when the State does the smashing.

My man Uncle Scams, who put in a verse for my song ‘peace inside‘ on my last album, is facing federal charges this Monday for allegedly smashing windows at two army recruiting stations.

now you tell me, who’s the criminal: the administration that’s destroyed most of a nations infrastructure (Iraq), killed well over 100,000 Iraqis and 3,000 Americans, lied to the American people to get us in the damn war, and spent billions of dollars to do it all while systematically de-funding education and programs to help the poor; or a kid who got sick of the systematic violence of the government that claimed to be acting in his name and tried to slow it down for just a little while?

I think the answer should be pretty fucking obvious.

Uncle scams music website can be found here http://www.myspace.com/unclescams

for more info on the specifics of the charges go here: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070510214905109

for more info on the police investigation, in which members of the local activist community were threatened and brutalized and a few agreed to wear wires and sell out their friends in return for reductions in their own charges, check out: http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6498965&nav=menu438_2

one last thing – the people who sold out their friends and their communities to save their own worthless hides are the worst part of this thing to me. Any spineless piece of shit who’d sell other people out to get a reduction in their own charges deserves nothing but contempt. We’ve got to build up our communities to the point where people know that if they pull this kind of bullshit they’re going to be completely ostracized and shut off by everyone – friends, family, co-workers, everyone. I think in that kind of environment it’d be a lot less tempting for someone to snitch, knowing that if they did everyone they knew would refuse to have anything to do with them.

Stop Snitchin‘! wise words, and not just for gangsters….

Posted: May 19th, 2007 under news, politrix.
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