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The first WACO. In 1985, when the US government collaborated with the Philadelphia police to bomb an entire city block, I finally recognized for the first time that the most powerful government in the world is controlled by career criminals.
Source – constantinereport.com
– Talk to some of the folks who lived through the bombing of 62nd and Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia 30 years ago, and you’ll notice that they refer to the event by its full date. May 13, 1985.
That’s how Gerald Renfrow refers to it when we talk about the inferno. His house is about 30 yards from the compound on which the bomb was dropped — practically ground zero. He’d been living there since long before the bombing, and now he’s the block captain, trying to hold on to the home where he grew up and raised his own family.
That’s how Perry Moody refers to it, too. His house is on the north side of Pine Street. On that day three decades ago, he had been evacuated from the block but watched as the houses on the other side of the street were…
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Yep, brutally criminal.
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I wonder if I would feel differently if I had been taught different in school, ie if they had said “Listen children, this country is run by psychopathic killers and if you cross them they will squash you like a fly.”
But they didn’t, did they? The filled my head with all kinds of garbage about personal liberty (I was free to do anything so long as it didn’t infringe on other people) and politicians and police officers working for me and serving my interest.
If you don’t want people to resist, you shouldn’t fill their heads with dreams of freedom.
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Oh my, don’t perfect their educational curriculum for them! 🙂 LOL
Perhaps Common Core and other educational endowments has that on their indoctrination agenda.
OBEY and you will be happy…
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http://www.salvationandsurvival.com/2015/11/disney-and-its-demons.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+salvationandsurvival%2FBhMK+%28Salvation+And+Survival%29
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I remember this. Hollywood made a movie based on this, right?
So what is to stop this government from doing this again?
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I assume this is a rhetorical question right? There’s absolutely nothing to stop the government from doing it again!
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Yep! That’s what it was!
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At Waco I turned on TV and saw 76 persons murdered in front of my eyes, Ruby ridge about 100 miles from my home I remember well. I don’t recall Philadelphia but it looks much the same if you challenge police authority your destroyed
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MOVE didn’t really challenge the government. They were a self-sufficient religious commune (originally called The Christian Movement for Life) just like the people at Waco. They grew their own food, which their neighbors claimed attracted cockroaches and vermin.
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The Gov’t is afraid of us and lacks a valid argument, that’s why they resort to violence.
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I tend to agree with Derrick Jensen in Endgame – the whole system is based on exploitation of the poor by the rich, which can only be enforced by the threat of violence.
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Thanks for this article. I had no idea that this event ever happened as I live outside the United States, but it’s a sign of how the state treats you when you cross the lines they set for ordinary folk who are supposed to toe their line.
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I can attest to that based on my own experience. If you cross the line, they come down on you like a ton of bricks.
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THERE WILL BE TONS OF BRICKS COMING FOR ALL OF US, BUT THEN AGAIN WE SHALL BE READY FOR THEM, AND STAND TOGETHER. WE MAY BE COMMON AND POOR FOLK, BUT AT LEAST WE ARE NOT EVIL THROUGH AND THROUGH FOLK.
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Hear, hear.
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Before MOVE was the murder of Fred Hampton in his bed, two weeks after I interviewed him in Chicago. After that was the slaughter in Attica and mowing down of others live on TV. And maybe it all started with the murder of the college students protesting the Viet Nam war. In my lifetime I’ve seen the violence of this “land of the free” become common TV fodder. And we must remember that an innocent man is still in jail, a result of this onslaught on a group of black people who had the nerve to try to live differently.
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Excellent reminder, skywalker, of some of the more sordid events of the 20th century. How amazing that you got to interview Fred Hampton. I don’t suppose you have a link to the interview?
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Stuart, did that when I was a college student. Unfortunately, it’s one of the many hundreds of pages I lost in my travels.
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