I
sit and watch the downward spiral called the United States in my safe Taiwanese
home, but a radical at heart I remain and do what I can to educate wayward
sheep busy flocking themselves with condemnations of the violence of revolt.
There are no criminals in an uprising; downtrodden victims of capitalism. If
anything good can come out of the botched response to COVID-19, it is this. My
son was living on the streets of LA when it hit home but he wisely took my
offer to transport him to his sister's homes near Pittsburgh where he will stay
and get medical tests and credentials before going anywhere else.
A friend from California wrote: “The cadet called MAGA boys to attack protesters at the WH. See what happens to night.” I was not being brazen to say I hoped, if there was a blood bath there was a blood bath outside the White House, most of it would be white supremacist or military police; there is no revolution without martyrs. The US protesters must go beyond the Yellow Vests of France, in size and shape, minorities, veterans, students, unionists, housewives. This will be the last chance to turn the US around.
There were reports of
agent provocateur and police brutality during the mass uprising against the
system brought on by the murder of another person by the police. The police are
provoking the violence but the people can organize and fight back. Get in a car
and run over some. Get on the roofs and drop Maltov cocktails on them. Follow
them home and set their straw houses on fire. Don’t let the violence scare us.
Organize clandestinely and fight back! There must be a civil war, as I
discussed with another incredulous stateside friend no more than a month ago,
to which she threatened to unfriend me; we snoozed each other. Guerilla
tactics.
I could see what they were doing with the
COVID-19 unpreparedness and telling people to stay off the streets. They’ve got
the guns but we’ve got the numbers. Doesn’t matter if the schmuck is calling
ANTIFA a terrorist organization (it’s not an organization anyway) because we
know the streets and alleyways of our towns. For all the privileged white cowards
like Lorraine Green hiding behind black husbands and police officer
step-children, there are many more white people that know the score and tried
to burn down the CNN headquarters in Atlanta for their misinformation. We will
be coming out of the woodwork and we will win to create an anarcho-syndicalist
socialist state!
The curfew in DC on June first was ten o’clock. There were
thousands of beautiful young people on the streets surrounding the White House
defying it. Trump was belligerent threatening to bring in troops; martial law
loomed. Those brave young fellow workers were amazing! That night it looked
like there was going to be the start of the revolution. There was going to be
no more Republican-Democrat hegemony over American people. The Senate would be
forced to resign or be hanged.
Trump was not resigning.
Military police were firing teargas and I believe the protesters should have
been more offensive; break through the line. But it is okay to retreat to find
a location unprotected to fight back. The protesters backed off Lafayette Park,
but when they were attacked every protester needed to have a weapon and
protection. Telling well-apportioned police not to shoot is useless. They had noisy
military helicopters hovering low over the people.
I was watching two You-Tube feeds and felt
like I was there. I would have run away, too, as I did many times in past demonstrations
against the US government. I, too, would not get a stick and fight back. Before
curfew at 10 pm, police started attacking peaceful and militant protesters
without discrimination. The protesters then would not have been wrong to pick
up metal barricades and rush at the brutal police firing teargas and rubber
bullets at them, but they were backing off. But eight minutes until curfew, no
one was following orders to get off the streets in DC, NYC, and elsewhere else
in forty cities across the USA.
At midnight, the feed
from Matt, who was sending the live, ended; he decided it was time to get into
his car and go home; his parents were worrying about him. The protesters had
backed away from the military police line and took their frustration out on
commercial establishments going into the night seizing the time, and getting
home safely to fight another day.
I was talking with my
California friend for over an hour during the showdown outside the White House as
I watched You-Tube feeds from D.C. He would like to think of himself as a
radical; he is on the right side in this fight, but like many other liberal bourgeois
WASPs in denial about their white Christian privilege, he comforts himself reminiscing
how he was a Chicano amigo once. His wife, a Taiwanese born American, is
out-of-touch as much as my friend about the big corruption of the DPP inviting
the US military in further, buying expensive second –rate equipment, power-sharing
with the KMT; the big international DPP corruption versus the little local KMT corruption with Taiwan's mafia. My friend
is not about to tell his wife anything to upset the apple cart, but at least he
realizes they don't know what's really going on in Taiwan living as they do, isolated
in Ventura. If she loved Taiwan as much as she said she did, they would
come back here.
Seeing life in the States
getting worse I ask myself: Did we escape the USA just in time? I retired early
thanks to a buy-out to save the city money, marginalized in FDR's UFT and NYC
GMB by the time I retired; there was nothing else for me to do but volunteer
for Workers World and attend Anarchist Forums. But I never lost sight of the
deterioration of justice and workers' rights in the States. I didn't jump ship,
did I, but I didn't go down with it, either. The main difference between radical
friends place in Brooklyn and mine is I have a choice of finding out how
horrible it has become there, but he has to live in the muck. In his golden
years, I wouldn't begrudge them a cabin near Walden Pond or something; unless
they're in the underground; the only other way to go.
On Saturday, June 6, they
had a recall vote for the KMT clown from Kaohsiung with the Donald Trump imitation;
his big-mouth campaign didn’t work though and he lost to President Tsai Ying-Wen
in December. He had been elected mayor for the reason that Tsai was not moving
Taiwan forward, politically or economically, but instead of staying to help
Kaohsiung, he immediately started a presidential campaign. Tsai had USA help
and the media played up anti-China Hong Kong hysteria and neutralized her stalemate
while countering her too much-too soon legalizing same-sex marriage to a
conservative society. With any other pro-independence politician like Lai
Ching-Da, the former independence supporting mayor from Tainan, off the table and
out of the way, caved in with the rest of the DPP that has international policy
to China, they chart a similar course to that of the KMT of martial law days;
no discussion with the PRC, and no compromise in the US defended island, and
still workers are overworked, endangered and underpaid without unions. At least
the anger in the US over the brutal police murder of George Floyd is too much
for Taiwan media to ignore and may make some people question why the DPP is
supporting and mimicking a regime like that.
Congratulations to
the people of Kaohsiung for showing the U.S. how to remove a scumbag from
office, something the Democratic Party has no clue about handling. More people
voted to remove him than voted to elect him. Leona and I celebrated and will
make plans to visit Kaohsiung again, I hope.
The proof I sent my
California friend a few days ago supporting the Chinese claim to Taiwan,
sailing to and occupying western Taiwan as early 1600, was contended by him
when we chatted the morning the White House was under siege. Why he would
challenge that China has a right to insist on Taiwan as part of their nation if
he is as against the US government as he says, especially since the DPP has given
up supporting independence and capitulated to old KMT ruse of communist slander
and dependence on the US for surveillance and defense?
The U.S. sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait today for the fourth time in recent months on the anniversary of the Tiananmen disaster, the anniversary when western subterfuge almost torpedoed Chinese socialism. I wondered why there were Taiwanese fighter jets in the sky that morning. How much more anti-worker, anti-people, racist action by the US government must be shown in Taiwan media before the Taiwanese people rise up and oust their own obstruction to nationhood?
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