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MIM Notes 310 · November 1-14, 2004 · Page 1

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ANTI-DRAFT

MOVEMENT

ACHIEVES

STRATEGIC

STEP FORWARD

by mim3@mim.org

A majority of U$ youth aged 18 to 29

believe that President Bush has the draft

in store for them. The self-activism of

the youth that has achieved this point is a

strategic victory, a step forward. MIM

itself takes some credit for stirring the

pot in literature distribution, face-to-face

discussion and the web site.

True, the youth are letting John Kerry

off the hook. The same National

Annenberg Election Survey showed only

8% believes Kerry wants to bring back

forced enlistment into the armed services

while 51% believe Bush does. However,

since Bu$h is the one actually in power

directing the military, we have to recognize

that the survey result does demonstrate

a small step forward in political

consciousness. The youth may not have

a path for how to get out of the current

mess the United $tates made-- with many

having illusions about Howard Dean,

Greens or libertarians--but they have

correctly placed the problem on the

agenda.

The conservatives rushed to Bu$h's

defense and said it was "ignorance"

caused by a "rumor"(1) regarding the

draft that started the current trend in youth

opinion. MIM would reply the following:

1) If it is all just a rumor, Bu$h can abolish

the Selective Service and end draft

registration and then there won't be any

disputes about what the Selective Service

administration said or did not say. 2) It is

not ignorance to notice what is going on

with troop shortages and war. Quite the

opposite, it's called paying attention. 3)

The government has no credibility on

IMPERIALISTS

CENSOR

SERGEANT

LORENTZ IN

CONNECTION

TO IRAQ

by mousnonya and

mim3@mim.org

A U.$. Army Reserve sergeant in Iraq

has written a cogent essay explaining why

Uncle Scam cannot win the war in

Iraq.(1) Consequently, he is being called

to the carpet and faces legal sanctions.

The charge is dereliction of duty--

defeatism! (2) That's right--just like in

Hitlerite Germany.

Wearing the uniform, thinking the wrong

thoughts and daring to put them to paper

leads to trouble in the United $tates. MIM

supports the struggle of oppressors such

as Sgt. Lorentz to cease taking action for

war. Sgt. Lorentz may have figured out

that he is on the wrong side.

As in the other long-running occupations

historically, we are also finding out about

the tip of the iceberg of military

resistance. CNN reported on October

15th that some of the reservists in Iraq

may have disobeyed orders: "The military

said all 19 members of the Army's 343rd

Quartermaster Company--which has

been in Iraq for nine months--were told

to report to duty Wednesday to deliver

fuel from Tallil to Taji, a dangerous area

north of Baghdad."(3) They did not carry

out the task and family members say the

vehicles and fuel were unsafe.

At the same time, indications continue

to arrive on the scale of the cover-up of

politics in Iraq in general. The pace of

casualties has increased since Bu$h

declared major fighting over, but it appears

that the government does not report all

the insurgent activities spread across Iraq

for fear of demoralizing the U.$. public

and the soldiers. Moreover, all the murder

and torture photos from the Abu Ghraib

prison scandal have yet to be released,

because the imperialists fear the global

counter-attack that would happen. The

fear of the counter-attack leads to more

public ignorance of what is really

happening in Iraq, and the war-mongers

hope to keep their war going that way.

"Freedom" and "democracy" hardly

Boston police admitted to shooting

Victoria Snelgrove on October 20th during

a Red Sox victory celebration. She died

hours later.

The parents justly said this: "`What

happened to her should not happen to any

American citizen.'"(1) They managed to

see Victoria at the hospital just before

she died.

A witness saw the police shooting in

the area. There were too many witnesses

and cameras around and Boston is too

intelligent to put up with the usual police

murk in a case where the whole world

knows the context, so we're not surprised

that Police Commissioner Kathleen

O'Toole confessed to the killing.

At the same time, O'Toole said this:

"`I also condemn, in the harshest possible

words, the actions of the punks last night

who turned our city's victory into an

opportunity for violence.'"(2)

On the one hand we have the academic

Resistance breaking out

Who's the `punk,' commissioner?

Boston police admit killing student

"radicals" in

Boston and

elsewhere who

think "violence"

is politically

i n c o r r e c t

language or a

threat to break

up by a man if

his girlfriend

does not have sex. On the other hand,

we have police commissioners who

confessed to killing of Victoria Snelgrove

and then proceeded to condemn "punks"

who tried but failed to overturn a car.

Earth to Commissioner O'Toole: you are

the "punk" leader. Your employees killed

a student for nothing. That should have

been your message of the day, period. You

should have started a process of

questioning: "if police shot someone in that

context to death, what else did they do

wrong?"

Under the dictatorship of the proletariat,

Continued on page 6...

Continued on page 7...

Continued on page 9...

Victoria Snelgrove

MIM Notes 310 · November 1-14, fa2004 · Page 2

What is MIM?

The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is the collection of existing or emerging

Maoist internationalist parties in the English-speaking imperialist countries and their English-

speaking internal semi-colonies, as well as the existing or emerging Maoist Internationalist
parties in Belgium, France and Quebec and the existing or emerging Spanish-speaking
Maoist Internationalist parties of Aztlan, Puerto Rico and other territories of the U.$. Empire.

MIM Notes is the newspaper of MIM. Notas Rojas is the newspaper of the Spanish-speaking
parties or emerging parties of MIM. MIM upholds the revolutionary communist ideology
of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and is an internationalist organization that works from the

vantage point of the Third World proletariat. MIM struggles to end the oppression of all
groups over other groups: classes, genders, nations. MIM knows this is only possibly by
building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle. Revolution is a reality for

North America as the military becomes over-extended in the government's attempts to
maintain world hegemony. MIM differs from other communist parties on three main
questions: (1) MIM holds that after the proletariat seizes power in socialist revolution, the

potential exists for capitalist restoration under the leadership of a new bourgeoisie within
the communist party itself. In the case of the USSR, the bourgeoisie seized power after the
death of Stalin in 1953; in China, it was after Mao's death and the overthrow of the "Gang

of Four" in 1976. (2) MIM upholds the Chinese Cultural Revolution as the farthest advance
of communism in humyn history. (3) As Marx, Engels and Lenin formulated and MIM has
reiterated through materialist analysis, imperialism extracts super-profits from the Third

World and in part uses this wealth to buy off whole populations of oppressor nation so-
called workers. These so-called workers bought off by imperialism form a new petty-
bourgeoisie called the labor aristocracy. These classes are not the principal vehicles to

advance Maoism within those countries because their standards of living depend on
imperialism. At this time, imperialist super-profits create this situation in the Canada, Quebec,
the United $tates, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Italy, Switzerland,

Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Israel, Sweden and Denmark. MIM accepts people as
members who agree on these basic principles and accept democratic centralism, the system
of majority rule, on other questions of party line.

"The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should

regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of
learning terms and phrases, but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution."

- Mao Zedong, Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 208.

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NYLP stands for the New Young

Lords Party, a Maoist organization

that's rekindling the revolutionary

legacy of the original, Black-Panther-

inspired YLP.

I'm 100% in total agreement with my

revolutionary comrade Don Pablo Pueblo

(re: MN July 2004). Not many individuals

understand that politics and imprisonment

are connected. Por eso, i'm frustrated

because instead of sitting here and

teaching ourselves and others about this

racist country and gobierno, we'd rather

sit around and gossip como putas about

someone else's failures. It is why I have

learned through the observation of

practice that misery loves company.

In my 9 1/2 years in DDU

(Departmental Disciplinary Unit) I have

learned to build with Don Pablo about el

entendimiento sobre la opresion knowin'

exactly what the fuck was going on. I

couldn't help but ask these so-called

"intelligent" folks that if they knew that

the U.$. gobierno had us bajo una

circumstancia insoportable porque como

luchadores que somos nos estabamos

dejando manipular por la administracion

de Bush-it and as usual no one had a

truthful answer.

I refuse to acknowledge anyone who

claims that this is some kind of criminal

recruitment or some gang of any kind.

The pigs and haters will use this type of

statement only to deter others from

learning about Marxism. Most Latinos

I've asked whether or not they wish to

experience some kind of revolutionary

change have admitted que ya es tiempo

for someone to step it up and make a

difference in and out of the world of

socialism. So we would appreciate if

ignorant kats would separate themselves

from the movement and allow Don Pacho

Pablo Pueblo & Beto Puñala and the rest

of the advanced Nobles to enlighten them

about our purpose so that they themselves

can correctly enlighten others.

When Don Pablo began expressing his

feelings to me about starting and founding

something so educational for Nuestra

Raza, I was surprised, because I've

never been asked to help re-organize such

a great legacy. I immediately said no

question, because, although I've never

been involved in any kind of revolutionary

organization, I have always had feelings

of engaging into an all out war with those

who assume Puerto Rico as part of the

United Oppressors of Amerika. But you

know what they say about assumptions:

they're the mother of all fuck-ups and

La Raza will make sure they realize that.

Did you know that the pigs were

actually attempting to murder me for

being so outspoken? They have even

claimed that I was running a drug

operation only to justify my placement in

the Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU). I

have sworn to seek vengeance against

the system that has done nothing more

than to literally allow pigs to abuse people

behind the wall.

It's a long time since I have seen you

Don Pablo but during my travels I have

started to share the word of the Nobles.

My friend and comrade, I have baffled a

lot of folks by the intro of the NYLP/

LNNA article. This one member

(codename "La Voz") is dying to read

more of your input on this legacy. I have

made it my obligation to enlighten him, no

matter how bloody the war may get. I

have my teachings as my principles. I'm

now speaking louder than before so that

others who may be curious will not be

shy to ask about the movimiento.

--By an NYLP/LNNA leader (MA)

NYLP/LNNA responds: We have

much love and respect for this comrade

member and we applaud him for his

strength in preaching the revolutionary

ideal We are aware of the oppression he's

receiving and both Pablo Pueblo and Beto

Puñala have advised him on how to

negotiate his "hole-time" and we hope he

embraces that advice. His responsibilities

to his people require him to minimize

interaction with those pig doctors and

we're glad he's doing just that. Since this

comrade is a valued member, we'll make

sure to get him a pre-published copy of

the PCM (NYLP/LNNA Political

Compendium Manual, soon to be

published and available for purchase).

We had to shorten his letter due to

availability of space, but this is the type

of dedication, enthusiasm, and leadership

that we appreciate from our leaders. We

wanted to add that the NYLP/LNNA not

only fights for Puerto Rico's liberation but

we also feel that the Settler society's

invasion of Mexico/Xicano lands is just

as important as well as the super

exploitation of Nuestra America South of

the Rio Grande. We hope to hear more

from our carnales in TX, CA, AZ, NM, y

CO regarding the NYLP struggle against

imperialism.

Noble Love!!!

MIM/NYLP

PO Box 40799

San Francisco, CA 94140

nylp@mim.org

NYLP Leader responds to Pablo Pueblo Article

MIM Notes 310 · November 1-14, 2004 · Page 3

by Mousnonya

Last year the New York Times

reported--falsely--that Iraq was

working feverishly towards a nuclear

weapon.(1) There was also a bout of

plagiarism at the Times, unsurprisingly

also beating the drum for more murder in

Iraq. More recently, Dan Rather reported

on George Bush's military service--

relying on fake documents;(3) although it

was obviously true to the people of that

era that National Guard service was the

privilege of the elite such as Bu$h who

had connections. And now the Fox News

Network has falsely "quoted" John Kerry

claiming he said things that he never did

about having a manicure and being

metrosexual.(4)

Readers, there is a pattern here. These

are just the obvious lies that the bourgeois

press is willing to admit it made! There

are more lies that they quietly sweep

under the rug. More importantly, these

major media did not have the guts or

concern for the truth to debunk all the

excuses for the Iraq War before the

invasion.

MIM tells it like it is: the corporate

media is biased and serves the corporate

agenda! The profit motive distorts the

truth, even the "news."

You cannot trust your government: it

lies to you all the time--just look at Iraq!

Now you should realize the corporate

controlled media lies too--and not just in

the advertisements!

Capitalism lies and distorts the truth in

the name of profit. The government is

corrupt. Work with MIM to build

independent media for the oppressed!

Notes:

1. The Times Scoops That Melted,

Cataloging the wretched reporting of

Judith Miller, By Jack Shafer. Friday,

July 25, 2003, at 3:49 PM PT http://

slate.msn.com/id/2086110/

2. Top New York Times editors quit,

Rose Arce and Shannon Troetel CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/

Northeast/06/05/nytimes.resigns/

3. Even Humbled by Error, Dan

Rather Has His Thorns,

ALESSANDRA STANLEY Published:

September 21, 2004 http://

www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/politics/

campaign/

21tvwatch.html?ex=1096948800&

en=492ef28e51f0ce50&ei=5070

4. Faux News: Fox News Fabricates

Story, Washington Dispatch, October

01, 2004 http://

www.washingtondispatch.com/culture/

archives/000616.html; Fox bitten by

reporter's joke quotes, JO PIAZZA and

M. GEORGE STEVENSON NY

DAILY NEWS http://

www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/

story/237804p-204107c.html

Rash of obvious lies discredits mainstream press

The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal

has helped illustrate the interlocking nature

of the U.$. military, civilian, and private

prison systems. The story of O. Lane

McCotter, which we have not previously

reported on, is a case in point.

A Texas prisoner pointed out to MIM

that McCotter, former director of

corrections in Texas (1985-87), New

Mexico (1987-91) and Utah (1992-1997),

was "part of a criminal-justice

reconstruction team appointed by the

U.S. Justice Department to assess the

Iraqi corrections system and help

implement improvements" in May

2003.(1) McCotter had left the Utah

prison system after multiple scandals,

including the death of a schizophrenic

prisoner tied to a chair for 16 hours, and

Abu Ghraib connections show interlocking prison systems

misuse of state resources.(2)

After leaving the Utah system,

McCotter became director of corrections

business development for Management

& Training Corp.(1) That company ran

a private prison in New Mexico that has

been investigated for unsafe conditions

and inadequate medical care. He took a

leave from the company to go to Iraq,

where he led the preparations for

converting Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to

U.$. military use.(2)

The revolving door here is clear.

McCotter started his prison career for the

military, running U.$. military prisons--

including Leavenworth--for 10 years

before leaving to enter the Texas prison

system as assistant director.(2) After

running prison systems in three states, he

started running private prisons, and finally

returned to the military as a private

contractor to retool the Abu Ghraib torture

facility. His career reads like a history of

U.$. prison abuse.

The Texas prisoner concludes: "Where

did he learn to set up such a torture

facility/hell hole? . . . And this was George

Bush's point man to set up Abu Ghraib?

For shame. Done with malice

aforethought. And now the chickens are

coming home to roost. ... By definition a

barbaric prison system is run by

barbarians. Another Abu Ghraib. We will

either have socialism or barbarism."

Notes:
1. AP report from KSL TV in Salt Lake City,
http://tv.ksl.com/
index.php?nid=5&sid=27519.
2. Houston Chronicle 16 May 2004, p. A1.

McCotter's
old
letterhead.

Censorship is systematic

tool of repression

MIM received a stack of Publication Violation

Notices along with rejected copies of MIM Notes 303

from the Snake River Correctional Institution in

Ontario, Oregon. The reason for the censorship was

a brief letter in Under Lock & Key (ULK) from a

comrade in SRCI regarding the successes of their

recent hunger strike. In their own words, "Page 11

portrays information that is detrimental to security."

Censorship is nothing unusual for MIM, whether it

is within U.$. prisons, on U.$. campuses or in public

parks and sidewalks. It is a tool of repression to prevent

effective organizing on the behalf of the oppressed

and exploited under imperialism. Those who believe

we live in a free country in the United $tates are

among the privileged few who have persynal freedom

and have never fought for the freedom of others.

A crucial hindrance in the organizing efforts of

comrades behind bars is the inherent censorship they

face by being cut off from society in general. Then,

when organizations like MIM make a specific effort

to reach them and offer them a forum to share

information thru ULK, we are targeted for specific

censorship.

This recent case is worth mentioning because the

pigs were specific about why we were censored,

demonstrating the motivation behind the censors who

work for imperialism. They had no interest in allowing

prisoners to sum up their successes in a public forum

such as ULK and to acknowledge the unity of

comrades in that facility.

Software review:

"Rise of Nations" & "Rise of Nations: Thrones &

Patriots"

Microsoft

2003 & 2004

"Rise of Nations" (RoN) is game of the year for 2003,

according to a few industry writers. Behind it is one of

the same people who put together "Civilization II" and

"Alpha Centauri," which accounts for how "Alpha

Centauri" and RoN seem to borrow from the previous

game "Civilization." Others have said RoN rips off "Age

of Empires." From MIM's point-of-view, we are stuck

with games like RoN for now, so we have to give RoN a

grudging recommendation. When the proletariat seizes

power it will expand on and improve RoN greatly.

Militarist fascination and computers

The main advantage of the "Civilization"-type games is

that they are not the other mindless video and computer

games people could play that are pure excitement of

militarism for its own sake--the thrill of action-violence--

enhanced by computer graphics that are an important art

form. Strategy games used to be for programmers and

other nerds who stayed in front of computers long hours.

Now with Sony Corporation and others entering the fray,

more shelf space at the store goes to simpler militarist

games connected to the TV set.

The plus side of simple militarist games is that they are

more active than passive TV-watching of militarist

propaganda. On behalf of television, we might suspect

that MTV is less harmful than FOX News militarism--in

which case passivity might be better than twisted joy in

video-game militarism, in which there is often not even

an ideological reason to serve as a veneer for the glories

of war.

At the moment, MIM can not stop the decadent

fascinations of imperialism, but the spread of pornography

hooks men on the Internet and the spread of militarist

games is hooking some people on technical advances

such as computers. So the cloud of imperialist computer

culture may have a silver lining. Hopefully the masses

learn fascination with computer-related things instead

of just fascination with militarism and then graduate to

higher-level games like RoN.

In between the simple militarist games and games like

RoN are role-playing games where the brain may be at

work in a complicated maze and journey, but emphasis

is on the individual's combats or explorations. "Doom"

and "Myst" fall in this category. These games reflect

the state of the politics and economics of settler societies

that focus everything on the individual--though at least

"Myst" is non-violent. The entire category of role-playing

games can be written off as brainwashing of the sort

MIM seeks to avoid above- all; although in the future,

under socialism it will be possible to teach useful concepts

using role-playing games. Maybe in cultures where there

is a stifling group-oriented conformity, it may be

progressive to look at role-playing more before passing

into group-oriented communism.

Imperialist country art and video game consumers are

prone to believe they are not products of society and the

vast majority of existing games does nothing to counter

Strategy games alternative to first-persyn shoot-em-ups

Continued on page 8...

MIM Notes 310 · November 1-14, fa2004 · Page 4

Two weeks before we reported on the

Amerikan army's censure of reserve

Sergeant Lorentz for his essay "Why We

Cannot Win" the Amerikan Federal

Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized

computers housing the European

Indymedia website. An Indymedia press

release described what happened.(1)

Thursday morning, US authorities

issued a federal order to Rackspace
ordering them to hand over Indymedia
web servers to the requesting agency.
Rackspace, which provides hosting
services for more that 20 Indymedia sites
at its London facility, complied and
turned over the requested servers,
effectively removing those sites from the
internet.

Since the subpoena was issued to

Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the
reasons for this action are still unknown
to Indymedia. Talking to Indymedia
volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they
cannot provide Indymedia with any
information regarding the order." ISPs
have received gag orders in similar
situations which prevent them from
updating the concerned parties on what
is happening. [...]

The last few months have seen

numerous attacks on independent media
by the US Federal Government. In
August the Secret Service used a
subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the
NYC IMC before the RNC by trying to
get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the
Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut

down community radio stations around
the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested
that Indymedia takes down a post on the
Nantes IMC that had a photo of some
undercover Swiss police and IMC
volunteers in Seattle were visited by the
FBI on the same issue. On the other hand,
Indymedia and other independent media
organizations were successful with their
victories for example against Diebold and
the Patriot Act. Today however, the US
authorities shut down IMCs around the
world.

The list of affected local media

collectives includes Ambazonia,
Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western
Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles,
Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria
(Basque Country), Liege, East and West
Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium),
Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy,
Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and
the global Indymedia Radio site.

Indymedia had to learn through the

news wires that Rackspace turned over

their computers in response to an order

under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty

(MLAT). Apparently the FBI subpoenaed

the UK-based internet service provider

in response to an Italian request. "The

U.S. authorities, going beyond the

requirements of the RFI [Request For

Information], then issued an order to seize

the drives," says an Indymedia press

release dated 14 October 2004.

"Indymedia's seized hardware was

mysteriously returned in the same way it

disappeared--without any information

provided as to who took it or why, and on

whose orders." Indymedia is currently

investigating whether the hard drives

were tampered with.

Several organizations of international

journalists correctly protested the FBI's

actions. "We have witnessed an

intolerable and intrusive international

police operation against a network

specializing in independent journalism,"

said Aidan White, the General Secretary

for the International Federation of

Journalists (IFJ). "The way this has been

done smacks more of intimidation of

legitimate journalistic inquiry than crime-

busting." David Dadge, editor for the

International Press Institute, said, "The

fact that the authorities' actions are

shrouded in mystery leaves Indymedia in

the Kafkaesque position of not knowing

the identity of its accusers or the nature

of their claim."

MIM adds that this is nothing new.

We've reported in these pages about

cyber attacks on MIM and pro-Palestinian

organizers.(2) Our newspaper is regularly

censored by prison wardens and college

administrators.(3) "You have the right to

free speech," the old joke goes, "as long

as you don't actually try to use it."

Amerikans need to re-learn some of

the their "founding fathers'" lessons

regarding a free press and the abuse of

governmental power. The Patriot Act and