I just received ULK
55. I would like to offer a clarification in the area of so-called
“sex offenders.” Now I will speak of the situation in Corruptardo (as
most call this imprisonment state) only, as I am not sure what other
states are doing in this area. Also, I will speak of the “causation” of
“sex phobia” which infects most Amerikans.
In Colorado, a sex charge does not automatically indicate a “rape”
situation where a victim was forced to do something. Three actions which
will bring a sex charge are: 1. Someone caught pissing on an alley
dumpster at night; 2. Someone caught pissing on a bush in a park; 3. A
juvenile (14) who pats a girl on the butt while she stands in front of
him in line in school. Also, in Colorado someone caught “mooning”
someone from out a car window, or “streaking” (as was big in the 1970s),
can be charged with a sex offense, and, required to register as an SO.
The first three situations are from actual cases (people) that I know.
So just because someone is labeled by a sex phobic system as an SO, it
does not mean that he/she hit someone over the head and dragged them
into the bushes.
Nothing freaks out an Amerikan more than almost anything to do with
sex(!). Want to torpedo a politician, just clam he had an affair with a
staffer. Want to panic a neighborhood, just let an SO move there. A
robber, a mugger, a drug dealer, no problem. But sex(!!), oh shit!
All our laws and regulations about sexual conduct come from the Jews
(the Pentatench, those rules say unruly children should be stoned to
death), and the Christians (their bible saying “slaves obey your
masters” and that wives should be submissive to their husbands). The
people that brought us the flat earth, heilo-centrism (the sun revolves
around the earth), and the claim that diseases are caused by demon
possession, have written the laws that say when, how, at what age, and
with who for any sexual action. No sex unless we say so!
As part of their education efforts, I encourage all prisoners trying to
learn the how, why, when and where to research more than political
science (socialist, etc.) theory. I say, look into the history of the
laws that have been used to oppress you. Who wrote them? What was their
agenda? Were they following a semitic religious philosophy? And what
were the social/societal conditions when the law(s) were written?
Despite the claims (often unstated) by the rightists (fascists) that cry
for “law and order,” the laws of the U.$. did not come down with Moses
(the mythical one) on stone tablets. People created them in their
efforts for power (control over others, social control, control of the
money).
Some books on the history of “sex” laws, or of attitudes concerning
sex-related behavior (marriage, etc.) that I recommend are:
From
Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late
Antiquity by Kyle Harper
Purity Crusade: Sexual Morality and
Social Control by D. Pivar.
Marriage, History by
Stephanie Coontz
Rescuing Sex from the Christians by Clayton
Sullivan
Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing
America by Nancy Cohen
MIM(Prisons) responds: This writer raises some important points
about how we define crime in the United $tates. There are many people
locked up for sex crimes (and other crimes) who, under a revolutionary
government, would be immediately freed. Of course, we would still fight
against things like boys patting girls butts. That behavior is made
acceptable by the patriarchy, and in a revolutionary society it will not
be ok, and we will provide re-education for those who don’t understand
why. But in patriarchal society those who commit these “crimes” are no
more guilty of patriarchal behavior than 90% of the males on the
streets. All (males and females) will need significant re-education to
overcome a lifetime of patriarchal training. That doesn’t mean we need
to lock everyone up in prison. And it certainly doesn’t mean we trust
the Amerikan criminal injustice system to decide who gets locked up.
Certainly religions have strongly influenced a backwards view of sex
under patriarchal imperialist society. But the
sexual
Liberals draw a false dichotomy between themselves and such “social
conservatives.” They are merely too sides of the pornographic culture –
one prefers its rape hidden in the halls of the church, the other
prefers it on display for all to see. Both fetishize the power relations
of the patriarchy. We are far from the time when we’ll be able to
eliminate laws and rules about sex. Instead we are going to need an
interim period where a revolutionary government enforces revolutionary
laws. These laws will dismantle the patriarchy by mobilizing those
oppressed by it and re-educating the oppressors. At the same time we
will be creating a culture that rejects the patriarchy and gender
hierarchies and divisions and promotes equality for all people.
The Marxist approach may line up with the Liberal approach at times
because it is open about talking about sex as a way to combat gender
oppression. But we don’t talk about it nearly as much, because most talk
is just the reproduction of pornographic culture for titilation rather
than scientific analysis for solving problems. In practice, Maoism in
the Third World has shown the benefits of things like the separation of
genders in both work and living spaces as a means to attack the
patriarchy. Something Liberals are quick to condemn in the
non-revolutionary states of the Muslim world today.
Some people think that MIM(Prisons) is too conservative around sex
because we uphold the idea that monogamy is the best practice within
revolutionary organizations. But this is necessary due to the
unfortunate reality of our patriarchal culture. We just don’t have the
power or resources to create an alternative culture and system of
government yet. And so instead we need policies and practices that do
the most to fight against patriarchal culture and behavior today, while
we fight for a society where these are abolished in the future.