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For all of those idiots ( and there are many) out there who missed the Car 87/ Class Of 1984 show last Saturday, you suck. It was an awesome night of hardcore, and Car 87 are even more intense than I remember them being. I hope you had a great night of bullshit, sitting around with your finger in your bum.

"OUR" WAY OF LIFE?

Exactly what type of society are these fucking pricks "defending"? Fuck them.

Real number of sex assault complaints in military higher than official figures, watchdog says

Military ombudsman receives dozens of sex assault, harassment complaints not counted by Defence Dept.

By Murray Brewster, CBC News Posted: May 24, 2016 10:23 PM ET Last Updated: May 25, 2016 7:19 AM ET

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Canada's military watchdog says new numbers showing a one-third increase in sexual assault investigations in the Forces do not begin to tell the whole story of misconduct in the military.

Gary Walbourne made the comments after a report by CBC News detailed that Canada's military police conducted 135 sexual assault investigations last year, a one-third increase over the number of inquiries in 2014.

Walbourne says he receives dozens of sexual assault and harassment complaints each year, the details of which are not included in reporting published by the Department of National Defence. The watchdog also says the department's statistics omit inquiries involving primary reservists or part-time soldiers.  

He says he has been lobbying the military without success to look at the information coming across his desk.

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The result, according to Walbourne, is that Canadians are receiving only a fragmented view of the scope and extent of the problem, which has seized National Defence for over two years.

Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne says complaints of sexual misconduct land on his desk that are not included in reporting by the Department of National Defence. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

A more complete accounting is needed, "if we are going to have a system that is fair and totally inclusive," Walbourne told CBC. "There's more people coming forward. There's activity in the environment. Let's hope that's a good opening and the start of something, but until we start combining all of the numbers, no, we don't have a full holistic picture."

Walbourne said 90 complaints of harassment and sexual assault passed over his desk last year. Some of the allegations were handed to military police, but others went to civilian authorities. His office did not provide CBC with a breakdown of the cases.

The military's reporting also fails to include investigations into allegations of sexual interference, sexual exploitation and voyeurism.

Statistics Canada report delayed

The military has asked Statistics Canada to conduct a survey to determine the scope of sexual misconduct in the ranks, something that was supposed to be completed earlier this month.

It will now be early summer before the information rolls in.

"Some of our Canadian Armed Forces members may have been unable to find the time necessary to complete the [Statistics Canada] survey due to ongoing operational and other military commitments," said Capt. Jean-François Lambert, a spokesman for the group overseeing Operation Honour, the formal name for the military effort to end harassment in the ranks.

"We encourage all Canadian Armed Forces, CAF members to submit their responses soonest."

A history of misconduct

The military has been seized with the issue of sexual misconduct since a published report two years ago detailed allegations and heartbreakingly unresolved cases. The country's former top military commander ordered an independent investigation that was headed by retired Supreme Court justice Marie Dechamps, whose report was a searing indictment of a sexualized culture in the military and a failure of leadership to address it.

Gen. Jonathan Vance, the chief of defence staff, launched a wide-ranging bid to stamp out inappropriate behaviour last summer. The new figures showing an increase say to him that the reforms are working and that potential victims of sexual violence are coming forward.

"I'm not happy that it happens at all, but I'm absolutely certain that the increase in reporting is a result of what Operation Honour is designed to do," Vance said.

TAKE IT DOWN

Elections are a deception and trap for people looking to change things. Your vote means nothing because it leaves the same unjust system in place no matter who fucking " wins ".
Take it down.

Take the Revolution to the July Conventions

May 23, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

This year’s elections have revealed potential cracks in the ways in which this system commands the political consent, and passivity, of the people it rules. There is widespread dissatisfaction and unrest, taking different forms... there is resistance to the fascist Trump... and within the Democratic Party and those it considers its “base,” there is turmoil, a seeking for answers and real concern about what kind of future we face. People are right up against the question pinpointed by Bob Avakian: the impossibility of “free elections” in a system divided into classes.

Revolution Club at Rise Up October

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Revolutionaries must be there—and take it somewhere else: to a movement preparing for a REAL revolution. No answers—nothing but a dead end and worse—will ever be found in the framework of elections in this society.

In July, revolutionary communists will be at the Republican convention in Cleveland and the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. They will put forward and fight for the real way out of this madness, projecting revolution and the leadership of Bob Avakian into society and joining with people to fight the power on many different fronts as they do. They will organize those who are seeking a way out into revolution. And they will boldly project this slogan into society:

OVERTHROW, DON’T VOTE FOR, THIS SYSTEM!

Be part of this. Get in touch with the Revolution Club, or write to revcom.us atrevolution.reports@yahoo.com.

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APOLOGY ?

Maybe while dipshit obama is in Vietnam, he can apologize for this....but don't hold your breath.

Case #96:
Vietnam, March 16, 1968—The My Lai Massacre

May 23, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

American Crime is a regular feature of revcom.us. Each installment will focus on one of the 100 worst crimes committed by the U.S. rulers—out of countless bloody crimes they have carried out against people around the world, from the founding of the U.S. to the present day.

See all the articles in this series.

My Lai massacre. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

THE CRIME: On Saturday morning, March 16, 1968, 100 soldiers from Charlie Company, U.S. Army Americal Division, entered and took over My Lai, a small hamlet in Vietnam’s countryside. “We met no resistance and I only saw three captured weapons... It was just like any other Vietnamese village—old papa-sans, women and kids,” a soldier said.

“The order we were given was to kill and destroy everything that was in the village,” another soldier later testified. “It was clearly explained that there were to be no prisoners.” An order was given to push all the Vietnamese who had been forced into the area into a ditch. “I began shooting them all. I guess I shot maybe 25 or 20 people in the ditch,” one G.I. later recounted, “men, women, and children. And babies.” A baby crawling away from the ditch was grabbed and thrown back into the ditch and shot.

“Over four hours, members of Charlie Company methodically slaughtered more than five hundred unarmed victims, killing some in ones and twos, others in small groups, and collecting many more in a drainage ditch that would become an infamous killing ground,” Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, writes. “They faced no opposition. They even took a quiet break to eat lunch in the midst of the carnage. Along the way, they also raped women and young girls, mutilated the dead, systematically burned homes, and fouled the area’s drinking water.”

THE CRIMINALS: U.S. Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all authorized and escalated the war. Robert McNamara, Johnson’s Secretary of Defense, oversaw massive troop and bombing escalations. General William Westmoreland, the overall commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Colin Powell, then an Army major, carried out a cover-up of atrocities by the Americal Division (one of which was My Lai). And far too many more functionaries of the U.S. imperialist state to name here.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

“Outstanding job.”
—General William Westmoreland, to Charlie Company after My Lai

“In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal Division soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.”
—Major Colin Powell,
1968 report on charges
of Americal Division atrocities.

“One of the most painful chapters in our history was Vietnam—most particularly, how we treated our troops who served there.... [Y]ou wrote one of the most extraordinary stories of bravery and integrity in the annals of military history.”
—President Barack Obama, May 28, 2013, part of the Vietnam War Commemoration

THE ALIBI: The U.S. claimed the 1961-1975 Vietnam War was being fought to defend free and democratic South Vietnam from an invasion by communist North Vietnam. In fact, Vietnam was one country that had been temporarily divided. Under the Geneva Accords, North and South Vietnam were supposed to be reunified in the 1950s, but this was blocked by then-President Dwight Eisenhower because he was convinced that most Vietnamese would vote for Ho Chi Minh, the communist leader of North Vietnam.

The military described My Lai as victory: “U.S. infantrymen had killed 128 Communists in a bloody day-long battle,” Stars and Stripes magazine reported. GIs who attempted to expose the truth were denounced as “traitors” in Congress.

Journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre in November 1969. The ensuing furor forced the military to conduct an investigation, which treated My Lai as an isolated incident, and blamed the officers in charge of Charlie Company. Twenty six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. For killing 22 villagers, he spent two days in jail, and three and a half years under house arrest.

THE ACTUAL MOTIVE: My Lai was not an isolated incident—it was a concentration of the way the U.S. waged the Vietnam War.

During this period, national liberation struggles were raging in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with many led by communists or with a strong communist presence. The U.S. was the world’s main imperialist superpower and was determined to crush these struggles to ensure its domination of these regions. The Vietnam War was also aimed at encircling revolutionary China, and contending with the then-imperialist Soviet Union.

Mass murder of Vietnamese people was the policy, the military doctrine, of the war the U.S. waged in Vietnam, as Turse documents in his book. My Lai was, as Turse quotes a soldier, “an operation, not an aberration.”

In 1995, the government of Vietnam released figures saying it estimated four million civilians and one million soldiers were killed during the war. These figures have not been challenged. Yet, in the face of decades of this multi-dimensional horrific onslaught that lasted over a decade, the U.S. lost the war.

These imperialists make the Godfather look like Mary Poppins.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:7

REPEAT OFFENDER: U.S. patrols like Charlie Company regularly killed everyone and everything within farming villages. The U.S. dropped more than seven million tons of bombs—double the tonnage dropped during World War 2—on a country roughly the size of New Mexico. It dumped over 20 million gallons of a highly toxic chemical defoliant called “Agent Orange” on forests and farmlands to destroy the ability of Vietnamese peasants to sustain themselves and their families. It rained some 300 million anti-personnel cluster bombs—”slaughter, spring loaded into little cans”—on Vietnam and the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. It dropped 373,000 tons of napalm—jellied gasoline that burns at over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit—on the Vietnamese people, burning their flesh to the bone and causing agonizing pain and almost certain death.

PORN MORONS

Once again, Comrade Sunsara Taylor comes at you with a thought provoking analysis about gender relations in this fucked up system and society. Her articles are ALWAYS worth reading, so please do, assholes.....

What Makes Sex “Good”?—And Why Porn Is NOT

by Sunsara Taylor | May 23, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Break ALL the Chains!
Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution

Sampler Edition | Full Work

As communist revolutionaries, we are fighting for a world in which all relations between people are based on mutual respect, mutual equality, and mutual flourishing. This includes the way that people of different nationalities, genders, and sexualities relate to each other throughout society and the world. And this includes the way that people relate in their intimate and romantic lives, as well as in their friendships and family relations. Liberating all these relations from thousands of years of oppressive traditions requires an actual revolution—overthrowing the system of capitalism-imperialism that rules over us and enforces these oppressive relations, and going on to build a radically new economy and culture in the new revolutionary society. Our goal is a world where people are no longer divided into masters and slaves, oppressors and oppressed, exploiters and exploited—not in the way the society is organized, not in the culture, and not in the bedroom.

So, what exactly does this mean in terms of sex?

In the view of communists, good sex is about connecting intimately with someone else’sfull humanity—it is not about owning or dehumanizing someone else. Good sex—like any other form of intimacy—must be based on mutual respect, genuine caring, and equality between people. Good sex includes physical pleasure and closeness, but also can be part of communicating and sharing affection as well as love, joy as well as sorrow, comfort as well as vulnerability, and a great deal more. Good sex is based on people recognizing—and deriving pleasure from—connecting with and exploring each other’s full humanity and it is as potentially varied and rich as the people involved.

All this is in direct contrast to the kind of sex—and of intimate relations—that are promoted in society today, especially through pornography. Pornography is, in fact, a perfect concentration of the putrid, vicious, and woman-hating culture of capitalism.

Pornography is not “just sex.” It is the sexualized degradation of women. Porn reduces women to sexual objects to be used, abused, hurt, and humiliated by men for sexual pleasure. Women are tricked, punched, kicked, gagged, choked, and insulted—and then shown to “love” this abuse. Millions and millions of men are trained through this not to see women as full human beings—and to find the torture and dehumanization of women sexually “titillating.” All this fuels and reinforces a world where millions and millions of women are raped, beaten, sold into sexual slavery, harassed, and stalked from one corner of the globe to the other.

You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can't say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.

Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:22

Further, pornography expresses an impoverished view of sex—it is a reflection of a callous, woman-hating, and viciously inhumane world. While the physical positions, “races,” ages, and levels of violence may vary, the sex in porn is alwaysthe same. It portrays “I-own-you” sex. Overwhelmingly this is men dehumanizing and degrading women, but it also gets mirrored in gay porn and other porn. This is a truly impoverished view of sex and intimacy. It is a reflection in the intimate sphere of the larger relations in the world today where the U.S. invades and viciously exploits countries in the Third World, where men brutalize and dominate women, where human beings are treated like commodities, and where people are pitted against each other in a desperate scramble to get ahead—or just to survive. Porn reflects—and contributes to—not only the brutal enslavement of women, but also the widespread social isolation, human callousness, and hollow use-or-be-used culture that destroys so many lives under this system. Porn not only never portrays any of the humanity and richness that can be shared through genuinely good sex as described above, porn actually works to coarsen people and make it more difficult for them to connect in this way.

What does this mean now?

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While fully liberating all relations between people from thousands of years of oppressive relations requires making an actual revolution, this will not happen if we just sit around and wait. Right now, we need to be carrying out the strategy for revolution—fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution. This must include not only rejecting, but fighting to END pornography and patriarchy and all forms of enslavement and degradation of women. And this must include forging a culture that is in revolt against the current revolting culture—in our communities of resistance and revolution, and in our intimate relations.