Important

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Public statement on the recent Pittsburgh police killings by the Greater Pittsburgh Anarchist Collective - gpacATTACK.org

Much has been said of the recent shootings in Pittsburgh involving a supposed white supremacist that resulted in the deaths of 3 police officers. We would like to provide information on the ideology of Richard Poplawski and his friends and to also express our anger at the hypocrisy of the media regarding the recent events.



On Richard Poplawski, Edward Perkovic, and right-wing white supremacy

Richard Poplawski is a 22-year old Pittsburgh man accused in the shooting of 3 police officers in his Stanton Heights home. The day of the shootings his self-described best friend Edward Perkovic appeared on TV, talking of zionist control of the federal government and Obama's supposed plans to "take our guns away". This was an obvious red flag that led us to look deeper into the background of these people.



It turns out that Richard Poplawski was a member of Stormfront, an online forum for white supremacists to gather and discuss their racist views. Despite statements to the contrary by friends Edward Perkovic (more on this budding white supremacist later) and Aaron Vire (who happens to be black), his frequent posting on a message board whose slogan is "White Pride World Wide" would suggest Poplawski strongly sympathized with white supremacist right-wing ideology. In one posting, he commented on Black, Asian, and Latina women: "Don't mix your blood with dirt, son.". In other posts, he rants against the "Zionist Occupied Government", a codeword invented by Anti-Semites and other Neo-Nazis who hide their racism behind legitimate anti-Zionism.



Edward Perkovic (resident of Lawrenceville, employee of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh) also states in a KDKA interview very clearly "I am not a racist." This comes conveniently after he wiped his Myspace and Facebook of racist rantings against Jews and promoted writings by David Duke, a former grandwizard of the Ku Klux Klan. It seems he knew that everyone would be scrutinizing his beliefs after the shootings, and tried to beat us to the punch. Luckily, we're quicker than him. To quote Perkovic, "I must point out the dangers of...mixed bloodlines that will erase national identity (deemed not to be appropriate in today's America, but I assure you, your nationality is something you should be proud of, NOT ERASE).



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Perkovic goes on to list books he would like you to read:

"The Turner Diaries" by Dr.



William Pierce

The Turner Diaries are a book depicting a violent revolution in which white people would exterminate all People of Color and Jews off the face of the planet. It is an extremist white power manifesto, and has inspired such people as Timothy McVeigh who bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh was tied to the right-wing militia movement, groups whose propaganda Poplawski and Perkovic both espouse repeatedly.



"Jewish Supremacism" by Dr.



David Duke

Jewish Supremacism is a book published in 2003 by former grand wizard of the KKK David Duke. This book promotes the anti-Semitic notion that Jews are engaged in a Jewish-Supremacist conspiracy.





Both Perkovic and Poplawski have been influenced by racist right-wing fear mongering that has become more prevalent since Obama took power early this year. They have both openly subscribed to white supremacist beliefs held widely by those in the Neo-Nazi and right-wing movements. Both have tried to hide their racism behind conspiracy theorists and nutjobs such as Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh, but anyone with a brain can see past their lies, no matter how much they try to act like regular old Pens-loving yinzers.





Both of their views are those of politically under-developed neo-Nazi or pro-American right-wing fascist thought processes. There is no evidence (so far) that either of these two are involved in any organized white supremacist groups. Poplawski has claimed on Stormfront that in the near future he would "up the activism." It seems his activism is going to be confined to death row in the State Prison in Greene County.





On media racism, classism, and downright hypocrisy

It was October 12th, 1995. Johnny Gammage was driving down Rt. 51 when he was pulled over by a gang of white officers. They beat him with flashlights and proceeded to murder him by kneeling on his back until he suffocated to death. All officers were let off by racist white juries (yet we still call foul when people refer to Western Pennsylvanians as having racist sentiments).





Fast forward to Christmas Eve, 2002. 12 year old Michael Ellerbe lay face down on the pavement dying of a gunshot wound to the back inflicted by a police officer in Uniontown. 7 years later, in 2009, Samuel Nassan, the same cop who shamelessly murdered the 12 year old boy, unloaded his clip into a moving car in the South Side killing Nicholas Haniotakis, 33 years old.





On January 8th of this year police shot and killed Lamar Smith in North Point Breeze, and then on February 3rd they shot Paul Palmer to death on the North Side. Where are the black ribbons for the people that the police have routinely and systematically victimized? They have no front page tributes; their stories are shuffled into the middle of section C. The night after Richard Poplawski shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers, members of that same department burst into a party in Bloomfield assaulting several attendees, including a young woman who was beaten and a man who was punched in the face until he was knocked unconscious.





The bias in the media is clear regarding these events. The media serves a purpose that is also served by the police, to protect the state and capitalism. The media serves to glorify members of the police force whose routine murders of innocent unarmed people go unmentioned while they get processions, memorial services, and full-page tributes in the papers.





When all the dust settles, when all of the black ribbons on the telephone poles fade, when the Stanton Heights home of Margaret Poplawski is abandoned and boarded up, those police who people glorified and stood by when three of their co-workers were gunned down still won't think twice about cracking your skull open with a baton. They still won't think twice about murdering unarmed black children or unarmed poor white people. We still remember all those times we've been brutalized, and we won't ever forget it. We most certainly will not forgive it.





Greater Pittsburgh Anarchist Collective
Anti-Racist Action Network
info@gpacattack.org
gpacATTACK.org

Why I am NOT an Organ Doner

This is because I know that this sort of sick shit is going down wayyy more often than we'd like to even consider. I'm surprised that this actually made the news.

http://news.aol.com/article/gregory-jacobs-organs/384479

conclusions/realizations

So I've been struggling a lot with figuring out what to do with my life as far as "career" goes. I had been feeling as if I was a loser if a "career" wasn't something that I was working towards or even had already. I was really just allowing the horrible expectations of this false perception of life get to me and forgot all about what I really believe in.

As far as a career goes, I am not interested in one. It is something that has been made up by society to prove that one is a well adjusted human being. But really that has nothing to do with being human. Money or status as far as society is concerned means nothing to me. My worth as a person is no less than the next persons based on the job that I hold or how much fake worthless paper money I have.

As I do know, even if I hate the idea of money and what it stands for I still need to have it to be able to get by. But I'm not going to be a slave to it. I'm not going to live for my job/career. That is not what life is about for me. It is about what kind of person I am and the lives that I touch in a positive way. Life is about love and beauty not money and power. They are principles which I am not willing to compromise and I cannot live happily in this life if I do anything otherwise.

Therefor I'm not going to continue to feel bad about myself because I don't have an established career or lots of money. I'm going to do what I need to, to fulfill my basic needs and concentrate on doing what I can to make myself happy and make the world a better place. After all, it is my choice that I do not want a career. Of course I could go and get one and be all high and mighty and feel established and base my happiness off of empty accomplishments and meaningless things. But that is not my life. I live to be happy and to love and to spread both of those things. I live to fight back against the evil forces in control of our world. I live to see the real beauty in this world. I don't see how anything could be more important than that.

Feelings helpless/hopeless..

I obviously haven't updated my blog in a while. I've been having some trouble with depression and haven't felt motivated in quite a while. It has been getting better lately but my bad days still outweigh my good.

I just feel like everything is so much bigger than me. Like nothing I do is going to ever really matter in the whole scheme of things. I'm stuck in this system that I cannot ever accept and I'm supposed to work within it and make a life?! I'm having the worst time trying to do that.

I feel like it is designed to hold people down and to keep them there. It's purpose is to destroy people to benefit very few others. To tell you the truth I just don't know what to do. I felt so motivated and then got so overwhelmed by how completely messed up and flawed the system is and just gave up. How can I work to make things better for this world within a flawed system? It would be senseless.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm being completely realistic or if maybe I'm not being optimistic enough. I just think there is no point to optimism if the reality of the situation says otherwise.

So what do I do? Do I continue to struggle never to get ahead within this failed system? What kills me inside is that I know that the world doesn't have to be this way and that we have the resources we need for it to be better but it is not going to happen. The people that are in control in this world do not care. They do not care about me or you.

There is no working within a flawed system to make things better. The best thing I can think of to do is to encourage the system to crash and burn so that the opportunity for a better world can then be worked towards.

I just don't know what to do with myself in the meantime. I'm drowning in student loan debt from a college education that means nothing. I am not able to get by on my own. When is enough going to be enough?

I know I'm not the only one out there that is in this situation.

AdBusters!

http://www.adbusters.org/abtv/featured

The Resistance Manifesto

http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/

Hopelessly Enslaved

Money is a noose around the neck of the human race. We have begun to suffocate. Time is NOT on our side.

DANCE PUPPETS DANCE!

Ignore the truth.

Follow blindly and question nothing.-----------> UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!

FUCK YOU CORPORATOCRACY!

Why won't you people listen to me?! You DO have a choice! You can CHOOSE to question why our quality of life has PLUMMETED. You can CHOOSE to wake up and take back your life. Our lives. It does not have to be like this..

Mass sadness, corruption, famine, poverty, depression, sickness, hate, fighting, destitution, struggle and I CAN go on and on and etc..

Our lives can be better. We can ALL live comfortable, happy lives. YES WE CAN. WE CAN. WE CAN. TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE! FIGHT the Corporatocracy! WE DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS! YOU deserve better. The Human Population deserves Better. Best.

We are all in this together. WE ARE ONE. Stop fighting eachother. Stop hurting eachother. My soul cries for us. It hurts and it is sick. It is painful...
I will stop at nothing to help everyone see. To open your eyes. To spread the LOVE. To STOP THE MADNESS.

FIGHT WITH ME!

Your fashionable paper money means nothing when you're dead.

WE WILL ALL BE GONE SOONER THAN YOU'D LIKE TO IMAGINE IF IT DOES NOT STOP! WAKE UP! FUCKING WAKE UP!

What will it take? Tell me and I'll do it. We do not have to live in Fear. Fear is the element of control. We are enslaved by it.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who FALSELY believe they are Free."-------------->..and that is the epitome of the human fucking race~

STOP THE SLAVERY! SHUT DOWN THE FEDERAL RESERVE NOW!

http://www.restoretherepublic.com/take-action/petition-shut-down-the-federal-reserve

Do it not only for yourself but for everyone you know and care about. Spread awareness.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=freedom+to+fascism&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#

Watch this video "Freedom to Fascism". Educate yourself. Stop the madness.

Income Tax is Illegal!?

http://www.paynoincometax.com/

One persons struggle with the horrendous crimes committed by the United States government.

This is what I'm feeling.

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20081227152938209

An excerpt from this article:

"It does not hesitate to destroy the nature of Earth, exterminating whole eco-systems, altering the environment and disrupting our bodies with the quality of food we receive. All in the name of progress, science and civilisation.


The civilised world is an amalgam of all these authoritarian patterns which, over time, have convinced us of having a quality of life without which (ironically) humans lived much better in the past.


The rise of population and of the average life expectancy, with the blessings of the Medical Regime, simply increases the number of the waged slaves, shrinking, at the same time, the quality of their life to the absolute minimum.


Life in the city has distanced humans from the experience of living, observing and learning from natural phenomena; it has destroyed the experience of the physical space and has made them vulnerable in the face of experience that used to be commonplace (physical labour, outdoors survival etc)."

It's bullshit and I'm full

I find that I have an extremely hard time understanding how human beings can treat fellow human beings in the horrible ways that they do. A wonderful example of this is how the most wealthy people in this world can sit up on their high horses and say 'Who cares about the people? Worry about yourself and your family.' Who cares about the people?! Well I do! Are you not people too?

It makes me sick inside to know the things that I know and to witness the mass sadness and destruction going on right before our eyes. And the most sickening part of it all is not only the sick, sick things that happen but the fact that people are blind to it.

Let me clarify that the horrible people that I am referring to are the corporate giants, the World Bank, the IMF, etc. The people who hold the majority of the worlds wealth. The people that want to keep everyone else under control and blind to their sick agenda. We are all puppets on a string. Everything we see is garbage. Our media is garbage. Everything they tell us is a lie or a manipulation to scare us so that we continue to willingly give up our rights. That's right! They have us so brainwashed that we have willingly begun to give up our rights to the government!

We no longer have a government run by the people. THEY RUN US.

But nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to believe that OUR OWN GOVERNMENT planned and carried out the 911 attacks. Why would they do such a thing you ask? An excuse to go to war. Why would they WANT to go to war? That's how they make their money because as can be seen by our national debt, war costs an uncouth amount of money. Where does the money come from? The banks(World Bank, IMF). The banks lend the "government" money which has to be paid back, with interest I might add. The more money that is needed for war, the more money that is borrowed, the more money that they make. Hmm.. I wonder why it seems like nothing ever really gets accomplished and war seems to drag on and on and on.....MONEY. It doesn't really matter who dies or how many people die. That is of no concern to them. And who do you think ends up paying the debts that get racked up? No not the people who have the money. Not the people who wanted the war. Not even the people who "borrowed" the money. It is us. It is every single person that is being controlled. Taxes. New tax here, new tax there, drink tax this, tax that, death tax, income tax, tax, tax, tax, tax..

Our government is severely flawed. The banks/corporations put who they want in office. If somehow someone gets in that wants to make a change they sure wont last long. They somehow end up in a plane crash and die or are assassinated, etc.

They will stop at nothing for total world domination. What makes you think they care about you at all if they can kill thousands of innocent people on a whim to make more money? They don't care about anyone.

The government has done a very good job of framing the middle eastern peoples or so called "terrorists". They give us a list of middle eastern names and faces and tell us they are the "terrorists". Of course what are those people going to do? They cannot defend themselves against it. It makes perfect sense to me why they hate the United States so much.

So now the majority of us believe that some middle eastern people decided to fly some planes into the World Trade Center and it magically came crumbling down to dust. THINK! How did those buildings implode and fall so perfectly. I find it hard to believe that a plane crashing into the top of a building could make it crumble all the way down to the very bottom to dust. Planned attacks? Yes. But by whom?

The true terrorists are not sitting in Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan. They are counting their endless supply of money and planning their next move. They have all of the most expensive luxuries we can imagine. And they DO NOT care who they have to kill and conquer to stay in control.

Who knows what really happened? All I know is that I'm not buying it anymore. It's bullshit and I'm full.

open up our eyes

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/