"Both corporate political parties in the United States are loyal soldiers in the war."
Lastly, Assata teaches us that the technologies of the state used to destroy the Black liberation movement have been expanded to consume the entire infrastructure of the U.S. national security state. U.S. imperialism has the most expansive military apparatus in human history. Every person within the U.S' colonial borders is the target of surveillance by the NSA. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 gave sitting U.S. presidents the ability to place an individual under indefinite military detention without cause or due process . One in three Black men can expect to spend time in the mass incarceration regime in their lifetime. This is not to mention that the concrete war against the Black liberation movement has birthed a new program all together in the form of the FBI's systematic targeting of "Black Identity Extremists." As the newly organized Black Identity Extremist Abolition collective points out, it is difficult to trace the impact of the FBI's Black Identity Extremism program. However, the mysterious deaths of several Ferguson activists appear to indicate that the program is fully operational and represents a serious threat to the lives of Black Americans across the country.
Thus, the long war on the Black liberation movement continues. Both corporate political parties in the United States are loyal soldiers in the war. Menendez and Rubio's collaborative effort to lynch Assata Shakur is a show of force against the socialist nation of Cuba, which has steadfastly defended the human rights of U.S. political prisoners. The resolution is further rooted in the understanding that Black leaders such as Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal present a dangerous alternative to the stagnant and dead-end political and economic conditions of U.S. imperialism. The ruling class will stop at nothing until the memory and lessons of the Black liberation movement are fully buried from consciousness. We must remember that the war on the Black liberation movement did not end in the 1970s and to stop at nothing to free our political prisoners.
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