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Social progress in Hackney

Green Bert | 08.08.2004 19:36 | Social Struggles | London

A clean up of the streets is now in progress.

Stay tuned for more rrradical advances.

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What a load of microfascist crap! Smash social cleansing!

09.08.2004 23:18

I tell you, social cleansing! See my post on this recently...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/08/295956.html

This murdered "drug dealer" is probably a low-level commodity supplier, akin in sociological terms to a pub landlord or someone who runs a small shop, or to a worker who is employed at McDonald's or an arms factory. Is anyone seriously suggesting that murdering workers who work at McDonald's is a solution to global capitalism? Should we "clean up" working class communities by kicking out all the people who work for unsavoury companies, or who have served in the imperialist armed forces? No? Then why is it any different that this worker happens to work in a sector of the economy which the bourgeois state has criminalised?

Is drug dealing any more harmful than the effects of McDonald's or the arms trade? No. So why does it suddenly get registered in a different discourse?

This reeks of microfascism. Whoever posted this is registering drugs issues in the wrong register, as issues of personal depravity on the part of those involved in the drug industry and of hollywood-style good and evil, instead of as a social issue connected to capitalist society. You classify human beings as dirt to be "cleaned up" by means of genocidal methods. And you call this "progress"! It is simply a step back to the worst discourses of totalitarianism.

"Progress" would, rather, mean:
1) legalize drugs
2) stop the war on drugs in the west, e.g. the Rainbow Farm massacre and the murder of Peter McMurphy
3) stop the global war on drugs, e.g. the genocide and forced displacement of the peasants of Colombia by American chemical warfare

In any case, how do you know who did the murder? It could have been rival drug gangs. It could have been undercover cops. It could have been neo-Nazis. It could have been some guy his wife was having an affair with. Progress? Clean-up? Fuck off.

Andy

You missed the point...

09.08.2004 23:59

The point of this posting was that the streets of Hackney are being cleaned up by penguins, and penguins are by definition a revolutionary class. Unlike you a course.

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashewhen@hotmail.com

Bollocks to Crack and Heroin dealers

10.08.2004 08:07

Fucking Crack and Heroin dealers should all be strung up for being the motherfucking trash they are, hung by the neck until dead each and everyone of them and hang the junkies too there worthless fucking bits of shit that don't wash, fucking soap dodgers.
Drug Dealers destroy our communities, our streets and our housing estates, where thy ply their fucking trade, junkies pile up the place and residents have their homes broken into by these scum so fuck them all and shoot the fucking lot of them.

Paul Kersey

Why stop there?

10.08.2004 10:09

That's nice, sweet pants. You sound like somebody straight out of www.mothergin.com -which is well worth a read, by the way (the book, I mean). Fear of drugs apparently comes from a wider fear of the culture where the drug takes root - how is Hampstead, by the way??

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashewhen@hotmail.com

oops sorry

11.08.2004 04:43

sorry Green Bert

I guess there's too much anti-crime crap comes out which really isn't funny, for me to get the joke... (see comment above for details)

I did see the penguin and wondered what it was there for, though...

Andy

But seriously folks...

11.08.2004 11:46

Andy,

Indeed it was a rather silly posting, and I honestly didn't expect it to stay up for more than five minutes. And I don't think that Indymedia is to be taken too seriously either, however... I see what you mean (from that other ridiculous posting - from Paul-whoever), about anti-crime stuff in general though. I suppose my position on drugs would be to ignore them, as I have no interest there. As a recovering wino it would be easy for me to get raging about drugs in general, but I think that'd be me projecting something else onto them. Most of the bourgeois terror of drugs (hence the 'war on drugs' etc.) is indeed a projection of their terror of working-class lawlessness in general, and also of the poverty that they ride on the back of. TRHey don't like to see it but they don't want to give up their privileges either. You should read 'Craze', Jessica Warner, on this. Also pretty good, albeit with a different focus, is 'Whiteout', Cockburn & St. Clair. OK so, that's the serious stuff out of the way, I must get back to me penguins now...

Green Bert
mail e-mail: whatlikewashewhen@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.radicalpenguins.com

PAUL KERSEY'S THE NAME, KILLING PUSHERS AND PIMPS IS MY GAME...

12.08.2004 16:24

Social Progress in Hackney

Drug pushers, pimps, muggers and junkies watch out cause Paul Kersey's about and you'll soon be deep in the ground where your bodies won't be found for fifty or more years (under buildings sites) and lets not forget the lime pits either.

PAUL KERSEY

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