Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Is there a place for us?

22, the number of hours it seemed like I spent today, while I waited to see the District/US "justice" system prosecute the valiant actions of Tina Richards, Adam Kokesh and Ian Thompson.

The former two were acquitted, the latter unfortunately was unjustly given a "guilty" verdict.

I just sat there and was reminded how unfair the "judicial system" is to the working class-especially men- of this realm. This was poignantly demonstrated when the men(brown and black) were brought out in chains: chattel slavery has ended with the master becoming the state instead of private plantation owners. Reminds me of a passage in WEB Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction 1860-80," where he points out that as a result of black labors' general strike and subsequent armed uprising leading to the destruction of the plantation system; this led the planter oligarchy to institute "Black codes" to deal with the emancipated black labor.
As plantations depopulated throughout the confederacy the prison population skyrocketed. The excuse used today to criminalize men and women thereby holding there labor hostage is the "war on drugs." 90% of those I see when I am in the Superior Court Building are there for crimes of pleasure: sex and drugs...things one uses to harmonize themselves to life in the concrete jungle.

Moreover, I was unfortunately also reminded(at age 25) because of activism and more importantly the vision I had in San Francisco June 1, 1992: We the people cannot reform this system; we must begin to build a new nation in its place. I saw this future world(today) collapsing and tried my damnedest to set things in motion so my people could survive NOW, as the old world was dying...
Realize that nobody took me seriously in the majority of the circles I had traveled in especially during the go-go 90's. Another reason I am glad I came back to dc, I could act within a nearly blank canvass without the annoying pc-lefties to get in my way.

See, fortunately for me, I am good at not giving a shit what people think anyway, and in hindsight, fuck 'em: I was tragically right!

Alas, there is no place for a rational, caring human being in this realm and only by separating ourselves from it, can we the people begin to live in freedom and equality...

Therefore, in 22 days, we can strike forward for a new reality; we can strike in unison for our future...

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