It's Like Cauliflower and MushroomsTwo of my least-favorite things together:
Mumia Abu-Jamal sticks up for Ward Churchill.
Both Malcolm and Churchill knew something about U.S. actions abroad, its export of violence abroad, and its demonstrated hatred of dark peoples the world over. He recounts how American armies and agents have wreaked brutal havoc all around the world, killing almost countless "innocent civilians", in their efforts to insure continued imperial rule. For example, he mentions the CIA's Operation Phoenix, where the U.S. government, the Navy Seals, Army Special Forces, south Vietnamese Rangers, and Australian SAS, "neutralized" people named by CIA snitches as Vietnamese "guerrillas."
Churchill writes:
Upwards of 40,000 people -- mostly bystanders, as it turns out -- were murdered by Phoenix hit teams before the guerrillas, stronger than ever, ran the US and its collaborators out of their country altogether. And these are the guys who are gonna save the day, if unleashed to do their thing in North America?Let's remember that Churchill used to claim that he was involved in these types of operations, before it was revealed that he was
a jeep driver and film strip projectionist.
