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Prelude to the G8: Tearing it up in Hamburg
by Anti-G8 Action Faction Sunday June 03, 2007 at 01:57 PM

On their way to block the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, anti-capitalists from all over Germany and the world stop in Hamburg to confront the Asian-European Meeting (ASEM).

Prelude to the G8: T...
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Finally, something was happening.

We were on the move again. It's been a while and we're a bit out of shape, but it's all coming back now. After linking arms in flanks for five hours straight in a huge, permitted march, we were getting antsy.

As the first major demonstration in the lead up to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, everyone wanted to start it off right. The city of Hamburg needed to send a message to the world that they have the "violent demonstrators" under total control.

The cops must maintain discipline and it will all go smoothly. The protestors wanted to tear the city apart, to show the G8 leaders that they are not welcome here, and anyone who tries to host them will have to pay. With a thousand black clad anarchists in the front and
thousands of others behind, the tension was thick.

Screaming "fight the system, fight the state, fight capitalism, fight G8," the demonstrators were not willing to comprise either their vision or momentum. But who would provoke who first? Would the cops use the water canons? Would the anarchists break through the lines and go off
the script?

Will the G8 2007 be the opening salvo of a new cycle of struggle against capital, perhaps the final one given the scope of the current ecological crisis? For two years the German autonomous movement in general and the Dissent Network in particular has organized across the world, from the USA to Turkey, for this coming week of action.

The stakes have never been higher: until now the "War on Terror" has cast a pall over the movement, yet in Germany we anarchists and autonomists could again re-seize the stage of history by scoring a decisive
victory against capital.

Move swiftly. Stop. Fight a bit. Grab something. Then Run. Turn around. Watch out for the Snatch Squad. Which ones are they? Wearing all black with red diamonds on their back. Shit, there they are.

They're gonna try and grab us. Move! But who are those ones? Don't worry, it's just the green team. Green team? Yeah, green uniforms, they're like the national guard. They won't arrest you, they'll just tussle a bit. And them? Who? The darker green and dark blue. Oh them, well, they're here to stop you. Be careful.


The modern incarnation of the autonomous movement is distinctly anarchist, mostly young, and quite, quite punk. Even though the movement had been ebbing over the last few years, it appears the arrival of the G8 in Germany, combined with the police raids in early May on anti-G8 centers of activity, have united the often divided and
self-critical Autonomen. To the chagrin of the police, the raids also backfired in the popular press, and now it appears that most of the media, and even much of the public, are on the side of the dissidents.

Furthermore, in "Red Hamburg," the home of insurrections, pirates, and a famous anti-fascist football league, it is often hard to tell the locals from the Black Bloc while in the streets.

Shhhhhhh. What? Be quiet, they're looking for us. OK, hold it . . . hold it . . . NOW!

The police are nervous, very nervous. And rightfully so! For months, the cars of the officials have been burned, and now internationals are streaming into the well-run convergence center in Hamburg, the former theatre "Rote Flora" that has been squatted for nearly two decades.

The dynamic of the police is Freudian to say the least: the police would like nothing better than to release their inner fascist and ruthlessly clear the streets of all protesters.

Due to such factors as public opinion and their brutality backfiring on them in the courts, they simply cannot just beat the protesters without pretext. So, instead, the officers express their frustration with an anal-retentive attention to detail about the smallest of the rules regarding banner size, demonstrators masking-up, and so on; they often stop demonstrations for up to thirty minutes or more for the most minor of infraction of the "rules."

The bridge was a trap and everyone knew it. That's exactly where they wanted us to end up and there we were. Yeah some fireworks were shot off, rocks thrown, and a couple arrests, but come on, it was their turf. We had no chance. They've surrounded the Rote Flora.

What? The convergence center, you know, that huge squat. Are they going in? Not likely, I think they'll get a beating if they try.
Barricades are going up, let's get behind them. The water canons are coming out. Well, move. Down this alley way! Ok. Wait, are we all together?

This leads almost any march or demonstration to be an exercise in frustration, a chess game where both sides try to bend, but not break, the rules through a strict process of negotiation. Or at least until breaking the rules is advantageous. While marching, German anarchists
more or less engage with the police in careful negotiations until the permitted demonstration gets as close to the desired location as possible (such as a financial district, a fascist demonstration, or in this case the EU-ASEM Summit meeting in the town hall), and then, all bets are off.

The demonstration will then generally be aggressive towards police lines, attempting to wreck havoc by escaping off the official route as a bloc, or break into small affinity groups to build barricades and attack police cars. There is also an apparent tradition of regrouping
the night of the action for even more fun in the streets.

I think I'm trapped. Don't panic. Look around. They're gonna do a mass arrest. Ok, black-clad cops over there. Try this. Nope, green cops. Damn, turn around. Fuck, the blue ones. Ok. Surrounded. Where's my
group? Doesn't matter, I need to find a way out. Option 1: join the bloc and fight your way out. How many of us are there? Not enough.
Option 2: act stupid and sneak by. Let's see if that works.

Police tactics in Germany seem to be a combination of psychological warfare and shows of overwhelming force, with the emphasis on "show," for they seem unable to act unless provoked and do not generally mass arrest protesters, but just surround the march on all sides to
maintain "order." Police can be divided into distinct groups. First,there are the local and federal police, who wear blue and green.

Within this group there are inexperienced "barrack-based" police who can be identified by an "A" on their helmets.

However, the real reason to be worried is the intensive surveillance done by the police (although unlike the UK, there are few CCTVs anywhere), who send undercovers to demonstrations to identify those
who have broken laws, and have uniformed cameramen directly outside to tape protestors and identify them (using rather clever techniques like identifying Black Bloc members by their shoes). There is also a special police snatch-squad unit, dressed all in black like stormtroopers, who will quickly and brutally move in and make arrests like sharks. However bad this sounds, it is important to note that the
procedure German police use in crowd control is actually quite predictable, and as long as one stays in tight groups, one is unlikelyto be snatched.

The German police are far from invincible despite
their pretensions, and a victory over them should be possible.

Close, too close. I know. We were gonna go back and get you. What? That's insane, they would've grabbed you too. Hey look, they're sending in more. Did they declare a state of emergency? I heard that too. Shit, there's waves and waves of them. Back to the Flora? No, its' not safe. Ok, then, disappear.

A massive thousand person Black Bloc at ASEM, cop cars destroyed, a skirmish in front of the convergence center - not bad for a day´s work. Now, there are many debates over what exactly to do over the next few days. The demonstrations are so decentralized and yet
actively planned, that it is hard for even the German anarchists to predict where the sites of intense struggle will be: there are convergences in three cities, an anti-fascist counter-protest against a thousand fascists in the streets AND a huge rally in Rostock against
the G8 on the same day, decentralized blockades of roads and airport blockades, as well as countless marches and demonstrations near Heiligdamm and in Rostock. Regardless of the particulars, the energy amongst anarchists in Europe has been built to a frenzied height, and if one thing can be assured over the next week- there will be a reckoning.

Thousands of us in the march. Hundreds rampaging in the streets. Abouteighty-five arrested. Not bad for a start. Nope, not bad at all.

http://www.dissent.org.uk/
http://hatetheg8.blogspot.com/
http://www.block-g8.org/

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Smash g8
by Anti-G8 Action Faction Sunday June 03, 2007 at 01:57 PM

Smash g8...
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fark the g8
by Anti-G8 Action Faction Sunday June 03, 2007 at 01:57 PM

fark the g8...
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Meanwhile back in Philosophy 101
by Reflective Guy Sunday June 03, 2007 at 06:29 PM

[Dammit. I am going to re-post this under Bush and Foucault]:

``Even as a joke, this is pretty pathetic. This guy obviously hasn't read or understood a page of Foucault's work...'' Miles

``What struck me is it's hard to place Danner's use of Foucault in the
usual categories of leftists blaming him for identity politics etc.
and rightists blaming him for convincing us that crazy people should
be let out of the asylum etc.'' D C

-------------

I been thinking about all the above most of yesterday---but I would
like to take this thread into a much larger context. I hope you guys
don't mind...

Let's back up here. Bush isn't a postmodernist. Bush is a liar. It's
that butt simple. Rhetoric Department speech aside, the issue of
lying as politics is a much more concrete point than anything availed
by wondering about the postmodern interrogation of abstract truth.

And yet the two points, lying for political reasons, and an academic
or philosophical investigation into the nature of truth are relevant
to one another. Remember according to Strauss and the neocons, lying
is the triumph of value or servicing the greater good over the
material realities of the facts on the ground.

First of all, I am not sure we have ever understood the nature of our
own political environment and the centrality of lying. We don't really
have a political environment. What we have is a world of lies where
any factual issue is translated into a policy statement that redirects
common sense into a nuance of lies. If not outright lies, then the
more fancy ideologically driven obfuscation of the material issues at
hand through propaganda specialists like academic economists. For
example, take the so-called Washington Consensus that neoliberal
economic polices are a greater social good, than the centrally
organized political economies of the past, both capitalist west and
communist east. Clearly many parts of the world have discovered the
lie of the former and have returned to reconstruct some version of the
latter. In this sense then they have discovered that the material
truth of their own facts have to supersede in their policies the
so-called greater good (value scheme) of neoliberalism---or else their
whole society will be plunged into chaos, especially in Africa, but
not far behind are numerous examples in Asia, Latin American and of
course Russia.

Clinton seemed to perfect this environment of economic lies,
especially in his justification of neoliberal economic policies like
NFTA.

Let's start with an obvious and ubiquitous lie. What is good for the
economy is good for the nation. This is just a reworked lie that what
is good for General Motors is good for the country. All of these
neoliberal ideas presume that the greatest economic good, is
equivalent to the greatest social good. Plain fact is, that is not the
case, if you are not a corporation. How many of us are corporations?
Well none, since a corporation is a legal fiction that in fact doesn't
even exist as a physical entity. We, actual people do exist and we
have concrete physical needs, that if these are not met by the
political economy, we will die. The greatest social good for us, is
the meeting of those irreducible physical needs like breathing,
eating, living in clean shelter, being adequately clothed, healthcare,
and given essential and critical access to policy systems that effect
us. All of these needs are threatened in one way or another by our
political economy. Around the world, other countries have discovered
that in fact if they do privilege foreign corporate-financial entities
over the needs of their people on the theory that the first will of
its own improve the hard lot of the second, then their country will
crash---unless they adopt very strong internal controls.

But let's move on. The above is argued endlessly within the context of
globalization. The point here is not the merits one way or another,
but the material truths of people's lives and how those are obscured,
hidden, lied about in the neoliberal mantra---and in fact in the
arguments about the merits one way or another. Basically its a cloud
of bullshit that hides the idea that it is good to seal the labor of
the poor, and give to the rich all the wealth and benefit of that
labor.

What I consider a lie, lying, and deliberate obfuscation of material,
social and political realities is so vast that I can not trace out all
the arguments. But let's notice that much of the postmodern
intellectual movements came from an historical period in which, there
was a rising public awareness that many if not most so-called social
norms, political truths, etc were in fact simply lies to cover up some
more concrete truth about society and the political economy. In other
words the nature of what constituted a social, political and economic
truth/good was completely open to question. That was in essence
(philosophical and historical terms) what Paris, Berlin, Mexico City,
Prague, Chicago on and on until you get down to little places like
Berkeley in 1968 was all about. The war in Vietnam was a lie,
political freedom at home was a lie, equality and justice for all was
a lie, the scheme of common and publicly held political sense was a
lie, the whole of the political establishment and its political
parties were liars... In other words the whole arena of modern
liberalism derived from the enlightenment philosophies of the past and
then carried out as the foundation of modern societies---all that had
evolved into one vast ocean of lies---our entire political arena of
discourse was nothing but a trading exchange of lies.

Because I had convinced myself that the world I was living during the
period was so saturated by lies, I rarely read anything about this
moment at the time. I was living it. However, the one thing I did read
was Arendt's Crisis of the Republic, which addressed lying in politics
(published a few years later). It was the first book of Arendt's I
ever read and was hooked for life. During this period Derria read this
book too and began a couple essays on the basic idea, which he
expanded by going back to Plato and Aristotle. (I found this essay
somewhere on the web at work yesterday and tried to email to myself at
home as an attachment, but evidently my boss has my direct work email
line blocked. Somebody else might find it and post on some of it.)

Okay another change of course. Earlier this week somebody posted an
article by Kissinger under the thread, `the adviser who wouldn't
die'. What was fascinating to me as I read it was how enduring is the
establishment mind set and how gracefully they can re-interpret and
reconstruct their lies of the past and make them believable as if they
were speaking historical truths---and miraculously turn the concrete
facts of even the immediate moment into pure mush---dissolved in yet
another solution of lies. What miracles these guys perform.

Cactus Pat posted an article by Richard Perle with the incredulous
title, We had the very best of intentions. The old Kissinger-McNamara
de ja vu all over again. The pure hutzpah of these bastards is
astonishing. I am standing there looking at a giant blue wall. There
is a public speaker standing in front of this blue wall with the color
video cams humming, telling me and the rest of the world the wall
behind him is yellow, and only the color blind don't see it...

And, if you read very far into the Berkeley Rhetoric dept speech there
is mention of James Reston's article last year when he interviewed
some political official who claimed the administration created
reality, that's what power was, and the rest of us were stuck in a
mere fact based world of lesser moment or value. Or some such
nonsense.

From the Berkeley Rhetoric department commencement speech, to the
Kissinger advisory note, to this jive from Perle, there is a common
thread. These are all masters of the political lie, and in historical
fact most of these people (counting Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the
neo-cons) were directly involved in fabricating the sea of lies of
1968 that turned my political views much more radical than they had
been.

I was once upon a time just a nice liberal kid who went to his first
voting booth and proudly checked Johnson, truly believing the
enlightenment ideals promised on tv and in my intro to philosophy were
just around the corner---The Great Society. Four short years later I
was living in a nightmare: drafted, flunking the comprehensives, dead
broke, and spinning down a personal abyss all between January and
August of 1968. I'll never forget that year.

Based on the Perle article, I started a post on the idea that we or at
least I should begin to reconstruct the events of the last few years
and write them down as an historical record of this immediate moment,
so that as Iraq, the horrid social and political climate and other
nasty things of this period move on and evolve into the dark future, I
will have at least a note on the moment---some reference on the
desolation of the real. This is actually the motivation behind most of
my posts. The reason is that we are so saturated with lies that we can
not or rather I can't think straight anymore. My rational mind is in
revolt---much like it was in `68. But I know that in a few years
current lies will be turned into historical lies thanks to Perle and
others, and then these lies will fill the political vacuum of the
future with more lies. We will be arguing Iraq forever, just like we
are still arguing over corporate power, civil rights, Vietnam and the
meaning of 1968.

Even if it is concretely true that the point is not to understand
history, but to change it, I have through attempting to change history
or rather improve the material conditions of others in a very minor
way, discovered these conditions will not change, until we understand
how they are endlessly hidden, obfuscated, ignored, and re-interpreted
so as to promulgate them into perpetuity.

What was happening in 1968, was in my mind a vast public disclosure,
an unravelling or unveiling of the public spectacle to be a fraud. The
war was made a stunning fraud by Tet, the apparent success of civil
rights movements through non-violent change---the success of
non-violent change was made a fraud by King's assassination---that the
academy was a store of knowledge and truth was made a fraud by too
many stories of police shootings and beatings to count, capped off
with the Chicago convention which made all domestic liberal politics
something beyond fraud, and on and on. What made the moment so
astonishing was not these things were going on, but that they were
suddenly made public and in fact there was no other public reality but
these stories and pictures--that's all there was.

I hope we are in such a moment again, not in the events of violent
protests and mass marches and so on although more of those now would
be nice, but in this other sense---the public disclosure sense that
the entire establishment and its policy front are simply a lie, a
sham. Not that me or anyone here doesn't already know that, but that a
much greater mass of people can now see it, only because it is now the
only thing to see. Most are probably hoping the Democrats will pull us
out of this nightmare of the real. They could, anything is possible,
but I doubt it. There are simply too many frauds running for office
under the Democratic banner to expect anything but another debacle.

I've got Arendt's Crises of the Republic here on the desk in front
me. I haven't read it in years, and would probably disagree with some
or maybe a lot of it now, but the titles of the essays alone seem to
form a summary thought for this post:

Lying in Politics
Civil Disobedience
On Violence
Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

In my mind the above form an arc in the historical sweep were the
first leads to the second and then the third and finally to the last
leads to action in the moment.

Arendt in Lying in Politics writes:

``Hence, whn we talk about lying, and especially about lying among
acting men, let us remember that the lie did not creep into politics by
some accident of human sinfulness. Moral outrage, for this reason
alone, is not likely to make it disappear. The deliberate falsehood
deals with contingent facts: that is with matters that carry no
inherent truth within themselves, no necessity to be as they
are. Factual truths are never compellingly true. The historian knows
how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our
daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies
or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or
classes, or denied and distorted, often carefully covered up by reams
of falsehoods or simply allowed to fall into oblivion. Facts need
testimony to be remembered and trustworthy witnesses to be established
in order to find a secure dwelling place in the domain of human
affairs. From this, it follows that no factual statement can ever be
beyond doubt---as secure and shielded against attack as, for instance,
the statement that two and two make four.

It is the fragility that makes deception so very easy up to a point,
and so tempting. It never comes into a conflict with reason, because
things could indeed have been as the liar maintains they were. Lies
are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality,
since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the
audience wishes or expects to hear. He has prepared his story for
public consumption with a careful eye to making it credible, whereas
reality has the disconcerting habit of confronting us with the
unexpected, for which we were not prepared.

Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which
there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood
that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough,
even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of
factuality. The liar, who may get away with any number of single
falsehoods, will find it impossible to get away with lying on
principle. This is one of the lessons that could be learned from the
totalitarian experiments and the totalitarian rulers' frightening
confidence in the power of lying---in their ability, for instance, to
rewrite history again and again to adapt the past to the ``political
line'' of the present moment or to the eliminate data that did not fit
their ideology. Thus, in a socialist economy, they would deny that
unemployment existed, the unemployed person simply becoming a
non-person*.

The results of such experiments when undertaken by those in possession
of the means of violence are terrible enough, but lasting deception is
not among them. There always comes the point beyond which lying
becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to
which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the
distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to
survive Truth or falsehood---it does not matter which any more, if
your life depends on your acting as though you trusted; truth that can
be relied on disappears entirely from public life, and with it the
chief stabilizing factor in the ever-changing affairs of men.'' (6-7p)

*I would note that whatever went on in the socialist economies Arendt
cites, in our society, the position of the non-person is taken
here in this economy and in this day and age, by the illegal immigrant
at the bottom of the wage ladder, kept there in political silence by
the tissue of lies about the economic necessity of his and her
political oppression. The so-called compromise legislation in
Congress this very week, is full of such irrational nonsense.

(And I owe WD for this insight, thanks again.)

CG

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Blind & Deaf
by Wannabe Ref Sunday June 03, 2007 at 06:38 PM

German riot police use water cannons during a demonstration at the youth cultural centre 'Rote Flora' in Hamburg May 9, 2007. Some 2,000 demonstrators protested after federal prosecutors and police raided the centre earlier on Wednesday because of concerns it was being used by a domestic left-wing radical group, the prosecutor's office said. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY)

Pakistani lawyers drag a riot policeman during an anti-government demonstration in Lahore. Lawyers boycotted court proceedings, clashed with riot police, and burned an image of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in a countrywide protest against the ouster of the country's top judge.

Labels: odd, Pakistan, South Asia


A masked protester throws a rock at police next to a cloud of tear gas in Athens March 8, 2007. Greek students protesting against university reforms hurled petrol bombs and rocks on Thursday at riot police, who retaliated by firing tear gas as parliament voted in the new education bill.

Labels: Europe, Greece, Molotovs, Stick Fighting, Students, Tear Gas

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Silence is Defeat
by Sherman Austin Sunday June 03, 2007 at 07:30 PM

The Album the FBI doesn't want you to hear!
SILENCE IS DEFEAT from Sherman Austin




Former political prisoner Sheman Austin from Raise the Fist (raisethefist.com) releases new solo album!

Dynamic , innovative beats , an irresistible bounce , and most importantly a message you must pay attention to. What if NWA met Malcolm X and Che Guevara met gangsta rap. It might sound a little something like Silence is Defeat. 12 tracks of fire holding nothing back. From police brutality, COINTELPRO, CIA crack connections, the prison industrial complex, gangs, politrix, and the war at home feelin' like we livin in the battle of Fallujah. Better believe it. Don't buy this CD if you're trying to be revolutionary. Go out and organize your people. It's time to build. Silence is Defeat shares the power of hip hop as a potentially revolutionary tool in the streets. Bring the CD wherever you want to incite movement. A tool for action. Hip Hop is a vehicle that can get us there. Like a trigger-finger on your brain waves while every lyric flows to the rhythm of an AK in the hands of a poor man. This is real shit. Today you have a chance to make a choice. You either with it or you not because when it pops off we Ride or die.

- review by Gina

get it at http://www.ShermanAustinMusic.com

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Farck the Police
by NWA Monday June 04, 2007 at 12:28 PM

Farck the Police...
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Right about now NWA court is in full effect.
Judge Dre presiding in the case of NWA versus the police department.
Prosecuting attourneys are MC Ren Ice Cube and Eazy muthafuckin E.
Order order order. Ice Cube take the muthafuckin stand.
Do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth
and nothin but the truth so help your black ass?

Why don't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?

Fuck tha police
Comin straight from the underground
Young nigga got it bad cuz I'm brown
And not the other color so police think
They have the authority to kill a minority

Fuck that shit, cuz I ain't tha one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin on, and throwin in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell

Fuckin with me cuz I'm a teenager
With a little bit of gold and a pager
Searchin my car, lookin for the product
Thinkin every nigga is sellin narcotics

You'd rather see me in the pen
Then me and Lorenzo rollin in the Benzo
Beat tha police outta shape
And when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape
To tape off the scene of the slaughter
Still can't swallow bread and water

I don't know if they fags or what
Search a nigga down and grabbin his nuts
And on the other hand, without a gun they can't get none
But don't let it be a black and a white one
Cuz they slam ya down to the street top
Black police showin out for the white cop

Ice Cube will swarm
On any muthafucka in a blue uniform
Just cuz I'm from the CPT, punk police are afraid of me
A young nigga on a warpath
And when I'm finished, it's gonna be a bloodbath
Of cops, dyin in LA
Yo Dre, I got somethin to say

Fuck the police (4X)

M. C. Ren, will you please give your testimony to the jury about this fucked up incident.>

Fuck tha police and Ren said it with authority
because the niggaz on the street is a majority.
A gang, is with whoever I'm stepping
and the motherfuckin' weapon
is kept in a stash box, for the so-called law
wishin' Ren was a nigga that they never saw

Lights start flashin behind me
But they're scared of a nigga so they mace me to blind me
But that shit don't work, I just laugh
Because it gives em a hint not to step in my path

To the police I'm sayin fuck you punk
Readin my rights and shit, it's all junk
Pullin out a silly club, so you stand
With a fake assed badge and a gun in your hand

But take off the gun so you can see what's up
And we'll go at it punk, I'ma fuck you up

Make ya think I'm a kick your ass
But drop your gat, and Ren's gonna blast
I'm sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime
But I'm a smoke em now, and not next time

Smoke any muthafucka that sweats me
Or any assho that threatens me
I'm a sniper with a hell of a scope
Takin out a cop or two, they can't cope with me

The muthafuckin villian that's mad
With potential to get bad as fuck
So I'm a turn it around
Put in my clip, yo, and this is the sound
Ya, somethin like that, but it all depends on the size of the gat

Takin out a police would make my day
But a nigga like Ren don't give a fuck to say

Fuck the police (4X)


Police, open now. We have a warrant for Eazy-E's arrest.
Get down and put your hands up where I can see em.
Just shut the fuck up and get your muthafuckin ass on the floor.
[huh?]>


and tell the jury how you feel abou this bullshit.>

I'm tired of the muthafuckin jackin
Sweatin my gang while I'm chillin in the shackin
Shining tha light in my face, and for what
Maybe it's because I kick so much butt

I kick ass, or maybe cuz I blast
On a stupid assed nigga when I'm playin with the trigga
Of any Uzi or an AK
Cuz the police always got somethin stupid to say

They put up my picture with silence
Cuz my identity by itself causes violence
The E with the criminal behavior
Yeah, I'm a gansta, but still I got flavor

Without a gun and a badge, what do ya got?
A sucka in a uniform waitin to get shot,
By me, or another nigga.
and with a gat it don't matter if he's smarter or bigger
[MC Ren: Sidle him, kid, he's from the old school, fool]

And as you all know, E's here to rule
Whenever I'm rollin, keep lookin in the mirror
And there's no cue, yo, so I can hear a
Dumb muthafucka with a gun

And if I'm rollin off the 8, he'll be tha one
That I take out, and then get away
And while I'm drivin off laughin
This is what I'll say

Fuck the police (4X)


The jury has found you guilty of bein a redneck,
whitebread, chickenshit muthafucka.
Wait, that's a lie. That's a goddamn lie.
I want justice! I want justice!
Fuck you, you black muthafucka!>

Fuck the police (3X)

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are you black?
by samual Monday June 04, 2007 at 04:21 PM

are you black?

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