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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 23:44:06 EST
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MIM Notes, Issue 71: December, 1992


SHORT TAKES: NEWS ROUNDUP


Don't Ask Us, Ask Him

"Even as America's Administrations change, America's fundamental
interests do not." --Bill Clinton [New York Times 11/5/92, p.B2.]


No Change from the Change Meister

"The foreign policy of Bill Clinton toward Latin America will not
change from Bush's, according to Clinton advisor Samuel Berger.
Clinton will seek strong relationships with leaders of Latin
American countries, said Berger. Clinton favors the Initiative
for the Americas and the North American Free Trade Agreement."
--Associated Press 11/3/92.


Ex-Panther Runs for Office

Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther, ran as a Democrat for a House
of Representatives seat from Illinois. Rush is criticized by
conservatives for his radical past, and by radicals for his
reactionary present. Newsweek notes that Rush is "lucky to be
alive" considering he was at the Chicago Panther house with Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark the night that house was raided, but "left
shortly before Chicago police killed [them]."Notes: Newsweek
11/2/92, p. 52.

Lucky or in on the deal? Truly insightful is Rush's recent
realization that "most African-Americans just want a comfortable,
middle-class life-style. Twenty-five years ago, I didn't know
that." MIM thinks that most Blacks want political power, and 25
years ago Bobby Rush did know that!

--MC31


Perot's Panther Story

"Mr. Perot's most flamboyant claim of conspiracies directed
against himself came on Oct. 19, in the third debate of Mr. Perot,
Bill Clinton and George Bush, when Mr. Perot claimed that the
Vietnamese had in 1969 sent a team of Black Panther Party members
to kill him. 

"But ABC World News Tonight, which investigated the story, found
considerable reason to doubt it. 'Listen to me,' said Paul
McCaghren, who headed Dallas police intelligence operations in
1969. 'It didn't happen. It did not happen.'

"Mr. McCaghren explained: 'Well, there were only about eight
people here that belonged to the Black Panther Party. Two of those
people worked for us and they told us every day what was
happening.'" --The New York Times 10/26/92, p. A1.

--MC49


Oh yeah, that...

They had another election in Amerika this year, and the results
were a breath-taking mandate for change. Here's a roundup:

- The rate of re-election for incumbents in Congress plunged from
96% in 1990 to 90% in 1992. And beyond that startling indicator of
the openness of American Demokracy, a "socialist" has proven that
he, too, can join the ranks of the congressional elite, as Bernie
Sanders won re-election in Vermont.

- Women (you know, the gender-men with female anatomy who
sometimes gain power in oppressor nations) nearly doubled their
rate of representation in Congress, from 5% to 9% (that's almost
one in 10!).

- Blacks (including sold-out former Black Panthers such as Bobby
Rush) didn't do quite as stunningly, though they still made gains,
increasing their representation in congress from 5% to 7% (that's
more than half their proportion of the population!). In the Senate
alone, however, the rate of Black representation skyrocketed by
infinity percent, from 0% to 1%. (The same rate of growth in the
Senate was recorded by Native Americans.)

And while most of those Black people who went to the polls chose
Clinton, the total number of Black votes for Clinton adds up to
less than one-third of the Black population aged 18 and over. (In
other words, Blacks who refused to vote for Clinton outnumbered
those who did by more than 2-to-1.)

- Latinos are still slightly behind, increasing their
representation from 2% to 3%.

- Bill Clinton, the man who promised to put 100,000 more pigs on
ghetto and barrio streets, gained a stunning mandate for change,
as almost 24% of the eligible voters gave him their endorsement
(that's 43% of the 55% turnout).

At this rate, in about 20 years biological females and Blacks will
have proportional representation, and there will be 500,000 new
pigs out there to keep the people -- including by then some 4
million prisoners -- in line. They can have the puppets in
government, we'll take the prisoners, and then after we settle
this thing we can start collecting on 500 years of very bad debts.
--The New York Times, 11/5/92 Sec. B. Black population is 1989
figure, from 1991 Statistical Abstract. (Projections are MIM's;
take em with a grain o'salt.)

--MC12


Review:

"Husbands and Wives" by Woody Allen

Besides providing an unintentional parallel to his personal life,
Woody Allen's new movie tells us that monogamy just doesn't work
the way it's supposed to.

"Husbands and Wives" is the story of two long-married couples who
socialize over dinner and drinks in New York, agonizing over their
various mid-life crises. In the opening scene we learn that the
friends of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow (playing one couple) are
separating, and that both partners are thrilled.

Mia freaks out, and we later learn that's because she wants out of
her own lifeless marriage to Woody, because she has the hots for
this cute guy in her office. In other words, her friends' breakup
represents what she really wants for herself. This is Freud 101.

The husband in the breaking-up couple has had numerous affairs
during the marriage, including regular visits to high-priced call
girls. He moves in with a much-younger aerobics instructor who he
physically and emotionally abuses when he realizes that he still
loves his wife -- who is now seeing the cute guy from Mia's
office.

Meanwhile, the supposedly stable and open, honest relationship of
Woody and Mia begins to deteriorate when he falls for one of his
writing class students. She falls for him too. She has dated other
older men, just like her daddy. This is Freud 102.

In the end the couple with the cheating abusive husband gets back
together, realizing that the bonds of years of marriage and
raising children are too tough to break. The cool part is that
they figure out that while this may not be the perfect
relationship (MIM knows there is no such thing) it is worth
sticking it out and working through their communication problems.

But, meanwhile the other couple who didn't really cheat (except
for the kiss between Woody and his student) break up and find new,
"better" partners. So, the moral of the story is: cheat on your
spouse, and be selfish and mean, and eventually the relationship
will just get itself back on track. But, try honestly to make it
work and be faithful and communicate and the marriage will
ultimately fail.

--a comrade


Amerikkkan Women Surpass European Sisters

Amerika may lag behind European countries in providing such
necessities as health care and parental leave to its labor
aristocracy, but when it comes to golf Amerikan women have gained
much greater access to privilege.

Bourgeois European sports enthusiasts are watching with dismay as
the Amerikan women's golf tours rack up sponsors and prizes,
drawing good golfers from the Continent to the (former) Colonies.
The women's golf tours offer about six times as much prize money
as the Europeans. Amerikan women this year will win more than $20
million in prizes.

Of course, Amerikan "feminists" will not rest until rich women
"earn" as much playing golf as men do, and they still lag behind
men, even in Amerika. After golf (and yachting), pseudo-feminism
will still need to find away to elect equal numbers of women
imperialists to the U.S. Congress. Fortunately for the people,
women of the Third World proletariat are not about to wait for the
golf proceeds to trickle down before taking their share. --The
Economist 10/31/92, p. 96.

--MC12


Palestinian Nationals Get Immigration Heat

by MC99

In a case contrived by the U.S. government to set a precedent for
deporting those working to help Third World liberation struggles,
in late October a deportation hearing for two Palestinians began
in Los Angeles. 

Hamide and Michel Shedadeh have been accused of being terrorists
for distributing a magazine and fund-raising. They were arrested
at gun point in January 1987 and charged under the 1950
McCarren-Walter Act that prohibits subversive support of world
communism. A Los Angeles district court declared in 1989 that such
cold war ideological grounds are unconstitutional, violating the
First Amendment. This of course was merely a bump in the road for
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

The next available law under which to indict the Palestinians was
the 1990 Immigration Act. This decree has a provision that outlaws
"terrorist activities." The INS claimed that Hamide and Michel
Shedadeh belonged to a terrorist faction of the Palestine
Liberation Organization known as the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. The provision makes materially supporting
a group's terrorist activities illegal.

The two Palestinians have never been arrested or accused of
committing terrorist acts. Hamide states "It is ludicrous to call
me a terrorist, I raised thousands of dollars for schools and
hospitals on the West Bank, in Gaza and in Lebanon. I put on
dinner dances at the Hollywood Palladium and the Masonic Temple in
Beverly Hills. I reject anybody's terrorism, but I am not against
the struggle for national liberation and human rights. My beliefs
got me in trouble."

The crux of the defense is that the law does not state that it is
illegal to support humanitarian or cultural activities of any
group, only "terrorist" activities. Six other Palestinians were
also arrested are charged with technical violations of the
Immigration Act, such as not taking enough courses to fulfil visa
requirements. Hamide and Michel Shedadeh were not in violation of
any petty rules, so the feds resorted to the Immigration Act to
carry out their deportation agenda.

Shortly after the arrests were made a document jointly sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the INS titled
"Alien Terrorists and Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" appeared
in the Los Angeles Times, which described a plan to imprison
thousands of residents from the Middle East -- Arabs, Iranians and
people from eight other Middle Eastern countries in Louisiana and
Florida in case an international crisis heightened the security
agenda of the United States.

Officials denied the legitimacy of the document, but some think
one such camp already exists in Oakdale, Louisiana. But a
heightened security situation is a bogus concept; Amerika
continually has an interest in deporting the oppressed because it
is these groups that threaten imperialism.

The INS makes it clear that they do not want anyone to get the
idea that aliens have the same privileges as Amerikkkans. Duke
Austin of the INS asks, "A non-citizen in the United States -- does
he have the full range of privileges and rights? And that is what
I think is being contested here."

Well not only do such persons as Hamide and Michel Shedadeh not
have the "rights" of U.S. citizens, but they are targeted for
supporting anti-imperialist movements, because the oppressors know
that links between First World radicals and Third World liberation
fighters will hasten their demise.

source: San Francisco Weekly 11/4/92.

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