If we remember only one thing from this article, it is: "...But there
is no “us. The spy agencies he applauds serve the propertied rulers
against the working class."
We, the working class People do not have an FBI or our own CIA. We
have no state militia, no National Guard, no Police or company Bully
Boys. All we have are Numbers. And Guts. And Determination. And
when we are pushed against the wall, as our Greed driven Corporate
Bosses must do to us, we will start pushing back, shouting "Enough is
enough!"
Carl Jarvis
On 3/1/18, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2018/8209/820903.htmlIf we remember only one thing from this article, it is: But there is no “us.”
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 82/No. 9 March 5, 2018
(front page)
Liberals hail FBI witch hunt against Trump
White House
BY TERRY EVANS
Liberals are singing the praises of the U.S. political police after
former FBI boss Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three
Russian organizations for conspiracy to “defraud the United States” by
interfering in politics here.
The Feb. 16 indictments accuse the 13 Russians of participating in a
so-called troll operation on the internet beginning in 2014, inventing
U.S. identities, promoting a variety of political views to roil viewers
and staging rallies related to the 2016 campaign. They make no
allegation that Donald Trump’s campaign was involved in any way, and
they say there is no evidence this operation affected the election
outcome. Those charged worked for a company with close ties to the
Kremlin, Mueller claims. The evidence marshaled is similar to previous
press reports, including a 2015 New York Times magazine piece called
“The Agency.”
“Our FBI, CIA, NSA [National Security Agency], working with the special
counsel [Mueller], have done us amazingly proud,” columnist Thomas
Friedman gushes in the Times Feb. 18. But there is no “us.”
The spy agencies he applauds serve the propertied rulers against the
working class. The FBI is tasked by the bosses to spy on, disrupt and
frame up working-class militants, Black rights and Puerto Rican
independence fighters, and opponents of Washington’s wars. Examples
include framing up leaders of the Socialist Workers Party and the
Teamsters union in Minneapolis for speaking out against the rulers’
drive to enter the second imperialist world war to decades of Cointelpro
attacks on the party and other political groups.
Like all the rulers’ frame-up grand juries and special prosecutors,
Mueller’s probe against the Trump presidency starts with a target and
then roots around for evidence. The charge that those indicted conspired
to “defraud the U.S.” is so broad it could be used to target almost
anyone for anything. Such laws are written that way to make it easy for
the cops and spy agencies to use them to go after working-class fighters.
The liberals and middle-class left are determined to criminalize their
political differences with Trump to drive him out of office. Democrats
lined up in a frenzy to claim Mueller had found the “smoking gun”
against him. It went so far that Democrat Rep. Jerry Nadler from New
York told MSNBC he thought Moscow’s interference in the election was the
equivalent of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — the pretext used by
Washington that it had been preparing for years to enter World War II.
Underlying the liberals’ refusal to reconcile themselves to Trump’s
election is their scorn for the workers who elected him. In a Feb. 20
op-ed entitled “The Madness of American Crowds,” New York Times
columnist Roger Cohen claimed that working people are “dumb” and “can be
led by the nose into the gutter,” and were “easily manipulated” to elect
Trump.
In reality millions of workers, including many who had voted for Barack
Obama in previous elections, were angry over the blows inflicted on them
from capitalism’s political and moral crisis and looking for a change.
They voted for Trump hoping he would do something and “drain the swamp”
in Washington. But Trump, like his predecessors from both parties,
governs to defend the interests of the propertied owners.
SWP members campaigning in working-class neighborhoods find widespread
interest in discussing how the rulers foist the costs of today’s wars
and social crises onto the backs of working people and what this says
about the values of their system. Many workers want to discuss how past
struggles — like the Cuban Revolution and the mighty movement that
overthrew Jim Crow segregation — show we can organize independently of
the bosses, and through revolutionary struggle develop the capacities to
replace capitalist rule with workers power.
Such capabilities are completely discounted by those like Cohen who
think that workers need to be “learned” on what to do by meritocrats
like himself.
The alleged activities of the Internet Research Agency and its manager,
Yevgeny Prigozhin, itemized in the indictment, are a litany of internet
misinformation on a wide variety of political issues.
But the scale of the meddling in the 2016 elections by Moscow pales in
comparison to that engineered over decades by the U.S. rulers. They have
utilized their spy agencies — that liberals are falling over themselves
to shower with plaudits — to not only “affect” elections, but to
brutally overturn governments.
This includes the CIA-organized coup that overthrew the Iranian
government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and replaced him with
the shah in 1953, establishing a key prop in U.S. domination across the
Middle East that lasted for 25 years. The U.S. rulers tried to prevent
the election of Salvador Allende as president of Chile, and, when they
failed, backed the 1973 coup by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that overthrew his
government. The list goes on and on.
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