“Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways . . . Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their streets, in all the corners of the globe.”—Frantz Fanon
“Don’t mourn. Organize!”—Joe Hill
The recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, U.S.A., was nothing short of a STATE sanctioned assassination; the ramifications of which, yet again, indicts the “nauseating mimicry” of judicial justice in this nation for everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow men, women, and children.
Notwithstanding the utter barbarism and unequal application of the death penalty throughout this nation, the State assassination of Troy Davis is about the systemic callous disregard of and for the constant police/government coercion and intimidation of witnesses by the U.S. state and federal judicial apparatus against everyday people in this land. This aforementioned systemic callous disregard mocks, disfigures and distorts the very meaning of the word justice both at home and abroad.
The execution of Troy Davis goes well beyond the State’s snuffing out of a single human life. It is a chilling signal from the political State to everyday people that not only is justice itself irrelevant but even the pretense of it is no longer deemed necessary in an increasingly de facto national police state where dissent has, in reality, been criminalized.
It is imperative to understand that we exist in a nation whose political and judicial misleaders are not only corporately owned but who themselves are purveyors of fear, manipulation, subterfuge, obfuscation, and hypocrisy. This applies not only to the case of Troy Davis (and many other such cases) but to all of us everyday people. Thus, while racism and other injustices of all kinds are devastatingly real, everyday people will continue to be divided and harnessed by these corporately-owned politicians and legal practitioners for as long as we fail to grasp the over-all picture of what is being done to us.
Ask yourselves, how many blood-sucking Wall Street legalized murderers of the corporate elite are executed by the political State? Of course, the answer is obvious. These vampiric corporate blood-suckers own the political State, including the judiciary and corporate-stream ‘news’ media of this nation. How many of them are on death row for economically (and/or physically) extinguishing or ruining the lives of everyday people in this nation and around the world? Their enormous horrendous crimes against everyday people are glossed over and covered-up by the political State [i.e., the national body politic] which they have expropriated, and, in actuality, own.
Crucial evidence of police intimidation, etc., pointed to the innocence of the State-assassinated Troy Davis, but neither innocence nor justice are relevant to this nation’s corporate-State. For the purposes of the corporate-State the so-called ‘legal process’ is a sham, a mockery of justice. What is relevant to the corporate-State and the corporate-stream media is that everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people be manipulated, distracted, economically blood-sucked, and kept at one another’s throats.
The physical elimination of Troy Davis must serve as a wake-up call to all of us, for in the eyes of the elite of the corporate-State we are all Troy Davis. We are expendable chattel. Justice be damned!
TROY DAVIS IS NOT DEAD. His spirit lives in all of us. It is time for a bottom-up, everyday people’s revolution in this nation. We must organize, each one teaching one, to regain our humanity. We must understand that the murders at home and abroad that this corporate-government commits in our name are NOT acceptable and we must not lend our names to them—EVER!
In the words of Joe Hill, who was many years ago, framed and assassinated by the State, “Don’t mourn. Organize!” Take heart!
Onward then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!
BlackCommentator.comEditorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
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On the meaning and ramifications of the State assassination of Troy Davis
Posted on October 4, 2011 by Larry Pinkney
The recent execution of Troy Davis in Georgia, U.S.A., was nothing short of a STATE sanctioned assassination; the ramifications of which, yet again, indicts the “nauseating mimicry” of judicial justice in this nation for everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow men, women, and children.
Notwithstanding the utter barbarism and unequal application of the death penalty throughout this nation, the State assassination of Troy Davis is about the systemic callous disregard of and for the constant police/government coercion and intimidation of witnesses by the U.S. state and federal judicial apparatus against everyday people in this land. This aforementioned systemic callous disregard mocks, disfigures and distorts the very meaning of the word justice both at home and abroad.
The execution of Troy Davis goes well beyond the State’s snuffing out of a single human life. It is a chilling signal from the political State to everyday people that not only is justice itself irrelevant but even the pretense of it is no longer deemed necessary in an increasingly de facto national police state where dissent has, in reality, been criminalized.
It is imperative to understand that we exist in a nation whose political and judicial misleaders are not only corporately owned but who themselves are purveyors of fear, manipulation, subterfuge, obfuscation, and hypocrisy. This applies not only to the case of Troy Davis (and many other such cases) but to all of us everyday people. Thus, while racism and other injustices of all kinds are devastatingly real, everyday people will continue to be divided and harnessed by these corporately-owned politicians and legal practitioners for as long as we fail to grasp the over-all picture of what is being done to us.
Ask yourselves, how many blood-sucking Wall Street legalized murderers of the corporate elite are executed by the political State? Of course, the answer is obvious. These vampiric corporate blood-suckers own the political State, including the judiciary and corporate-stream ‘news’ media of this nation. How many of them are on death row for economically (and/or physically) extinguishing or ruining the lives of everyday people in this nation and around the world? Their enormous horrendous crimes against everyday people are glossed over and covered-up by the political State [i.e., the national body politic] which they have expropriated, and, in actuality, own.
Crucial evidence of police intimidation, etc., pointed to the innocence of the State-assassinated Troy Davis, but neither innocence nor justice are relevant to this nation’s corporate-State. For the purposes of the corporate-State the so-called ‘legal process’ is a sham, a mockery of justice. What is relevant to the corporate-State and the corporate-stream media is that everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow people be manipulated, distracted, economically blood-sucked, and kept at one another’s throats.
The physical elimination of Troy Davis must serve as a wake-up call to all of us, for in the eyes of the elite of the corporate-State we are all Troy Davis. We are expendable chattel. Justice be damned!
TROY DAVIS IS NOT DEAD. His spirit lives in all of us. It is time for a bottom-up, everyday people’s revolution in this nation. We must organize, each one teaching one, to regain our humanity. We must understand that the murders at home and abroad that this corporate-government commits in our name are NOT acceptable and we must not lend our names to them—EVER!
In the words of Joe Hill, who was many years ago, framed and assassinated by the State, “Don’t mourn. Organize!” Take heart!
Onward then, my sisters and brothers! Onward!
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.