The viciousness exemplified by police all-over the nation following and during the protests is chilling, but understandable, given the source of much of U.S. police training.
Few Americans are aware that according to a report produced by Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (RAIA) the Israeli military, police and those in intelligence agencies train U.S. police forces under Israel's counter-terrorism methods, which also involves racial profiling:
For decades Latin American dictators were trained at the School of the Americas in the United States in state-of-the-art torture and counter-insurgency. They received counter-insurgency training that they then used in installing military dictatorships and repressing their own people. American police are now being trained by Israel/Apartheid in methods for controlling the American people. Dictatorships do not just happen in Latin America.
As to the response of the corporate Democrats relative to the protests, the favored tempered response to Trump's illegal actions in calling out the military and decree Anti-fa as a terrorist organization is that the president "is not being helpful".
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BP: What's your view about the Black Lives Matter's impact in the U.S. and its future?
Danny Weil: There is little doubt that Black Lives Matter have helped popularize some of today's policy positions, such as the call to abolish ICE and to abolish police and prisons.
And Black Lives Matter calls for single-payer healthcare, the legalization of marijuana, in addition to an end of mass incarceration and police violence towards black people, and investments in communities.
However, none of the above can be nor will be accomplished under capitalism and the creeping fascism that now exposes the face of political expression.
As I wrote in 2016 for the Muslim Press, Black Lives Matter must become an anti-capitalist movement if it is to have any impact on black lives and the lives of all workers, the disenfranchised and the dispossessed.
This was four years ago and I have not wavered from this claim; in fact, current events indicate it is now more important than ever. Police violence is the response of an economic system in crisis. It is the response one should expect from capitalism if they have read history.
One would think that Black Lives Matter would concur with the need to challenge capitalist relations. According to BLM, the impetus for their organization and commitment was, and still is, "the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state".
Yet disturbing facts regarding BLM that are at odds with their commitment have received little news coverage. Many people do not realize that the political aims and nature of Black Lives Matter hardly challenge "violence inflicted by the state" but on the contrary, the organization has now partnered with "the corporate state".
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