Fire The Police, is me and DJ PAIN 1s new audio essay in response to the current uprisings against police. Although firing a few cops might teach them a lesson, this song is really calling for them to be abolished and made obsolete. We live under a violent racist, classist order that is held together by violent police, if we really want change we must identify who the real enemy standing in our way is... the police. For more readings on the subject read the essay from CrimethInc that is pasted below. Our latest album Death Drive is available as a free pay as you wish download here as well : https://sole.bandcamp/album/death-drive-free-d-l Catch us on tour in the Southwest in January: 1/15 CO Springs @ Flux Capacitor 1/16 Grand JCT @ Mesa Theatre 1/17 ABQ @ Burts Tiki Lounge 1/18 Las Cruces @ Haphazard Hall 1/19 SATX @ Limelight 1/20 Houston @ Eastdown Warehouse 1/21 ATX @ Holy Mountain 1/22 FT Worth @ Lolas 1/23 OKC @ Venue 42 1/24 Denver @ Lost Lake Lounge The Thin Blue Line Is A Burning Fuse by Crimethinc: It should have come as no surprise when the grand jury in St. Louis refused to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who murdered Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Missouri. Various politicians and media outlets had labored to prepare the public for this for months in advance. They knew what earnest liberals and community leaders have yet to acknowledge: that it is only possible to preserve the prevailing social order by giving police officers carte blanche to kill black men at will. Otherwise, it would be impossible to maintain the racial and economic inequalities that are fundamental to this society. In defiance of widespread outrage, even at the cost of looting and arson, the legal system will always protect officers from the consequences of their actions—for without them, it could not exist. The verdict of the grand jury is not a failure of the justice system, but a lesson in what it is there to do in the first place. Likewise, the unrest radiating from Ferguson is not a tragic failure to channel protest into productive venues, but an indication of the form all future social movements will have to take to stand any chance of addressing the problems that give rise to them. A profit-driven economy creates ever-widening gulfs between the rich and the poor. Ever since slavery, this situation has been stabilized by the invention of white privilege—a bribe to discourage poor white people from establishing common interests with poor people of color. But the more imbalances there are in a society—racial, economic, and otherwise—the more force it takes to impose them. This explains the militarization of the police. It’s not just a way to sustain the profitability of the military-industrial complex beyond the end of the Cold War. Just as it has been necessary to deploy troops around the world to secure the raw materials that keep the economy afloat, it is becoming necessary to deploy troops in the US to preserve the unequal distribution of resources at home. Just as the austerity measures pioneered by the IMF in Africa, Asia, and South America are appearing in the wealthiest nations of the first world, the techniques of threat management and counter-insurgency that were debuted against Palestinians, Afghanis, and Iraqis are now being turned against the populations of the countries that invaded them. Private military contactors who operated in Peshawar are now working in Ferguson, alongside tanks that rolled through Baghdad. For the time being, this is limited to the poorest, blackest neighborhoods; but what seems exceptional in Ferguson today will be commonplace around the country tomorrow.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:29:11 +0000