Political Treachery And Mob Rule Lorenzo Komboa Ervin This might be easily be called part 2 the other article I wrote on the 2000 elections "It's the Silly Season." Well. we have now had this scam of an elction, and yet we still don't know the name of the white ruling class representative for President. The story goes on after the closest election in U.S. history, and as always, the Black bloc vote seems to have put a Democratic Party representative over the top, or at least kept him in the game. But what are we getting from Gore from all this? Nothing but promises, and many times not even that, just a smile and a wink. He smiles because he knows he's got us, and he winks to show he's in with the "in crowd." The fix is *always* in! And that "compassionate conservative", George W. Bush, who sought to fool Black people into voting for him did not get nary a significant vote from the Black community The community was not fooled at all by the GOP, recognizing that it has been taken over by the Religious Right and the worst kind of racist forces. But this also means Bush is not beholden to Black people either, and if elected, will not give any concern for our condition as *alleged* citizens of this Republic. (Not that he ever would anyway!) We can starve or be shot down in the streets by paramilitary cops for all Bush cares, but isn't that what the Clinton-Gore neo-liberals been doing as well, while in the seat of government? Hey look: 100,000 new cops, 2 million prisoners, upwards of 1,000 killed by cops each year, massive poverty and homelessness, low wages and high unemployment in our communities! I could go on and on to prove Gore-Clinton guilty of systematic dismantling of the welfare state by the Democrats, right along with the most extreme wing of the Republicans. But this election is important because we may be seeing a new more extreme political concentration of right-wing forces in the government. Not just if Bush is elected, but because of the sense of crisis that the government generally feels. History can be a guide here: In the 1876 Presidential election, Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes were pitted against each other, after the scandal ridden presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. Tilden won the popualr vote by a small margin, but fell one vote shy of the Electoral college majority needed. But Hayes was declared the President after maneuvering by the Democratic party leaders, (don't forget the Democratic Party was known as the "white man's party" and was controlled by Southerners until the 1960's), and bargained Tilden's tactical advantage away for the practical gain of getting federal occupation troops out of the South, where they had been since the Civil War. When this was agreed to by the Republicans, and Hayes was declared the winner in the electoral congress, almost immediately a wave of racial violence by the Ku Klux Klan broke out where white vigilantes began murdering Black people with wild abandon, the old segregationist governments came back and began erecting "Black codes" restricing any democratic rights we'd obtained in the South, and created the the most backward social systems in that region. What can we can we expect now? Massive police brutality of the sort we've never seen? Complete stripping of any civil rights or democratic rights for Black people by the Supreme Court and Congress? Even more state executions? Outright slave conditions for workers? An open police state? We can at least expect an acceleration of the worst excesses of the current regime. Which is why we cannot depend on politicians, the courts, or passive tactics if we just want to preserve the few rights we have, and to erect an even more just society. We must struggle in the streets, and make it impossible for the capitalist state to rule over us at all. We must make ourselves ungovernable. Anything else is a surrender. Back to Anarchism And The Black Revolution