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The Declaration Of A Renewed American Independence |
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by Andrew McCrae
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25 Nov 2002
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The motives behind the killing of a Police Officer in Red Bluff, California. A declaration of American rights in the face of law enforcement. |
We apologize to the family and friends of the Police Officer that we killed in Red Bluff, California.
The Declaration of a Renewed American Independence
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Whether yes or no, the question itself becomes meaningless when the 'chains and slavery' we use to protect our lives begin to kill and brutalize us.
Throughout the course of human history, governments have established unjust laws, pressing them upon its citizens with the force of a brutal police system. These police systems, in turn, quickly come to abuse their position of authority over the people.
Such has been the patient suffering of the present day American. The Intelligent Independence of all American Individuals, although necessary for strong and free-minded communities, is rapidly being encroached upon and destroyed by the foot soldiers of our Law Enforcement Agencies.
There is a 'War on Crime' being fought in our country today, and while a portion of this war is fought to protect us, in many forms, including the 'War on Drugs,' it is also used as an excuse to unbearably disrupt the lives of inoffensive Americans.
By attacking individuals and activities we hold dear, this 'War on Crime' has, in effect, been declared on all of us. We therefore must hold the Police as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.
We are eager to end the destructive aspects of this War and resume friendship with those Police who simply desire to protect their fellow citizens.
But both police brutality and unjust laws exist, and we are not content to simply obey them. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us from tamely surrendering that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, which our innocent children have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of delivering future generations to that wretchedness which would inevitably await them, if they were to inherit from us a National Police State.
We, the Freedom-Loving People of America, hereby solemnly publish and declare-
-That any adult consensual act, whether declared illegal by legislature or not, is, in the truth of human existence, not a crime, but a Non-Crime.
-That people in America 'guilty' of Non-Crimes are, and by right ought to be, Independent Individuals working together in community, Free From Interference by any Law Enforcement Agency.
-That they are absolved from allegiance to any harmful laws.
-That as Independent Individuals they have the right to be free from racial profiling, to physically defend themselves from unjust arrest, to do drugs, to have any type of adult consensual sex, and to do all other acts and things that free people may by right do.
We further demand that our Police Force cease both brutalizing us and in any way abusing their authority over us.
To prove the existence of this police oppression, let facts be submitted to a candid world-
The Law Enforcement Agencies of America: the FBI, DEA, BATF, INS, US Marshals Service, the Secret Service, along with state and local agencies, have defiled our liberties in the following ways-
They have killed over 2,000 people nationwide, without just cause, within the last year.
They have attempted to cover up the circumstances of these murders, painting their victims poorly in the media in ways that have nothing to do with the circumstances of their deaths.
They have used their desire for excitement to escalate situations that could have been resolved peacefully.
They have operated raids in the place of investigations, prioritizing military tactics over social skills, in cases where force was not necessary.
They have justified searches off anonymous tips, used 'secret evidence' in court, and detained people without charge.
They have used scare tactics to gain compliance, hovering the threat of violence over us.
They have allowed 'resisting arrest' charges to turn unlawful arrests into 'lawful' ones.
They have arrested people without reading them their rights.
They have interrogated suspects while denying them the right to a lawyer present.
They have attacked our spiritual and physical liberties by waging a War against Drugs that are so widely used and enjoyed that this enforcement becomes an insult to both American intelligence and freedom itself.
They have extended the War on Drugs to justify all areas of police abuse of power, using it intensively as a harassment and punishment tool for racist purposes.
They have treated people of color as criminals by default, enforcing a violent systematic racism against them.
They have behaved as soldiers in an occupied territory, never developing an understanding of the actual social problems and needs of the communities they police.
They have enhanced violent crimes between citizens by inciting nearly every major U.S. riot since 1964 with police oppression.
They have harassed immigrants of color, and U.S. citizens of color for the possibility that they might not be citizens, even going so far as to gather them all together, write numbers on their arms for organization, and herd them into cattle trucks until their identities have been proven.
They have forced illegal aliens into cheap labor by using selective enforcement of immigration laws to control factory workers who demand equal rights.
They have established checkpoints within our borders to determine driver's nationalities, using the Trojan horse of 'Order' to set the firm foundations of a racist police state.
They have assisted in the encroachment upon our privacy by probing our identities, activities, and belongings without cause.
They have enforced an errant 'lowered expectation of privacy' in our vehicles pulling us over for whimsical reasons and intimidating us into searches.
They have concocted transgressions and arrested us when we refuse their assaults on our privacy.
They have placed video cameras on our street corners and highways to catalog victimless Non-Crimes, and extort money from inoffensive citizens.
They have hypocritically demanded that we not be armed during our interactions with them, for 'officer safety.'
They have enforced gun registration laws, establishing a fundamental step on the way to complete gun confiscation.
They have confiscated guns and knives for trivial reasons, severely damaging the American right to revolution, forcing us into channels of change that the authorities themselves control.
They have subverted our personal human interactions by requiring government permission for public gatherings.
They have wrenched our public property away from us by closing parks at night, preventing loitering, and harassing skateboarders.
They have waged a war on poverty-
-outlawing panhandling, public sleeping, and hitchhiking.
-allowing our justice system to be controlled by wealth, imprisoning small criminals, but allowing great criminals to go free.
They have harassed our children and stolen away the freedom of their youth by enforcing local curfews and underage drinking laws.
They have contributed to an unhealthy social sexuality, declaring the human body 'indecent' by enforcing public 'indecency' laws.
They have been the hand of censorship against 'obscenity.'
They have kept us from using fast, though safe, speeds that we know we can handle, becoming the willing tools in using us as a source of revenue.
They have sped faster than we do to stop us from speeding.
They have undermined adult consent by waging a war on prostitution.
They have wreaked havoc on prostitute's lives by surrounding their profession with danger and criminality.
And throughout all this, they have avoided citizen accountability by-
-refusing to give their names and badge numbers.
-interfering with documentation of their activities.
-seizing private property to fund their departments, under the pretext of the 'War on Drugs.'
The enumeration in this declaration of certain grievances shall not be construed to
deny other grievances retained by the people.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress of grievances both in our courts and on our streets. Our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury and the foot soldiers of our oppressions have been protected by mock trials.
"If you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy
We now restate our grievances with the force of violence behind them.
We fully expect the authorities to denounce our use of violence and declare us 'terrorists,' citing their definition of 'people who use violence to further their own political objective.'
But we hold to light the facts-
-that these same authorities use violence to further their own political objectives, both domestically with police, and internationally with war.
-that the objectives of these authorities are authoritarian and driven by greed for money, whereas our objectives are community-oriented and driven by a passion for human freedoms.
-that the self-sanctioned violence of these authorities always produces innocent casualties, whereas our violence has not.
Our violence has delivered neither burned babies nor shattered adolescents. These authorities will, but we will not, club the opposition for nonviolently protesting against us.
We recognize that a policing force is necessary for the safety and happiness of human life.
We don't dare say that all police desire to be destructive of our Freedoms.
We recognize the Peace Officer. The Peace Officer protects us from thoughtless violence and from organized corruption. The Peace Officer is dedicated to serving and protecting us. They genuinely care for our well being. They will bend the rules for us when they see the situation where a bureaucratic system will do us more harm than good.
We respect the Peace Officer and beg them for patience with our action of violence.
But any law enforcement system where, as in ours, the enforcers are encouraged not to use their own political judgment, is the basis for Fascism, Nazism, and any form of a Police State Government. Through police department politics, even our Peace Officers are pressured to support their less honorable colleagues through silence and active participation.
The old excuse, "I'm just doing my job," is not good enough to avoid the responsibility of our grievances.
Law Enforcement Officers, we encourage you to think less of the ways that you are tied to your supporting career and more of the better world that your family will inherit if you help us to create it.
Think of what our friendship could be worth to you.
If we all truly desire to eradicate the victimization that is caused by crime, we must only police unsolicited violence, coercion and corruption. To eliminate these things, while violence will sometimes be necessary, it is a more worthy and efficient tactic to focus on prevention. We must focus on providing quality education, good jobs, housing and health care.
For this to happen all of our police officers must become Peace Officers.
The past can be forgiven. What is important is the future.
The only way this country will get better is if we all work together. Help us, Law Enforcement Officers. Please. Help us take back our freedoms. We can't do it without you.
We further encourage all of our neighbors and citizens-
We must all support one another's rights.
The Homosexuals must support the Christian Creationists. The Gun Rights Advocates must support the Nonviolent Protesters. The Skateboarders must support the Prostitutes.
And vice versa.
And vice versa.
We must all support each other's individual beliefs and rights or we will never again have rights as individuals.
Don't Tread on Us.
Signed,
The American People |
See also:
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/8420/index.php
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/8421/index.php
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Unconfirmed Info On McCrae |
by ML
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25 Nov 2002
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It is unclear at this point if McCrae's assertions that he killed a police officer are true. However, here is a link to more info that is, so far, as unconfirmed as McCrae's assertions:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219197&group=webcast |
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Dominant Media Story On This |
by anon
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26 Nov 2002
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N.H. police capture suspected California killer
Published 6:29 a.m. PST Tuesday, November 26, 2002
[Updated 10:05 a.m. Nov. 26] CONCORD, N.H. ? A 23-year-old man opposed to "police-state tactics" was captured in a hotel Tuesday as people in California flocked to a memorial service for a police officer he apparently admitted killing.
Andrew Hampton McCrae, 23, of Olympia, Wash., surrendered without incident at about 10 a.m. EST after a standoff at the Holiday Inn, police said.
Investigators will have to prove the man they arrested is the same Andrew McCrae who admitting on the Web to killing the officer, but police indicated they believe he is. A fugitive warrant from California named McCrae, and Concord Police Chief Jerry Madden referred reporters to the Web site when asked who he was.
The FBI tipped police at 2:19 a.m. that McCrae was staying in a fourth-floor room at the hotel.
A police tactical team arrived at the hotel, a block from the Statehouse, at 6 a.m. and the fourth floor of the hotel was evacuated, police said. FBI negotiators talked with McCrae by phone and tried to persuade him to surrender.
Red Bluff police officer David Mobilio, 31, was shot once in the head on Nov. 19 as he was refueling his cruiser. A man identifying himself as Andrew McCrae claimed responsibility in a posting Monday to a Web site for San Francisco news, www.sf.indymedia.org.
"Hello everyone, my name's Andy," he said in one of two letters. "I killed a police officer in Red Bluff, California, in a motion to bring attention to, and halt, the police-state tactics that have come to be used throughout our country."
The writer said the killing also was "an action against corporate irresponsibility," which he blamed for "all of the major problems in America and throughout the world today."
As many as 5,000 people were expected at Mobilio's memorial service Tuesday in Red Bluff, a city of 13,500. He was the first Red Bluff officer ever killed in the line of duty.
In one of the Internet postings, McCrae claimed he is immune from prosecution because he incorporated himself. Corporate officers are shielded from personal liability for a corporation's debts.
McCrae said the name for his corporation, "Proud and Insolent Youth," was taken from Peter Pan, a famous children's story about a band of children vanquishing the evil pirate, Captain Hook.
"Peter Pan hates pirates and I hate pirates, and corporations are nothing but a bunch of pirates," McCrae wrote. "It's time to send them to a watery grave and rip them completely out of our lives."
"The very concept behind corporations is to protect their owners from taking responsibility for their actions," he said elsewhere. "This means that directors within corporations can dump waste chemicals in our drinking water, or keep our work environments in fatally dangerous conditions, without any personal liability."
He claimed corporations "murder" thousands of people each year.
The incorporation papers, filed in Concord on Nov. 7, list addresses in Loudon, N.H., and Olympia, Wash. The contact phone number listed for McCrae in Olympia did not answer Tuesday morning.
-- Associated Press
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http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/5372486p-6360638c.html |
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Some More On McCrae |
by ML
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26 Nov 2002
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From the IMC Global Feature Section, Nov. 26
Police Capture Murder Suspect
In a situation that is still unfolding, a man named Andrew Hampton McCrae was arrested in Concord, New Hampshire on November 26 for the murder of David Mobilio, a police officer from Red Bluff, California. Police claimed they found McCrae soon after that name was used in publishing an article to the San Francisco IMC newswire claiming responsibility for the murder, though the article was posted to numerous newswires, including the Seattle IMC hours earlier. The open publishing Indymedia newswires allow for anonymous contributions, so the identity of the author cannot be confirmed. However, a post on the right-wing FreeRepublic.com website indicates the article was sent to many media outlets besides the IMC network.
The author explained that the murder was in protest of police brutality and corporate impunity. While some believe the article is a set-up, a local newspaper in Concord, NH, reports that McCrae offered the same explanation shortly before his arrest. McCrae is from Olympia, Washington, but had once trained in the U.S. Army at the infamous Fort Benning, Georgia.
There is a long tradition of criminals using mass media to get a message out. But the fact that this was such a brutal murder, and that the confession depicts the crime as anti-corporate, mixed with the anti-corporate stance of Indymedia and its emphasis on empowering people to become the media raises concerns that the line will be blurred in this case. This only serves to distract from corporate media's complicity in murders and violence committed for the benefit of corporations.
David Mobilio was shot once in the head on November 19 while he was refueling his police cruiser. Mobilio, 31, was remembered Tuesday by his family, fellow police from around the state, and community members at a memorial service in the small California town outside of Sacramento. He was the first Red Bluff police officer killed in the line of duty.
More Links to Coverage:
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219324&group=webcast
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219376&group=webcast
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=219325&group=webcast
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/11/1545491.php |
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