BlackCommentator.com: On the Meaning and Ramifications of the STATE Assassination of Troy Davis - Keeping it Real By Larry Pinkney, BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board
"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 intimdation, etc. pointed to the innocence
of the State-assassinated Troy Davis, but neither innocence
or 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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