Justice For John T. Williams, Punishment For SPD Officer Ian Birk: Jail Is Too 'Nice' For Him!

The point of the inquest is NOT for justice to be served, but for those who shape and define what "justice" is under kkkapitalism to present the public with a dramatization designed to make us feel as if "justice" is being served.

Officals stated that this is NOT a criminal trial, or a forum for deciding if the officer was justifed in his actions (an SPD review already ruled the shooting "not justified"), but only a place for presenting the "facts" to a jury, who then recommend.

According to the Seattle Times, dated 1/11/10, "At the end of the inquest, jurors will answer a series of questions, including some likely to touch on whether Williams posed a threat to Birk. A final list of questions won't be prepared until the jury hears all the evidence. The jury's answers, which do not have to be unanimous, could indicate whether they believe Birk was justified. But the jury will not be asked to reach a criminal or civil legal finding. Its answers will be considered by the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office in determining whether a criminal charge against Birk is warranted."

Predictably, many self-proclaimed "community leaders" (ha!) will just sheepishly accept whatever decision comes out of this grand performance, and then will shift to encourage the family to seek and accept a quick financial settlement and the empty promises of reform from the city and police department that we are all too familiar with.

These promises will remain empty, so long as "we, the people" (ha!), do not have real-world penalties that we can bring to bear upon those who assault and kill us in the name of a local, state, and federal goverment of a much larger social/political/economic system that is inherently destructive in its design and purpose. Indeed, why do we fixate on the symptoms, such as police terrorism, rather than the root cause?

As I have stated before, nothing short of armed struggle, as a specific on-going/continuous campaign of a much larger anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist/anti-oppression movement, will resolve the inequality of power between the police and the people, by resolving the contradiction between those who rule and those who are ruled.

Is this a call for the militant minority: untrained, unprepared, and uneducated in the ways of insurrection and/or people's war (a very specific type of guerilla warfare) in a political climate that is not immediately condusive for such activity and therefore will lack the broad support necessary for its success to go out there and 'get it in'? NO! What is being pointed out here is a material fact: one cannot negotiate with state power, or expect justice from state power, from a position of weakness.

So, if the pacifists (liberals; "friendly" fascists) seek reform, they need to do so from a position of power. Those of us who seek a more permenent solution to the police terrorism question (in particular, the global suffering under imperialism and personally-targeted-by-the-state-for-winning-small "v" victories-against-them question which is not a question, but a fact) must also do our work to land our finishing blows upon this system from a position of REAL power as soon as humanly possible.