Newslette~Of the Collectiue Opposed to Police Brutality - Uancouuer Volume 1 #5 C® PB- Van December 2002
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Obstruction 01 In-Iustile newslette~of the Collectiue Opposed to Police Brutality - Uancouuer Volume 1 #5 C® PB- Van December 2002 Inside: ~~ Kampbell's 'n KOPE's Kops . jj7~ Guns, Roses, 'n Riots ~~ Kops Anack Victoria Squatters ~~.local And International News lend my voice and the authorityof myoffice withLarry," Graham said. "He's an extremely hard worker. He's very focused on c PB-Van change, and I'm looking forward to standing shoulder to shoul Collective Opposed to Police Brutality - Vancouver der with him and supporting him on issues and haVing him do the same on policing issues." And since Larry got the power he worked so hard for (i.e. We welcome your comments, suggestions, stories, and promising everyone eve drawings. rything theywant: social housing; no eviction of Contact Info: squatters, a referendum Phone: 604-682-3269 extension 8397 on the Olympics) he can e-mail: [email protected] now get down to real Website: http://resist.ca/-copb-van/ business - stealing from Statement and demands: please visit our Website. the poor, adding more police (44 more to the existing 1,200 in the Downtown Eastside), not having a referendum, etc. What do you expect from an ex-cop? Once a cop... We are deeply disturbed by the display ofsupport for COPE, from people involved in grassroots politics lending legitimacy to an Capitalists illegitimate state, who should know better after getting their asses kicked by the State's goons. These 'left-leaning' political parties Opposing MoreKops are not different from any others. Minor concessions do not create = the real necessary changes. People On The Way Do we need politicians? When someone marks an 'X' beside the name of one who becomes mayor, they are then directly re Everyday sponsible for every fascist gesture of the kind that leads to further violence, bloodshed and repression. Already, for the past week, O, Larry Campbell, the ex-coroner is now the new mayor, after there has been a police car parked on the sidewalk right in front of Sless than half of the population that is 'legally able' to vote Carnegie Centre (at Main and Hastings) 24hours a day. This is not turned out at the ballot boxes.(Only 280,000 people registered to an isolated incident. When the 44 new cops get hired there will be vote and not even all of them turned up). Everyone else was prob a continuation of the calculated violence that has been emanating ably doing something important like looking for food, sleeping, from the business-owners and politicians in the name of the state taking care ofchildren, sabotage or having sex. Maybe there were under the directions of a few. Remember, they are hiring all these some who wanted to vote but when they considered they would new cops and there still isn't a single safe injection site up and only be voting for the "lesser" evil anyway, they stayed home. running in the Lower Mainland. And if they've been in prison for amore than two years they don't We accuse the mayor and ex-cop, Larry KKKampbell, in his even have a choice. The electoral process is totalitarian: free will plunder and affiliations with police chief Jamie Graham, and his cannot be tolerated: police conditions are inevitable. In fact be emulation already apparent of Gordon Campbell, of continuing fore Larry was even in office, he and Jamie Graham were having a the brutal legacy of Philip Owen. We accuse his party, COPE, of love-fest. "I'm very, very hopeful and I'm more than prepared to being the largest parasitic landlord in the city of Vancouver. "WhyAnarchists Hate The Cops" narchists by nature are anti-authoritarians, this means that ties preach to us everyday from birth to death. As Emma Goldman A we don't think it's necessary for anyone to force us to do said, "a society gets all the crime it deserves." what they think is best for us (or more often then not, what's best Those in power stoke the publicls fear of crime in order to for them). We believe that authority functions only to serve itself extend their own power. By putting more "undesirable" people and merely gives the illusion of serving society when in reality in prison or more police on the streets they make our society easier itls leaching off it. It's pretty obvious why we don't like police, to control and dominate. the military, prisons, etc. These are institutions whose sole pur- The real reason for the existence ofpolice is to make sure only pose is to control and dominate the people arouQd them. They the right people can steal (like the corporate execs and corrupt spread violence and terror in our neighborhoods, abusing and kid- politicians and of course the biggest thieves and drug dealers in napping people, forcing us to live by their rules and under their the world, the cops). They use violence to enforce the rules that thumb. their powerful masters created to make sure they always win. It's Anarchists don't buy the argument that cops protect us from obvious that cops are here to protect something, but it isn't us. It's crime. It's a fact that most crime is a result of the fucked up soci- to protect the rich and powerful and this miserable world they've ety that police and their masters impose on us. 2/3 of crime is built, from us. economic. Is this surprising in a world where many people must In place of violent bands of heavily armed cops, we anarchists starve so that a small elite can have a little more? Some steal for suggest that we startgetting more involved with the people around fun, most steal to eat. us. The anti-social values of the authorities will never do anything Another primary reason for crime is the anti-social values of but create more anti-social crime. Peace will nat come from more violence, competition, dominance, and slavery that the authori- continued on next page page 2 Obstruction of In-Justice December 2002 police, from more laws, from more restric tions on what we can say and do. It will Send the Pigs to the Pig Farm! take a society based on positive values like by Jane Doe cooperation and liberty, ideals that nour ish the growth of healthy and happy peo small army of investigators is sifting through tonnes of earth at a Port Coquitlam ple, in order to get rid of 'crime'. Itwill take A pig farm, searching for all that remains of 66 missing women. They're searching for the destruction of this economic system bones, teeth, tissue, clothing, jewelry, anything that might identify the women who died. thatwith the gun and baton, police impose Robert "Willy" Pickton stands charged with the longest string ofserial murders in Cana on us, with the only decision being to slave dian history. or starve, but never to live free. Many people are grieving; many more are tom by fear and uncertainty over the dis To accomplish this, we need to start appeared. All of us are questioning why. the police failed to take the disappearances building this vision now, to begin to strug seriously. Why wouldn't the police admit what the community already knew, that a se gle against the need for groups like cops rial killer was murdering women, year after year? How could this happen? Worse, what's and replace it with sane intelligent commu to prevent it from happening again? nity-controlled policies that emphasize The police stand charged with obstructing justice, neglecting their duty, ignoring evi healing and actually fixing the problem, dence and allowing a serial killer to murder women unhindered. Lawsuits filed by fami rather then mindless punishment by pro lies of the missing women are piling up in Be Supreme Court. The communityis seeking fessional armies. We do not want our to expose the racist and classist system in which the wealthy and their property are the neighbors or friends beaten, murdered, or only priorities, and the lives of the missing women (most of them native, all of them imprisoned anymore. We want a world poor) are worth nothing. where we can walk down the street with The cops are trying to bury the outrage of the survivors under months and years of outfear ofharassment, arrest, orworse. We delays and denials. The judge has agreed with the cops to deny a hearing for the civil want to live as we choose, without being suits until the Pickton murder trial is concluded, or longer. Forever, if the cops get their threatened or assaulted in order to keep us way. in our place. Most of all we want to be Vancouver police are attempting to cover up evidence of their patriarchal corruption. happy, to control our lives and destinies, How long will we allow this to go on? and to live free of the violence and brutal The stench of guilt hangs over the Vancouver Police Department. There is only one ity that police enact in the name of "order". way the cops can make amends to the cammunityand th!,! families of the missing women. As another person gets sent to prison, an Every officer in Vancouver needs to take a drive out to Port Coquitlam, getdown on their other kid gets shot in the back by cops, or knees in the pig crap, and start searching for those women. Cops in Vancouver need to another demonstration is tear gassed and take a break from harassing homeless people and beating up school kids.