Put together all the traditional totalitarian regimes of the 40's:
Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal,
Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, and all the rest. The USA today has
more secret police agents and more secret police agencies than all of
them combined.

> The American "War On Children" now includes in its arsenal uniforms,
> identification cards (often required to be worn in public like some kind
> of yellow star), card checkpoints, armed guards, metal detectors, drug
> sniffing dogs, city-funded ROTC regiments starting in eighth grade,
> mandatory "volunteer" service (Cuba style), bans on earrings, hair
> styles, etc. according to race, sex, and thus presumed propensity to
> violence, prison camp like "alternative" schools for tormenting kids who
> are "expelled" on stupid technicalities and paranoia ... and more.
 

When I learned revolutionary politics in the late 60's we were collectively
down on racism, sexism, and agism. The struggle against agism was dropped
and has been totally lost. We had more freedom as kids 30 years ago in every
way. We failed the kids of today. That's one reason they don't want to
follow our path.
 

> The kids who fight back - with guile, with defiance, with fake
> accusations, and yes, with guns, are the last American heroes that there
> will ever be. Yes, HEROES. They are the last people in "America" as the
> current sociopolitical entity who will ever get up and say "I'm mad, and
> I'm not gonna take it anymore!" Be proud of them while you can.

Don't worship random violence when there are so many kids who are politically conscious and committed to revolution.

> The system does not have the choice of mercy - even though it knows that
> its violence will lead to more and more counter-violence by these abused
> children - children abused, in fact, by the state.

Right on. Random violence is a symptom of society falling apart in decay.

> And however dark and evil those ages will be that
> come soon, eventually we have the hope that America and its madnesses
> will be irrevocably destroyed. The other nations are no better, but with
> luck they will not survive the conflagration.
 

Dig. The hostility these kids feel toward their school situations is
evidence that they have discerned the source of their intolerable problems,
in the institution which attempts to control their time most directly. You
rightly associated the school with prison, both primarily instruments of
repression. The State has become desperate in its last days, and fosters
a climate of hysteria. Without embarassment it has adopted the traditional
look and feel of fascism to control the populace on the streets, while
projecting absurdly false images of life on the mass media, like magic
lantern shows on the wall of a cave. Young people are well aware of what
a phony world they live in, and many of them have a good solid analysis
of the reality behind the scenes. The facade of fascist capitalism is
rapidly crumbling, and reality is waiting to be born.

In comradeship,
Johnny Thunderbird
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I believe iin a conspiracy theory of history.

I've seen the bastards conspiring.
Fellow Worker Fred Thompson, IWW
Re: America Eats Itself -- isn't it funny? alt.anarchism, alt.censorship 980524