Letters to the Editor:

Response to "Hate Speech Condoned"

Although Lenin never did say, as Observor of the Times claims, that westerners who support Communism are “useful idiots”, He did say that “it requires roughly ten pages of print to untangle and popularly explain ten lines of confusion.” (from “A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism” 1916).

The heart of what I wish to address in this letter is the necessity and the right to dissent, what we mean when we say that we oppose Christian fascism, and what about the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA?

First of all, Observor of the Times’ letter to the editor is meant to silence dissent on campus and in our communities. It is exactly at times such as these when the government is entrenched and carrying out such crimes against humanity as the “War On Terrorism”, increasing police state measures at home, performing round-ups and detentions of immigrants, waging culture wars aimed at shoving biblical literalism down the throats of the people, faith-based initiatives that only fund Christian groups at the same time that social spending is being cut across the board (in essence this will have the effect of forcing people to either starve, live on the streets, or turn to the church). George Bush openly talks of the “war on terrorism” as a war that will last generations.

I agree with Malaya Walo of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (the youth group of the Revolutionary Communist Party) when she said “General Boykin says that we are fighting a ‘holy war’ against the people of Iraq who are the ‘face of Satan’. We say NO! The people of Iraq are our brothers and sisters, their faces are like ours, we will stand with them!” General Jerry Boykin is one of the top generals in the US military, he tours the country whipping up congregations to support this reactionary shit.

Not all Christians are Fascist, not all white people are supremacists, but all forward-thinking people should unite to oppose both Christian fascism and white supremacism. Most Christians are opposed to using state power to force their religious beliefs on others — even Observor of the Times does not agree with the Christian fascists who want to create a Christian theocracy in the US.

The fact is that there is a powerful movement in this country to create a literal Christian theocracy and we have to call it what it is, that is Christian fascism, these people don’t want to just pray and teach creationism in our schools, these people want the ten commandments to be the law of the land above the Constitution. And what would it be like if the ten commandments were the law of the land? In the ten commandments, women are held as property of men, as are slaves. The punishment for a mouthy teenager? Death. To quote Republican Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom Delay of Texas, “He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He [God] is training me.” Is this the kind of world you want to live in?

Photo By Velvet Wilson Sidewalk art done by students

I am a member of Rebel Alliance. I am also a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (Seattle) and I am a huge supporter of the RCP and its chairman Bob Avakian, and I have every right to be. Observer of the Times suggests that groups like the Rebel Alliance and people like me (a Communist) have no place on campuses or anywhere else. He insinuates that everyone who pays taxes is opposed to our kind of critical thinking and dissent and he is wrong. The truth is that every time we go out on campus we get support and people thanking us for taking the stand that we are against the direction the leaders of this country want to take all of us, which is back to the dark ages. People on campus and people across the country are truly frightened by the power grabbing by the executive and judicial branches and are frightened by what more and more people are coming to correctly identify is the Christian fascist movement in this country and all that holds in store for them. There is an insidious plan by the rulers of this country to set themselves up as the world’s preeminent super power for the next 100 years; and in order to do that they are seeking to wipe out any and all dissent, to create a compliant, unquestioning population.

What we need right now is to not be silent. What we need right now is a massive movement capable of driving the Bush regime from their seats of power. And as the May Day (International Worker's Day, a Communist holiday) issue of Revolution (http://revcom.us) said, "Other countries have driven hated regimes from power — why not here? Is there any country whose direction has a more disproportionate impact on the future of the whole planet?"

-Kendra Brown

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