for drug offenders.

During Biden’s first bid for the
White House, a 1987
Philadelphia
Inquirer
piece reports
that he gloated about receiving
an award
from Alabama’s former segregationist governor George
Wallace in 1973. Shortly thereafter, Biden delivered a stump
speech
in Alabama, stating, “we [Delawareans] were on the
south’s side in the Civil War.” Continuing on the campaign trail,
he further remarked that he participated as a civil
rights activist
in the 60s, yet the claim was unfounded.

After the Reagan-era, a 1991
peak
in national crime escalated calls for law and order and was
followed by a media frenzy. In the ‘92 Presidential campaign, Bill
Clinton rebranded the Democratic Party as tough on crime, which paid
off and delivered the White House. Shortly after the Clinton victory,
Biden introduced The
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
, also known as the
‘94 crime bill.

Biden was a substantial contributor
to the legislation and shepherded it through, rising on the Senate
floor boasting
that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party was responsible for 60
new death penalties, 70 enhanced penalties, 100,000 more cops, and
125,000 new prison cells. The Senator continued the next year,
standing
in support
of the bill, “We have predators on our streets who
are beyond the pale….We have no other choice but to take them out
of society.”

The bill passed and was signed into
law by Clinton, imposing mandatory
minimum sentences
, the “three
strikes you’re out rule
”, and increased federal spending for
newly militarized law enforcement and prisons nationwide.

As the policies took shape, the war
on drugs and mass incarceration exploded, delivering the U.S. the
world’s largest prison population. No secret — by the 2000s, with
only 5 percent of the globe’s population, the U.S. had 25
percent
of the world’s prison population. Data from the U.S.
Census shows that black people are five
times more likely
to face incarceration than white people, while
a study
published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed
police murders skew excessively towards people of color.

Late Senate and Obama Years

Towards the twilight of Biden’s
Senate career, he pursued neoliberal
economic
reforms and championed financial deregulations. For over
40 years — from 1984 until 2018 — Biden would support proposed
freezes and cuts to Social
Security spending
, while people of color are disproportionately
served
by Social Security income benefits.

He continued with deregulation
through the ‘90s and ‘00s. In 1999, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
was introduced and proposed to eliminate Great Depression-era
financial regulations formed through the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.
The sweeping deregulatory bill paved the way and further incentivized
finance capital to pursue predatory lending, redlining,
and fiscal trickery which disproportionately
disadvantaged
people of color. Biden supported and voted for the
bill.

Following the erasure of
Glass-Steagall, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer
Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA), known as the bankruptcy bill, was
introduced. Through BAPCPA’s time in the legislative process, Biden
would offer three
amendments
that hallowed existing statutes. The law would
unequally
impact
people of color, and down the road, exacerbated the
student
debt crisis
, impacting people of color at more
costly levels
.

During the Obama-Biden years,
videos and reports of police murders of black people would surface.
Ferguson and Baltimore became centers of the uprisings that ensued in
2014 and 2015, respectively, and were precursors to the current Black
Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Yet the two-term administration didn’t
deliver the change that was promised in the ‘08 campaign.

Abroad it was also business as
usual for the Obama-Biden White House. The foreign policy apparatus
during the administration actively destabilized
regions, causing crises in Yemen,
Honduras,
Syria,
Somalia,
and Libya,
while continuing W. Bush-era operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and
Iraq.

The drone program would also surge
under Biden’s White House years. Since the drone warfare-era, the
administration amassed the highest number of civilian drone strike
casualties. As reported by the
Bureau
of Investigative Journalism
,
at least 380 to 801 civilians in the Middle East and Africa were
killed by drone strikes during Obama and Biden’s tenure.

For Latin Americans, the White
House also managed one of the largest
deportation efforts
in U.S. history, while mass
graves of Latin American migrants
went unchecked by the
administration. Over
two and half million
migrants were deported and the
infrastructure
was left for Trump to inherit and bolster.

A May 2020 CNN
interview
with Harvard professor, Dr. Cornel West, succinctly
summed
up
the Obama-Biden years. “The system cannot reform itself.
We’ve tried black faces in high places. Too often our black
politicians, professional class, middle class become too accommodated
to the capitalist economy.” West continued, “The Black Lives
Matter movement emerged under a black President, a black Attorney
General, and a black Homeland Security, and they couldn’t deliver.”

On The Campaign Trail

Biden didn’t launch his campaign
with much
backing
from the Democratic base, bundlers, or much of a vision.
The core of Biden’s messaging appealed to white
suburbanites
, offering nothing more than a return to normalcy and
an alternative to Trump. Top Democrats, much like the base and
donors, were also initially skeptical of Biden’s path to victory.

According to Politico,
Biden’s former running mate Barack Obama allegedly remarked, “Don’t
underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up
.” Obama then
supposedly told one Democratic candidate in Iowa, “And
you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden
.”

Before Biden was thrusted into the
Democratic front runner spotlight, the former Vice President clashed
with future running mate, Kamala Harris, regarding his record on
busing during the debates. While Vice President-elect Harris has her
own controversial
record
on criminal justice, the Biden camp deflected and muddied
the waters.

During the campaign, Biden would
falsely
and repeatedly claim
that he was arrested after meeting with
Nelson Mandela while protesting apartheid in South Africa. He would
also state in an interview, “If you have a problem figuring out
whether you’re for me or Trump, then
you ain’t black
,” which he later apologized for.

Peculiar phrases and malarkey
aside, it didn’t matter for the Biden coalition. The centrist
candidates dropped out and consolidated to crush an insurgent Bernie
Sanders challenge, delivering Biden key wins and the nomination.

Surrounding his primary victory
were potentially the
largest uprisings and movement
in U.S. history. Following the
police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, mass rebellions
stormed nationwide — continuing ever since. The majority
of Americans support the BLM movement and the rebellions
against U.S. institutions.

With popular support behind BLM,
Biden didn’t seize the moment like during the post-civil rights
political realignment. Nonetheless, the black vote turned out to
deliver
him the White House. With that said, recent indications show a Biden
administration will take the black vote and the energy around BLM for
granted.

Following the police murder of
Walter
Wallace Jr.
— a young black man experiencing a mental health
episode in Philadelphia — the then Presidential nominee condemned
the uprisings. Biden would then appear for remarks on the campaign
trail to address the hopelessly frustrated crowds, “There is no
excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence. None whatsoever.”
The campaign also issued a written
statement
in response, adding in a qualifying “but at the
same.”

The President-elect previously
denounced demonstrators in Portland,
Oregon
and elsewhere. Prior to issuing statements, Biden has also
called for police to “shoot
‘em in the leg
” and doubled down on that remark during a town
hall
when asked about police de-escalation techniques.

The Biden transition team was also
considering former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for a top
cabinet slot
but walked his appointment back after criticism. In
2014, Emanuel attempted to cover
up the police killing
of black Chicagoan, Laquan McDonald, along
with gutting
the city’s social infrastructure for vulnerable communities.

Biden’s “Tranquilizing
Drug Of Gradualism”

Two years before Malcolm X was
assassinated, he delivered
a speech
skewering white liberals, “The white liberal differs
from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more
deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical
than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the
one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and
benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of
the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or
tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging
between the white liberals and white conservatives.”

Martin Luther King Jr. would share
similar sentiments on white centrists in his letter
from the Birmingham jailhouse
, writing, “I must confess that
over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the
white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that
the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is
not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the
white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice;
who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a
positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

The warnings issued by X and King
ring true today.

Opposing full school integration
and using rhetorical pitches reminiscent of Atwater’s southern
strategy gave Biden the political capital he needed to rise through
the ranks and develop bipartisan favor. The racist war on drugs, mass
incarceration, rampant
disenfranchisement
, the prison industrial complex, exploited
labor, and militarized
police
forces didn’t magically appear.

Austerity and financial
deregulation further empowered conservatives and incentivized debt
profiteers to prey on vulnerable people. The continuation of endless
wars and coup d’états, building a mass deportation system, and
failing to leverage power to yield change had someone behind those
policies and inactions.

The policy failures that have
perpetuated a white supremacist society weren’t just lazily passed
and implemented — they were championed and safe-guarded. Biden’s
career has been built on working for white supremacy.

While securing the election by
placating voters of color and appealing to comfortable white
suburbanites — like his strategy in the early throes of his career
— has proven he will not build long-overdue and necessary
systematic justice. Rather than championing a popular and righteous
cause, he has countlessly gone out of his way to support and pay
homage to white supremacist notions and institutions, twisting his
record to the public. Though Biden’s record and words are clear,
nothing
will fundamentally change
.”

Like Biden, the U.S. has yet to
repent for its past and present. For any significant change to occur
in the Biden years and beyond, it will take a sustained mass movement
constantly agitating institutions. During the Biden years and
throughout Democratic strongholds, there will still be brutality,
police murders, and white supremacy. The only possible way for
meaningful change to occur — not symbolic victories — is for all
decent people to continuously take to the streets and, by any means
necessary, demand justice and freedom.

As put by Martin Luther King Jr.,
“this is no time to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”

Jack Delaney
is a former policy analyst. He worked on issues relating to health
care, disability, and labor policy, and is a member of the National
Writers Union.

=================================

Zie ook: ‘Nepnieuws en nep media? Hoe de VS echte journalistiek het zwijgen oplegt……….

Alabama 15 september 1963: vier zwarte meisjes vermoord, met een herdenking door Martin Luther King en John Coltrane

Op
15 september 1963 hebben witte fascisten van de KKK dynamiet laten
ontploffen in een baptistenkerk in Alabama, daarmee vermoordde dit
geteisem vier zwarte meisjes tussen de elf en veertien jaar…..

De ongeëvenaarde en geweldige zwarte voorvechter voor gelijke rechten (tevens dominee) Martin Luther King, plus de legendarische saxofonist John Coltrane (met het nummer Alabama), waren onder de mensen die de
meisjes herdachten met een kerkdienst en een paar concerten.

Vergeet voorts niet dat men in de vorige eeuw tot de 70er jaren in zuidelijke staten van de VS, als Alabama niet zelden gelynchte zwarten in een boom zag hangen…. Dit zou in 1950 zijn gestopt, echter het ging wel degelijk nog door tot ver in de 60er jaren, ook al liep het aantal terug, het was er niet minder gruwelijk en barbaars om…… (er werden overigens ook zwarten levend verbrand en dat samen met het lynchen van zwarten werd voor het overgrote deel door witten gedaan die op zondag in de kerk zaten……)


Hier de ook al legendarische zangeres Billie Holiday met het nummer ‘Strange Fruit’ dat over dat lynchen ging, een live nummer uit 1959:

 

In het bericht van Brasscheck TV een paar video’s, waar de tweede tevens aandacht heeft voor de
aanhouding van
King* in Birmingham, waar eerder dat jaar, april 1963, ‘onlusten waren uitgebroken’, destijds bedoelde men daarmee dat de witte politie tekeerging tegen geweldloze gekleurden die demonstreerden tegen de rassenscheiding….. (delen van het mooie nummer Birmingham van Randy Newman komen nog een paar keer voorbij) Helaas kan ik die video niet overnemen, ondanks dat deze op YouTube zou moeten staan, vandaar voor de echte tweede video zie het origineel.

Alabama

History:
Coltrane and King

Remembering
the intensity of the struggle

Alabama – The Power of
Jazz

On Sunday, September 15, 1963,
twelve sticks of dynamite were placed in the 16th Street Baptist
Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb had been planted by the white
supremacy group, the KKK, and killed four young black girls between
the ages of 11-14.

John
Coltrane wrote the song ‘Alabama’ in response to this event and
patterned his playing in the song after Martin Luther King’s speech
at the funeral for the four girls.

Coltrane also performed in eight
benefit concerts for King in 1964 and recorded several other songs
inspired by the civil rights movement called, ‘Reverend King’,
‘Backs Against the Wall’ and his album Cosmic Music dedicated to
Martin Luther King.

The back
story to the bombing

Most people are aware of the church
bombing in Birmingham that killed four children in 1963.

Missing from the story is why THIS
particular church was targeted.

It’s a triumphant story, but also
sheds a light on the diabolical hatred that infected (and still
infects) many Americans.

=============================

Zoals
gezegd: de tweede video in het origineel kan ik niet overnemen, dus hier een
paar andere video’s over de bomaanslag en met o.a. de toespraak van King
n.a.v. deze aanslag (luisteren mensen, King was een uiterst intelligente activist en zonder meer een begaafd spreker [en schrijver]): 

 

 

De volgende video gaat over de hiervoor al aangehaalde vreedzame demonstratie tegen de rassenscheiding door de gekleurde bevolking van Birmingham, dit gebeurde zoals gezegd eerder dat jaar in april 1963. King sprak daar ook en werd gearresteerd door de witte politie van die stad…:

En nog een door King ingesproken brief vanuit de gevangenis, duurt even maar meer dan de moeite waard:

 

Voor meer berichten over Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, BLM (Black Lives Matter), vervolging minderheden, Black Panthers, en/of racisme, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht

Malcolm X Day: 19 mei 1925 – 21 februari 1965

Vandaag
is het 55 jaar geleden dat de gekleurde mensenrechtenactivist Malcolm
X werd vermoord door de FBI……

Brasscheck
TV heeft 2 video’s geplaatst over Malcolm X, de eerste bevat een
beroemde speech van Malcolm X, ofwel El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, na
zijn terugkeer uit Mekka, de tweede bevat een verslag van de
begrafenis van el-Shabazz…….

Onlangs
heeft een aanklager besloten de moord op el-Shabazz opnieuw te
onderzoeken, ook al is dat minstens 50 jaar te laat, ‘maar goed’ het gebeurt nu daadwerkelijk en dan maar hopen dat de uitkomst niet nu al
bekend is bij de onderzoekers: Malcolm X opnieuw demoniseren als
staatsvijand, zoals ook Martin Luther King werd gezien door de FBI,
de rest van de geheime diensten in de VS en door een groot aantal
politici (er zijn zelfs politici die dat nog steeds vinden, al durft men dat nu niet
meer hardop te zeggen……) 

Nog zo’n voorbeeld: pas in 2008 besloot de VS om Nelson
Mandela van de terreurlijst te halen….. (!!!), terwijl deze een
aantal jaren president was van Zuid-Afrika (en zelfs toen nog op de
terreurlijst van de VS stond!), laat staan hoe men dacht en nog denkt
over el-Shabazz en Martin Luther King, om deze 2
mensenrechtenstrijders nog een keer te noemen……..

Kortom
geen twijfel wie de opdracht voor de moord op al-Shabazz heeft gegeven: de regering van de vereniging van
terreurstaten die als de VS wordt aangeduid (destijds onder presidentschap van oorlogsmisdadiger L.B. Johnson) en uitgevoerd door de FBI……

Malcolm X Day

May
19, 1925 – February 21, 1965

On
this day in 1965, Malcom X was assassinated.

Police who were
surveilling talk about their cooperation with the FBI in keeping an
eye on Malcolm X.

Whatever he’s going to do will
not be beneficial to the powers that be.”

We don’t have an American
problem. We have a human problem.”

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Malcolm X Day 19 mei 1925 – 21 februari 1965

Vandaag is het 54 jaar geleden dat Malcolm X werd vermoord, hij was mensenrechtenactivist en strijder voor gelijke rechten t.b.v. de gekleurde bevolking.

MALCOLM
X DAY

MAY
19, 1925 – FEBRUARY 21, 1965

WHATEVER
HE’S GOING TO DO WILL NOT BE BENEFICIAL TO THE POWERS THAT BE”

On
this day in 1965, Malcom X was assassinated.

Malcolm
X Day

Police
who were surveilling talk about their cooperation with the FBI in
keeping an eye on Malcolm X.

Whatever
he’s going to do will not be beneficial to the powers that be.”

We
don’t have an American problem. We have a human problem.”

Zie ook: ‘Malcolm X, de moord op deze mensenrechtenstrijder en de rol van politie en FBI

Malcolm X, de moord op deze mensenrechtenstrijder en de rol van politie en FBI

Malcolm X, de gekleurde mensenrechtenstrijder uit de VS, werd op 21 februari 1965 doodgeschoten in New York. Brasscheck TV kwam gisteren (Malcolm X Day) met beelden over Malcolm X. In de video wordt o.a. aandacht geschonken aan het schaduwen van Malcolm X door de politie en het infiltreren in de kringen rond Malcolm X door nauwe samenwerking van de politie en de FBI………

Malcolm X, zijn woorden zijn heden ten dage nog even actueel…..

Hier de door Brasschjeck toegevoegde video (duur 6.33 m.) van Shareef Nazeer uit 2014:

Als u de video heeft gezien, krijgt u een aantal andere video’s te zien, die u af kan spelen. Ik koos de volgende video ‘The Assassination of Malcolm X’:

Zie ook: ‘Malcolm X Day 29 mei 1925 – 21 februari 1965

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VS verandert met tempo in fascistische politiestaat………….

Staten in de VS waar de republikeinen het voor het zeggen hebben, voeren met grote snelheid nieuwe wetgeving in, waarmee protesteren tot het verleden moet gaan behoren. Zo deinst men er niet voor terug om mensen die protesteren op een snelweg, vogelvrij te verklaren voor de politie en voor de automobilisten op die weg……

De VS begint akelige gelijkenissen te vertonen met nazi-Duitsland, nu nog concentratiekampen voor ‘illegalen’, moslims en andersdenkenden en klaar zijn het psychopathische beest Trump en de top van het bedrijfsleven (dat godbetert mag regeren in Washington….)…..

Lees het volgende artikel van Sarah Cronin (onder dat artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling):

As
Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting
Illegal



By
Sarah Cronin


January
22, 2017 “
Information
Clearing House

– “Antimedia”
  Indiana
passed a bill on
Wednesday that authorizes police officers to shut down highway
protesting “by any means necessary.” S.B.
285
, as it is known, obliges a public official to dispatch all
available officers within 15 minutes of discovering any assembly of
10 or more people who are obstructing vehicle traffic.


The
bill then authorizes the responding officers to clear roads “by any
means necessary.”

Critics
are calling
it
 the “Block Traffic and You Die” bill, an apt name for
a bill that has co-opted the phrase “any means necessary,” used
famously in speech delivered
by Malcolm X during the Civil Rights movement, turning it into a
threat against government dissent (with no apparent awareness of the
irony).

S.B.
285 is among a collection of increasingly hostile ‘anti-obstruction’
laws that have been quietly submitted in states around the nation
over the past few months. A report by 
The
Intercept 
published Wednesday
tracked five such anti-protest laws introduced by Republican
lawmakers in different states, four of which are currently pending.

One
of the most disturbing among them is House
Bill N. 1203
, a bill introduced earlier this month by North
Dakota lawmaker Keith Kempenich in
response to
 the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests (DAPL). The bill
would exempt motorists who hit demonstrators with their cars from any
liability in cases where the victims were “
obstructing
vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway
.”
This twisted take on protest criminalization comes short of condoning
manslaughter as a viable means of crowd control.

Also
this month, Minnesota State Representative Kathy Lohmer led the
effort on submitting H.F.
322
, a bill that would re-classify obstructing highway traffic
from a misdemeanor to a “gross misdemeanor” and would authorize
government units to sue protesters for “
public
safety response costs related to unlawful assemblies
.”

The
proposed legislation is strikingly reminiscent of Washington State
Senator Eric Ericksen’s proposal to punish protesters as ‘economic
terrorists,’ which 
Anti-Media first reported
on
 in November.

All
of the proposed laws share a common trait in that they were all
adopted in response to a major protest event in that state. H.F. 322
was submitted shortly after a judge
dismissed the riot charges
 against protesters who took to
the St. Paul Interstate last July in a demonstration against the
police shooting of Philando
Castille
. Ericksen’s “economic terrorism” bill announcement
came just days after anti-frackingprotesters blocked
railroad tracks in Olympia, Washington. DAPL protests inspired both
the Indiana and North Dakota bills.

These
retroactive responses on behalf of Republican state lawmakers are
also seen as preemptive strikes against the threat of increased
protests during the Trump presidency.

As
ACLU staff attorney Lee Rowland expressed in an
interview
 with 
The
Intercept
,
these so-called ‘obstruction bills’ are but thinly disguised
efforts to squash any government dissent.

A
law that would allow the state to charge a protester $10,000 for
stepping in the wrong place, or encourage a driver to get away with
manslaughter because the victim was protesting, is about one thing:
chilling protest,” 
Rowland
said.

Growing
tension between government officials and protesters is expected to
come to a culmination on Inauguration Day in D.C., where there will
already be many barriers in place to limit demonstrations.

First
and foremost is the Federal Grounds and Buildings Improvement Act of
2011, known as H.R
347
.

H.R.-347
is a revision of a 1971 federal trespassing law that made it a crime
to “willfully and knowingly” remain in an area under Secret
Security protection. H.R. 347 removes the word “willingly,” a
legal technicality that effectively lowers the bar on the mental
state required to be found guilty under the law.

As
explained by the American
Civil Liberties Union
:

Under
the original language of the law, you had to act ‘willfully and
knowingly’ when committing the crime. In short, you had to know
your conduct was illegal. Under H.R. 347, you will simply need to act
‘knowingly,’ which here would mean that you know you’re in a
restricted area, but not necessarily that you’re committing a
crime.”

Under
current federal law, protesting in proximity to an elected official
under the protection of the Secret Service, which includes President
Trump, is a crime punishable by fine and up to ten years in jail.


Protesting
during Trump’s inauguration comes with additional complications as
the National Park Service reserves
a large portion
 of the inaugural parade route along
Pennsylvania Ave and in Freedom Plaza for ticket sales under the
exclusive discretion of Trump’s Presidential
Inaugural Committee
 (PIC). This means the PIC can refuse to
allow protesters along the route.

An
activist group called Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (Answer) has
been engaged in a  legal
battle
 with the National Park Service since 2005, arguing
the privatization of the Inauguration is an attempt to “sanitize”
the streets
 of dissent.

While
the National Park Service has been controversially setting aside
tickets for the PIC since
1980
, the issue garnered more attention this year when it was
discovered that the sidewalk in front of the Trump International
Hotel, a significant site for protesters, would be a part of PIC’s
ticket-only area.

Adding
another level of bureaucracy, the 
Washington
Post
 reported the
hotel and plaza in front are actually under the control of Trump’s
real estate agency, meaning protesters would have to literally ‘ask
permission’ to remain in the space.

As
the week comes to an end, it becomes apparent that dissent is being
criminalized not only nationwide but on multiple fronts. Increased
regulations are appearing that limit the public spaces that can be
lawfully occupied in protest. Meanwhile, legislation is also being
introduced to increase the negative consequences for newly unlawful
protests. Should more states follow suit with Indiana, demonstrators
will soon find themselves paradoxically protesting for their right to
protest at all.

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John Lennon 9 oktober 1940 – 8 december 1980 Power to the People!

Gisteren was het 36 jaar geleden dat John Lennon werd vermoord en zoals dit bij meerdere vooraanstaande personen in de VS het geval was, ook bij deze moord zijn grote vraagtekens te stellen.

Lennon was een groot denker, daar zal niemand met een gezond verstand nog aan twijfelen. Terecht stelt o.a.John W. Whitehead op Information Clearing House, dat de strijd die John Lennon tegen de instituties voerde, nog steeds actueel is en misschien wel meer actueel dan ooit tevoren…….

Hier het artikel van Whitehead (onder dit artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling) , daaronder nog een video van Brasscheck over deze zaak:

Power
to the People: John Lennon’s Legacy Lives On

By
John W. Whitehead

You
gotta remember, establishment,
it’s just a name for evil
. The monster doesn’t care whether
it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s
not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”
– John
Lennon
 (1969)

December
08, 2016 “
Information
Clearing House

– Militant nonviolent resistance works.

Peaceful,
prolonged protests work.

Mass
movements with huge numbers of participants work.

Yes,
America, it is possible to use occupations and civil disobedience to
oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change
outside the confines of the ballot box.

It
has been done before. It is being done now. It can be done again.

For
example, in May of 1932, more than 43,000 people, dubbed the Bonus
Army—World War I veterans and their families—marched on
Washington. Out of work, destitute and with families to feed, more
than 10,000 veterans set up tent cities in the nation’s capital and
refused to leave until the government agreed to pay the bonuses they
had been promised as a reward for their services.

The
Senate voted against paying them immediately, but the protesters
didn’t budge. Congress adjourned for the summer, and still the
protesters remained encamped. Finally, on July 28, under orders from
President Herbert Hoover, the military descended with tanks and
cavalry and drove the protesters out, setting their makeshift camps
on fire. Still, the protesters returned the following year, and
eventually their efforts not only succeeded in securing payment of
the bonuses but contributed to the passage of the G.I. Bill of
Rights.


Similarly, the Civil Rights Movement mobilized hundreds of thousands
of people to strike at the core of an unjust and discriminatory
society. Likewise, while the 1960s anti-war movement began with a few
thousand perceived radicals, it ended with hundreds of thousands of
protesters, spanning all walks of life, demanding the end of American
military aggression abroad.

Most
recently, after months of protests over the construction of a
pipeline that members of the Sioux tribe insisted would harm their
water supply, 
the
Army Corp of Engineers has agreed to look for an alternate route for
the Dakota Access Pipeline
 to cross under Lake Oahe in North
Dakota.

This
kind of “power to the people” activism—grassroots, populist and
potent—is exactly the brand of civic engagement John Lennon
advocated throughout his career as a musician and anti-war activist.

It’s
been 36 years since Lennon was 
gunned
down by an assassin’s bullet
 on December 8, 1980, but his
legacy and the lessons he imparted in his music and his activism have
not diminished over the years.

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All
of the many complaints we have about government today—surveillance,
militarism, corruption, harassment, SWAT team raids, political
persecution, spying, overcriminalization, etc.—were present in
Lennon’s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice,
peace and a populist revolution.

Little
wonder, then, that the U.S. government saw him as enemy number one.


Because
he never refrained from speaking truth to power, Lennon became a
prime example of the lengths to which the U.S. government will go to
persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.

Lennon
was the subject of a four-year campaign of surveillance and
harassment by the U.S. government (spearheaded by FBI Director J.
Edgar Hoover), an attempt by President Richard Nixon to have him
“neutralized” and deported. As Adam Cohen of the 
New
York Times
 points
out, “The F.B.I.’s surveillance of

Lennon
is a reminder of how easily
domestic
spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law enforcement
purpose
. What is more surprising, and ultimately more unsettling,
is the degree to which the surveillance turns out to have been
intertwined with electoral politics.”

Years
after Lennon’s assassination, it would be revealed that the FBI had
collected 281 pages
of surveillance files
 on him. As the 
New
York Times
 notes,
“Critics of today’s domestic surveillance object largely on
privacy grounds. They have focused far less on how easily government
surveillance can become an instrument for the people in power to try
to hold on to power. ‘The U.S. vs. John Lennon’ … is the story
not only of one man being harassed, but of a democracy being
undermined.”

Such
government-directed harassment was nothing new.

The
FBI has had a long history of persecuting, prosecuting and generally
harassing activists, politicians, and cultural figures, most notably
among the latter such 
celebrated
names
 as folk singer Pete Seeger, painter Pablo Picasso,
comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, comedian Lenny Bruce and
poet Allen Ginsberg. Among those most closely watched by the FBI was
Martin Luther King Jr., a man labeled by the FBI as “the most
dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.”

In
Lennon’s case, the ex-Beatle had learned early on that rock music
could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message. More
importantly, Lennon saw that his music could mobilize the public and
help to bring about change.

For
instance, in 1971 at a concert in Ann Arbor, Mich., Lennon took to
the stage and in his usual confrontational style belted out “John
Sinclair,” a song he had written about a man sentenced to 
10
years in prison for possessing two marijuana cigarettes
. Within
days of Lennon’s call for action, the Michigan Supreme Court
ordered Sinclair released.

While
Lennon believed in the power of the people, he also understood the
danger of a power-hungry government. “The trouble with government
as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people,” observed
Lennon. “
It
controls them
.”

By
March 1971, when his “Power to the People” single was released,
it was clear where Lennon stood. Having moved to New York City that
same year, Lennon was ready to participate in political activism
against the U. S. government, the “monster” that was financing
the war in Vietnam.

The
release of Lennon’s 
Sometime
in New York City
 album,
which contained a radical anti-government message in virtually every
song and depicted President Richard Nixon and Chinese Chairman Mao
Tse-tung dancing together nude on the cover, only fanned the flames
of the conflict to come.

However,
the official U.S. war against Lennon began in earnest in 1972 after
rumors surfaced that Lennon planned to embark on a U.S. concert tour
that would combine rock music with antiwar organizing and voter
registration. Nixon, fearing Lennon’s influence on about 11 million
new voters (1972 was the first year that 18-year-olds could vote),
had the ex-Beatle served with deportation orders “in an 
effort
to silence him as a voice of the peace movement
.”

As
Lennon’s FBI file shows, memos and reports about the FBI’s
surveillance of the anti-war activist had been flying back and forth
between Hoover, the Nixon White House, various senators, the FBI and
the U.S. Immigration Office.

Nixon’s
pursuit of Lennon was relentless and misplaced.

Despite
the fact that Lennon was not plotting to bring down the Nixon
Administration, as the government feared, the government persisted in
its efforts to have him deported. Equally determined to resist,
Lennon dug in and fought back. Every time he was ordered out of the
country, his lawyers delayed the process by filing an appeal.

Finally,
in 1976, Lennon won the battle to stay in the country and by 1980, he
had re-emerged with a new album and plans to become politically
active again. The old radical was back and ready to cause trouble.

Unfortunately,
Lennon’s time as a troublemaker was short-lived.

Mark
David Chapman was waiting in the shadows
 on Dec. 8, 1980,
just as Lennon was returning to his New York apartment building.

As
Lennon stepped outside the car to greet the fans congregating
outside, Chapman, in an eerie echo of the FBI’s moniker for Lennon,
called out, “Mr. Lennon!”

Lennon
turned and was met with a barrage of gunfire as Chapman—dropping
into a two-handed combat stance—emptied his .38-caliber pistol and
pumped four hollow-point bullets into his back and left arm. Lennon
stumbled, staggered forward and, with blood pouring from his mouth
and chest, collapsed to the ground.

John
Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Much
like Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert
Kennedy and others who have died attempting to challenge the
powers-that-be, Lennon had finally been “neutralized.”   

Still,
you can’t murder a movement with a bullet and a madman: Lennon’s
legacy lives on in his words, his music and his efforts to speak
truth to power.

As
Yoko Ono shared in a 2014 letter to the parole board tasked with
determining whether Chapman should be released: “A man of humble
origin, [John Lennon] brought light and hope to the whole world with
his words and music. He tried to be a 
good
power for the world
, and he was. He gave encouragement,
inspiration and dreams to people regardless of their race, creed and
gender.”

Lennon’s
work to change the world for the better is far from done.

Peace
remains out of reach. Activism and whistleblowers continue to be
prosecuted for challenging the government’s authority. Militarism
is on the rise, all the while the governmental war machine continues
to wreak havoc on innocent lives.

For
those of us who joined with John Lennon to imagine a world of peace,
it’s getting harder to reconcile that dream with the reality of the
American police state. And as I point out in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
those who do dare to speak up are labeled dissidents, troublemakers,
terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and tagged for surveillance,
censorship or, worse, involuntary detention.

As
Lennon shared in a 1968 interview:

I
think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives…
I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means. If anybody
can put on paper what our government and the American government and
the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and
what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what
they think they’re doing. I think they’re all insane. But 
I’m
liable to be put away as insane for expressing that
. That’s
what’s insane about it.”

So
what’s the answer?

Lennon
had a multitude of suggestions.

If
everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then
there’d be peace.”

Produce
your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite
possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders….You have
to do it yourself.”

Peace
is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something
you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”

If
you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”

Say
you want a revolution / We better get on right away / Well you get on
your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people.”

And
my favorite advice of all: “All you need is love. Love is all you
need.”

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 (SelectBooks,
2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted at 
johnw@rutherford.org.

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Hier de video van Brasscheck TV:

The
mysterious death of John Lennon

When
John Lennon was shot and killed

the
news media went into “lone nut with

a
gun” mode.

They
left out the “lone nut with intelligence

connections,
endless financial resources,

and
obvious signs of having been brainwashed” part.

Here’s
the untold story.

 Zie ook: ‘Nam Kurt Cobain zijn eigen leven? Niet volgens een flink aantal mensen‘ (en de links onder dat bericht naar o.a. de moord op M.L. King en J.F. Kennedy)

Tot slot een link naar de YouTube pagina waar u naar muziek van Lennon kan luisteren.