by\u00a0Kevin Rashid Johnson<\/p>\n
The \u2018Good Cop\u2019 Brainwash<\/b><\/p>\n
In Amerika, government-empowered forces (military, police, spy agencies, jailers and their proxies) have been\u00a0the<\/i>\u00a0key forces of persecution and violence against minority nationalities and people of color. Whether the military, slave patrols, slave drivers and overseers, or lynch mobs and racist paramilitary groups; whether COINTELPROs and urban police or the Prison Industrial Complex; whether the Wars on Drugs, Crime and Gangs in pretended response to the U.S. government itself flooding the ghettos and barrios with narcotics, military grade firearms, and inciting gang wars, or the blatant multi-agency\u00a0declaration of war<\/i>\u00a0(Martial Law) against Louisiana\u2019s desperate, stranded and officially abandoned Black Hurricane Katrina victims and subsequent policy of ethnic cleansing in New Orleans, etc. Executive forces have been\u00a0anything<\/i>\u00a0but our servants and protectors.<\/p>\n
Yet the entertainment media (the\u00a0real\u00a0<\/i>CBS: Central Brainwash System) is infested with fantasy images of romanticized vermin (pigs, moles and rats): hero cops, and military action figures, spy agent intrigue and shifty informants. But nowhere do they show the\u00a0actual<\/i>\u00a0violence, oppression and terror these vermin inflict on poor people of color every day across Amerika. And what\u2019s worse is the conscious effort to cast these good cop images in Blackface.<\/p>\n
From Ice Cube (of \u201cFuck the Police\u201d rap fame) as a cop in\u00a0All About the Benjamins<\/i>, to Ice T (who back in the day also spit anti-police rhymes like \u201cCop Killer\u201d) starring in\u00a0Law and Order<\/i>\u00a0as a cop and as a snitch in\u00a0Boyz in the Hood<\/i>; even activist actor Mel Gibson as a cop in the\u00a0Lethal Weapon<\/i>\u00a0series; Will Smith as an urban cop alongside Martin Lawrence in the\u00a0Bad Boys<\/i>\u00a0series, as an Air Force pilot in\u00a0Independence Day<\/i>\u00a0(commemorating July 4th<\/sup>, a holiday celebrating a war fought in large part to keep Black folks in slavery and exterminate Natives), and as a futuristic cop in\u00a0I-Robot<\/i>; Samuel L. Jackson, in\u00a0The Negotiator<\/i>, who only as a cop could rise above the law and resort to \u2018crime\u2019 (taking hostages and multiple shoot-outs with other cops) to clear himself of being framed by cops with killing another cop [!?]; Martin Lawrence, again as a cop (impersonator) in\u00a0Blue Streaks<\/i>. Then there\u2019s Chris Tucker alongside Jackie Chan in the\u00a0Rush Hour<\/i>\u00a0series, and Jamie Foxx in\u00a0Miami Vice<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Stealth<\/i>, Denzel Washington in\u00a0Training Day<\/i>\u00a0and as a rogue spy in\u00a0Safe House<\/i>, DMX in\u00a0Exit Wounds<\/i>, Morgan Freeman in\u00a0Kiss the Girls<\/i>,\u00a0Along Came a Spider<\/i>\u00a0and so on\u00a0ad nauseam<\/i>. In most all other roles Blacks are cast as criminals and villains.<\/p>\n It\u2019s \u2018Good Cop Brainwash\u2019 and criminal stereotyping projected in modern minstrel shows, which the system finds necessary to gloss over the continued growth in size and violence of\u00a0Pigs in the Hood<\/i>, and to perpetuate a criminalized image of the poor urban people of color that they brutally occupy.<\/p>\n Indeed, in the era of the War on Drugs (on government-supplied drugs that is), heavily armored paramilitary SWAT teams have become everyday parts of oppressive urban policing, while TV gives a totally distorted portrayal of their role. As one critical race writer, Steve Martinot, observed, \u201cSwat team operations are presented on TV cop shows as well-choreographed high-tech raids in dangerous situations. But 80% of their \u201craids\u201d are to serve warrants on people of color for non-violent crimes.\u201d[i]<\/p>\n Preeminent critical intellectual Noam Chomsky revealed:<\/p>\n Recently there\u2019ve been some very interesting studies of urban police behavior done at George Washington University, by a rather well-known criminologist named William Chambliss. For the last couple of years he\u2019s been running projects in cooperation with the Washington, D.C. police, in which he has law students and sociology students ride with the police in their patrol cars to take transcripts of what happens. I mean, you\u2019ve got to read this stuff: it is targeted against Black and Hispanic populations almost entirely. And they are not treated like a\u00a0criminal<\/i>\u00a0population, because criminals have constitutional rights \u2013 they\u2019re treated like a population under military occupation. So the\u00a0effective<\/i>\u00a0laws are: the police go to somebody\u2019s house, they smash in the door, they beat the people up, they grab some kid they want, and they throw him in jail.\u201d[ii]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Cops don\u2019t make our communities safer, nor do they positively impact the people\u2019s security needs, nor reduce \u2018crime,\u2019 nor the drug plagues. Even Malcolm X recognized, decades ago, that when the police presence increases yet community problems only worsen, the police are obviously a big part of the problem. Steve Martinot gave a vivid example of this in the tragic story of Adam Hakim, a Black New York youth who was the victim of a massive \u2018search and kill\u2019 police manhunt, which concluded in his being beaten and paralyzed by guards, because he refused to sell drugs for local cops in his neighborhood.[iii]<\/p>\n I\u2019ve previously written in some detail about the well-documented practice and designs of U.S. police in persecuting, murdering, then attempting to replace popular independent New Afrikan political leaders like prominent Black Panther Party members, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others.[iv]\u00a0 Also, their roles in facilitating crimes, violence, gang wars and the drug plagues in our oppressed communities, then in turn expanding the police presence and violence, and mass imprisoning us where we cannot reproduce and fathers are torn away from our families and communities \u2013 also well documented.[v]<\/p>\n So, the media image projected of the pig establishment is a far cry from, indeed the very opposite of, reality. Their role has been to make war on, contain, criminalize and cripple our communities, which the drug plague plays a key role in.<\/p>\n \u00a0The presence of drugs gets people fighting among themselves over the money generated by trafficking. Massive drug presence in a community produces a strung-out and desperate populous, increasing petty crime and gang warfare over control of the trade. A tide of actual criminality emerges, feeding stereotypes that have criminalized those communities before the fact. Ostensibly to stem this tide, police departments demand bigger appropriations from state legislatures. They expand to become very powerful political forces in urban areas, which they manifest through increased militarization and aggressiveness. That power is now nationally coordinated and centralized through the Law Enforcement Assistance Act passed under Nixon.[vi]<\/p>\n Why the \u2018Good Cop\u2019 Brainwash?<\/b><\/p>\n Why indeed is there the perpetual onslaught of Good Cop brainwash?<\/p>\n First\u00a0<\/i>off, glamorizing pigs and generating preoccupation with crime and punishment are essential elements of fascism. Dr. Lawrence Britt observed this in his comparative study of various fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several in Latin America. Among 14 common features of fascism, Britt listed:<\/p>\n Obsession with crime and punishment<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.<\/p>\n Supremacy of the Military<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.<\/p>\n Other features common to fascist systems relevant to this discussion are:<\/p>\n \u00a0Controlled Mass Media<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in wartime, is very common.[vii]<\/p>\n \u00a0Second<\/i>, as the U.S. economy slips further towards acute depression, the line dividing the haves (the capitalist imperialists) and their vermin gunslingers, and the have-nots (the working class and the poor) is being drawn more sharply. With economic want and instability comes doubt and distrust of the masses in those in power. In turn society becomes increasingly polarized between those who conform and those who oppose the\u00a0status quo<\/i>. As resistance increases the vermin become more extreme in repressing and villainizing it. These are the dynamics, the dialectic, which generates mass revolutionary struggle to overthrow oppressive and exploitative systems, like we live under. Thus conformity versus resistance must be cast in a \u201claw abiding\u201d versus \u201ccriminal\u201d light, placing malcontents on one side and the ruling class, vermin and their conformists on the other. The masses are driven to choose sides. Indeed for oppressed community youth, the only options presented to them, early on, by the system is to become either \u201ccriminal\u201d or \u201ccop.\u201d[viii] Hence the media glorification of the Black soldier\/cop role and preoccupation with \u2018crime and punishment.\u2019<\/p>\n Third<\/i>, up to and during the 1960s-\u201870s high tide of revolutionary struggle in Amerika, the blatant official violence against people of color here and abroad, and open persecution and government-orchestrated murders of popular independent New Afrikan leaders and activists, exposed the\u00a0real<\/i>\u00a0oppressive character of the pigs and U.S. vermin culture, driving mass resistance against the system. In \u201cProtect Our Leaders Defend Our People,\u201d I pointed out that a 1970 survey found that brutal police violence against the Black Panthers led some 80% of urban Blacks \u201cto believe that Black people must stand together to protect themselves\u201d\u00a0against<\/i>\u00a0the police, who were certainly not seen nor embraced as our heroes or helpers. I quoted comrade Sundiata Acoli\u2019s observation that the increasing role of Black cops in the media was a conscious effort to repair the pigs\u2019 image and conceal their real function:<\/p>\n \u00a0. . . a large part of the part of the programs on TV are still \u2018police stories\u2019 and many of the roles available to Black actors are limited to police roles. A lot of this has to do with the overall process of still trying to rehabilitate the image of police from its devastating exposure during the Panther era, and to prevent the true role of the police in this society from being exposed again.[ix]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n To achieve this effect today, and counter Black opposition to pig oppression, popular Black entertainers with independent street credibility (rap artists, comedians, etc.) are \u2018turned\u2019 and\u00a0used<\/i>\u00a0to popularize and glamorize pigs and vermin culture to the very people they oppress, and to project criminal stereotypes of their own people, culture and communities. Note too that the vermin are\u00a0always<\/i>\u00a0portrayed as wealthy or upper middle class, and possessing the material trappings of Amerikan \u201csuccess\u201d: large homes, flashy cars and clothes, beautiful women, etc. And they are literally above the law, with the power to execute or set-up and thereby dispose of opponents and exact revenge, usually without consequences to themselves.<\/p>\n Fourth<\/i>, by casting vermin as the only legitimate models of social heroes and objects of achievable power and respect to be held in awe and sympathy by the oppressed, the system teaches aspirations toward and conformity to pig \u201cauthority,\u201d and counters a possible resurgent revolutionary mass culture which would instead promote the masses of people as the real heroes, and the only\u00a0legitimate\u00a0<\/i>power holders who should\u00a0and can<\/i>\u00a0take control of their own communities\u2019 security needs. This is also why the common people are always portrayed in these dramas as helpless, especially in response to \u201ccorrupt\u201d pigs. Vermin culture projects pigs as invulnerable and imperious to challenge by the common people, who must suffer passively and hope some hero good cops will rescue them. However, the oppressed communities\u00a0can<\/i>\u00a0rid themselves of death dealing dope peddlers and their pig supply lines, and gangsters who prey on the people, and resist killer cops and paramilitary goons like the KKK. If the people come to see themselves as the true heroes and agents of real change, as capable of being organized and united to meet their own economic, political, cultural and security needs, this would eliminate their conditioned belief that we need to turn to the pigs and system to solve our problems, which they have\u00a0never\u00a0done anyway!<\/p>\n Allowing such ideas to take root and spread is intolerable to any enslaver, since it reveals to the enslaved whom he profits off and rules by force and fraud that they don\u2019t need him, and they can seize and exercise their own formal\u00a0independence<\/i>. This would deprive the enslaver of the very source of his wealth and power. Namely us. This is what the Black Panther Party was teaching urban New Afrikans and other oppressed people through its \u201cServe the People\u201d community survival programs. For pigs to be able to function or even exist in our communities requires our cooperation and communication with them. Recall the instant media and industry backlash to suppress the popular grassroots \u201cStop Snitching\u201d movement a few years back? Now all one sees are pig dramas where if folks aren\u2019t joining forces with the pigs, copping out to them or snitching on themselves, they\u2019re informing on everyone and his grandma. The pigs took similar measures when the FBI tried to prevent the release of\u00a0Uptight<\/i>, a 1970s Blacksploitation era movie starring Julian Mayfield with the theme that snitching has bad consequences.<\/p>\n How easily the system and its racist mass imprisonment practices could be frustrated by folks simply refusing to talk to the cops, period. In fact, the vast majority of those warehoused in these razor wire plantations plea-bargained, were informed on, or told on themselves.[x]<\/p>\n Without our most basic cooperation the pigs are powerless. Our communities must provide for their own security.<\/p>\n Pig-In-Chief<\/b><\/p>\n In several articles I\u2019ve discussed U.S. government policy, beginning with Assistant FBI Director William C. Sullivan in 1964, and formalized in 1978 in National Security Council memorandum, #46, to destroy and repress popular independent leadership, and then replace it with misleaders groomed and \u201capproved\u201d by the system. As Sullivan predicted,<\/p>\n \u00a0When this is done, and it can and will be done, obviously much confusion will reign, particularly among the Negro people . . . . The Negroes will be left without a national leader of sufficiently compelling personality to steer them in the proper direction . . . .[xi]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0Actually, planting U.S.-trained \u201cdark faces in high places\u201d is how Amerika subverted all the revolutionary socialist national liberation struggles across Afrika and Asia during the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century, and maintained Western imperialist control over their natural resources and economies.<\/p>\n So it is no real accomplishment or surprise that a man of color was implanted as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. executive branch in 2008 \u2013 i.e. Barack Obama. In fact, it can be clearly seen as a tactical move in large part to counter and contain growing Black unrest.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s role as Amerika\u2019s highest-ranking cop served to redeem the legitimacy of pig authority to Black Amerika right in the midst of our growing disaffection and outrage with the U.S. government. How many of us went from raging against the pig machine (in response to our treatment during Hurricane Katrina, Jena 6, the increasing scourge of cops killing and brutalizing our youth, gentrification, mass displacements and breaking up of Black communities, cutting already substandard and inadequate social services, massive imprisonment, police racial profiling, etc.) to rallying in support of it, solely because of Obama\u2019s presidential campaign and victory? His nomination and victory sent waves of euphoria bordering on mass hysteria through our communities.<\/p>\n We\u00a0instantly<\/i>\u00a0forgot reality.<\/p>\n All it took to defer our reviving dreams of struggle for real power and change was to plant a dark skinned prostitute in a suit in the Oval Office, a prostitute beholden to the same corporate powers as the 43 white ones that preceded him. Mere color don\u2019t make a brother.<\/p>\n And what is Obama but an entertainer \u2013 a play actor? A role-playing politician whose business is to woo and inspire false hope in desperate people with slick sounding rhetoric, clever sounding turns of phrases, and empty promises totally unrelated to reality. The real litmus test for us is to question what substantial positive changes have taken place in the oppressed communities since his election? Absolutely.<\/p>\n The dope-dealing CIA, that operates\u00a0right out of the White House<\/i>, still floods our communities with narcotics and the attendant social chaos. The government is\u00a0still<\/i>\u00a0enlarging its militaristic posture and aggressiveness against us while keeping us under increasingly closer surveillance. We are\u00a0still<\/i>\u00a0murdered, brutalized, race-profiled and railroaded\u00a0en masse<\/i>\u00a0into prison by the cops, then consequently disenfranchised and stripped of access to public housing and social \u201cbenefits\u201d! Our third world level infant mortality and child hunger rates\u00a0continue<\/i>\u00a0to rise, while the availability and quality of already substandard health care and social services for us continues to fall in the face of our steadily rising health needs and problems and the HIV\/AIDS\/HCV pandemics we face. Our poverty and depression level unemployment rates\u00a0continue to grow<\/i>. Our community, family and individual security needs\u00a0remain unmet<\/i>. Basic human and civil rights don\u2019t exist for us. In fact, the court system remains inaccessible and financially out of reach for purposes of litigating to enforce our interests and basic rights. Indeed, our plight has deteriorated markedly under the Obama administration. We remain victims of a system of racial and national oppression, economic exploitation, neo-colonialism, imprisonment, impoverishment and police impunity, and all-round insecurity and desperation.<\/p>\n But, emotionally, we can tolerate it all a little better when a Black cop is the U.S. Pig-In-Chief. The Good Cop Brainwash worked like a charm.<\/p>\n Who Controls the Brainwash System?<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0Now let\u2019s look at the broader picture and explore who controls the Brainwash system, how, why, and how it works to control the People\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n The Central Brainwash System (CBS) operates on two levels. The first is the elite media that indoctrinates the upper \u201ceducated\u201d sector of the population. The second is the mass media that indoctrinates and distracts the general public so they don\u2019t understand or interfere with the decision making power in society. The media is a cultural weapon of mass influence and control.<\/p>\n The \u201ceducated\u201d sector who participate in society\u2019s decision making processes are indoctrinated through corporate controlled school curricula (of \u201chigher\u201d learning), and such \u201chigh level\u201d media as\u00a0The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times<\/i>, etc.<\/p>\n For the general masses (the other 80%-90% of the population) there\u2019s football (and other spectator sports) and violence and sex themes to excite and stimulate the lower passions and inhibit critical thinking. The mass entertainment media portrays the most sordid, animalistic and cynical characters or emphasizes escapism and fantasy. Just like on the old slave plantations, the common people are kept preoccupied in their leisure time with irrelevance and \u201cfun\u201d to distract and discourage them from knowing how the world works, and learning of their actual power to impact and change its conditions. The news (info-tainment) media also works to distort and conceal reality. In a speech given at CIA headquarters,\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0publisher, Katherine Graham, stated:<\/p>\n There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn\u2019t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.[xii]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0On this point I refer the reader back to Dr. Britt\u2019s observation that just such \u201ccontrolled mass media\u201d is a common feature of fascist systems. We can also see how independent media and whistleblowers that critically expose the true oppressive face of the pigs are persecuted, villainized and suppressed, like Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and PFC Bradley Manning today.<\/p>\n Also, I refer the reader to the fact, pointed out in\u00a0Kill Yourself<\/i>[xiii] that the government and media jointly concealed that, beginning in the early 1980s, the CIA with the U.S. Justice Department\u2019s \u201cokay,\u201d began dumping tons of crack cocaine and guns into Black ghettos and inciting gang wars over drug turf. Over a decade later journalist Gary Webb broke the story. The CIA then destroyed his career, and he ultimately was found dead from gunshots to the face, which was dismissed as a suicide.<\/p>\n So the common people face, not only indoctrination and deception, but effective depoliticization, to prevent their developing a mass culture based upon critical popular media that acquaints them with the real world, with what\u2019s going on, and why and how they can change it in profound ways. It was in this light that Afrikan revolutionary, Comrade Amilcar Cabral, observed in the context of leading a mass movement for Guinea Bissau\u2019s national independence:<\/p>\n \u00a0When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis \u2013 who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination \u2013 even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor of resistance to foreign domination.\u201d[xiv]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0It\u2019s important to remember the U.S. government adopted Nazi methods into its propaganda, military and intelligence systems.[xv]<\/p>\n Which brings us to the really important question of who controls society \u2013 who has the real power? In the U.S., it\u2019s not those with government authority who are the real power holders. Those vermin are merely the servants and protectors of those in power. So the pigs\u00a0do\u00a0<\/i>actually serve and protect . . . just not you and me. Instead, they serve the owners of society, the super rich 1% who hoard social wealth and are the big business interests behind Wall Street and the multinational corporations.\u00a0 And it is the common people, the masses of working class and poor, the pigs serve and protect the wealthy\u00a0against<\/i>.<\/p>\n The established media is the tool of the wealthy. It serves them and exists by their design. The system and process breaks down very simply.<\/p>\n Big media exists and survives because big business pays for it through advertisements. Without advertisements the mainstream media would collapse or remain very small and weak.[xvi] Because the wealthy keep big media in business, these outlets air only programming and information that serves and promotes the interests and values of big business, which is to indoctrinate the educated elite, distract and depoliticize the poor and working class, and glorify the wealthy to all.<\/p>\n An example of how a popular media is crippled without the support of big business occurred in England with such labor newspapers as\u00a0The News Chronicle<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Daily Herald<\/i>, which reported world conditions and events to working class people from a perspective that opposed big business. Although both papers had a very wide readership, they went out of circulation for lack of funds. Subscription fees alone are never sufficient to maintain media.[xvii]<\/p>\n Here in Amerika, many examples present themselves as well. For example, the wealthy promote media that report business and investment trends, stocks, etc. to middle and upper level investors and corporate shareholders. Therefore, they invest and advertise extensively in media that carry such \u201cnews.\u201d In turn, these media outlets act as virtual mouthpieces of the business communities and appeal especially to the elite educated sector.<\/p>\n Similarly, they invest and advertise in and promote \u201cdumbed down\u201d entertainment media that distracts, misinforms and depoliticizes the general masses, and indoctrinates them with pro-business values to \u201cspend, spend, spend\u201d and \u201cbuy, buy, buy,\u201d chasing sensory gratification, high-tech toys, gizmos and trinkets, meaningless status symbols, and ever-changing fads that are advertised for mass consumption, day in and day out, via multi-million dollar ads and commercials. Sponsoring and promoting entertainers, music, art, etc. works the same way. Big business creates the market then supplies it, and advertises to \u201ctell\u201d the people what to believe and want, what to like, what to buy, while using the labor power of the same working class people, entertainers, artists, musicians, etc. to produce the goods, services and materials they advertise \u2013 which always conforms to the values and interests of the wealthy.[xviii]<\/p>\n One can routinely hear rap artists explain that they rap about\u00a0what the industry promotes\u00a0<\/i>(which are irrelevant and degenerate themes), and not about \u201cconscious\u201d issues or reality\u00a0because the industry won\u2019t promote that<\/i>. This was a major topic of discussion in recent years, debating whether \u201cHip hop is dead.\u201d Likewise, actors find themselves playing roles or in movies and TV shows that the industry (and not them) promotes and makes available. A principled actor just won\u2019t have a lucrative career. If it isn\u2019t about sex, pimping, murder, money, cops and crime, fantasy or escapism, the big producers, recording labels, promoters, or advertisers won\u2019t back it. And by being bombarded with such asinine themes, we generally can\u2019t and don\u2019t think outside the box of degenerate topics, irrelevance and worshipping materialism. It\u2019s a process of mass brainwash, indoctrination and miseducation imposed on us by outside forces that replace our self-defining and authentic culture and identity. The U.S. government is now even promoting programs of sending rap artists, sports entertainers and others abroad to influence people in other countries with U.S. values.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s\u00a0not\u00a0<\/i>that people don\u2019t want \u201cconscious,\u201d authentic music, art, movies, etc., but that industry executives realize such music, art, etc. runs counter to their brainwash. That it may get people thinking the wrong things. Like how the wealthy leech off the working class and poor, or that the system is the cause of urban poverty and crisis, or that we can collectively change things for the better on our own, or that the pigs are our oppressors, not our heroes. So they don\u2019t promote it. And neither will the so-called \u201cindependent\u201d music labels that expect to compete in the industry for market sales.<\/p>\n Thus \u201cconscious\u201d musicians, like independent media, must operate \u201cunderground\u201d with very limited resources, few advertising options, and a small \u201cfan\u201d base. Otherwise, they must sell their souls and \u201ccross over\u201d to the mainstream and promote the values, images and messages desired by big business, which is why so many rappers who yesterday were authentic voices of the oppressed and expressed their displeasure with the pigs now promote pig culture and lifestyles of the rich and famous in Blackface.<\/p>\n Remember, the pigs are the protectors of the powerful, and exist to keep the powerless in line. And, it\u2019s the\u00a0Central Brainwash System<\/i>\u00a0that has us infatuated with sex, money, murder, and now pigs.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0In this light we can clearly see that not only does big business and government go hand-in-hand, but that glamorizing vermin culture \u2013 especially to the most oppressed, and therefore most potentially revolutionary, sectors of the population \u2013 is essential to maintaining the power of the bloodsuckers who own society and the stability of their system. It was Benito Mussolini, the man credited as the creator and founder of fascism, who defined it very simply as the merger of the interests of private corporations and the state. So now you know. And knowing is half the struggle. The other half is applying this knowledge to actively change the world in favor of the oppressed.<\/p>\n Dare to Struggle Dare to Win!<\/p>\n All Power to the People<\/p>\n [i] Steve Martinot, \u201cThe Question of Fascism in America,\u201d\u00a0Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 22, no. 2 (July 2008), p. 18, n. 3.<\/p>\n [ii] Noam Chomsky,\u00a0Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky\u00a0(NY: The New Press, 2002), p. 373.<\/p>\n [iii]\u00a0Op.\u00a0cit.\u00a0note 1<\/p>\n [iv] Kevin \u201cRashid\u201d Johnson,\u00a0Protect Our Leaders Defend Our People\u00a0(2007)<\/p>\n [v] Kevin \u201cRashid\u201d Johnson,\u00a0Kill Yourself or Liberate Yourself: The Real U.S. Imperialist Policy on Gang Violence versus the Revolutionary Alternative\u00a0(2008)<\/p>\n [vi]\u00a0Op.\u00a0cit.\u00a0note 1, p. 29. See also Michelle Alexander, \u201cThe New Jim Crow: How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Under Caste.\u201d\u00a0Socialist Viewpoint, Vol. 12, No. 3 (May\/June 2012) p. 24:<\/p>\n The drug war has been brutal \u2013 complete with SWAT teams, tanks, bazookas, grenade launchers, and sweeps of entire neighborhoods \u2013 but those who live in white communities have little clue to the devastation wrought. This war has been waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color, even though studies consistently show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. In fact some studies indicate that white youth are significantly more likely to engage in illegal drug dealing than Black youth. Any notion that drug use among African Americans (sic) is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data. White youth, for example, have about three times the number of drug-related visits to the emergency room as their African American (sic) counterparts.<\/p>\n That is not what you would guess, though, when entering our nation\u2019s prisons and jails, overflowing as they are with Black and brown drug offenders. In some states, African Americans [sic] comprise 80 percent-90 percent of all drug offenders sent to prison.<\/p>\n [vii] Dr. Lawrence Britt, \u201cFascism Anyone?\u201d\u00a0Free Inquiry\u00a0(Spring 2003), p. 20<\/p>\n [viii] See, Kenneth Saltman.\u00a0Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools (NY: Routledge, 2003):<\/p>\n Military generals running schools, students in uniforms, metal detectors, police presence, high-tech ID cards, dog tags, real-time internet-based surveillance cameras, security consultants, chain link fences, surprise searches \u2013 are all part of the investment the military industrial complex is embedding in U.S. public schools as they increasingly resemble the military and prisons. Militarism and the promotion of violence as virtue pervade foreign and domestic policy, popular culture, educational discourse and language. In addition to promoting recruitment, military education plays a central role in fostering a social focus on discipline. In short, to speak of militarized schooling in the United States context is inadequate to identify the ways that schools increasingly resemble the military and prisons. This phenomenon needs to be understood as part of the militarization of civil society exemplified by the rise of militarized policing, increased police powers for search and seizure, anti-public gathering laws, \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 policies and the transformation of welfare into punishing workfare programs.<\/p>\n [ix]\u00a0Op.\u00a0cit.\u00a0note 5, quoting Sundiata Acoli, \u201cA Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place in the Black Liberation Movement\u201d (1985).<\/p>\n [x] 96.4% of all criminal cases (97% of all federal and 94% of all state criminal cases) end in plea bargains.\u00a0New York Times, March 20, 2012.<\/p>\n [xi] Quoted in Church Committee, U.S. Congressional Report:\u00a0Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. 94th<\/sup>\u00a0Congress, 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Session, report no. 94-755 (1976) (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office), book III, p. 136.<\/p>\n [xii]\u00a0Regardie\u2019s Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 5, January 1990, pp 90f.<\/p>\n [xiii]\u00a0Op.\u00a0cit.\u00a0note 5<\/p>\n [xiv] Amilcar Cabral,\u00a0National Liberation and Culture\u00a0(1970).<\/p>\n [xv] Michael McClintock,\u00a0Instruments of XStatecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency and Counter-Terrorism 1940-1990\u00a0(NY: Pantheon, 1992).<\/p>\n [xvi] See, for example, Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon,\u00a0Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media\u00a0(NY: Lyle Stuart, 1990), p. 59 (\u201cTV and radio get nearly 100 percent of their income from advertisers, newspapers, 75 percent, and magazines about 50 percent\u2026. Between 60 and 70 percent of newspaper space is reserved for ads, while 22 percent of TV time is filled with commercials.\u201d); Erik Barnouw,\u00a0The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate\u00a0(NY: Oxford University Press, 1978), on the influence advertising has on media content; Ben H. Bagdikian,\u00a0The Media Monopoly, 5th<\/sup>\u00a0ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), esp. chs. 6-9; James Curran et al.,\u00a0Power without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain\u00a0(London: Routledge, 1981, pp. 118-132; Alfred M. Lee,\u00a0The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument\u00a0(NY: MacMillan, 1937).<\/p>\n \u00a0[xvii] Although the readership of the workers\u2019 press in Britain surpassed the readership of the combined business papers, the workers\u2019 press was destroyed by lack of sufficient advertising. James Curran, \u201cAdvertising in the Press,\u201d in James Curran, ed.,\u00a0The British Press: A Manifesto\u00a0(London: MacMillan, 1978), pp. 229-267.<\/p>\n \u00a0[xviii] An outstanding analysis and expos\u00e9 of the mass media is Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman,\u00a0Manufacturing Consent\u00a0(NY: Pantheon, 1988), where they elaborate a \u201cPropaganda Model,\u201d summarized thus:<\/p>\n \u00a0A propaganda model focuses on [the] inequality of wealth and power and its multilevel effects on mass-media interests and choices. It traces the routes by which money and power are able to filter out the news fit to print, marginalize dissent, and allow the government and dominant private interests to get their messages across to the public. The essential ingredients of our propaganda model, or set of news \u201cfilters,\u201d fall under the following headings: (1) the size, concentrated ownership, owner wealth, and profit orientation of the dominant mass-media firms; (2) advertising as the primary income source of mass media; (3) the reliance of the media on information provided by government business, and \u201cexperts\u201d funded and approved by these primary sources and agents of power; (4) \u201cflak\u201d as a means of disciplining the media; and (5) \u201canti-communism\u201d [today it\u2019s anti-terrorism] as a national religion and control mechanism.<\/p>\n \u00a0These elements interact with and reinforce one another. The raw material of news must pass through successive filters, leaving only the cleansed residue fit to print. They fix the premises of discourse and interpretation, and the definition of what is newsworthy in the first place, and they explain the basis and operations of what amount to propaganda campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by\u00a0Kevin Rashid Johnson The \u2018Good Cop\u2019 Brainwash In Amerika, government-empowered forces (military, police, spy agencies, jailers and their proxies) have been\u00a0the\u00a0key forces of persecution and violence against minority nationalities and people of color. 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