Capitalism sucks! Who are the Real Terrorists?! By Wolf Larsen Under the Bush and Obama administrations the people of Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered horrible terrorism from the American war machine. What the American war machine has done to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan is no different than the terrorism that the American government unleashed against the people of Vietnam. In effect, George Bush and Barack Obama are war criminal terrorists who are responsible for the deaths of endless civilians. The politicians in Congress of both political parties who voted for these wars are also responsible for the widespread terrorism that the American war machine has perpetrated against the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what about the terrorism that both the Republican and Democratic regimes in Washington have perpetrated against the American people? Currently 2 million Americans sleep behind prison bars every night. One out of every four people in jail in the world is in jail in the United States of America. Most of those people are in jail because of drugs. The war against drugs is a war of terror against the American people. Endless minority youth have been shot down in cold blood by the police in this war on drugs. And think of the terror of a young man who's just been thrown in jail because of drugs. He is terrorized that he's going to be raped as he lays down in his bunk to go to sleep at night. Demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to protest are being terrorized by violent police who are attacking demonstrators with billy clubs, tear gas, and pepper spray. These police officers seem to have a violent disrespect for veterans, as these cops have repeatedly attacked veterans at these demonstrations. Veterans should be treated with respect! And the same police that are attacking demonstrators are also terrorizing workers on the picket line and minority youth in the ghettos. The police are terrorists. The police are the hired thugs of the rich and powerful. Think of the terror of an American family as they’re being evicted from their home today. The big banks are terrorizing the American people with their endless evictions and foreclosures on American homes. Across the nation unions are being smashed, wages are being slashed, and millions are unemployed. The American government and the bosses are terrorizing American workers. The American government and the ruling class are engaged in a class war against the American worker. Since its very inception the American government has used terrorism against its own people. Strikes have been met with brutal acts of terrorism directed against the workers by the violent police. Black people have experienced four centuries of brutal racist terrorism carried out by the violent police and the KKK. And the terrorism that the American government directed against the native peoples was even more brutal! So when the capitalist news media and the politicians of both political parties talk about terrorism it's just a bunch of hypocritical hot air. The capitalist news media and the politicians of both political parties are hypocritically using the issue of terrorism in order to justify all their endless wars. The politicians of both political parties are also hypocritically using the issue of terrorism to stomp upon basic civil liberties. If anybody should be put on trial as a terrorist it is Barack Obama and George Bush! Make no bones about it. The biggest terrorist in the world resides at the White House. Barack Obama is not a man of peace. Obama is pulling American troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq because the American war machine has been getting its butt kicked in both those countries just like in Vietnam. The American government is basically a terrorist organization. In fact, the American government is the deadliest terrorist organization in the world. The American government uses its war machine to terrorize people across the world - from Iraq to Afghanistan to Vietnam. The American government also uses its violent police force to terrorize American workers on the picket line, immigrants, minorities in the ghettos, and people exercising their First Amendment right to protest. Under capitalism the ruling class uses the government to terrorize workers, minorities, immigrants, and foreign peoples into submission. The working-class needs to smash capitalism with a workers revolution. Right now we live in a bourgeois democracy - a democracy run by the rich and the big corporations. What we need is a workers democracy! We need to replace this bourgeois democracy with a workers democracy. The first step towards building a workers democracy is to build a workers party - a party that will fight for the working people!