POPULACE UNDER SEIGE
As more and more corporations merge and become the largest in the world, and as technology consumes more and more jobs, people in this country need to understand that no man/woman is an island, and no man/woman stands alone.What happens in Africa, Asia, Japan, and other countries will sooner or later affect you. For example, when Asia cancelled its airplane contracts with Boeing, Boeing in turn had to lay off employees. As the so-called middle-class begins to fall from its comfort zones because of downsizing and outsourcing (and use of prison labor) chaos will fill the streets. When the working poor turn to the government for general assistance, AFDC, food stamps, etc., they will find very little available. Millions across this country are maxing out with unemployment, general assistance, and can't get food stamps because they are homeless and don't have an address. Meanwhile, the mentally ill are being released from mental hospitals because of Medicare cuts. Many people who never thought they would need assistance once supported Welfare Reform. What is in store for them when they become discontent about their conditions and the lack of domestic policy to address their concerns?
Let me tell you what your government has planned for our discontent. According to sociologist Pete Kraska, there are 30,000 heavily armed militarily trained police units in the US. These tactical units are no longer used as emergency response teams--they are becoming part of everyday policing. SWAT teams that would handle a barricaded suspect, now conduct routine drug raids. A housing project in California had firsthand experience with paramilitary policing this past October, when some 90 law-enforcement officers raided a housing project, which they had under surveillance.
As you might guess, this housing project was predominately Black. The police said gang-members of "Knock Out Posse" lived there, so they planned and executed a raid on the ENTIRE housing project in order "to put fear in the hearts" of this gang. Stop for one minute and think about that. If police say there are gang-members living in your housing project, apartment complex, trailer park, or even on your residential block, does this alone give police the authority to plan and execute a paramilitary raid on your residence? After this raid, the community met with police officials and voiced their outrage concerning such abuse. The police response was that they were sorry people were victimized; however, these people are responsible for who lives there.
Wait one minute! When did tenants become responsible for folks the landlord rents to?
California is not the only place where this has happened. Chicago and New York have experienced this terror as well. This past summer, the Marines' top-brass convened in major cities (first in Chicago) to inspect the terrain of the inner cities in order to learn how to fight urban wars. Are we so deep in the forest that we can't see the trees? Are we so consumed with the illusion of making it and pursuing materialism that we don't care about the perfecting of the police state in this country? What is happening and what is going to happen in good old America will make Hitler blush! The nationwide database for law-abiding people who purchase a gun is another way this government is attempting to track who owns how many guns and which guns. Think about that. Why would the government need a nationwide database for people who obey the law? The criminals are not going to use this process to purchase their guns. So what is the purpose?
Knowing that the military is learning the terrain of the inner-cities of this country should send everyone red-flags a waving. Do you remember when the military was in Somalia and its mission was to disarm the citizenry? Are you beginning to see the picture? Wouldn't you say, we are a POPULACE UNDER SIEGE?
--Feel Free to call Sista Shiriki at (819) 333-9814, or write me at P.O. Box 320441, Kansas City, MO 64132 Shiriki@gvi.net