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TheAmerikanMind

Frankenstein's need for a servanl was an expressionof his diseased ego, so he created a demented, ugly

creature, pathologically strong and huge.

BLOOD IN MY EYE

Dear Greg,"

The Breakdown of establishment-conditioning usuallyoccurs first at the university level. Students refuse to acceptthe lie that our exploitation of the world's peoples is actuallybeneficial to them. They begin to refuse their share of thespoils. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale left the campus toform the Black Panther Party. The Students for a Demo-cratic Society gave birth to the Weatherman.

The rise of socio-political institutions to their presentform and complexity was not the result of chance. The cor-poration, the university, the unions, the mass media, thefoundations, the associations, the courts, the prisons, thearmy (police-national and international-uniformed anddisguised) from their beginnings were formulated as enforc-ers of state centralism. An examination focused on the his-tory of all the major socio-political institutions of the UnitedStates (a study in the genetics of hierarchy) would certainlyuncover the totally economic motive underlying the founda-tions of these institutions. Eor my purpose, I would broadlydivide the major socio-political institutions into two classes,one designed by the state.to move peo Ie into certain actions,and the other to discourage, curtail or completely deny cer-tain other actions.The unintelligible vastness of these institu-tions makes it seem impossible that they could be owned andoperated by a relatively small number of men; but the truthof this can be demonstrated by documented evidence and

•A friend of the author.

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irrefutable case studies. The modern industrial, corporative,city-based state could never function at all without hierarchi-cal control and an acceptance by the people of the controllinghierarchy.

"Prior conditioning," of course! The "effects of ubiqui-tous self-negation inbred since childhood," of course, again!Certainly "the pervasive nihilism of capitalist man ... " Butthese are simply "effects.'

Western civilization is dying because it's tied into aneconomic system that was decadent a hundred years ago.T~is s~stemwas certainly the calculated creation of a specificmmonty class. The rise of the manufacturing class was not~pontaneous. It is perpetuated beyond the stage of decadence111 spite of fits of outrageous disorder. Its seemingly remarka-ble ability to return f ' . .. . rom CriSIS IS not proof of natural dura-bility. Rather it iff ..s proo 0 a destructive will to power at anycost.. . rankensrein's neeo for a servant was an expression of

~ hIs diseased ego h,-<.G d ,so e created a huge, pathologically strong,y A_ em~nted.'ugly creature. He censored the beast's activity by

"r'makll1g him under' til' .111 e igent. He erected institutions flexibleenough to keep the . .II giant working, but rigid enough to fore-sta I any growth of his mental faculties. A brain was grudg-~ngy attached to the beast to provide a way for it to act. Thebeast worked and fought the enemies of his creator. heeast was content t h . dtIlrough to. 0 watc the creator flourish. He live

"IS creator Anll h h hwa h . w en e finally saw himself as es, e went mall.The corporation, the foundation, the association, the

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massmedia, the state-controlled unions, the universities andprimary schools are all designed to move people into veryspecifically pre-ordered and monitored action~. The actualmonitoring is done by a broader segment of the stratifiedslave state but the pre-ordering is done by the one-tenth ofone percent, the ruling class and governing elite of the cor-porative arrangement. The careful observer can see immedi-ately how the guiding instructions are held together by redtape and rubber bands so that they can be very flexiblewhennecessary. The corporation's flea market and the mass mediaare relatively new techniques of control, as are the institu-tional foundations and most of the associations.

The foundations, whether family or corporate, are tax-exempt financial mechanisms, ostensibly established for al-truistic influences in the fields of art and culture generally.They subsidize scientific research, higher education, educa-tional TV, etc. The Rockefellers alone control thirteen suchfoundations, through which they also control the oil holdi~gsof ninety to a hundred nations in the Third World countnesmainlY-holdings variously estimated in value from ten tofourteen billion dollars. Similar foundations are controlledb h

. t etc When they t e Fords, Kelloggs, and Carnegles, e c." ", • 'lfin~~ln~-II1ternational business interests of these tamt ytutions are threatened the "tax_supported" international po-\. ' '1 h ecial forces areIceare activated. After the C.I.A. fai s, t e sp .I M . Corps and II1fantry

ca led upon. When necessary, the anneintervene.

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AmerikanJustice

For their freedom to prey on the world's people, ' 'whatever the cost in blood.

BLOOD IN MY EYE

Dear Greg.

In order for capitalism to continue to rule. any actionthat threatens the right of a few individuals to own andcontrol public property must be prohibited and curtailedwhatever the cost in resources (the international wing of therepressive institutions has spent one and one-half trilliondollars since World War II) whatever the cost in blood (MYL' •at, Augusta. Georgia. Kent State. the Panther trials. thef:ame-up of Angela Davis)l The national repressive institu-l1~ns(police, National Guard. army. etc.) are no less deter-mined. The mayors that curse the rioters and the looters(M .ayor Daley of Chicago has ordered them summarily ex-ecuted in the streets) ignore the fact that their bosses have

looted the world!!!I refuse to make any argument with statistics compiledby the institutions and associations that I indict. Yet it is truethat even official figures prove the case against capitalism.The Federal Bureau of Investigation compiles and indexesalmost all information on crime in the United States-

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the figures as it states them right here: Vital Statistics-FBIC' l'rIme Report-property crimes, 87 percent of the rota til

1969. 28 percent of these crimes occurring in the ghetto.Since 1960. the number of men and women prisoners in stateand federal penitentiaries has fluctuated slightlY around thequarter-million mark. These statistics conceal the living real-

ity. This is my eleventh year of being shoveled into everymajor prison in the most populous state in the nation-and

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"The author Was under indictment for two counts: first.degree mur-der, and a~saul~on a non-inmate causing death which, under Section 4500of the Cahro,ma Penal Code, automatically involves a sentence of deathupon convlction,_Ed.

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, t hilosopher face willidiocy or fear, At times the peasan -p bl ks' t II as most acwork, I don't think I am an exception a a.' h hi out

h dl the cretins w 0 Irelearn by age fifteen how to an e of inquisi-"I d Th is only one typeas guns for the PriVI egeo. ere I the ses-

, " I ally cannot contro-tional situation that person ile fails and, in with 'I ce In those cases, gillsions that begin Wit VIOen ' 'd ... d or

, I nts whtle han cune ,blacks learn to fight multip e oppone , I' Iy havet th grom area, SImpat least learn how to protec e "armed

h ' ue agamst nmenever managed to develop a tee ntq, private parts!lmen who are fascinated with damagmg my

But, I'm still learning! whatever their"All black people, wherever thekyare, political prison-

, , ' st other Blac s, arecrimes, even crimes agatn ith them differently thaners because the system has dealt WIfi f ery law every, , , th bene t 0 ev ,

WIth whites, Whitey gets ~ lud ed by his peers--otherloophole, and the benefit of heing JU bg fit f any such jurywhite people, Blacks don't get the en~ hOto result in the

, I' Imost a ernetrial by peers, Such a tria ISa , nsc'lous politicald it s a coconviction of a black person, an befits" (Howard

d 't h ve those endecision that blacks on a t but not "for" the, I" f" the cour ,Moore Jr. attorney, officia 0 h 's honest, black, and

" t know- ecourt-he's in a position 0

dedicated enough to tell), , 'stitutions withinhi f repressive in dThe purpose of the c Ie, I t discourage an

, I' t tate ISclear yo, d tthe totalitarian capita IS s h'bl'tions are alme a,. nd the pro I ,prohibit certain activity, a hI- and race-sensl-d torsoftecassvery distinctly define sec 'f law is not order-, t expression 0 ,tized society, The ultima e h dreds of prisons,h dreds upon unit's prison, There are un

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and thousands upon thousands of laws, yet there is no socialorder, .no social peace, Anglo-Saxon bourgeois law is tiedfirmly into economics, One can even pick that out of thoseVital S/ ti ti B .a Is.,es, ourgeois law protects property relationsand not social relationships, The cultural traits of capitalistS?CI~ty th~t also tend to check activity-(individualism, ar-tificial pohteness juxtaposed to an aloof rudeness, the rush toJearn "how to" t d f" ", ms ea 0 what IS' )-are secondary really,and intended for th ild ', ose nu cases (and groups) that requirepreventive measures only. The law and everything that inter-locks with it was t e 'me. cons ructed ror poor, desperate people like

Jonathan my y b ' ', ounger rother understood this pointperfectly. The ' 'C

purport of the raid on the Marin Countyourthouse was m "tr ore significant by far than its calculableertects, I knew him II' hH

. we ,smce e was and still is my alter ego,e went to liberate d t 'ti an 0 educate with aggressive and free

ac ton, He knew th t hw ld b a as e proceeded in liberating thereou e more action H ' .am I E f . e wasn t a speech maker, and neither. scape rom the th h 'actio' my ,t e hoax, by moving people mton against the terror f th . 'the r I . . 0 e state-counter-terronsm-ISea significance of th Athe striki e ugust 7th affair. To Jonathan,

mg exposure was" d 'audacity." Th au acity, audacity, and more. eory and 'based in his mind 0 practice, strategy and tactics were

ticular hist . I n actual confrontation within "this" par-onca develop Hfoco army act' it h ment. e must have calculated thatIVIy t at w hiddwhere the obie ti as I en and nameless, operating, c Ive conditio < • 'ns lor revolution already eXIsted

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and had existed for a dozen decades, would survive and growif, at the same time, the Black Panther political apparatuscontinued to develop its autonomous infrastructure, Proof ofhis theory was built right into the action: five desperate menwere offered arms as a means to freedom-three took them,

Proof of the role of law within the totalitarian-authoritarian relationship was also built into the action, Ina fit of reckless, mindless gunfire, one hundred automatedgoons shot through the bodies of a judge, district attorney,and three female noncombatants to reestablish control overall activity, To prevent certain actions, no cost in blood is too

high, b diff ultIt would seem that so much free fire would e I c

to explain, but it is not. Freedoms are invariably being pro~tected with this gunfire, Freedom must then be interpretea thousand separate ways, but it actually comes down tof

. fri ds freedom toreedom for a few families and their nen ,-

prey upon the world, h. d I b ried in tepa-Acceptance of enslavement IS eep ~ u f hth . 'I' It is a result 0 t eogemc character types of capIta Ism,' d, ' hIt of all men un er

sense of dread and anxiety which IS teO b, , . d disordered 0 ses-capltahst rule Compulsive behaVIOr an" ous with "charac-slonallongings are actually made synonym 'th set" ' . But to emphasize e,

er III our disordered society- hi h they, , " he i ti tutions from w IC

C nditions before examlllmg t e \I1S I h I ud the, , 'and furt er COspnng IS to confuse effect with cause bli hed that, I ' has esta ISpomt of attack, So far, cultural ana ySIS, ' elltralized, nutlOns so c 'the psychosis is so ingrained, the ms I

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that what is needed is total revolution, the armed strugglebetween the have-nots with their vanguard and the haveswith their hirelings or macabre freaks that live through them,civil war between at least these two sections of the populationis the only purgative. Cfot I revolution must be aimed at thepurposeful and absolute destruction of the state and allpresent institutions, the destrucfion carried out by the so-called psychopath, the outsider, whose only remedy is de-slruction of the system. This organized massive violencedirected at the source of thought control is the only realistictherapy.

Analysis of the oppressed mentality and the psy-chopathic personality that accrue from contact with theprevarications of Amerikan culture must be carefully inte-grated with the analysis of the source. Simple interpretationof effects tends to calcify-it certainly promotes defeatism."Action makes the front." One can quietly refuse to acceptthe constrictions of bourgeois culture, can reject himself,hate the self and turn inward. By so doing he accomplishesa form of individual revolt, but here again we find another~nconscious manifestation of the thing we hate-individual-Ism_a now attitudinal instrumentality of bourgeois culture.W,e cannot escape-one simply cannot reject constrictionswIth t . .

ou rejecting and putting to death the constrictor. Anarmed attacker cannot be ignored. Gandhi and the gurusw~r~ all abject fools. I would certainly be dead if, whencr.llIcal flash points matured, I hadn't backed my rejectionwith blows Iwould h . M

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Laiwithout arms. I hate encounters like the one at .mylahst. \97\ * hen the enemies w 0court appearance on April 6, ,w . t

attacked me had all the weapons. Iwould hate to mnlex 0d H ver comp exesfreakswho have Mike Hammer/J. E gar 00 .

. my enemIes arewithoutbeing armed. My pledge ISto arms,d i t ts in them, eveninstitutions and any men with veste to eres .. \If n means CIVIwarif that interest is only a wage. If revo u 10

-I accept, and the sooner begun the sooner done. more1 don't think the enemy can be identified any d in

. ifl ti n must be rna ecarefully than this. Further identi ca 10 . h t 0 gunstheprocess. Ifeel elated that my brother died WhIt ~hough. h . . hi d all the ot ers,10 and. I'm gomg to miss im an . eople in-death in our situation is only a release. 1 ~Isso~hers whotensely. 1 miss him intensely, but he and. t .e I pressive

f the prlnClpa resought freedom died at the throat 0 . Iattempts atinstitution of the empire-they died makmg reafreedom.

. I fter Moncada:I paraphrase Castro on tria a l"h only begun"I warn you, gentlemen, I ave .

-.. h S ledad Brothersh 'gorteO ib·On April 6, 197 t , at a preli~i~ary. eaTl"eor e Jackson in the n s

murder trial, a bailiff persisted on [abbing Gh e~d around and deckeddespit~ ~epeated warnings. Finally Jackso~';;d~lhe balhff with a karate blow 10 the head.

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