And socialists are still encouraged to hold their noses and vote for him . . .
On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 4:03 AM Dennis Brasky via groups.io <dmozart1756= [email protected]> wrote: > Here’s the political background to the police raids against antiwar > students on campuses across the country this week, violent crackdowns that > have Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over them: On Tuesday, *Biden demonized > the protesters as hate groups.* On the same day 22 Democratic House > members called for the students at Columbia to be cleared from the campus, > this was followed by Chuck Schumer speaking on the floor of the Senate > denouncing the occupation of Hind Hall as *an act of terrorism*. Then the > NYPD did its vicious nightwork at Columbia and CCNY. *On Wednesday > morning, the Biden White House compared these brave students–from Columbia > to UCLA, Indiana to Texas–to the white power tiki torch thugs at > Charlottesville.* On Thursday, Biden gave a speech that would have > condemned the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement, women’s movement, > Native American Rights movement, anti-Vietnam War movement, Stonewall, > anti-apartheid movement, BLM and the labor movement he claims to venerate > (not to mention the Boston Tea Party) as outside the American tradition of > free speech. *Biden is the author of the most repressive crime laws in > the history of a nation whose statutes are full of repressive crime laws. > He hasn’t changed.* In fact, he’s gotten worse as his brain demyelinates > and his grip on power becomes more and more tenuous. > > > > In contrast to Biden’s reactionary blandishments of the antiwar movement, > here are the words of the most successful progressive leader in the US > today, Shawn Fain, head of the UAW: > > > > *The UAW will never support* the mass arrest or intimidation of those > exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice. > Our union has been calling for a ceasefire for six months. This war is > wrong, and this response against students and academic workers, many of > them UAW members, is wrong. We call on the powers that be to release the > students and employees who have been arrested, and if you can’t take the > outcry, stop supporting the war. > > > > Perhaps the UAW will now retract its premature endorsement of Biden? > Unlikely, of course. The endorsement itself probably doesn’t matter much. > Many of the UAW’s rank-and-file will still vote for Trump. The campaign > money might. The endorsement lends Fain’s very clear statement even more > weight. Fain’s statement is not going to change Biden’s mind. *He’s > encased himself in 50 years of pro-Israeli political concrete.* But it > helps to undermine the disgusting narrative put out by the White House and > top Democrats that the students are naive dupes of Hamas, justifying these > brutal crackdowns. > > > > In 1970, Richard Nixon famously made a trip to the Lincoln Memorial to > actually talk with anti-war protesters for more than two hours. Biden > sneers at them, encourages the liberal press to smear them and university > presidents to send in riot squads to clear them off campus… > > > > In reply to a question from FoxNews about the campus protests, White > House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Department of Justice, > Homeland Security and the Department of Education will be involved in the > investigations, suggesting that *the Biden administration may be pursuing > federal “hate crime” charges against student protestors**.* > > > > Imagine the reaction from the White House, Congress and the US media if > Putin had used these violent police tactics to suppress anti-Ukraine war > protests on campuses in Russia. > > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/roaming-charges-tin-cops-and-biden-coming/ > > > > > > -- "All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Sarah Moore Grimke, abolitionist (1792-1873) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30199): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30199 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105891162/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
