Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 23:01:28 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: M-G: ARMY HELPS ARM LAPD AGAINST MASSES


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>         THE MAOIST INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT
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>     MIM Notes 145         SEPTEMBER 1, 1997
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>ARMY HELPS ARM LAPD AGAINST MASSES
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>by a RAIL comrade
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>The notoriously brutal Los Angeles Pig Department will soon 
>receive 600 free M-16 rifles from the u.s. Army in order to 
>further terrorize and oppress the masses. These surplus 
>automatic assault weapons -- a standard issue in the 
>military -- are being shipped from an Alabama storage depot. 
>These weapons -- renamed "urban police rifles" -- will be 
>converted to semiautomatic before being given out for 
>storage in squad car trunks in case of "emergencies".
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>The pretext for obtaining the assault weapons was a February 
>shootout in North Hollywood with two armed gunmen. Dave 
>Hepburn of the LA Pig Protective League whines that if they 
>had had assault weapons, then less civilians and pigs would 
>have been hurt in the shootout, "and it would have been over 
>a lot sooner." MIM knows that this is a red herring -- a 
>ruse to distract the masses.
>
>The LAPD has the guns and the power provided by Amerika. It 
>is the poor and oppressed who consistently fall prey to 
>Amerika's violence and therefore need the protection. The 
>conflict between the cops and the poor was made evident five 
>years ago when Los Angeles was the site of major oppressed 
>nation rebellion. The LAPD wants these M-16s to advance 
>their offensive position in the war against the resisting 
>oppressed nations. The only outcome of this intra-pig deal 
>will be an increase in the butchering of oppressed 
>nationals.
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>Collaboration between the two armed forces of the 
>imperialists, the Army and the pigs, is not unusual. It just 
>underscores the fact that the police are a military force 
>occupying the ghettoes and barrios. MIM sees this move as a 
>joint military effort to murder more oppressed nationals in 
>order to maintain imperialist bourgeois control. The threat 
>of resistance requires constant use of repressive forces. 
>The imperialists are growing bolder and more toward fascism 
>in imposing a police state in the oppressed nation 
>communities with the wholehearted support of the white 
>nation labor aristocracy. In the face of this repression, 
>resistance will only grow stronger among the oppressed 
>nations.
>
>After the February shootout, the Pig Commission approved the 
>use of higher powered weaponry like .45-caliber handguns and 
>increased pig training for shotguns and assault weapons. 
>Already, 700 trigger-happy LA pigs have finished the 
>training and can buy their own .45s. But conveniently 
>enough, the department "does not track how many [pigs] have 
>switched to the more powerful handgun." MIM says come on, 
>who are you trying to kid? This is not a marketing taste-
>test! Pigs are only too delighted to obtain guns that kill 
>faster. The facade of ignorance on the part of the 
>department is a way to avoid direct responsibility for the 
>slayings that will result from this new policy and their new 
>assault arsenal.
>
>Interim Pig chief Bayan Lewis oinks that the M-16s shows 
>pigs that "we [the bureaucrat pigs] were serious" in 
>supporting their brutality. He further grunts "To criminals 
>[sic: pigs are the real criminals], it tells them... We have 
>diligently sought these weapons and will now be able to 
>defend ourselves." MIM does not deceive itself that the pigs 
>are the victims under attack, but rather they are the true 
>criminals. Victimization of the pigs and the criminalization 
>of oppressed nation youth is used by the bourgeois media to 
>justify the continual bloody repression of the internal 
>colonies. The oppressed must organize and liberate 
>themselves with the proven methods of Marxism-Leninism-
>Maoism in order to stop this wholesale genocide.
>
>NOTE: LA Daily News.30 July 1997, p. 1, 7. 
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