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As We Know it and I Feel Fine

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Spank you very much.

They can do anything they want to to us.

We might not be back

I might be in jail, I might be anywhere...

but when I leave you can remember I said

with the last words on my lips

that I am a Revolutionary

and you're gonna have to keep on

saying that.

You're gonna have to say that I am

a proletariat... I am the people.

I'm not the pig.

You gotta make a distinction.

And the people are gonna have to

attack the pigs.

The people are gonna have to

stand up against the pigs.

That's what the Panthers are doing here.

That's what the Panthers are doing

all over the world.

Goooooooooooooood morning slaves

and welcome to another sedition of

It's the End of the World as We Know it

and I Feel Fine...

where children are the future.

That cop was so drunk

he waved traffic into his pants.

Look... a pig on a hog!

Oink Oink! Bang Bang!

Hope that badge is bulletproof.

That's the car where they keep the bribes.

Car 79... we've got a Black man

minding his own business.

Meanwhile.. on the other side of town...

I am your host the Stimulator,

and October 15th marked

the 50th fucking anniversary of

the founding of one of the most infamous,

The state assembly was in the midst of

a heated debate when the young Negroes

armed with loaded rifles, shotguns,

and pistols, marched into the capital.

iconic,

That look....

y'know, the big afro,

the leather jacket, the shades...

politically sophisticated,

They were the ones that really came out

and started showing us how to

organize successfully.

and all-around badass

revolutionary organizations in the history

of the United Snakes...

the Black Panthers Party.

This anniversary comes at

a particularly salient moment

in mothafuckin history.

In the United Snakes, a growing awareness

of police brutality and systematic racism

has been thrust into the mainstream

by the Black Lives Matter movement,

while street-level rebellions

to white supremacist police terror

have been lighting up urban city centers

at a frequency not seen since the 1960s.

Can you dig it?!

[Applause]

Over the past two and a half years,

Black-led uprisings have kicked off

in Ferguson,

Baltimore,

Milwaukee,

and most recently, Charlotte, NC.

The Panther's emerged during

a similarly tumultuous era,

at a time when the reformist discourse

of the southern, rural-based

civil rights movement,

was rapidly giving way to

the righteous anger and militancy

of the primarily urban-based

Black Power movement.

Back in the summer of 1964,

50 years before Ferguson, pigs shot

and killed 15 year old Black youth,

James Powell, leading to six nights

of intense fucking riots in Harlem.

And 50 years before Baltimore

came the Watts Rebellion,

an even more intense six days of rioting

which, surprise surprise, was provoked

by an incident of racist police brutality

at the hands of the LA fucking Pig D.

Over the next three summers

riots broke out at a rate of

nearly one per month.

Once the Black people of the slums

got up on their legs and

defied the white police,

a tremor of self-recognition

seemed to go all through the Negro world.

"Burn baby burn" drowned out

"we shall overcome."

This wave of

insurrectionary mothafuckin rage

reached its high water mark

in April of '68, in the nights following

the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

with incendiary riots breaking out in

over 100 cities across the United Snakes

in what remains, to this day,

the largest display of popular unrest

seen in the country since the Civil War.

The Panthers effectively seized

this widespread sense of Black anger

and outrage, and channeled it

into sustained revolutionary organizing.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, today

asserted that the Black Panthers

represent the greatest internal threat

to the nation.

At its height, the Black Panthers

had over ten thousand members,

organized into dozens of chapters

across the country.

They say a Black Panther

is born every minute in the ghetto.

Throw in the fact that the United Snakes

was at the time engaged in

a deeply unpopular and socially polarizing

war in Vietnam,

in which thousands of soldiers

were going AWOL, and some were even

fragging their fucking officers,

Do it.

and you can begin to see why the state

was shitting its proverbial pants.

Buuuuuuuuuut while that crazy fuck,

J Edgar Hoover, and his racist crackers

at the FBI were at the time

most terrified by the Panther’s so-called

survival pending revolution programs,

such as their free breakfast

for poor school children,

We feed about 10,000

across the country each day.

today they are most widely remembered

for their militaristic regalia,

and their embrace of armed self-defense,

and community patrols,

which they carried out

as a self-defense measure

against racist pigs.

Is that gun loaded boy!?

I tell you officer, it wasn't...

but now it is.

Many of the white-knuckled,

racist dipshits who lie awake at night

stressing about Obama

taking away their guns,

Come and get 'em Obama!

would no doubt choke on

their fucking mayonnaise sandwiches to

learn that it was the GOP's cowboy mascot,

the ol' Gipper himself,

Ronnie fucking Reagan,

Fuck Ronald Reagan!

who back in 1967,

as Governor of California,

seized on the widespread sense

of white panic provoked by

the Panthers' armed community patrols

and used it as an excuse to

uhhh... take away peeps' guns.

I don't think that loaded guns

is a way to solve a problem that should

be solved between people of good will.

And anyone who would approve of

this kind of demonstration,

must be out of their mind.

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGH!

In our current age of intense corporate

and social media saturation,

in which Black-led urban uprisings

are again becoming a frequent response

to rampant police killings,

white reaction is once more

rearing its ugly fucking head,

with many pointing to the administration

of Barack Hussein Obama,

either as proof that the United Snakes

has evolved into a post-racial society,

Surprise!

Study finds people don't understand

how racism works.

or else to frantically accuse him

of trying to start a race war.

A former federal prosecutor is sueing.

The suit accuses all of them of

inciting a race war, and it seeks

damages of more than $2 billion.

Buuuuuuuuuuut while pig-apologists

of the Blue Lives Matter variety,

endlessly try to paint victims

of police terror

and those who participate in riots,

as thugs or mindless criminals, their

collective shock and indignant confusion

over why Black youth would be angry enough

to loot or burn down shops,

speaks fucking volumes.

The fact of the matter is that

the “race war” has been raging

for hundreds of years,

ever since white Europeans brought

the first enslaved Africans over

to Turtle Island in chains,

and forced them to farm the very land

they'd stolen through the genocide

of its original inhabitants.

Settler-colonial capitalism is itself

a fucking race war, at the same time as

it's a perpetual class war waged by

those on the top against

those at the bottom.

So peeps shouldn't be so fucking shocked

when those at the bottom

decide to fight back.

We don't hate mothafuckin white people,

we hate the oppressor.

Whether he be white, black,

brown or yellow.

In fact, they should fucking join in,

and help overthrow this

racist fucking system once and for all.

One two three four five

Six seven eight nine

What I use in the battle for the mind

I hit it hard like it supposed

Pullin' no blows to the nose

Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows

Then what it is only 5 percent of the biz

I'm addin' woes

That's how da way it goes

Then you think I rank never drank, point blank

I own loans

Suckers got me runnin' from the bank

Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee

I never saw a way to pay a sap

To read the law

Then become a victim of a lawyer

Don't know ya, never saw ya

Tape cued

Gettin' me sued

Playin' games wit' my head

What the judge said put me in the red

Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead

No no, my education mind say

Suckers gonna pay

Anyway, there gonna be a day

'Cause the troop they roll in

To posse up

Whole from the ground

Ready to go

Throw another round

Sick of the ride

It's suicide

For the other side of town

When I find a way to shut 'em down

i shut 'em down, shut 'em shut 'em down.

As white peeps in the United Snakes

are freaking the fuck out

over killer clowns,

Let's show them how Homie gets back

at Mr. Establishment, shall we?

Sure.

[Screaming]

Black and Brown peeps around the world

are celebrating the 50th anniversary

of the founding of

the Black Panther Party.

Revolution has come... off the pigs!

Time to pick up the gun... off the pigs!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut to say

this commemoration is bittersweet

would be a fucking understatement.

Outside of a Beyonce

Superbowl performance,

no serious acknowledgement of

the Panther's vital contributions

to revolutionary theory and practice

can gloss over the sheer fucking brutality

of the repression that

the United Snakes unleashed on its cadre,

and the organization as a whole.

This ruthless campaign of repression

was planned and coordinated by

the greasy motherfuckers at the FBI

through a series of dirty operations

grouped together under the

infamous umbrella of COINTELPRO.

COINTELPRO, pig short-hand for

Counter-Intelligence Program,

was already up and running

by the times the Panthers arrived

on the scene in '65,

having been earlier used to fuck with

Independistas in my homeland of Boriken,

also known as Puerto Rico,

as well as members of

the US Communist Party,

the New Left,

and various Civil Rights leaders.

Buuuuuuuuuuuut as it turns out,

that was just a warm up

for what was still to come.

In the five and a half years

between when they formed

and COINTELPRO officially ended,

the Black Panther Party was the target of

no less than 233 fucking ops

overseen and carried out by the FBI,

who used a toxic fucking mix of

surveillance, deception,

psychological warfare and

widespread infiltration to help stir up

internal beefs and provoke strife

with other armed organizations, in hopes

of inciting violent confrontations,

such as the shooting on the UCLA campus

that killed two influential leaders

of the LA chapter,

Bunchy Carter and John Huggins.

When this didn't do the trick, the FBI

engaged in straight up assassinations,

a prime example being the 1969 murder

of Fred Hampton,

who was killed in his bed by

a Chicago Police death squad,

acting under orders of the Feds

and with the active cooperation of

his personal bodyguard,

who just so happened to be an FBI plant.

At a time when every small-town

police department has its own fucking tank

and enough military-grade weapons

to invade Luxembourg,

it is sometimes forgotten that

the very first SWAT Team raid was launched

against the Black Panthers' office

in Los Angeles,

culminating in a four hour firefight

in which four Panthers and four pigs

were injured,

but amazingly, no one was killed.

As a result of COINTELPRO and

its unnamed covert successor programs,

dozens of Panthers and former Panthers

were framed up on bogus charges and

many sentenced to long prison sentences,

in some cases serving decades

in mothafuckin solitary confinement.

These political prisoners were joined

in the vast fucking bowels of

the American gulag system

by captured soldiers of

the Black Liberation Army,

many of whom were themselves

former Panthers who opted for

underground armed struggle following

the fateful split between Huey P Newton

and Eldridge Cleaver.

As the revolutionary threat

of the Panthers was receding,

the state massively expanded the scope

of its counterinsurgency operations.

In 1971, Richard Nixon launched

the so-called War on Drugs,

which Tricky Dick’s domestic policy chief,

John Ehrlichman, later admitted

was a thinly-veiled plot to target

Black peeps and anti-war leftists.

What matters is that Mr. Tynan's

clients and the Bureau have come up

with a solution to our Panther problem.

A final solution, you might say.

You give us free reign of the ghetto,

we solve your problem.

The pacifying qualities of heroin

are quite formidable.

The resulting wave of mass incarceration

was only increased under

the Reagan administration,

From the early days of our administration,

Nancy has been abusing marijuana

on a daily basis.

which cynically ramped up the

so-called War on Drugs, while

simultaneously cutting social programs

and using the CIA to flood

inner-city neighbourhoods with crack.

Shit got even worse under Billy Clint,

whose three-strikes federal

sentencing provisions led to

an explosion of prison population,

setting the stage for the system of

mass exploitation of imprisoned

slave labour - against which

tens of thousands of prisoners are

currently waging a historic strike.

Yup. Like I said, bittersweet…..

to say the fucking least.

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut while the United Snakes'

ruling class was ultimately able to

contain and destroy the Black Panthers

and has since honed and sharpened

its methods of counterinsurgency

and repression,

there is still much to be learned from

those who have experienced, first-hand,

the extreme lengths to which it will go

to maintain its domination.

So, to help uncover some of these lessons

and how they apply to

present day struggles,

I recently caught up with

JoNina & Lorenzo Komboa Ervin,

two former members of the Black Panthers

and current members of

the Black Autonomy Federation.

Hey y'all, how the fuck are ya?

Hanging in there... doing alright.

We're fine, bro.

You were both members of

the Black Panthers back in the day.

What led you to join the Party

and what roles did you play

within the organization?

Well in my case, it was at an

earlier stage.

I had been part of another organization,

a civil rights organization called

the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Committee, which had gone over

from Civil Rights - by 1968 had gone over

to Black Power.

For a brief period, the Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee linked up with

the Black Panther Party... in 1967.

They had an alliance from '67 to '69.

That's how I got involved.

I joined the Black Panther Party because

I saw all the things that were going on

around the country in terms of

police brutality, poverty and oppression.

And I realized as an individual,

by myself I couldn't do anything.

J. Edgar Hoover believed that the most

well-organized and subversive element

of the Black Panthers was its

breakfast for children programs.

Why do you think he found these so-called

survival programs so threatening?

And what types of programs do you think

might pose a similar threat today?

The survival programs, particularly

the breakfast program was threatening

to the US government because we were

talking about feeding people who were

hungry... children. We couldn't feed

all the hungry children, but we fed

as many as we could... and this drew

attention to the fact of poverty in

the United States - especially poverty

against Black people in the country.

That was really threatening because

they didn't want that kind of thing

to be highlighted at that time.

So they was particularly threatened.

There's a lot of hunger and poverty still

in the United States.

Obviously we couldn't organize

maybe in the same kind of way,

but you've got people who've been cut off

of food stamps here in Missouri.

They've cut off - in March they cut off

26,000 people from food stamps.

So you drive by these food pantries

and you see lines stretching, y'know,

for blocks.

So there's still a need for those kind

of programs. And if they had them today,

it would once again highlight

what's going on right now in this country.

This class warfare... war against

poor and low-income people.

After your time in the Panthers you later

became more influenced by anarchism,

while remaining critical of

the broader anarchist movement.

What sparked this political shift?

And what do you think are some of

the limitations of the anarchist movement

that impede its revolutionary potential

in the United Snakes?

At the time when I went to prison in 1969,

the Black Panther Party, the Black Power

movement was actually going through

a stage of being attacked and crumbling.

So when I went into prison,

into solitary confinement, I was looking

for something different in terms of

organization. Also, I saw some of the

errors that had been made by the Black

Panther Party and other organizations

in placing so much emphasis on leadership

as opposed to mass struggles.

So my thing was, when I became an

anarchist it was, the one thing that did

grab me was the idea that power

should be in the hands of the people

instead of in the state.

And then the criticisms of the state.

So I thought that was very good,

and my being a political prisoner,

my case was adopted by

the Anarchist Black Cross as it was

reformed in the UK.

I still think that anarchism has

some serious political value.

The problem is the organization,

and the failure to make the ties

to communities.

There's too much emphasis on activism

and not enough emphasis on

community organizing.

The Black Panthers emerged within

the context of the Cold War, at a

time of widespread national liberation

struggles waged by Marxist-Leninist

revolutionaries.

How did this political climate affect

the organizational structure of the Party?

And what role do you think this played

on how things played out?

Well we were, in the Black Panther Party

we were very inspired by what was going on

overseas, particularly in Africa

- the African liberation struggles.

We, y'know we saw they had different

models for how they were organized.

In a lot of cases they may have had a

collective leadership, or they may have

had what they called central committees,

and we sort of saw ourselves as fighting

the Black liberation struggle

here in the United States.

And to a certain degree we tried to

pattern ourselves after

what was going on in Africa.

We saw what they were doing,

and we thought maybe it'd be possible

for us to overthrow state terror

in the United States.

What are your thoughts on the role of

social media, smart phones and other

modern telecommunication technology

as it relates to the struggle

against police and the building of

a revolutionary movement more broadly?

I'm no expert when it comes to technology

but I am clearly able to understand how

the ability to reach people with a message

that you ordinarily would not have been

able to reach

- the Black Panther Party in its day

was only able to reach people as far as

its newspaper would carry it,

or word of mouth.

And it was significant to be quite honest,

but the truth is, in this period you are

definitely able to reach a lot more people

through computer networks.

I was really struck by the fact that

the fiance, the girlfriend of the brother

who was killed by the police up in

Minnesota a couple of months ago,

that she got on her cell phone and hooked

up with a facebook, I guess,

video messenger, and was able to let

people - I mean we actually saw him,

he was sitting in the car dying.

The police officer had a gun on her,

and her little girl.

And a lot of people in this country

do not understand how police terror

has worked for so long against

Black people and other people of colour.

And here was a prime example of

how it works.

What do you make of the current

state of anti-police resistance in

the United Snakes and some

of the specific calls for police reform

that have emerged from its

more prominent elements,

such as Black Lives Matter?

For a lot of the young people today,

y'know, they're becoming more

aware of police terror, and I think

Black Lives Matter has helped

maybe to raise their consciousness

on that level.

But I think the limitation is, is that it

has to get beyond mass protests

in the streets against particular

incidents of police brutality.

I'm not saying that should stop,

but you have to begin to have a broader

picture of how do we deal with

police terror in the United States.

How do Black and other people of colour

who are the primary victims of that,

how do we defend ourselves

against police terror?

What we need to think about

is building a new kind of movement.

An anti-fascist movement that wants

to transform the whole of society.

To understand that the police are

an intrinsic part of the government.

We need to educate broad layers of people

about what the police really are

- the police death squad.

We need police! We are not anti-police!

This whole propaganda line about trusting

the police, and their right to patrol

and all that...

we have to challenge the police.

And the whole idea that we even

need the police.

If we were able to build the kind of

society that was based on justice and

equality and freedom for the people,

we wouldn't even need police forces.

You know what I'm saying?

Just like we talk about abolishing prisons

we have to talk about

abolishing the police.

We need a movement that seeks to have

a social revolution.

That's what we need.

We don't need a movement that's

concerned about just making the

bed of oppression more comfortable.

We need to talk about

smashing it completely.

Smashing the state completely.

One of the most enduring legacies

of the Panthers was its embrace of

armed self-defense against police.

What role do you think that guns play

in terms of community self-defense

and building a revolutionary movement?

I think that the armed self-defense

was very important when the Black Panther

Party was started.

I think now we're in a situation

where the police are almost on

a daily basis in this country

arbitrarily executing Black people

and other people of colour.

I mean you can have car trouble and

stop your car someplace and wind up,

y'know, dead... your family's planning

your funeral.

So we have to talk about how, in our

community, do we begin to defend ourselves

against this police terror.

One thing that we have to stop doing

in the Black community is to call

the police when there is a problem.

This brother who got killed in California

recently, he was supposed to have had

a mental health episode.

His sister called the police to get help

for that mental health episode,

now she had had to bury her brother.

The Black Panther Party, we talked about

community control of the police.

OK... we have to begin to have that

type of control again in our communities

where we do not need to rely

on the police.

There's no question that we have to talk

about... the building of the next movement

has to be - it doesn't have to be totally

an armed paramilitary movement, but it

certainly has to be a movement that

practices armed self-defense, with an

understanding of going then to the stage

of revolutionary violence as a means of

not just defense, but transforming society

because they're not going to give up power

without mass-murdering as many of us

as they can... and they're doing that

now anyway, so we don't have any choice.

But the community itself has to reach

the stage of rejection of authority.

Rejection of the police.

And that's the role of the organizer.

The organizer has to be there agitating

and pointing out that these people can't

be trusted, never will be trusted,

and why they're a criminal death squad

and that they have to be removed entirely.

We have to push them out of our community.

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