March
7, 2021. On the eve of the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of
George Floyd, 1,000 people marched through downtown Minneapolis,
Minnesota with a
scroll bearing more than 470 names of people killed by Minneapolis
police.
A lot is spoken about U.S.
President Joe Biden's first one hundred
days in office. All kinds of opinions are given about what he has or
has not accomplished.
What is significant, however, is what is kept hidden -- which is that
he is committing crimes against humanity, both within the United States
and all over the world, in the name of human
rights, democracy, the environment and peace. In other words, his
mission is to perpetuate fraud on a grand scale so as to shield the
rule of a small elite by making sure the majority are not
able to seize the initiative at this time to turn things around in
their favour.
In his first 100 days Biden has said
he is supporting racial
justice, democracy, climate action and peace. The claims are
intentional deception which is precisely what constitutes fraud.
The intention is to hide the continuing U.S. crimes both at home and
abroad, be they more police racist killings, or actions which
negatively target immigrants and refugees, seeking to
perpetuate the war against Afghanistan, foment tensions against China,
Korea, Iran and Syria, step up the criminal blockade to bring down
Cuba, and more.
Fraud is the means used to divert
the people's movements from
realizing their own aims to have greater control and accountability and
to guarantee the rights of all will be protected.
Fraud is also the means used to get everyone to accept the president as
the source of change and rely on the presidency for everything.
The
Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for the murder of George Floyd was
rendered on April 20. It was won because of the persistence of the
movement across the U.S. demanding justice.
The ruling elite could give no argument to get Chauvin off the hook for
his crime. But according to Biden it is thanks to the justice system
that Chauvin was found guilty. This is fraud!
Biden spoke both before and after the conviction to give himself
anti-racist credentials. Trying to associate himself with the demands
of the movement concerning the need for significant
change, he mentioned the need to confront "systemic racism and the
racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice
system more broadly," and "the knee on the neck of
justice for Black Americans." He then called on everyone to rely on the
president and his Department of Justice to solve the problems. To show
he means it, on the day after the conviction
the Justice Department launched an investigation into the Minneapolis
police department to determine if there is a "pattern or practice of
unconstitutional or unlawful policing." He also
stressed that the president worked closely with the Minnesota attorney
general in prosecuting the Chauvin case.
The
reputation of the Justice Department is such that nobody is
confused about the fraudulent role it plays. Across the U.S. people
call it the Injustice Department. Neither Biden nor the
news media that perpetuate his disinformation mention, and purposely,
that police in the U.S. have killed at least 64 civilians just since
the Chauvin trial began in March, with the killings of
Daunte Wright (aged 20), Adam Toledo (13), and Ma'Khia Bryant (16),
recent
examples. There is an intentional pattern of racist state violence and
killings targeting African Americans. Yet
according to the Biden administration, the very forces responsible for
the crimes, with the Injustice Department prime among them, are to be
relied on to solve the problem.
April 14, 2021. Demonstration in Minneapolis suburb following the
police killing of Daunte Wright on April 11, 2021.
This
example, among all the others, plainly illustrates the nature
of fraud -- that those most responsible for the crimes committed are
also the ones with the power to decide who is
committing the crimes and who is punished.
When it
comes to accountability, Biden repeats the nonsense that the
problem is that of a few "bad apples:" "(M)ost men and women who wear
the badge serve their communities
honourably." During the Chauvin trial the Minnesota attorney general
gave the same argument. The trial was not about policing, but about
Chauvin, he said. "This is not an anti-police
prosecution, it's a pro-police prosecution." This stand is directly
aimed at the hundreds and thousands of people who are defending rights
by demanding fundamental change to policing
itself.
Biden has also chosen not to speak to a
report issued April 27 by
the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police
Violence in the United States, which concluded that
there is "a continuing pattern of gross and reliably attested
violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Commissioners
find a pattern and practice of racist police violence in
the U.S. in the context of a history of oppression dating back to the
extermination of First Nations peoples, the enslavement of Africans,
the militarization of U.S. society, and the continued
perpetuation of structural racism."
The
Commission of Inquiry also provided concrete steps the president can
take, such as supporting "legislation aimed at divesting federal
resources from incarceration and policing,"
demilitarization and removing the immunity police now have for their
crimes. It calls for the U.S. executive and legislative branches to
"acknowledge that the transatlantic trade in Africans,
enslavement, colonization and colonialism were Crimes against Humanity"
that require reparations, including "a formal apology, health
initiatives, educational opportunities, an African
knowledge program, psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer,
financial support, and debt cancellation."
Biden
has acknowledged neither the report nor its recommendations.
Instead, he talks about the work "we do every day to change hearts and
minds." This is the same vacuous
justification given to defend the criminal U.S. occupation of
Afghanistan. He goes out of his way to target the broad and persistent
actions demanding justice and calling for the people to
decide matters like policing, crime and punishment and war and peace,
saying that "peaceful" protest is acceptable but violent "agitators and
extremists" cannot be allowed to succeed.
This
brings out a problem the Biden presidency is facing which is
that the arguments given to justify what cannot be justified are very
weak, without any substance whatsoever. The
entire world has witnessed and continues to witness practically every
day the unfettered violence and brutality used by police agencies at
all levels against protests in various cities all over
the country, while federal police forces decide what is and is not
"violent." Millions support the protests but what to think about them
and how to judge them is not in their hands. The
purposeful campaign of disinformation about the racist assaults against
Blacks, Hispanics and Asians and the story that the president is
concerned and doing something about the matter
constitute fraud.
Biden is also silent about the
fact that 34 states have introduced
81 anti-protest bills during the 2021 legislative session -- more than
twice that in any other year. In Florida such a bill
has become law. It criminalizes protests that obstruct traffic, makes
defacing monuments a felony, blocks bail, and makes "mob intimidation"
a crime. "Mob intimidation" is defined as three
or more people acting with intent to force another to take their
viewpoints.
Systematically, from the federal
government on down, it is
resistance that is criminalized while those most accountable for crimes
are protected and given the power to judge those
crimes and decide what is to be done. It is precisely this matter of
concern about who decides and defines such issues as security and
policing that is being raised by the broad mass
protests. The persistence of the people's movement for rights and
justice indicates that the people will continue to rely on their own
efforts, not the fraud of the Biden presidency which
insists that safeguarding the U.S. constitutional order is the way
forward.
March 15, 2021. Action in Chicago, Illinois demands U.S. get out of
Haiti
Another example of the fraud the Biden
presidency is perpetrating
concerns matters related to migration and refugees. President Biden has
said the U.S. is intervening at the border with
Mexico and in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador on a humanitarian
basis. Conditions on the ground however show he has not only continued
but even increased large numbers of
deportations, not only to those countries but to Haiti as well.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol have continued to
impose brutal and illegal conditions, not only
against the many thousands of children at the border but also against
the large number of people seeking asylum.
The
claim is made that yet more U.S. intervention in these countries will
address the "root causes" of immigration. These interventions include
by-passing government officials to build
relations directly with "civil society, from social issue groups to
members of the private sector, members of the media." It includes
funding of various kinds which have long been used to
disrupt and destroy the economies and governance of these countries in
a manner that favours integration into the U.S. war machine. For
example, $125 million was given from USAID,
notorious for ruining economies, and $104 million went to "protect"
people in the region. Part of the "humanitarian aid" also comes from
the Pentagon, which will provide $26 million "to
increase its partnership activities in the region" -- meaning further
integrating military forces in these countries under U.S. command while
also more broadly militarizing life. The U.S.
Department of Agriculture will provide $25 million to "strengthen the
Guatemalan agricultural sector and facilitate access to financing," and
$30 million to "expand access to daily meals
and literacy activities to school children."
The
long history of U.S. intervention of this type is responsible
for ruining the economies of these countries in the first place and for
fomenting coups and aggressions and propping up
corrupt regimes. The fraud is the claim that these funds are for
humanitarian purposes, not to further integrate and control the peoples
of Central America so as to disrupt their resistance,
including their united efforts with the people of the U.S. to end all
such interference and provide for relations of mutual support and
benefit.
May 1, 2021. As in other cities demonstration in Washington DC, focuses
on the rights of immigrants and those without status.
Matters of immigration are also connected to U.S. war plans.
Greater control of Mexico and Canada and their integration into a North
America of the U.S. Imperialists is being
extended to the countries of Central America and the Caribbean as well.
President Biden has chosen the anniversary of 9/11 this coming
September to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. In his address to
Congress on April 28, Biden said, "We went to
Afghanistan to get the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11," which
clarifies nothing about either why the U.S. really invaded Afghanistan
or how it or Afghanistan have fared since the
invasion. He just lamely says that "the United States will remain
vigilant about the threat from terrorist groups that have metastasized
around the world. We will continue to monitor and
disrupt any threat to us that emerges from Afghanistan." He
specifically names "Yemen, Syria, Somalia, and other places in Africa
and the Middle East and beyond," as threats.
The
anniversary of 9/11 is being invoked to win the "hearts and
minds" of the people and cover up that the U.S. war against Afghanistan
is a criminal war of aggression. As well, while
Biden says troops will be withdrawn, nothing is known about the
Pentagon's at least 18,000 private military contractors present in that
country. No one is to be held accountable for the
collective punishment of the people of Afghanistan for a crime they did
not commit, for the broad and continuing genocide and U.S. interference.
The demand of the anti-war movement in the United States is
for all
U.S. troops to be brought home and for all foreign U.S. military bases
to be dismantled as a critical step to
safeguard peace in the world. But for Biden, U.S. aggression and
intervention of all kinds are a means to "position us to win the
competition for the 21st Century" and to have "a Union
more perfect. More prosperous. More just. As one people. One nation.
One America."
As
the people and their demands have made clear, there are two Americas
contending for the future. One, represented by Biden, is the America
which is committing untold crimes to
maintain the existing social relations which ensure the rich remain in
power and the state is structured to ensure war, inequality and
injustice. The other America is that comprised of the
people fighting to bring into being new relations and structures that
favour their interests, that protect and guarantee their rights at home
and those of the peoples of all countries
abroad.
Limiting the struggles being waged by the
peoples to the confines
dictated by the perpetrators of the crimes against them is not part of
the people's equation. Their struggles are not to
be limited by joining Biden's calls to preserve the existing
constitutional order which ensures more crimes against humanity. The
people of the U.S are joining those of the world in
standing as one humanity, with one struggle for the right of the
peoples to govern and decide, for international relations of mutual
respect and benefit.
The New rejects the fraud
being committed by the Old, the fraud of
U.S.-style democracy and its need for war measures to protect the U.S.
as the indispensable nation that opposes
autocracy and protects freedom. The people's movement persists in
demanding decision-making of, by and for the peoples.
Biden has become the spokesman for fraud, saying "Our Constitution
opens with the words, 'We the People.' It's time we remembered that We
the People are the government."
Across the United
States, the people are arising and giving their
response: We the people is we the majority, we the propertyless, we who
will persist in fighting for a future where we
decide.
This article was published in
Volume 51 Number 5 - May 9, 2021
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2021/Articles/M5100514.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
