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 Ten Reasons the National Security State is Worried
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Julia Wright <https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Julia Wright>
22 May 2024

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*Recent global and domestic events have put the United States in a
defensive posture that presents an opportunity for the movement to step up.*

*"How do we break the cycle?"*
Angela Davis

The U.S. National Security State is worried, very worried behind its mask
of bravado.

Just as Israel early on lost the war of narrative, Biden and Blinken are
losing their own domestic war of public relations - that corporate
narrative so carefully spun and financed to sell domestic electoral support
for genocide.

It can be said that we are reliving the time when the Black Lives Matter
movement placed the police force on the defensive nationally - to the
extent that in Georgia the police went down with the “Blue flu” or
professional depression and were offered a bonus to boost their spirits
affected by the massive protests. That bonus was Cop City. The Stop Cop
City movement was born - was it supported enough?

Cop City has now spread to a nation full of cop cities and the "bonus"
enabled a backlash whereby the police considered itself back in the saddle
again and the mass arrests throughout the country were as brutal as they
were illegal. From Ant Smith's arbitrary federal sentence in Pennsylvania
to Tortuguita's extrajudicial killing in Weelaunee forest and hundreds of
other non-violent young people framed on RICO charges.

Today again, seven months into the Israeli genocide perpetrated in Gaza
with U.S. help, the U.S. police finds itself at a similar point as after
George Floyd's murder - its excessive brutality going viral and its public
relations disastrous. In fact, an excessively militarized U.S, police has
yet again been shown to be on the verge of executing the blood choke that
killed George Floyd but this time round against the daughters and sons of
those whose property they are paid to protect.

The Marshall Project of May 18 revealed that a police sniper stood watch on
the roof at Indiana University; that bean bag rounds were fired at UCLA and
that at Emory students were met with less-than-lethal bullets. Yet this
youth has the maturity to protest peacefully against military techniques
tested in Palestine on 97% of the campuses.

The sharp contrast of excessive police force used against an overwhelmingly
peaceful youth speaks louder than the silence of the corporate media (Fox
News muted the live images of the police repression of the student
encampment at UPenn as if in fear of what the sound of the first amendment
chants of the students could signify).

The context is strategically favorable to the students and to those who
uphold the students' demands: a ceasefire in Gaza at least, an end to the
occupation of Palestine *in fine*; disclosure of the links between
universities and industries enabling genocide such as arms industries;
divestment from those complicit corporations; cessation of scholarships and
exchanges with Israel; amnesty from criminal procedures for all the student
protesters.

But the context is potentially favorable beyond the student campuses - on
other liberation fronts already in historical alliance with the students.
More and more workers' unions, interfaith voices throughout the country
and, importantly, the abolition movement against mass incarceration are
showing active solidarity.

If the National Security State has some sense of world history, it will
remember that in 1968 in France, it was at the very moment the main
workers' trade unions united with the students' demands that Charles De
Gaulle's government almost toppled.

Here are 10 reasons why the National Security State has been placed on the
defensive and why it is time to seize the time and "break the cycle"
before yet another backlash sets in :

1 - The uranium-rich West African state of Niger after driving out French
military and economic interests following a coup d'etat last year has now
asked the U.S. army to leave. In Niger, the U.S. army had deployed its
biggest and most powerful base in Africa, the base of Agadez, under the
guise of fighting terrorism that has only increased since U.S. presence in
the Sahel began. The State Department and the Pentagon are jittery because
Niger has now formed a radical Pan-African federation with two other left
leaning African states - Mali and Burkina Faso.

The overwhelming majority of Niger's population are below 30 years old and
for them schools let alone universities cannot be destroyed because they
never existed. It is the young daughters and sons of the contaminated and
disenfranchised uranium miners, of the same age as the U.S. students today,
who were the first to rise up against the western exploitation of their
country.

2 - On May 10th, after 50 years as an observer at the UN General Assembly,
Palestine was voted as a full fledged member of the UNGA to which historic
event the Israeli ambassador to the UN had a tantrum and used a shredder
that looked like a toy to destroy the UN charter. 143 countries voted in
favor,  25 abstained 9 voted against including the US and Israel. Those who
voted against represent a mere 5% of the world population.

The message is: the United States cannot vote against the world and win.

3 - On May 13, Egypt in spite of its being under the autocratic
pro-American government of President General Al Sisi, possibly because it
was faced with the consequences of the IOF invasion of Rafah on its border,
declared it was supporting South Africa and filed a case against Israel's
genocide in Gaza at the ICJ.

4 - Ireland has recognized Palestine as an independent state.

5 - Inside the United States, on May 7th, after 50 years of imprisonment,
Black Panther and political prisoner, Veronza Bowers was released. We
notice that the half a century Veronza Bowers spent in prison coincides
with the 50 years Palestine was maintained as an observer at the UNGA.

6 - Meanwhile. inside the United States but also across the world, the list
of university student protests for Palestine that have won demands against
their Ivy League administrations is getting longer each day.

To date, students at the following universities have prevailed:

   1. Brown University where Mumia Abu-Jamal's archive is alive and kickin'
   2. Evergreen College Rachel Corrie’s alma mater
   3. the Auraria Campuses, Denver,
   4. Northwestern University,
   5. John Hopkins University
   6. Harvard University
   7. Rutgers University
   8. Minnesota University
   9. Wisconsin University
   10. The University of Barcelona
   11. Trinity College, Dublin Ireland
   12. Trinity College, Cambridge, UK
   13. Emory University with its ties to the Stop Cop City movement is
   resisting

The United Auto Workers Union has just voted yes on a strike authorization
across University of California
<https://youtube.com/shorts/8C6s0D05egg?si=HeenHtA8RZ3k4rGl> campuses in
solidarity with the repression of student protests there.  And since April
29, the University of Washington <https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78703/>
in Seattle has set up a 100-tent  encampment called "The Popular University
for Gaza".

7 - It is important to return and dwell here on the extent to which not
only the U.S. police but the intelligence community and the Pentagon are
worried over developments that prove there is first of all inner conflict
and certainly loss of morale within the ranks of the men in blue over the
student uprisings,- and second of all a much feared "spillover" of the
student model of resistance into other areas of corporate and political
power.

We mentioned the Auraria campuses of Denver: there the police simply
refused to show up when called in by the university's upper echelons
because the police said there was no proof of "unlawful assembly" and there
had been millions of dollars paid out to protesters after 2020 for
excessive use of force.

In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams
<https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/eric-adams-nypd-escalate-social-media-brawl-00156895?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D>,
well known for his dependence on Israeli training programs when he was head
of police, has been increasingly under criticism since he sent the National
Guard into the subway.

After the first shows of force against the encampments, the slick sizzle
videos
<https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/nypd-sizzle-reel-student-protests/?utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D76fd3ee2-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D>
put out by the NYPD  were seen as clumsy attempts to disguise the fact that
the NYPD's repression of the encampments at City College of the CUNY
system, Columbia and other campuses was disproportionately violent, using
riot gear, tear gas, tasering but also hired thugs against civil
disobedience by the nation's youth.

The footage was carefully edited
<https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/01/did-live-pd-let-police-censor-footage?utm_campaign=opening-statement&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=3642-hail-the-puppies-behind-bars-program&utm_source=TMP-Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a76fd3ee2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_05_10_11_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5e02cdad9d-5a>
to weed out any semblance of the police violence that took place.

Instead, a sizzle video put out by the NYPD glorifying their heroic
clearing of the CUNY encampment to the martial score of a Hollywood action
movie is instructive: the pointed reference to the "smell" of the
encampment is to be borne in mind because of the need to criminalize or
"animalize" students thereby "justifying" police interference. The zionist
narrative of Palestinians as "human animals" strikes a familiar chord here.

Meanwhile, any New York City Council Members who dare challenge the police
violence leveled against the students are bullied on social media by ...
the police themselves.

As for the US intelligence community, the Pentagon and its lackeys in the
corporate media - they have been having worried meetings. It is mild to say
they are desperately biting their nails.

Max Blumenthal of Grayzone was able to obtain footage
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0jxZ-3Tom0> of one of these meetings
attended by Mark Milley former head of Central Command, Eric Schmidt
co-founder of Google and now working at the Pentagon, Alan Sorkin of the
New York Times and Alex Karp of Palantir, the intelligence firm that failed
to get the Israeli contract for targeting but is working other aspects of
Israeli intelligence.

Excerpts from the panel are worth listening to, especially Alex Karp's
inspired epiphany that " the peace activists are actually war activists"
because they are marching for Hamas. They are "an infection inside of our
society. They are the reason why Hamas will never give up".

And even more ominously, Alex Karp adds: " If we lose the intellectual
debate [ in other words the war of ideas with the student protesters ], we
will not be able to deploy an army in the West - ever ".

Max Blumenthal interprets this zionist propagandist's words to mean: if we
allow the model of student resistance against the universities to expand
against other institutions that hold up the empire and its army - it will
be the end of the United States as we know it with its imperial domination
and bases throughout the world.

In other words, U.S. intelligence is worried about "spillover". Just as
epidemiologists tell us there is a danger of spillover of zoonotic disease
during climate change. But then we have just been told that the students
are an "infection"... And we are back to the "animalization" meme.

Also an "infection" is a condition difficult to control. These elites are
scared because they are losing control. Hence their fear of "outside
agitators". Would the worry of the anti-Ivy-League model spilling over have
anything to do with that fear of losing control?

Would the worry about "spillover" have anything to do with the
"contamination" of CNN
<https://youtube.com/shorts/jjcFxRsfUyw?si=TOOZjfiY-87hx42U> a loyally
moderate channel that has recently broken ranks and aired testimony proving
that Palestinian prisoners in Israel were tortured for revenge,   not to
gather intelligence?

And what about the revelation by the very pro-White House Washington Post
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/>
that a group of pro-Israel business leaders and millionaires formed a chat
group to pressure Eric Adams to send the NYPD to clear Columbia of "perps"?
Not only were financial donations funneled but private investigators' were
offered to support the police's incursion on campus - and a strategy to
find Black celebrities who could offer their blessings to the anti-student
police assault suggested. Meanwhile, the zionist chat group maintained
regular contact with high placed Israeli government officials.

As more and more officials in Biden's administration are resigning, the
damage control stage is spreading and difficult to keep up with.

Already the destabilization of the war mongering elites has become
embarrassingly visible on the diplomatic front: US ambassador to the UN,
Linda Thompson Greenfield has just been canceled as the invited speaker for
Commencement at Xavier University, Louisiana, due to the protests of part
of the students.

And at Morehouse College
<https://youtube.com/shorts/0gPE9IOldIU?si=0xqBjKtWo29J6Fw0>, the alma
mater of Martin Luther King, students turned their backs on Joe Biden's
commencement speech.
*WILL IT BE THE PRISONS NEXT TIME?*

8 - There is incontrovertible evidence that universities in the U.S. are
not only heavily invested in industries enabling genocide abroad - these
same universities have for a long time been investing in and profiting from
slavery and mass incarceration as well as the land and wealth theft of the
Indigenous peoples.

In fact there is documented evidence of the recycling of repression
techniques between Palestine and the mini Gazas represented by prisons in
the U.S. notoriously cut off from sustainable diets, air and space.

The links between United States detention centres and dark torture sites
abroad is well known. Mumia Abu-Jamal wrote about Charles Graner's stunt at
SCI Greene as a prison guard on death row who liked placing razors in the
food of detainees and who was indicted for domestic abuse before being
promoted to become torturer-in-chief at Abu-Ghraib.

The former Holmesburg prison, Pennsylvania, was involved with the
University of Pennsylvania in the infamous experiments of creams, shampoos,
and talcum powder manufactured by various corporations and experimented on
mostly Black, brown and poor prisoners in return for a pittance. See "
Acres of Skin" by Allen M. Hornblum. Published in 1998 by Routledge

The monetization of the bones of the MOVE children burned alive while their
parents were in prison was encouraged by the Universities of Pennsylvania
and Princeton who sent the " still juicy" bones to be used as teaching
specimens for forensic anthropology courses. In 2021, hundreds of students
alongside folks from the projects in the city of brotherly love marched to
protest this cruel and inhumane unrepaired crime.

And, the students who are rising up today against genocidal administrations
will be treated as a new rising generation of political prisoners ( "We
must treat them fiercely" Alex Karp )

The recorded voices of Mumia Abu-Jamal
<https://www.prisonradio.org/commentary/mumia-free-palestine-columbia-speech/>
- whose 42nd year behind bars has just been the occasion of worldwide
rallies - and a June Jordan poem read by Angela Davis, "I am Palestine
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKKZWpnTbvxXtwhJbVhWqznwccxFrZpnzgcJhJHQLXJMQQjDwBSvzXtjqxMrhKhvvskb?projector=1>",
are being shared by protesters on the campuses. And these voices are
connecting the protest for Gaza to the protest for political prisoners in
the USA.

So - will it be the prisons next time?

9 - We are in countdown to the parole hearing on June 10th of an iconic
political prisoner, Leonard Peltier <http://freeleonardpeltiernow.org/>.
His liberation will be celebrated on the campuses. Conversely, a refusal to
free this 79 year old Indigenous prisoner who is nearly blind and has so
many serious ailments that maintaining him behind bars is tantamount to
political assassination - would send a message to protesting students the
world over.

 10 - It is too early to say and I might seem provocative in conclusion,
but I would go so far as to suggest that the National Security state
prefers the lone mass shooter situations to thousands of students uprising
for Palestine. The U.S. police would prefer a Columbine, yes, even a Robb
Elementary to the ripple of free zones unfurling in the universities
today.  After all, the mass shootings are a living advertisement for
further militarization of the police as well as schools - with a few
students killed as collateral damage. The mass shooter is the
Frankenstein-like, desperate and rogue poster boy of the NRA. Whereas the
students rising up for Palestine are not alone, nor are they rogue -  and
they are not the ones using guns galore.

*Julia Wright is the elder daughter of Richard Wright and executrix of his
estate. She worked as a journalist in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana until the coup
d'etat in 1966. She was a member of SNCC and accompanied the BPP to the
First Panafrican Festival in Algiers. She has been in the campaign to free
Mumia since the mid-eighties.*

(c) Julia Wright May 20, 2024. All Rights.
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