Briefly, Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War are those persons who have been sent to prison for their conscious revolutionary political activities on the streets. Prisoners who went to prison as a result of non-politically motivated "crime" and became political while in prison are not Political Prisoners or Prisoners of War. Though all prisoners righteously struggling against the repressive prison system should be supported, PP/POW's deserve the priority support of the revolutionary movement that they have sacrificed their freedom to build. As anarchist POW Ojore Lutalo has stated, "Any political movement that does not support its political internees is a sham movement!"
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Link Out: From COINTELPRO to the Patriot Act/
Hip Hop headz must learn more about how to support our PP & POW, as the U.S. Patriot Act of current has legalized everything that was done illegally under cointelpro. The Black Power Movement and otherwise progressive political dissent have been criminalized...and this is all the more reason that all our youth and young adults (old ones too) need to get more informed and more involved; the future of our children and the yet to be born is at stake.
1. Prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real "Mau Mau" in America, the beginning of a true black revolution.
2. Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify, and electrify, the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a "messiah;" he is the martyr of the movement today. Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammed is less of a threat because of his age. King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines" (nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism. Carmichael has the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way.
3. Prevent violence on the part of black nationalist groups. This is of primary importance, and is, of course, a goal of our investigative activity; it should also be a goal of the Counterintelligence Program. Through counterintelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence.
4. Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit these groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to "liberals" who have vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalists simply because they are Negroes. Third, these groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement. This last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two. Publicity about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances black nationalists black nationalists to the last group; it adds "respectability" in a different way.
5. A final goal should be to prevent the long-range growth of militant black nationalist organizations, especially among youth. Specific tactics to prevent these groups from converting young people must be developed." (sent by Director to Field Offices on March 4, 1968) G.C. Moore to W.C. Sullivan, Feb. 29, 1968 Extracts from: www.cointel.org
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POLICE STATE v FREEDOM FIGHTERS
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IMPORTANT POST-SCRIPT
N.B. There are a lot of hot-sauce integrationist on the web these days posing as revolutionary and Afrocentric educators in their work. Please be careful, as these folk are really liters and enemies of our struggle /re-education process in black face. They are diluting and dumbing down the truth and presenting "safe" issues as to not offend the enemy (their boss). Some B.E.T. shit. For example Malcolm X defined himself as a Black Nationalist Pan-Afrikanist Freedom Fighter, but all you'll find on the net is civil rights leader Mlacolm X. Malcolm fought for human rights and argued that (paraphrase) "you have to have human rights before you can have civil rights; human rights is the right to be considered a human being." He told us this some 50 years ago and the reality of his words ring a resounding cord today. "you can never get civil rights until you have human rights". When a stick is shoved up a man's rectum or one unarmed is shot 41 times , I would argue that the masses of our people still have no human rights. So know wonder they can write in civil rights laws like the voters rights act one year and threaten repeal the next--"they are not really entitled to civil rights, as we don't ever consider/treat them as human beings". So, it is dis-respectful to our true Afrikan Scholars and Freedom Fighters for the word revolutionary to even come out of their pseudo-nationalists' mouth. Remember "the man who butters your bread feeds your stomach"; all you have to do to know who they are and what they are really about is follow the money.
What our re-education and habilitation should be about is not merely a sterile, objective academic process; real lives are involved here and our people are/have been dying. It must teach us how to get involved in real struggle despite all it accompanying risk. Again Minister Malcolm X taught us "the price of freedom is death". We want peace, but the key to peace in dealing with this beast is the ability to make war. That's why they did Iraq and not North Korea. My point is, these closet boot lickers and toe suckers need to chill and you need to avoid them like the plague, because they are just as fatal.
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- By FinalCall.com
News Updated Jul 24, 2005, 10:53 pmOne-on-One with BlackElectorate.com's Cedric Muhammad
Political commentator Cedric Muhammad published a series of Rap COINTELPRO articles on his website (BlackElectorate.com) beginning in 2000 initially dealing with the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of Tupac Shakur (2Pac) and Christopher Wallace (Notorious B.I.G.)
With great insight, in later parts of the series, Brother Cedric broadened the topical range identifying and investigating the stratagem implemented by a growing number of police departments across the United States dealing specifically with increased surveillance – some would even say harassment – of Hip Hop artists and the peculiar treatment of crimes occurring within the Hip Hop community. Brother Cedric spoke with Final Call Online Correspondent Ashahed Muhammad about the relationship of those subjects to the global strategy of the infamous J. Edgar Hoover – whose plan was to stifle progressive activism within the Black community and to prevent the rise of a "Black Messiah."
Ashahed Muhammad (AM): Thank you for taking time out of your schedule. I know you are busy writing, publishing, being a consultant and political advisor, etc. I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me today.
Cedric Muhammad (CM): Thank you. And it’s of course the greatest honor to be interviewed by the greatest newspaper on earth.
AM: Dealing with Rap Cointelpro – some Hip Hop artists have faced an increasing amount of legal harassment including surveillance. Talk to us about what acted as a catalyst for your Rap Cointelpro series.Read more
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