One point I would like is whether their are armed vigilantes attached to the Free Robert Latimer Movement. First of all I would like to point out that I think that this whole movement to free Robert Latimer is more of an hysterical mob than a disciplined, centrally coordinated organization. In terms of organizational structure their are movements such as Greenpeace and Earthfirst (although neither of these are fascistic). You'll have people spiking trees in these groups. These people are not ordered to do this by people higher up then them per say. But what exists of a leadership does not oppose it and the people doing have the tacit approval of those in charge.
With the Free Robert Latimer (which IS fascistic) the workings are quite similar. Robert Latimer commits an act of violence against a disabled person (disabled people being oppressed people). His actions and the mass ablest Pro-Robert Latimer hysteria whipped up by the bourgeois (capitalist) press has created and environment where killing disabled people is seen as acceptable. Because of this there are more disabled people are being killed by their caretakers. This environment has also encouraged more than a few fascists to crawl out of their whole. And Latimer and his supporters sit back while this happens. In affect Robert Latimer has become a catalyst or lightning rod for ablest terror. In fact "mercy killing" has historically been the watchword for ablest terror. The pretext that the Nazis and the Eugenics movement had for killing the disabled was that they were "mercy killing" them. That it was "euthanasia" (in really euthanasia requires consent) and "ending their suffering".
Comradely,
A Dedicated Trotksyist,
M.G.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tracy Latimer not Robert Latimer is Oppressed
There are those who claim that Tracy Latimer and Robert Latimer are "both oppressed and that they "suffered together". I intend to expose this cynical, arrogant as well and ablest and bigoted sophistry.
If you look at it, Tracy Latimer was severely disabled. People in psychiatric wards didn't get the vote until 1988. People with disabitities and mental illnesses were sterilized in the days of eugenics. People with disabilities and mental illnesses were the first people to fall victim to the holocaust. They are disproportionaly ghettoized, homeless and unemployed. They are often victims of police terror as well as fascist and fascistic terror. Cuts and privatizations of welfare, healthcare and vocational services hurt them disproportionally. Tracy Latimer was also female and a youth (both of whom are oppressed).
Robert Latimer on the other hand is white, male and has a great deal of property. White men with property were the first people to have the vote (back when voting was a privilege of a tiny elite). Robert Latimer is straight, not transgendered, not of a religous minority, not disabled, not a youth, not a senior citizen, not a Jew, not of a Muslim. So really, I think it is quite proposterous to call him "oppressed". Apparently according to a census from the 1990s by he government of Canada the average farmer in Canada has one million dollars worth of assets, according to the Financial Post more recently the average farmer has around 11.8 billion dollars worth of assets. In the 1980s Robert Latimer had around 1,820 acres of land. Today he has 2,850 acres of land.
In term of the remark that Robert Latimer and Tracy Latimer "suffer together" these to is absurd. The first disabled people killed in the holocaust had the consent of their parents. Their are parents of Autistic and disabled children who consent to having their children said to the Judge Rotenburg "Educational Centre" where disabled children are electrically shocked for everything from nail bitting to nose picking to nagging. Or how about Islamic fundamentalist parents and their daughters who don't want to don the veil. Do they "suffer together"? How about homophobic fundamentalist Christian parents and their homosexual, bisexual and transexual children. Do they "suffer together"? As the ICL points out (althought they have cadre supporting Robert Latimer), the majority of child abuse takes place within the nuclear family. The murder of children by their parents is child abuse at its worst. Also, disabled children are disproportionally victims of child abuse.
Comradely,
A Dedicated Trotskyist,
Michael Gregory
If you look at it, Tracy Latimer was severely disabled. People in psychiatric wards didn't get the vote until 1988. People with disabitities and mental illnesses were sterilized in the days of eugenics. People with disabilities and mental illnesses were the first people to fall victim to the holocaust. They are disproportionaly ghettoized, homeless and unemployed. They are often victims of police terror as well as fascist and fascistic terror. Cuts and privatizations of welfare, healthcare and vocational services hurt them disproportionally. Tracy Latimer was also female and a youth (both of whom are oppressed).
Robert Latimer on the other hand is white, male and has a great deal of property. White men with property were the first people to have the vote (back when voting was a privilege of a tiny elite). Robert Latimer is straight, not transgendered, not of a religous minority, not disabled, not a youth, not a senior citizen, not a Jew, not of a Muslim. So really, I think it is quite proposterous to call him "oppressed". Apparently according to a census from the 1990s by he government of Canada the average farmer in Canada has one million dollars worth of assets, according to the Financial Post more recently the average farmer has around 11.8 billion dollars worth of assets. In the 1980s Robert Latimer had around 1,820 acres of land. Today he has 2,850 acres of land.
In term of the remark that Robert Latimer and Tracy Latimer "suffer together" these to is absurd. The first disabled people killed in the holocaust had the consent of their parents. Their are parents of Autistic and disabled children who consent to having their children said to the Judge Rotenburg "Educational Centre" where disabled children are electrically shocked for everything from nail bitting to nose picking to nagging. Or how about Islamic fundamentalist parents and their daughters who don't want to don the veil. Do they "suffer together"? How about homophobic fundamentalist Christian parents and their homosexual, bisexual and transexual children. Do they "suffer together"? As the ICL points out (althought they have cadre supporting Robert Latimer), the majority of child abuse takes place within the nuclear family. The murder of children by their parents is child abuse at its worst. Also, disabled children are disproportionally victims of child abuse.
Comradely,
A Dedicated Trotskyist,
Michael Gregory
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Christian Right are no Friends of the Disabled and Oppressed
It has appeared that many reactionary Christian groups have come out in support of Robert Latimer. Groups such as the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. One not familiar with these groups and their history may regard these people as allies of the disabled community. But don't be fooled.
Have any of these right-wing Christian groups called for the shutting down of the Judge Rotenburg "Educational Center" in Massachusetts where people with disabilities are electrically shocked? No! Have they spoken out against "curing" the "disabled"? No! Have they spoken out against cop terror in the ghettos where the majority of people are disabled or mentally ill? No! How about when people in psychiatric wards in Canada got the vote in 1988, what was the stance of the Conservative party in Canada? It opposed giving these people suffrage! And this is before the religious yahoos left to create the Reform Party! Has the Christian right fought to defend universal health care or fought for a National Pharmacare program? No! How about defending public vocational services for the disabled and mentally ill? Not a thing! How about defending housing for the disabled and mentally ill? Nada! How about calling for the nationalizing all special needs schools which don't seek to "cure" the disabled? Absolutely nothing! There have been rumblings about reintroducing eugenics in "special circumstances". What's the the response of the Christian Right? Silence! How about forcing the "mentally ill" to go through electro-shock therapy? The Christian Right is nowhere to be found! What if a "mentally ill" or "disabled" women is raped? The Christian Right would oppose her right to abort the fetus! Oh, and the Christian right supports legalizing corporal punishment (spanking, flogging). Corporal punishment is regarded by pediatricians as being by definition child abuse. And guess which children get more than there fair share of child abuse? The "disabled" and "mentally ill"!
I think it is quite clear that the Christian right sneers at the oppression of the disabled. So why have the involved themselves in the lynching of Tracy Latimer? To cynically manipulate the genuine grievances of the disabled to pursue their twisted own right to life agenda!
As I stated before. I think that Revolutionary must mobilize the Proletariat (both disabled and non-disabled) to smash the fascistic Free Robert Latimer Movement. However, it is equally important for revolutionaries to express their uncompromising opposition to the Christian Right. If the working class is mobilized to smash the free Robert Latimer movement the Proletariat and its vanguard would then have the moral authority to push for a split between the radical youth, Plebeian masses and the Proletarians with disabilities and the venal Christian right and the more reactionary elements among the disabled community.
Comradely,
M.G.
Have any of these right-wing Christian groups called for the shutting down of the Judge Rotenburg "Educational Center" in Massachusetts where people with disabilities are electrically shocked? No! Have they spoken out against "curing" the "disabled"? No! Have they spoken out against cop terror in the ghettos where the majority of people are disabled or mentally ill? No! How about when people in psychiatric wards in Canada got the vote in 1988, what was the stance of the Conservative party in Canada? It opposed giving these people suffrage! And this is before the religious yahoos left to create the Reform Party! Has the Christian right fought to defend universal health care or fought for a National Pharmacare program? No! How about defending public vocational services for the disabled and mentally ill? Not a thing! How about defending housing for the disabled and mentally ill? Nada! How about calling for the nationalizing all special needs schools which don't seek to "cure" the disabled? Absolutely nothing! There have been rumblings about reintroducing eugenics in "special circumstances". What's the the response of the Christian Right? Silence! How about forcing the "mentally ill" to go through electro-shock therapy? The Christian Right is nowhere to be found! What if a "mentally ill" or "disabled" women is raped? The Christian Right would oppose her right to abort the fetus! Oh, and the Christian right supports legalizing corporal punishment (spanking, flogging). Corporal punishment is regarded by pediatricians as being by definition child abuse. And guess which children get more than there fair share of child abuse? The "disabled" and "mentally ill"!
I think it is quite clear that the Christian right sneers at the oppression of the disabled. So why have the involved themselves in the lynching of Tracy Latimer? To cynically manipulate the genuine grievances of the disabled to pursue their twisted own right to life agenda!
As I stated before. I think that Revolutionary must mobilize the Proletariat (both disabled and non-disabled) to smash the fascistic Free Robert Latimer Movement. However, it is equally important for revolutionaries to express their uncompromising opposition to the Christian Right. If the working class is mobilized to smash the free Robert Latimer movement the Proletariat and its vanguard would then have the moral authority to push for a split between the radical youth, Plebeian masses and the Proletarians with disabilities and the venal Christian right and the more reactionary elements among the disabled community.
Comradely,
M.G.
Another Bunch of Fascists Sympathetics to Robert Latimer
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=364274&page=3
http://www3.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=453850
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-33485/t-444322.html
http://www3.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=453850
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-33485/t-444322.html
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