Solidarity With Tristan Anderson and All Victims of Statehood
There is a rally outside of the Israeli embassy going on tonight. I didn’t end up attending. So I’ll attend from the blog.
On March 13, Tristan Anderson, an activist from Oakland, CA, was critically injured when he was shot in the head with a high-velocity teargas projectile by thugs in Israeli Defense Forces uniforms. By all accounts, he was nonviolently protesting the Israeli system of apartheid, perhaps taking pictures, at the time he was attacked. The IDF reportedly fired more teargas into the crowd while well-identified medical personnel attended to Anderson.
According to The Washington Post, the IDF stated that “A full investigation will ensue.” The violent organization’s investigation of its own members’ actions likely centers on how the word “investigation” will take the heat off them for shooting a non-threatening individual in the head.
The US Consul General assures us in bureaucrat-speak that the US government is concerned about its citizens (and apparently not concerned about Palestinians who get killed using weapons the US taxpayer is forced to buy). Perhaps the US government will learn things it will find useful when stealing peoples’ land to build that border wall that Ron Paul approves of.
Hopefully Anderson will recover and not be another notch in the gunstock of the state, a dangerous form of social organization that directly killed over 300 million people in the twentieth century alone, and killed countless more due to conditions it creates.
