Homework Assignment 1: Some of Those That Work Forces (Re-post from Facebook)

 

Author's note: ok, so as I mentioned in my last Media Madness post, the pinheads at Facebook has put me in the awkward position of having to transfer content I've already written someplace off their fascist-appeasing website. I've chosen to move my ongoing series of educational reading assignments here and now I have to re-post the first two. 

Please note: the language of these posts is built around Facebook's crappy UI, so when I talk about links in the comments below you can just click on the link that'll be right there in front of you. This post originally appeared on August 16, 2020.

Author's note: I probably should start with the article explaining what is fascism first but I'd hate to waste Umbico's talents on a Sunday evening post when I'm on the wrong end of a thirty-six hour day so let’s start with something literally everyone can understand is fascism – neonazis infiltrating American law enforcement.

Have you seen “the thread” though? Beginning on May 30th, at the height of the protests in response to the extrajudicial execution of George Floyd by Minneapolis murderpigs, defense attorney T. Greg Doucette began compiling a Twitter thread of graphic examples of police violence against largely peaceful demonstrators – the vast majority of which include video evidence. From soccer moms in Portland being teargassed, to police ripping off a man’s artificial legs and with virtually every type of cracker pig violence imaginable in between, Doucette’s thread (which as of this writing stands at a shocking eight hundred and seventy examples of police brutality and contains additional threads with hundreds more examples each in their own right) shows American law enforcement at its finest hour – if you’re a fascist.

I’ll post a link to Doucette’s thread in the comments below, but in today’s homework lesson I’d like to focus on addressing the two most important questions watching videos of fascist police violence like the ones he shared should be calling to mind. First, why are the police treating peaceful political opposition (including an incredibly large number of milquetoast liberals and even African American celebrities) like an invading army in the protesters own streets, and secondly, why do the police appear to be actively protecting violent reactionaries and street nazis, while openly committing outrageous acts of violence against virtually anyone who takes to the streets to protest our fascist President?

This 2017 article by Alice Speri at the Intercept might go a very long way to answering that question for you. Literal f*cking Neonazis have been actively infiltrating American law enforcement for years and the FBI was fully aware of it even before Trump was elected – check it out “The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement” below:

The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

Supplemental: One of my followers on Twitter helpfully shared this article that focuses on fascist police violence against journalists in specific - once again, if you're not seeing fascism at work here, you're probably trying to avoid seeing it:

U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 140 times since May 28

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