Cockroach Extra Part 3 (two parts)

[malecki@xxxxxxxxxx (Robert Malecki)]

COCKROACH! EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!

A EZINE FOR POOR AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE.

WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS.

It is time that the poor and working class people
have a voice on the Internet.

Contributions can be sent to <malecki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subscribtions are free at    <malecki@xxxxxxxxxx>

How often this zine will appear depends on you!


CONTENTS:

EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA!

Congress declares war on the poor of America!

The reactionary congress of the United States of
both Democrats and Republicans has declared war on
poor people. This in passing a "welfare reform" bill
which in principle and if put into practice says to
poor people of American--STARVE TO DEATH!

Because of this unpresidented attack on millions
of people by the politcal parties of the rich and
powerful, I publish in an extra numer of Cockroach
exchanges going on at present on Usenet under the
header "Burn Baby, Burn!"
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John Bergsing <tomcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Malecki:

>I don't think ANYONE should direct their anger violently at ANYONE! So,
>GROW UP! You're talking like a high school kid!

>John

No John, I understand your position. But then perhaps you have never been
hungry or poor. And perhaps all the riots over the years because of the
present racist and unjust system of America is a figment of our imaginations.

I surpoe you think that the government and declare war on poor people
by basically telling to STARVE TO DEATH should be taken in a quiet and
peaceful manner.

However i disagree. I think that the poor and working class people who
are hit by the cuts and union bashing should rise up and fight those
responsible in the best way they can and with any means that can lead
the struggle forward aginst the rich and powerful.

One of thease would be to close down rioch America and bring the war
to their doorsteps for a change..

malecki


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John Bergsing <tomcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>No one is saying you have to starve to death. That would be your own
>decision.

>And, if history hasn't been rewritten, the Russians were coming! RE:
>CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS!

>John

The Russians are coming in reality!

PAVLOV AND ME,
 A STORY ABOUT ATOMIC BOMB DRILLS IN THE FIFTIES!

My razor thinks this story is depressing. Probably jealous!

Pavlov! He was this guy who was doing all these experiments with
the dogs.  You know, making them react to various different forms
of stimulation and that kind of stuff.



There is a big word called behaviourism, gee that sounds almost
like communism, well anyhow behaviourism is a theory about giving
living organisms certain stimulation in order that they react in a
certain way. Sort of like locking a kid in a closet, feeding him
and telling at the same time that he is Jesus Christ. The obvious
reaction being that the kid after a period of time thinks he is
Jesus Christ.
                                                                                
        
Me!


                                                                
Well that is a good question or the question rather is who's me? My
name is Bob. Yeah, just Bob. I mean telling you my last name
certainly would not tell the reader anything about my mothers side
of history. Her name was McGruder and she raised me because my
father died in 1942, the same year I was born. For some reason
I got his last name. I mean I never even met the guy. Who the fuck
is he anyway? Going off and dying on me and my mom. Oh, I almost
forgot, that is another story.



Anyhow,Bob is living in exile in Sweden. A little country on the
Scandinavian peninsula. A place called Robertsfors which lies
fairly near the polar circle.   If I were to draw a straight line
around the globe, I would find myself on the same level as such
places as Fairbanks, Alaska or Zyryanka, that's some fucking place
in Siberia. Here we have a winter which lasts about 6 months. It
is cold and dark here in the winter. When I say dark I mean dark
like almost 24 hours a day dark! However summer is light and just
the opposite.


The reason I am living here in exile goes back to the war in
Vietnam. If I were to return to the United States I could be put
away for a very long time because of my activities in opposition
to the war in Vietnam.
                                                                                
        
However that is also another story.


Christ Bob, stop ego tripping and get on with the story about
atomic bomb drills during the fifties.
                                                                                
                
The fifties!


                                                                
That was when the newspapers were writing about the American
soldiers captured by the Chinese Communists in Korea. The
newspapers were saying that the soldiers were being brainwashed
into making all kinds of weird confessions about American
Imperialist aggression.They, the Chinese Communists, were using
the old dripping water torture trick. Lying a soldier on a bench
or a table and letting water drip on his head until he confessed;
to his crime of being a tool of American aggression, according to
the newspaper reports based on leaks from high government sources
and the C.I.A.
                                                                
This was the McCarthy era.


                                                                
By the way, Richard Nixon was a torpedo lawyer for Joe McCarthy.
They were trying to get all of the "Pinkos" to confess and after
confessing to jump out of the nearest window. The main question
of the time was:

                                                                
"Have you ever been a member    or sympathiser of a communist
organisation?".
                                                                
Even the liberals were terrified of getting the red stamp on their
foreheads. Joe McCarthy and his freedom fighters, like the young
lawyer Nixon, had just about everybody scared shitless of being a
part of a gigantic communist conspiracy. I mean these Commie creep
could come in the middle of the night and rape your mother and your
sisters, if you didn't watchout!
                                                                                
        
Even Robert McNamara, who recently wrote his book about Vietnam,
was a victim of these times. All this stuff about the
"Domino Theory" was a   product of the McCarthy era. At least the
feeling one gets when hearing   McNamara , 25 years later, whining
about the domino theory and the war being all wrong confession on
his part. In my opinion Bob McNamara is a political coward and
responsible for sending a lot of American poor and working class
kids to their deaths, not to mention the suffering of the Vietnamese...



At the same time people, like me, who really and actively opposed
that war are still living in exile unable to return to the United
States. If McNamara wants to do something besides making a lot of
money on his book, he could try helping the victims of his mistakes.



People like meee!



Ob,s!



There I go again.




Ranting and raving on about something that has nothing to do with
the story.


Sorry about that!
I was just a kid during those times. I was living on Staten Island, in New
York City. That was before they built the bridges and the Staten Island
ferry only cost a nickel. I think the street I was living on was Lockwood
Ave. My house was right across the street from the Bethlehem steel plant. I
remember the grey walls, the grey men, with their lunchboxes, and the smoke
and noise coming from across the street.


I did not know that the McCarthy era was at its best, nor did I
know that I was a part of the gigantic Pavlonian experiment of the
times.  In fact most of the time, if I wasn't in school, I was
playing with my friends in the streets or playing with my prick on
the rooftops! Little did I know that I was being set up as future
cannon fodder, in future wars, a future victim, so that corporate
creeps could make profits...    No, not at all, I was just a kid
who did not know his ass from a hole in the ground.
                                                                                
                
I was going to school. Public School! You know the place where there are
forty kids in a class. The schools got numbers on them like P.S.8
or P.S.45. School for me, at this particular time, was made up of
seasons.


There was the spitball season, the paperclipp season, the water
balloon season, the peashooter season, the baseball card season
and so on. The other important part of school life was the Atomic
Air Raid Drills, which went on in the fifties about once a week,
in my public school and probably in many other public schools at
the time...


                                                                
Little did I know that these drills were of the higher Pavlonian
school of behaviourism. Little did I know that these drills were
created to make little kids like myself begin foaming at the mouth,
every time I heard the word

                                                                
"Russian" or "communist".
                                                                                
        
Nor did I know that I would still even today, get chills up and
down my spine on hearing the American National Anthem.


                                                                
No not at all.
                                                                                
                
I was just a poor kid in a neighbourhood with other poor kids
trying to make the best out of what life had to give. The truth
in fact was, I was trying just to survive circumstances which I
in no way had control over...
        
The Atomic Air Raid Drills usually started with sirens. Sirens on
the school roof, sirens everywhere. Our teacher would inform us
that this was a drill by screaming,


                                                                        
"The Russians are coming!,                                              
                                                                
he Russians are coming, take cover!".
                                                                
Then the actual detonation of an atomic bomb was surpose to take
place. Obs, I almost forgot that before taking cover some of the
kids in the class  were assigned the duty of pulling the dark
shades over the classroom windows.

Then the teacher began screaming,


                                                                
"FLASH"
                                                                                
                
which meant that we kids were to cover our eyes with our hands.
After that the

teacher screamed,


                                                                
"BLAST"
                                                                                
        
which meant that we kids were to cover our ears. Then the teacher
screamed,
                                                                
"SHOCKWAVE"
                                                                                
        
which meant that we kids were to roll up in a little ball under our
desks. Finally the sirens would start again and the teacher would
scream,

                                                                                
"ALL CLEAR".


                                                                
Then we would sing the American National Anthem.


Now if you, the reader, had been there I believe that you would have been
scared too. Not only would the Russians rape your mother and your
sisters, but they would drop atomic bombs on your fucking head too.
This stuff  pulled on innocent kids was the result of the McCarthy
era. It was a fucking crime. A Pavlonian experiment to get kids
like me prepared to foam at the mouth when we heard the words
communist or Russian.


Not only that, for poor and working class kids who survived in New
York City until the age necessary to go out and fight for
"your country", it was a mental training ground to prepare you as a
piece of meat to be used by those in power for future wars. It is
not the rich guy who goes out and dies for his country, he's to
busy making money for that, no it was and is poor creeps like us,
living in the ghettos, who's main choice in life usually is go be
a soldier or go to jail, who always gets the shitty end of the
stick!
                                                                                
                
Anyhow these Atomic Air Raid Drills, at least for me, made an
enormous impression on my being. For many years it effected my
life. It effected the lives of my family. A good example of this
is my sister Judy, who came to visit me here in Sweden in the
seventies. She came to visit me a grown up woman,she had a fur
coat, a diamond ring, two sweet girls who she sent to Catholic
school.


Christ this sounds like the American dream in a nutshell.



Anyhow we got drunk one night and talked. She said to me:


                                                                
"Bobby, you remember how poor we were when we were little, well
I am never going back to that.",                                
                                                                
she said and furthermore:


                                                                
"Bobby you are my brother and I love you, but I think your a
Communist and if you come back, I hope they put you away!"
                                                                
That really convinced me that my sister had also been brainwashed
during the fifties... She was extremely convinced that my actions
in protest to the war in Vietnam was a plot! A gigantic communist
conspiracy and I had been duped by communist propaganda.


Wow, my very own sister who when little did not have a pot to piss
in. My sister convinced I was a part of a gigantic conspiracy. But
she also said to me:


                                                                
"Bobby you remember how poor we were when we were little, I am
never going back to that!".
                                                                
So this was her way of climbing out of the pot, a bit selfish, but
for my sister a way out.


                                                                
HMMM.



I wonder how she is doing today?



Maybe she is on unemployment.



Maybe her husband, a jockey, dumped her.



Who knows?


                                                                
The point being that my sister was also a victim of these times...
                                                                                
                
Another good example I found during my stay in the Lewisburg
Federal Penitentiary. I was imprisoned there for  some of my
activities against the Vietnam War for 27 months. I met a
"Russian" spy named R,G. Just meeting him gave shivers up and
down my spine. I mean, here I was face to face with a guy who
people were telling me from the time I was little, would drop
atomic bombs on my head and rape my mom and my sisters!


Well it turned out different.
                                                                                
        
R.G. wasn't even a Russian, but a German. Not only that he was one
of the few people, I have met in my life, who turned out to be a
very kind, thoughtful and intelligent person.


But that is another story.


However my feelings for him the first time I met him belong to the
Atomic Air Raid Drills, my teacher and her, "the Russians are
coming" screaming bullshit of the McCarthy era.
                                                                                
                
So, what kind of conclusions should one draw from this story? You
could, of course, go out and shoot the first Russian you meet!
However the Russians have their own problems these days.


Of course you could say that the author of these lines is really
fucking sick in the head and probably be shot on sight. My own
conclusion is that my children and my grand children, whom I have
not had the privilege of meeting yet, because the American
Government is still pissed off about my activities during the
Vietnam war, should read these lines and perhaps think about what
it is the rich and powerful people in America are using today in
order to prepare the future generations of cannon fodder to fight
their enemies!


Anyone else can decide to do what they think best.. Besides I am
soon 53 years old and who cares what I am thinking about. Just an
old bullshit artist.
                                                                                
        
Well, I guess I will end the story here with the following words.


There was this Jewish grocery store where a young man with long
hair walked in to buy milk. The Jewish man, behind the counter,
told the young man to stand over there with his hands raised on
the cross. Then he , the Jewish man, took his hammer and nails
and drove threw the hands of the young man with the words..


                                                                
"YOU WILL NEVER LEARN, WILL YOU?"
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John Bergsing <tomcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>COMMUNIST! You sure lucky you live in the USA. Have you ever heard the
>cliche: Looking the gift-horse in the mouth!? It applies to you,
>Malecki! If you had it the you want it, you would not be allowed to
>speak out as you are doing right now! THINK ABOUT IT, STUPID!!!

>John

Why John,

Thanks for letting me live! Naturally if you had the power you would shoot
all people who defend the interests of poor and working class people.

You should remember Vietnam. Where a whole bunch of poor and working class
kids got sent of to die under the guise of fighting those horrible communists.
In fact Americam colonialism and profit for the corporations like the Ford
Foundation and Dow Chemical was the real reason. Just as cutting welfare
today is an attempt to raise profits and lower taxes for these people at
the expense of STARVING poor people to death..

Your a big joke John..

Go play the star spangled banner at your local bank. They will believe
you because poor and working class people certainly should not..

malecki

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John Bergsing <tomcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I think it is you, Malecki, who is the REAL coward. You seem to be
>afraid to go out and earn your own money. You just want to take it from
>others. So, Malecki, who is the reral coward???

>John

Yeah John a real coward. Just think the whole congress and both parties
including the president are prepared to starve millions of poor people
and those who stand up to these creeps are cowards.

When the cities start burning again, I assume i will go from being a
coward to some sort of terrorist when i say that it is much better to
burn out the rich then burn down the ghettoes..

Well, I do think it is a better tactic if anything has to burn at
all. However being that the present attack on poor and working class
people is much more then we have seen since slavery, I guess it will
take some extraordinary tactics to stop this despicable act by those
in power..

malecki




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