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Teenage Nazis
From: Dennis Serdel To: Military Resistance Newsletter Sent: September 26, 2013 Subject: Teenage Nazis Written by Dennis Serdel, Vietnam 1967-68 (one tour) Light Infantry, Americal Div. 11th Brigade; United Auto Workers GM Retiree **************************************************************** Teenage Nazis Roy did not know who his father was raised up in Jersey City, New Jersey He grows tired of living on the dirty part of town Joins the Marines at the age of seventeen they teach him how to kill in many different ways Roy loves the power that has been given to him They then send him to Vietnam to join the other Nazis When he goes to his first village

a mamason runs up to him No VC Here No VC Here she nervously says Roy takes his Ka-Bar & stabs her in the gut when a little boy sees his grandma go down he runs to her & says something in Vietnamese Roy takes his 45 & shoots the boy in the head Another Nazi grabs a papason by the neck throws him down the well & takes his silver 38 with pearl handles that his Nazi Dad sent to him & unloads it on papason down in the well Other kids run to their grandmas & grandpas as the Marine Nazis kick them with their jack boot jungle boots & then leave In the next close village there are no Vietnamese in the open anywhere They are all hiding in their mound bomb shelter covered with grass, but the Vietnam Nazis throw hand grenades into the tunnels inside it when they hear the screams they throw in more & then leave they know it will make the VC insane mad in the area about their mothers, fathers, wives & children The American Nazis have become good at finding booby traps & land mines But when 3 of their own hit different ones in one day They kill & burn down 6 villages in a row When they hear of My Lai, they have to admit that the Army Nazis who did this should all get Silver Stars But then in a quiet village they get bored so they take a papason & tie him to a tree & take turns bayoneting him just for fun while in another hut the American nazis gang rape a little girl When Roy kills his first VC, he cuts the head off & puts it on a long thick stick Later he carries it down Highway 1 to the American Nazi base camp & digs a hole & puts the stick head in the ground with rocks to hold it for all to see When Roy flies home after his Tour of the American Nazi War he has ribbons & a Bronze Star & Silver Star for killing the most Vietnamese enemies VC NVA or not His photo makes the front page of the Local Newspaper as a hero killing the most Vietnamese of his whole Company After a couple of days Roy wears his jeans & an old T-shirt & walks along the boardwalk on the Jersey shore A police man who saw his photo tips his hat

to Roy when he walks by & then with the lights on & the ocean breeze, another man recognizes him too & shakes Roys hard hand & asks him what are you going to do, Roy says probably work at the docks, the Mob man shakes his head & says you deserve better than that & he has a high paying job offer with little work, the Mob man sets up a 9 oclock breakfast for both of them the next day. Written by Dennis Serdel for Military Resistance

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Foreign Occupation Servicemember Killed By Afghan Infiltrator Somewhere Or Other In Afghanistan: Nationality Not Announced
September 29, 2013 AP A foreign servicemember died when an individual wearing an Afghan National Security Force uniform shot at foreign service members in eastern Afghanistan today. The scene of the incident is secure and the suspected attacker has been killed. Foreign and Afghan officials are assessing the incident and more information will be released as appropriate.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THE BLOODSHED THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WAR

Resistance Action
Sep 26, 2013 By Pajhwok Report

KUNDUZ CITY: Taliban insurgents seized four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in plainclothes from a public transport bus in northwestern Kunduz province, where as many rebels were killed, officials said on Thursday. The off-duty ANA service-members were travelling on a 303 bus from Kabul to their home province of Badakhshan when suspected insurgents intercepted the vehicle in Khanabad district of Kunduz on Wednesday evening. The district chief, Hayatullah Amiri, said the troops were captured in Chahar Toot area, but it remained unclear where they had been moved. Police have launched an operation to rescue the soldiers. Also in Kunduz, four militants were killed during an operation in the Imam Sahib district late on Wednesday, the governors spokesman, Syed Sarwar Hussaini, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Amanuddin Quraishi, the towns administrative head, said another two militants and a policeman were wounded during the ongoing operation that began two days ago. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed seven Afghan soldiers were killed and their two armoured vehicles destroyed during clashes in Imam Sahib.

Seduced And Abandoned: The US Promised A Visa To My Afghan Interpreter. Now Its Been Revoked
[Thanks to Niko L, Australia, who sent this in. He writes: what fuckers is all I can sayoh I could say more but the typewriter wont stand it. jesus f Christ. 26 September 2013 by Matt Zeller, Guardian News and Media Limited Five years ago, my Afghan interpreter Janis Shinwari saved my life in a firefight against the Taliban. Ever since then, Ive been trying to save his as the Taliban placed him on a kill list for his service to the US military. Afghan and Iraqi interpreters are promised that if they give the United States military one year of faithful and valuable service, they and their immediate families will receive Special Immigrant Visas to come to the United States. Janis has served our military for the past nine years. He has more than earned his place in America, so you can imagine our joy when after years of pleading with the State Department, the US embassy in Kabul issued him and his family US visas two weeks ago. But this past Saturday, everything came crashing down. Janis called me at 2am in a panic.

After giving him and his family their salvation, the State Department revoked it only two weeks later without any explanation. I spent the next few days calling the US embassy in Kabul and State Department to no avail. After total silence, they finally told me that his visa was revoked for reasons they could not legally address. I investigated further and had my worst suspicions confirmed: in the two weeks since the State Department issued his visa, an anonymous informant contacted the US government and claimed all sorts of things about Janis. The informants bogus claims eventually reached an analyst at the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) in Washington DC who promptly put a security hold on Janis visa, prompting the State Department to revoke it all together. Its fairly common for the Taliban to read the US news. I cant help but think that they learned of our successful efforts to secure Janis his visa via the extensive coverage our efforts generated. They used to call our base in Afghanistan and claim all sorts of lies about our interpreters in an attempt to get us to fire them. The Taliban are almost certainly the source of the anonymous tip and now they have more time to hunt him and his family down and kill them. If NCTC and the State Department were to go and check the validity of the source of whatever information prompted this revocation, I am certain it will turn up as not credible at all. The US government took years to review his information and after all that time they felt that he was good to go for a visa. And yet, suddenly, in the last two weeks, a magic piece of information that causes a revocation of his visa has just now come to light? I dont buy it. This development does not pass the logical plausibility test. If he was a bad guy, he would have killed me in the firefight and not two Taliban fighters. After the State Department issued him his visas, he did what anyone in his situation would do what I would do too he sold his house, his possessions, and quit his job because he was told he was on his way to his new life in America. Now, he literally has nothing but the promise our nation made to bring him and his family to the US for his near decade of faithful, honorable, and heroic service to the US military. Apparently, the US government feels its perfectly routine and justified to break that promise. Since his case attracted a large amount of US and international media attention, I fear it has only further raised his profile and his target for Taliban attacks. Any delay in his travel to the US raises the prospects of Taliban reprisal against him and his family. By revoking his visa, the US is literally endangering his life. I fear at this point we can only save Janis by shaming the US government into doing the right thing. I will do whatever I have to to save his life. The United States military doesnt leave a solider behind. Janis is a member of my unit a brother in arms still trapped in Afghanistan. I will not leave him behind.

MILITARY NEWS

Tattoo-Covered Soldiers, Their Ink Showing Even In Uniform, Became A Common Sight Over The Last Decade
Changes To The Rules Include Restrictions On Tattoos That Will Roll Back The More Lenient Guidelines Used During The Height Of The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
[Thanks to SSG N (retd) who sent this in.] Sep 24, 2013 by Jacob Siegel, The Daily Beast. With reporting from Hanqing Chen. Tattoo-covered soldiers, their ink showing even in uniform, became a common sight over the last decade, reflecting both changing styles and the relaxed standards used to boost enlistments, but with the wars almost over and the Army preparing to downsize, body art is on the way out. Almost immediately after taking his post in 2011, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond Chandler began talking about tightening the Armys uniform and grooming policy. Changes to the rules, which have been a source of speculation and debate among soldiers, have just been confirmed by Chandler to include restrictions on tattoos that will roll back the more lenient guidelines used during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The incoming policy will prevent new soldiers who have tattoos that reach below their elbow or their knee or above their neckline from enlisting. The initial wave of reaction on military blogs and social media has been largely negative. Many commenters cite the tattoo standard as antiquated and a poor indication of a soldiers ability to perform the job.

Others say body art has become a large part of the Armys own culture, resurrecting an argument that surfaced when rumors of the new tattoo policy started circulating in 2011. While the changes are unpopular with some, they have not come as a surprise. Chandler has stated his ideas openly and encouraged discussion. When he asked for feedback on his Facebook page In 2011, many wrote in to voice their support, singling out neck tattoos in particular as looking unprofessional and citing the need for uniformity of appearance. The most divisive aspect of Chandlers original proposal in 2011 concerned the fate of soldiers who had been allowed to enlist with tattoos that would be prohibited under new restrictions. At the time, the possibility that those soldiers might be forced to remove their ink or leave the Army was not ruled out. But the new rules take a more moderate position on the issue, in what may be a concession to the negative reaction within the ranks at talk of combat veterans being penalized or forced out for having tattoos that were allowed when they signed up. Serving soldiers who were recruited under the current policy would be grandfathered and allowed to keep their tattoos as long as they do not contain any racist, sexist, or extremist words or symbolism. Upon the adoption of the new system, all soldiers would be required to self-identify tattoos to their unit leaders. Those whose tattoos violate the policy under which they were recruited would be required to pay for tattoo removal themselves, Chandler said. Chandler said tightening the grooming code was an effort to promote recognition of soldiers individual achievements rather than having them stand out for their appearance. Some observers have noted the Armys habit of changing its policies depending on its recruiting needs. The previous change was in 2006, when the Army loosened requirements on tattoos during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan war efforts. Under those regulations only tattoos that covered the face or head were banned. This time around, the policy shift comes amid U.S. government preparations to downsize the military as troops withdraw from Afghanistan and the looming prospect of severe funding cuts to the armed services. Budget cuts first enacted in 2011 have finally started straining Army resources. President Obamas Budget Control Act of 2011 projects $487 billion in military spending cuts over the next decade. As a result, this past June, Gen. Ray Odierno announced that the Army will cut 80,000 active-duty troops over the next five years, which constitutes the largest reduction in combat forces since World War II.

The changes to the tattoo rules are part of a larger review and reconsideration of Army dress code, as Chandler solicited veterans input on a variety of concerns such as earrings for women in uniform. The policy changes are expected to be approved by Secretary of the Army John McHugh within 30 to 60 days, Chandler said.

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass, 1852

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. -- Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

Blurting Out The Lies

An Khe, Vietnam 1970. Photograph by Mike Hastie From: Mike Hastie To: Military Resistance Newsletter Sent: September 25, 2013 Subject: Blurting Out The Lies Blurting Out The Lies If the U.S. Government is not constantly confronted with their lies, Americans will constantly believe that America is exceptional, as Obama recently stated on national television. We are living in a make believe culture. Since the end of World War II, the United States has bombed 28 countries, and has threatened so many more countries with its exceptional behavior. U.S. sanctions against Iraq began in August 1991, and stayed largely in force until May 2003. Watching the 60 Minutes telecast of May 12, 1996, when Lesley Stahl interviewed then Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, is still a shocking piece of truth. Lesley Stahl asked this question to Madeleine Albright: We have heard half a million children have died. I mean, thats more children than died in Hiroshima.

And, you know, is the price worth it? Albright replied: We think the price is worth it. 500,000 Iraqi children died as a result of the U.S. embargo and sanctions, and weapons of terror against that country. In 2008, the population of Wyoming was 532, 668. I have met several Vietnam veteran activists who went to Iraq during the mid 1990s, and visited the hospitals in which these children were dying. When you include deaths from Depleted Uranium, the facts and pictures that my friends took of the dying and the dead, were absolutely unimaginable. That is half the people who were murdered in Auschwitz during the Nazi Holocaust. What I am writing here has been written about by many writers and journalists around the world for years. The Iraqi Children Story can easily be researched on the Internet and many book publications. But, in America, this madness of truth has nearly been exterminated. And, that is why people have to keep writing about this history, so it doesnt vanish. In America we deny that 500,000 Iraqi children died as a result of American tax dollars, because it is information straight our of hell. It is extremely important for activists to keep writing about how dangerous the U.S. Empire is, otherwise American tax dollars will continue to be used to stuff the orifices of the dead. Mike Hastie Army Medic Vietnam September 24, 2013 Photo and caption from the portfolio of Mike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam 1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work, contact at: (hastiemike@earthlink.net) T) One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head. The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a so-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen of Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions. Mike Hastie U.S. Army Medic Vietnam 1970-71 December 13, 2004

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10 August, 2013, Syrian Security Forces Arrested Syrian Journalist And Marxist Dissident Jihad Asaad Muhammad In Central Damascus
Some Might Be Shocked That Two And A Half Years Into What Has Become A Grinding Military Stalemate, The Syrian Regime Is Still Arresting Seemingly Harmless Unarmed Activists And Writers
The Systematic Bid To Arrest Or Kill People With Free Pens And Loud Voices Is A Deliberate, Concerted Tactic That The Regime Will Deploy Until The EndTheir Sons Are In Mansions While Our
Sons Go To Graves

Jihad Asaad Muhammad September 27, 2013 by BudourHassan, http://budourhassan.wordpress.com/ On 10 August, 2013, Syrian security forces arrested Syrian journalist and Marxist dissident Jihad Asaad Muhammad near Athawra Street in central Damascus. News of his arrest was confirmed by his sister Lina, a fellow Marxist and anti-regime activist forced into hiding. Jihad had been among the few revolutionary activists who remained in the Syrian capital, a deceptively quiet bubble under the strangling iron fist of the regime, despite the ominous threat of arrest hovering over his head. Soon after his arrest, a Facebook page for Jihad Asaad Muhammad was created that both demanded Jihads immediate release and re-published articles he had written during and before the uprising. There exist, according to conservative estimates, tens of thousands of Syrian civilians similarly languishing in the myriad detention centres across Syria. The vast majority of them are not well-known tech-savvy activists or writers; they do not speak a foreign language or possess social media accounts; and no-one, except for their families, will care to call for their release and will shed a tear if they die in jail. But it is precisely those the unsung and unknown heroes and heroines of the revolution, the forgotten women and men of impoverished neighbourhoods and the marginalised countryside, and Syrias wretched of the earth were the protagonists of Jihad Muhammads pieces.

His pieces tell us about Massoud, the Lionel Messi of the Syrian revolution, a 17-yearold schoolboy from one of the poorest Damascene cantons. Massoud, a top-scorer of his neighbourhoods football club, participated in demonstrations wearing Messis shirt for FC Barcelona. Taking advantage of his Messilike speed and diminutive size, he raised the revolutionary flag and freedom signs on rooftops, scrawled anti-regime graffiti, and constantly dodged the security forces. Massoud was arrested from his classroom and, for two months, tortured while in custody. After his release, he joined the Free Syrian Army. Jihad also tells us about Umm Haytham, as one of thousands of Syrian women tirelessly going to jails and security branches to look for the whereabouts of their detained and forcibly disappeared sons, brothers, husbands and loved ones. They travel every day under shelling and despite checkpoints, in scorching sun and heavy rain, and put up with insulting remarks of police officers and soldiers. And they remain steadfast, buoyed with hope. He tells us about revolutionary women from socially-conservative and patriarchal communities. Despite their frontline role in the uprising, those women are viewed with repugnance by the self-styled feminists and bourgeois leftists who claim to promote womens rights while not being able to see beyond a womans veil and looks. He tells us about Adnan, an Alawite soldier from the Latakia Mountains who served in Assads army but vehemently supported the uprising. Unable to defect, he was ultimately killed in battle, prompting his bereaved mother to murmur helplessly: Their sons are in mansions while our sons go to graves. In addition, Jihad explores the social, economic and political roots of the Syrian uprising and its evolution into an asymmetrical militarised civil conflict, elegantly discussing the sectarian demographics and the gluttonous neo-liberalism that characterises Assads ostensibly secular and socialist Syria. Issues concerning social justice, class struggle, and critique of the urban bourgeoisie were focal points of Jihads articles, coupled with themes of civil and political liberties and the struggle against tyranny. Born in 1968 to a left-wing family in Damascus countryside, Jihad is the eldest male among nine siblings. Between 2003 and 2004, the Damascus-based Radio Sawt Ashaab aired folktales he wrote and edited. The first major turning point in Jihads journalistic career came in 2006 when he became Editor-in-Chief of the Qassioun newspaper, founded that year by the National Committee for the Unity of Syrian Communists, an off-shot of the Syrian Communist Party.

But Jihad was more than just an editor. He encouraged young Syrian writers to contribute and kept the newspaper going through the thick and thin for five years. Jihad himself wrote columns about a plethora of subjects ranging from arts and culture to state corruption, capitalism and imperialism. His vocal criticism of the government made him a target of persecution by the police state long before March 2011. For him, the Syrian uprising lay bare several truths. The biggest of them, as Jihad puts it, is that long gone are the times when the omnipotent, corrupt and pretentious political and corporate elite dominated their subjects. Now that people have virtually lost what gave them the little that was left for them, people no longer have anything to lose except for the chains that used to shackle them and hinder their liberation. Moreover, He who kills his people and burns his country, its cities, patrimonies and historical citadels is not entitled to claim that he supports other peoples struggles for freedom. Another truth that was exposed by the Syrian revolution is that while people began to liberate themselves, the mainstream leftist elite in Syria tightened its own fetters. The communist Qassioun newspaper took a hostile stance towards the revolution Jihads column existed as the papers sole space that truly sided with the peoples demands until he left the paper and began to write independently only a few months after the revolutions outbreak. Jihads writings got more radical and revolutionary as the uprising went on. Though his articles could fall into populism and excessive optimism occasionally, he always maintained a room for rational and critical analysis while never pontificating or pretending to know more than the revolting masses. Jihads ex-comrade Qadri Jamil, co-founder of Qassioun paper and the national Committee for the Unity of Syrian Communists, would go on to become the Deputy Prime Minister of Economic Affairs. Many of Jamils fellow veteran Syrian communists, who for decades lectured the Syrian proletariat about revolution and liberation, now looked down with degradation and repulsion at the rabble causing chaos and riots. In one of his most eloquent and scathing symbolic texts, published on the first anniversary of the beginning of the uprising in Daraa, Jihad used the shoe metaphor to describe those old revolutionaries: A privileged bourgeois man suddenly discovered a newfound empathy with the poor so he called himself a revolutionary and started seeking a way to help the oppressed and subjugated attain their rights.

He started preaching to the villagers, peasants and farmers who understood nothing from his big slogans, complex language and empty rhetorics. People visited him out of pity only when he was attacked by the police, landlords and village leaders. Ostracised, hungry, naked, and disappointed that his passionate speeches failed to inspire the masses, the self-proclaimed revolutionary man sold himself out to the new affluent leaders of the village who sought to keep him in their pocket. The revolutionary man quickly began attending their bountiful feasts wearing the shoes he was gifted. With the passing of some years, he was reduced to a mere pair of shoes whose only mission is to attend meals and be worn by those who lavished him with their charity. The metaphor used by Jihad in this article articulates the situation of many selfappointed revolutionaries not only in Syria but in the Middle East and worldwide. In another sharp piece, Jihad Muhammad addressed the artists and intellectuals who thought they are entitled to celebrity treatment within the revolutionary movement. In April of 2011 when mass protests spread to the working-class suburb of Douma in Damascus Eastern Ghouta, some artists, intellectuals and actors hoped to climb on the bandwagon and hire themselves as its custodians and spokespersons. Engaging the revolution as an opportunity to nurture their egos, they considered the people of Douma a worthless, ignorant mob that must be educated. To their disbelief, people in Douma did not look at them with awe. Unwilling to allow another power dictate or lecture them, the people treated them as demonstrators rather than VIP guests. Those artists would abandon the revolution when it stopped being cool and sexy, and when it no longer lived up to the lofty standards of their ivory towers. Jihads letter to them succinctly and rigorously sums up the Syrian revolution: This uprising does not need the intellectual elite as masters and theoreticians. Rather, it is the elite who need the uprising to liberate them from their ignorance. And in order to deserve to be a part of the uprising, the elite must be ready to take classes in the Syrian streets about the art of giving, living and freedom. Having taken inventory of Jihads writing and of his participation on the ground, it is not surprising at all that he was eventually arrested. Perhaps some might be shocked that two and a half years into what has become a grinding military stalemate, the Syrian regime is still arresting seemingly harmless unarmed activists and writers. Certainly not all of the regimes actions are rational, but the systematic bid to arrest or kill people with free pens and loud voices is a deliberate, concerted tactic that the regime will deploy until the end.

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Meth Lab Discovered In Generals Office At 29 Palms

Sep 23, 2013 by G-Had, The Duffel Blog TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA Marine leaders aboard Twentynine Palms are still recovering from Mondays discovery of a methamphetamine laboratory in the office of the bases commanding general. Maj. Gen. Oscar Mathers is already facing several dozen meth-related charges, as well as improper use of the government vehicle he stole while attempting to flee the scene. Police also arrested Mathers aide, 2nd Lt. Virgil Spooge Chambers, as an accessory. Maj. Gen. David Berger has been appointed the acting commander of the base while Navy Criminal investigators continue their questioning of Mathers. First Responders uncovered the lab after responding to what they thought was a routine fire caused by shoddy electrical work. Instead, firefighters discovered several rooms full of equipment commonly-used in the production of meth: ammonia, lye, dozens of crates of cold medicine, six boxes of matches scrounged from MREs, and a Mr. Meth maker in the back room.

NCIS think the lab was capable of producing more than 100,000 hits of meth every two days, enough to supply the neighboring town of Joshua Tree for a whole three hours. According to investigators, this is the biggest meth scandal in Twentynine Palms since last years investigation by the California State Police revealed that the entire town was just a front for the Zeta Cartel. Several anonymous sources believe Mathers meth empire dwarfed even that. He is accused of employing his own group of enforcers, nicknamed The Coyotes, to keep rival meth dealers off the base. They also allegedly schooled visiting Marine units in the latest Tactics, Techniques & Procedures on meth creation and distribution of their product, which they nicknamed Salton Glee after a local landmark. There have been stories, thought to be rumors, of several hidden towns aboard the Twentynine Palms base that are actually meth super-labs. Loud booming sounds routinely heard on the base, commonly explained as intense live-fire training, are now believed to have been meth lab explosions. Members of the base military police are now pointing to seemingly-obvious warning signs that all was not right on the base. Weve been hearing for all these years about the sewage problem in Lake Bandini, said a base public affairs official. But we never thought to ask why there were always dozens of mobile homes emitting chemical fumes conveniently parked nearby. In addition, on two occasions Mathers was observed driving a semi-truck full of anhydrous ammonia through the front gate. However when challenged by sentries, he explained that it was simply to fertilize his marijuana plants and they let him pass.

ANNIVERSARIES

September 28, 1917:

IWW Members Indicted For Doing The Right Thing:
Trying To Cause Insubordination, Disloyalty, And Refusal Of Duty In The Military And Naval Forces

Carl Bunin Peace History Sept 27 - Oct 3 166 people who were (or had been) active in the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World, whose members were also known as Wobblies) were indicted for protesting World War I. They were accused of trying to cause insubordination, disloyalty, and refusal of duty in the military and naval forces in violation of the Espionage Act. One hundred and one defendants were found guilty, and received prison sentences ranging from days to twenty years, with accompanying fines of $10,000-$20,000. This was part of a successful U.S. government campaign to cripple the radical union movement. [Successful, that is, until the revolutionary Russian working class took power a month later, in October 1917, got their soldiers out of Imperial World War I, and lit a fire that spread over the world, including here in the USA. T]

OCCUPATION PALESTINE
Zionist Settler Attacks Palestinian Children In Occupied Jerusalem September 16, 2013 by IMEMC & Agencies Sunday evening September 15, 2013 an extremist Israeli settler attacked Palestinian children in Al-Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and was violently beating them before attacking a Palestinian man who tried to stop him. The resident, Maher Ahmad Abu Leil, 48, suffered various cuts and bruises when he tried to stop the assailant who targeted children playing in the area. His sister said that he was heading to a Falafel shop when he noticed a settler using an iron bar to hit Palestinian children, and rushed to defend them. The settler then struck the man to the head with the iron bar, causing severe bleeding, and concussion.

The man was then moved to the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Local sources said that the police arrived at the scene and apprehended the settler.

Unconquered

Palestinians carry a wounded protester after Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters during clashes after a protest in solidarity with Al-Aqsa mosque near the border with Israel, east of Gaza Strip September 27, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem ( [To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commanded by foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.]

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CLASS WAR REPORTS

Violent Protests Against The Sudanese Governments Decision To Double Prices Of Gasoline And Fuel
Freedom, Freedom
The People Want The Fall Of The Regime

Protesters in the city of Omdurman after the Sudanese government announced steep price increases for petroleum products. AFP/Getty Images [Thanks to Alan Stolzer, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.] September 25, 2013 Al Jazeera America Violent protests against the Sudanese governments decision to cut fuel subsidies raged into a third day and turned deadly Wednesday, as public transport came to a halt and riots broke out in and around the capital, Khartoum. Earlier in the week, the government announced steep price increases for petroleum products as it suspended subsidies in an attempt to reform the economy. Six protesters have died during demonstrations in Khartoum, according to medics and relatives of the victims. Demonstrations spread Wednesday to several districts of the capital. The protesters, many of whom were students, chanted Freedom, freedom and The people want the fall of the regime -- borrowing a refrain from many Arab Spring protests, which ousted several governments across the Middle East and northern Africa in 2011. The rioting started after Sudans Council of Ministers decided to lift the subsidies, immediately doubling prices of gasoline and fuel. Oil prices at the pump have shot up to $4.71 a gallon from $2.83; diesel has risen from $1.90 a gallon to $3.16. Inflation in Sudan is already running at 40 percent. Police, who made about 20 arrests and sealed off a section of the main road to Khartoum airport, fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators. Vehicles were burned in the parking lot of a luxury hotel just 500 yards from the international airport, and a gas station in the area was set alight.

Shops were closed in Khartoum and nearby Omdurman, with several roads cut by protesters who blocked access with tree trunks and burned tires, sending black smoke billowing into the sky. The protests began in Wad Madani, and then spreading to the capital, Khartoum, Omdurman, Port Sudan, Atbara, Gedarif, Nyala, Kosti, and Sinnar. Thousands are reported to have taken part, despite the high level of repression. Other protests began in the state of Gezira, south of Khartoum, and have also turned into a call for the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled the country for more than two decades. Sudan lost billions of dollars in oil revenue when South Sudan gained independence two years ago, taking with it about 75 percent of the formerly united countrys crude production. Since then Sudan has been plagued by inflation, a weakened currency and a severe shortage of dollars to pay for imports.

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

Enemy Combatants At It Again:

Texas Police Repeatedly Shot And Tasered A 67-Year-Old Alzheimers Patient - In Her Own Home;
She Wouldnt Drop A Letter Opener
September 26, 2013 By Cameron Langford, Courthouse News SHERMAN, Texas - As her husband begged them to put the gun away, Texas police repeatedly shot and Tasered a demented 67-year-old woman because she wouldnt drop a letter opener, then told the husband they had saved his ass, the man claims. David Seyfried sued the City of Lewisville Police Department and six of its officers in Federal Court, for his wife Dolores Seyfried. Seyfried says he called the Dallas Alzheimers Association hotline after Dolores had become agitated with (him) and had a four (to) five-inch letter opener in her hand at their home in Lewisville, a Dallas suburb.

The Dallas Alzheimers Association then contacted Lewisville police without his consent, Seyfried claims. Defendant Lewisville Officers George Reed and Sgt. Courtney Letalien arrived as David tried to calm Delores down in their back yard, the husband says. Letalien immediately attempted to remove David from the back yard while holding an orange shotgun in his hand, the complaint states. David became very upset once he saw the shotgun and believed at that time that there was no need for such measures. David repeatedly pleaded with Letalien to put the gun away and explained that he can calm her down and that no force would be needed. David did not believe that Delores posed a threat to anyone and even explained to the officer that he had not been stabbed as reported to officers by the DAA. Letalien forced David to the front of the house so he could not see what was happening with his wife. David says that as he argued with Letalien, Reed shot Delores with a Taser. When Delores did not fall, Letalien immediately shot Delores with the less lethal shotgun at her thigh, the complaint states. When once again Delores did not fall or release the letter opener, Letalien shot Delores once again in the other thigh. The second round did knock Delores to the ground but she was able to get back on her feet. Defendants allege that Delores maintained her hand on the letter opener during this time. When Delores turned to walk away from the officers, Letalien shot Delores a third time in the left buttocks with the shotgun. When the third round did not cause Delores to fall, Letalien switched to his Taser and deployed a cartridge with one probe hitting Delores in the back and the other hitting her on her right buttocks. Letalien found this force to be effective when she fell to the ground. Reed then tried to step on her wrist to handcuff her, David says, and thinking she was resisting, Reed Tasered her again. After an ambulance took Delores to the hospital, David says, the police declared exigent circumstances and searched their home against his objections. While David continued to shout his disapproval at the officers, he was told that they saved his ass today, the complaint states. Reed then called the Dallas Alzheimers Association and reported that David could not take care of Delores, David says. This action was unnecessary and ... it was done with actual malice, David says. He claims his wifes wrist was broken in two places and she needed 17 staples inserted for injuries inflicted by the police. Worse yet, he says, the episode increased the severity of her Alzheimers and she now requires around-the-clock nursing staff.

The Lewisville Police Department sent nine squad cars to the home, but no charges were brought against Delores, her husband says. He seeks punitive damages for excessive force and wrongful search and seizure. The Seyfrieds are represented by Kris Balekian Hayes of Dallas.

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Crime Prevention Officer (Army) (retd) Writes Re: Alexis Aaron
From: Leroy J. Pletten To: Military Resistance Newsletter Subject: Re: Military Resistance 11I13: More Date: Sep 26, 2013 My background is HR and Crime Prevention Officer (Army). Worked with lawyers. Now retired. Re the recent shooting, great cartoon you sent.

For technical background, Ive long ago written a paper on the profile of most (90%) criminals. Alexis Aaron is in the profile group. The paper is online at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/profilecriminals.htm Ive added material related to his case at the bottom, as you can see.

The Navy knew not to have enlisted him, but did so anyway. That service paved the way for his being hired by the contractor, which in turned paved the way for his security clearance. At every step, his being in the profile group should have been enough to have stopped the process. I offered to the Navy to provide information in their ongoing investigation. And had my Congressman pass on my offer. No response from Navy. Wonder if its investigation is for real, or only for public show?

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