No More Doubt Sessions Plans Total War on Marijuana Users

WAPO EXPOSES AG'S TARGETING OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA USERS. The Washington Post proves beyond any doubt – because patients (and cancer patients in particular) are by far the most research-legitimized consumers of the drug – that Sessions intends a zero-tolerance crusade against all marijuana users just as I predicted last week.

MOREOVER, THE FACT MOST CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATES NOW SAY THEY FAVOR LEGALIZATION IS MEANINGLESS for at least five reasons. (Note: the following repetitions of the “last week” link are deliberate, intended to facilitate ease of access to the reports so cited.) Firstly, Christian dogma damns marijuana as the world's most powerful “gateway drug” – not because it leads to other drugs, but precisely as explained by the plethora of material to which I linked last week – because marijuana's metaphysical properties break the stranglehold of fear and intimidation by which Christianity's sadistic god controls the minds of the millions of USians raised in its malevolent theologies of eternal damnation. Which of course is the real reason Sessions and his theocratic ilk are so adamantly opposed to marijuana and so fanatically intent on eliminating all its users: they regard marijuana as the primary key for opening the psychic door that – because it is proven to intensify sensuality and thereby nullify sexual taboos – grants unlimited access to all the normal human experiences Christianity denounces as “pagan” or “Satanic” and therefore forbids as “heresy.” Secondly, thanks to Barack the Betrayer's 2012 National Defense Appropriations Act, the imperial war machine can now be used as a kick-the-door-in/murder-everybody-in-the-dwelling Gestapo whenever any federal department so chooses; as I speculated last week, one of the top-secret motives for the unprecedented increase in the war-machine budget is undoubtedly the Trump Regime's intent to use its obediently deadly military to invade legal-marijuana states and thereby suppress any and all use of the drug. Note too that massacres of marijuana users – which the empire's long record of atrocities-on-command prove the USian military will enthusiastically inflict whenever so ordered – would save the regime millions of dollars in court and confinement costs. Plus the regime could also use the de facto martial law of its war on marijuana users as an excuse for declaring full-scale national martial law and thereby facilitating the mass arrest and indefinite detention of all its opponents. Thirdly, the regime's gigantic hike in military spending is a deliberately inflicted death sentence intended to end forever the few remaining government socioeconomic assistance programs including food stamps, veterans' benefits, Medicaid and probably even Medicare. Hence the impending no-quarter war against marijuana users – precisely as I pointed out last week – serves the theocratic agenda of eliminating all public-assistance programs save the “faith-based” charities that demand you either publicly convert to Christianity or be denied food, prescription drugs, rent money and whatever other life-sustaining stipends and services the local Bible-thumpers might deign to provide. Fourthly, crushing the legal marijuana industry, which as reported last week will slash at least $1.4 billion from annual state budgets, will also – again exactly as the JesuNazis intend – nullify any ability these states might have to cope with the regime's total elimination of federal social-service funds. Fifthly, the Republican Party is proven to be the One Percent's chosen mechanism for imposing national Christian theocracy. This means the JesuNazi tyrants who control the party at all levels (and have done so, as the linked material indicates, since before the turn of the century), will soon arm-twist all the Republican politicians whether national, state or local (and many secretly JesuNazi Democrats as well, e.g. Hillary Clinton et al) into supporting the theocratic demand for maximum-sentence prosecution of marijuana users and suppliers. It is therefore literally suicidal for marijuana users and suppliers to underestimate the Trump Regime's power to impose its malevolent schemes and achieve its long-range intentions.

APROPOS THE BASEBALL SHOOTING, LET US NOT FORGET THE REICHSTAG FIRE, the caution I first voiced in the comments section of Salon's report on how the ChristoFascists aka “Republicans” immediately began using the incident  to inflame the Right's already violent hatred of the Left, whether the real (i.e., Marxian) Left or the “progressive” and Democratic (sic) Party pseudo-Left. (Because Salon is so clogged with advertising its reports take as long as 10 or even 15 minutes to download to readability, here is the full text of what I said: “Lest it be lost in all the hurly burly evoked by this shooting, let us not forget [A]-the Reichstag Fire; [B]-how it was used to nullify the notably democratic Weimar Republic Constitution; and [C] the thoroughly documented fact Hitler is boundlessly admired by Trump and his JesuNazi supporters, who since the inauguration include the heads of the USian Empire's war machine and its secret police agencies.”) Indeed, I can easily envision the Trump Regime immediately modifying the federal “instant check”  system to prohibit firearms purchases by anyone associated with the Left...

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Friend or Foe; Portland; JesuNazi Origins; Terror as Profit

BUILDING SOLIDARITY – WHO'S A COMRADE AND WHO ISN'T (an essay not a rant): As I said two days ago, Sophia Burns' “Why Suffer for Social Justice” – linked here again because it is such vital reading for all of us involved in the struggle against Capitalism – is one of the most hauntingly provocative pieces I have read in many years. It speaks to me personally with such power it has triggered introspection of an intensity I at age 77 assumed was decades behind me, though that is another story for another time – if indeed I ever find the courage to write it. In any case, what we are discussing tonight – an important part of what makes Burns' work newsworthy – is its exemplary usefulness in helping us distinguish between real or potential comrades and those whose hostility to socialist revolution (whether the hostility is disclosed or not) renders them at best nothing more than temporary allies and at worse co-optors or agents provocateur – which again underscores the relevance of Lev Bronstein's 1905 dictum that in every gathering of three revolutionaries, there is at least one agent of the Okhrana. It also underscores the relevance of a statement the soon-to-be-assassinated Malcolm X made 54 years ago:

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Fascist Poll Says 64% of All USians Now 'Agree with Marxism'; US Panel Secrecy Portends Total War against Legal Marijuana; 1%'s Media Finally Admits Ruling Class Whites Elected Trump

GOOD NEWS FROM THE FASCISTS: The annual “Report on U.S. Attitudes towards (sic) Socialism” published by the indicatively named “Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation,” states with obvious horror and revulsion  that “64% of Americans agreed with the classic Karl Marx statement that underpins Marxist philosophy: 'from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.'” The full text of the report –  the same data bolstered by graphs less the ChristoFascist lamentation – also states “nearly half of Generation Z (45%) say they would vote for a socialist; 1 in 5 (21%) say they would vote for a communist.” Best news of all, the report reveals that 52 percent of all USians now recognize capitalism “works against them.” (This data has been out since October 2016, but I discovered it only by my constant snooping around the outer fringes of the Internet. It is another example of the necessity to read Rightist, even Fascist websites. I put “Victims of Communism” in the Fascist category not only for its advocacy of Milton Friedman [Ayn Rand] socioeconomic savagery, but for the fact it includes the 6, 923,700 Nazis eliminated by Red Army soldiers and Soviet partisans c. 1941-1945 amongst Communism's alleged “100 million victims”).

TRUMP-REGIME SECRECY SUGGESTS FEDS PLANNING ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST LEGAL MARIJUANA, which would require invasion of legal-pot states by federal troops but would also further two JesuNazi/Trump-Regime agendas. These are genocidal destruction of social services and death or long-term imprisonment of marijuana users whether recreational or medical. The regime's deadly intent is suggested by the fact such rigorously enforced secrecy is a defining characteristic of police or military operations. Though theocracy-minded Sessions  claims his Justice Department lacks the resources for  for such a large-scale operation, this (falsely reassuring?) restraint is bypassed by one of the many anti-Constitutional atrocities inflicted by Obama the Orator's premeditated, closet-Fascist shape-shift into Barack the Betrayer  – specifically his 2012 Defense Appropriations Act, which allows use of the military as a homeland police force, presumably with the imperial war machine's unlimited, kick-the-doors-in, shoot-em-all authority enabling soldiers to murder USians without restraint. Here in fact may be one of the hidden “public safety” reasons for the Trump Regime's staggering hike in the imperial war-making budget: deployment of anti-marijuana forces in the homeland. Thus Sessions' denials such operations are pending have no more standing than Hitler's denials of looming German aggression just before he started World War II. Also there's the fact the marijuana subcommittee's membership is itself a fiercely protected secret – a secrecy inexplicable unless its purpose is to conceal participation by members of the armed forces' high command. Moreover – in addition to subjecting all marijuana users whether medical or recreational to maximum-fatality, maximum-brutality, maximum-imprisonment arrests – such a war would slash at least $1.4 billion  from annual state budgets, thereby serving the regime's agenda of savaging social-service recipients whom, under the prosperity-gospel sadism of Capitalist governance, are always the primary victims – and most often the only victims – of decreases in state tax revenues. 

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Racism, Ecophobia, Misogyny, Homophobia: Trump Regime Imposes Theocracy to Reward Fanatical Christian Supporters

RESEARCH REPORT: TRUMP/PENCE POLICIES AND APPOINTMENTS CONFIRM THE UNPRECEDENTED TRIUMPH OF WHITE CHRISTIAN TYRANNY. We are all depressingly familiar with the ever-lengthening litany of Trump Regime atrocities against women, racial minorities, LGBTQ people and the environment. What most of us have yet to recognize – largely because mainstream media has obscured it – is how the normalization of bigotry and ignorance fostered by these atrocities is a rightfully terrifying, perhaps pivotal victory in the fanatical white Christians' 82-year campaign to reduce the United States to zero-tolerance theocracy. Analysis of the Trump/Pence record not only proves the regime is the theocrats' newest weapon; it also proves it's the theocrats' most powerful weapon ever – a weapon that is already turning the nation into a realm potentially far more murderous than the sexist dystopia foreseen by the now-obviously-prophetic Margaret Atwood in her book The Handmaid's Tale.

Not that we weren't forewarned, even by the mainstream media propaganda machine which, more than a year ago, published a subtly ominous piece by Jeff Sharlet that presciently labeled Trump “an American preacher...who sells revenge.” Sharlet's impressionistic text is underscored by Devin Yalkin's superb black-and-white documentary photographs, images every bit as frightening as pictures of the German Nazi and USian Ku Klux Klan rallies of the last century. But most of us dismissed this outstanding work – if indeed we read and/or viewed it at all – because of its source; we rejected it as just another dose of the Hillaryite lies and disinformation with which we were then being force-fed.

These sorts of cautionary reports continued into the early weeks of this year, with one such piece accurately describing the Trump/Pence diarchy as the Religious Right's “Trojan Horse.” But the message has since been lost...

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Violence Flairs as Racists Secede into Ideological Confederacy

WILL CIVIL WAR II (OR THE SECOND USIAN REVOLUTION) BEGIN IN PORTLAND? With the local Republican Party chairman admitting he is organizing a de facto Schutzstaffel  for “protecting” racist rallies, it is entirely legitimate for Dispatches to verbalize the question no other USian journalist has dared ask in print. Ergo: is the skyrocketing incidence of attacks on minorities by USiaNazi terrorists another Fort Sumter  – the opening volleys of a conflict that will sunder the North American population as violently did the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War of 1861-1865? (The Sumter analogy is indeed appropriate, for the advent of the Trump Regime is itself a symbolic act of secession, the founding of an already murderous racist confederacy that is ideological rather than geographic  and – far more irresistibly than the confederacy of 1861 – spans the entire USian homeland.) That said, I believe the answer to this formerly unthinkable question will be determined by the Trump Regime itself, and given  the outspoken anti-minority hatefulness  of Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, I am not optimistic about the likelihood of national peace. (Indeed it may be this looming prospect of civil war and/or revolution that underlies the Empire's increasingly provocative warmongering against Russia...

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Democratic (sic) Party Treachery Makes New Party Mandatory

FIRST THOUGH, ANOTHER (WELCOME?) FORMAT CHANGE: Just as newspapers typically confine (admitted) expression of their overlords' opinions to inside pages, so will I now similarly structure Dispatches. Ergo, save in exceptional circumstances, the news items will precede the rants. For explanatory details, see “MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS OWNED BY THE SAME ONE PERCENTERS," after the last of today's recommended reports and below the photograph. 

NOW AS TO THE SEEMINGLY SUICIDAL DEMOCRATS: The Democratic (sic) Party's (mostly) unspoken response to our poverty and desperation – “fuck you/your lives don't matter anymore/hurry up and die” – is for many of us an everyday experience. We also know the Republicans are scarcely different, merely less dishonest about their malevolence. 

That's why so many of us don't vote; we already recognize we're tyrannized by one Capitalist party that hides behind the Big Lie of two names. Such is life – and death – as Capitalism morphs into its uniquely USian form of Nazism. But if we are to organize ourselves into a new political party that truly represents the 99 Percent, or even into an effective anti-Capitalist resistance, it is essential we learn as much as we can about our enemies.

 

Hence the relevance of these two obituary-like analyses of Democratic (sic) tactics and strategy:

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In Ugly Truth, Trump's Brutality Is Characteristically USian; So Is the Democratic (sic) Party's Effort to Rescue Capitalism by Co-opting and Betraying the Anti-Trump Resistance

(NOTE: Because Dispatches from Dystopia is as much work of art as journalistic fulfillment of the core socialist ethos – “from each in accordance with ability/to each in accordance with need” – it is sometimes more subject to spontaneity, i.e., visitations by the Muse, than to schedules and deadlines. Thus it was this morning. I began the day's work with what I imagined would be no more than maybe 10 minutes of memory-confirming research on how the USian Homeland became the primary sanctuary for Nazi war criminals; I'd assumed I'd be posting the finished text by mid-afternoon. But one Internet topic led inexorably to another, and 12 hours later I had learned our species' obscene history of genocidal medical experiments began not in the German death camps but on USian slave plantations nearly a century earlier. No wonder our Capitalist overlords want to replace net neutrality with Nazi-style censorship.)

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INNUMERABLE PEOPLE CLAIM to be part of the anti-Trump “resistance,” and the number grows as Trump's Nazism becomes ever more undeniable. But how might we as revolutionary socialists distinguish between the reformers, who will inevitably betray us (precisely as history proves they have always done), and those who are at least potentially our comrades.?

An immediate answer to this question is provided by whether the individual in question has reasoned and/or been emotionally thrust beyond the slogan “no justice, no peace” to the invariably painful realization there can be neither justice nor peace – nor long-term human survival – without the total and permanent elimination of Capitalism.

The fact Capitalism cannot be reformed – and the corollary fact all reformers are ultimately betrayers – is proven unequivocally by the fate of the New Deal. The USian Working Class – the We-the-People 99 Percent – returned from World War II whole-heartedly believing we and our allies had at long last fulfilled the World War I goal of making the planet “safe for democracy” – that we had defended the four freedoms  abroad even as we had forced the New Deal on our Capitalist overlords at home to guarantee those freedoms for ourselves and our descendants.  

But the truth was of course far different...

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