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How to Buy Hillary Clinton - First Have Millions to Spend

BILLARY and HILLARY CLINTON - SELLING OUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND GETTING RICH DOING IT!

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/05/national-journal-clinton-campaign-declares-war-on-clinton-cash/


Schweizer: Clinton Reversed Course on India Policy After Donations


 

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Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer said that Hillary Clinton reversed course on the export of US nuclear technology to India after “a number of Indian interests, including an Indian politician that admits now that his donation to the Clinton Foundation wasn’t even his money” on Tuesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC.

Schweizer said he had found “a pattern of behavior…the proof is, you look at a series of actions in which money flows to the Clintons, either through speaking fees or Clinton Foundation donors. Hillary Clinton takes a course of action that benefits those donors, in many cases, I think, outlined in the book, she is reversing course on policy prescriptions.”

He explained, “so, you had in 1998 the Indian government conducted nuclear tests, Bill Clinton imposed restrictions on the export of US nuclear technology, because this violated the nonproliferation treaty, Hillary Clinton supported that position. In 2005, the Indian government wanted those restrictions lifted. Hillary Clinton at that time supported a killer amendment to stop that from happening. After 2005, a number of Indian interests, including an Indian politician that admits now that his donation to the Clinton Foundation wasn’t even his money, those donations flowed. In 2008, she reverses course, and supports the export of US nuclear technology. And by the way, her her top aides Bob Einhorn, and others, her top advisers on nonproliferation, were still opposed to that agreement.”

Schweizer added another example, “Hillary Clinton’s State Department did the review on the Keystone Pipeline. Bill Clinton had never given a speech before for TD Bank in Canada. As this review is going on, he does $2 million worth of speeches for TD Bank. Four months after he gets paid for the last speech, the State Department comes out with environmental impact supporting the Keystone Pipeline. Why does this matter? TD Bank is the largest shareholder in the Keystone Pipeline. These patterns get repeated again and again and again, and I think they deserve further investigation.”

When asked if there was anything “indictable” that he had uncovered, Schweizer responded, “I’m not a lawyer, and I say that clearly in the book. I’m not a lawyer, I’m an author. I don’t have subpoena power. I can’t look into Hillary Clinton’s mind. I certainly can’t look at her emails. I don’t have any of those capabilities. But I would compare it to like insider trading, when they prosecute people for insider trading, lots of times they don’t have a smoking gun, but they see a series of well-timed trades.”

Mike Barncile then asked Schweizer about telecommunications company Ericsson, “April 2011, Ericsson’s named in a State Department report for supplying telecom equipment for the oppressive regime in Belarus. Further on down now, on November 12th, 2011, Bill appeared at a telecom conference in Hong Kong, paid for — he was paid by Ericsson $750,000, and talked in general terms about the role the that telecom plays in our lives. One week later, on November 19th, the State Department unveiled its new sanctions list for Iran, telecom was not on the list. Now are you implying that the State Department sprung into action in seven days?”

Schweizer answered, “I’m not, no. I’m not implying that. What I’m saying there, and I show numerous examples. Ericsson, for example, had never paid Bill Clinton to give a speech before. His average speaking fee before Hillary became Secretary of State is about $190,000. Suddenly, out of the blue, while they are named in State Department reports, and there’s several examples, not just the one you cited involving Ericsson and the State Department, they suddenly in the midst of all that decide to pay him $750,000. Is there evidence of a quid pro quo in that case? No, I’m not saying that, but it should be troubling for us that the day of January 2009, Bill Clinton’s speaking fees from foreign overseas interests, governments and corporations, triples, triples. Did he become more eloquent all of a sudden? I doubt it…I think it’s because his wife became Secretary of State and they were glad to take the money.”

Schweizer, when asked what his “end game” is, stated that he simply wants more investigation by other people. He added “what I would point out, though, is the standard that there’s no quid pro quo. If you look at the former Governor of Virginia, who was prosecuted, if you look at Senator Menendez, there’s no quid pro quo, and yet they were prosecuted because there were contributions or payments or gifts given to public officials with the perception, or the belief that there was going to be given something in exchange.”

Host Mika Brzezinski then wondered about the State Department’s “understanding” regarding Bill Clinton’s activities, Schweizer said “Bill Clinton’s speeches were supposed to go under review or vetting by the State Department. I’ve looked at those letters. They came out via FOIA, and what you find is that they never rejected a single speech by Bill Clinton.”

Brzezinski then asked, “so, the State Department allowed it?” Schweizer agreed, “yes, the State Department allowed it, but it was –” before he let Brzezinski finish the question she had started asking, “you say, of even greater concern, this is the setup for the whole book, is that foreign policy players giving money to the Clintons include foreign governments in countries like Russia, India, and United Arab Emirates, where there are major foreign policy issues at stake. There is nothing clearly illegal about these payments, but their source, size and timing raise serious questions. Your book is questions. I just wonder how does that not be interpreted as clearly political? There’s nothing here that’s evidence of illegality.”

Schweizer argued back, “I don’t think the standard at NBC News, or any news organization would be that we only report things when we have evidence of illegality. I think, if you see a pattern of behavior –” to which Brzezinski responded, “I can question the timing of your book. She just announced a run for president.” Schweizer responded, “this book has been in the works more than a year. So, I did not, certainly, coordinate this with her launch of her campaign.” Brzezinski wondered, “did you go after the State Department?”

Fellow host Joe Scarborough then jumped in, “I don’t get this. I’ll be really honest. I’m looking around here, and I don’t get this. I’m certainly — I mean, if Peter’s been reckless, go ahead and say he’s been reckless. But I worked with guys in Congress that went golfing like one or two times in Ireland, and then six months later, put a bill on the floor of the House, and they went to jail, and we’re sitting here going, ‘wait a second, wait, no, maybe he just got paid three times the amount. Maybe Belarus or telecom companies, or maybe this.’ Come on, we’re not naive babes in the woods. And I know you’re playing this game of ‘I’m going to be a tough professional journalist,’ and that’s really awesome. But Mika, Bob McDonnell, let’s look [at] what Bob McDonnell did, what Bob McDonnell did pales in comparison to what’s in this book. And what Bob Menendez did pales in comparison to this book. The Clintons have made $150 million over the past decade because of contacts they made during public service. I will now sit back and let you go ahead and ask those tough questions. I’m just curious, though, why are the Clintons held to a standard that Bob McDonnell’s not held to, that Bob Menendez is not held to, that all of these congressmen that get thrown into jail for going on a — going to a Redskins game or going on a golf trip, compared to $150 million.”

Brzezinski then asked Scarborough, “the golfing trips, your friends in Congress, who called them out on that, and who held them accountable?” Scarborough answered, “what do you mean? The Justice Department did.” She then said, “it wasn’t Peter Schweizer, it was the Justice Department.”

Scarborough replied, “are you saying that news — that newspapers and reporters shouldn’t — shouldn’t go out and report on this? Because I’ll tell you, when Peter Schweizer was talking about Congress insider trading we had him on the set, ‘great job, way to go, you’re great, you’ve called this out.’ ’60 Minutes’ had him on there, ‘great job.’ But it’s the Clintons and suddenly, ‘oh, my God, let’s bow down before Bill and Hillary because if we ask the same questions of them that we ask of every other politician, then oh, my God, we have crossed a line.’ It’s like that — part in ‘Indiana Jones’ where you cross the line and the rock comes after you, and you’ve got to run fast because you dare crossed the Clintons’ line, who made, may I add, $150 million. While dudes get thrown in jail for going on a golf trip in Ireland, and the weather probably even sucked. So, I don’t really understand the shock and awe here.”

Brzezinski then responded, “I am questioning what you have based this book on because I think it helps hash out the questions that are in the book. But I’m also pushing you a little bit because you know what, no one has found anything that is proof of illegality. I think there is perhaps rules that have been bent. I’m curious as to why they are bent for the Secretary of State and her spouse and not other people in the State Department. I want to know if you questioned the Obama administration about this. I would like to hear the answers to those questions.”

Schweizer told her that,, “we contacted a lot of people for comment and input on this….and really no responses whatsoever, from any of the investors, from the Clintons, and others, etc. The bottom line is that the Clintons signed a memorandum of understanding with Valerie Jarrett and with President Obama’s transition team, that they were going to correspond with a certain number of agreements, including the disclosure of all contributions,” which he added did not happen and that he had proof of it. Brzezinski did concede “that’s important.”

Schweizer concluded by saying that if he could ask the Clintons one question, he would “did you consider the e-mails related to the Clinton Foundation the private ones that were deleted? There’s a lot of transactional behavior in the book, and it relates to far flung corners of the world, that I would love to see e-mails, or information related to any correspondence they had, related to major Clinton Foundation supporters, people sponsoring speeches, and official actions that were taken.”

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HILLARY CLINTON: A dedicated disciple of OBAMANOMICS – Why else would his banksters invest so much in her???


“That her candidacy is announced without calling for any particular policies underscores the fact that the election is not about the American people deciding the course of policy, but rather the vetting of candidates to serve the interest of the financial oligarchy.”

“There is, of course, no acknowledgment that Clinton was part of an administration that oversaw and continues to oversee the greatest transfer of wealth from the bottom to “those at the top” in US history.”

 
HILLARY CLINTON: GLOBAL LOOTER LIKE A THIRD-WORLD DICTATOR IN THE MAKING!


“Schweizer: Clinton Donors, Relatives Got Rich Off Haiti Contracts, US Taxpayers” 


 

 Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer reported on the US taxpayer money and contracts in Haiti profited Clinton Foundation donors and Clinton relatives.”

 

Clinton Foundation Put On Watch List Of Suspicious ‘Charities’


“This decision wasn’t made because of the Clinton Foundation’s remarkably lucrative sideline as a uranium superstore for Russian strongmen, but because its finances are opaque and dishonest, and because such a tiny amount of the money it rakes in actually goes to charitable endeavors. “The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid,” notes the New York Post. “The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, WITH THE FATTEST PAYOUTS GOING TO FAMILY FRIENDS.”

Hillary Clinton bellies with the 9-11 invading Saudi dictatorship like Obama. She’s collected her bribes for pushing the Bush-Saudi wars against Iraq and Obama smells the dirty Saudis loot coming for his presidential libaray!


Schweizer said he had found “a pattern of behavior…the proof is, you look at a series of actions in which money flows to the Clintons, either through speaking fees or Clinton Foundation donors. Hillary Clinton takes a course of action that benefits those donors, in many cases, I think, outlined in the book, she is reversing course on policy prescriptions.”


IMF PREDICTS THAT OBAMANOMICS and the GLOBAL LOOTING BY OBAMA’S CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS WILL SOON DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY.

The International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday that the world economy would remain locked in a pattern of slow growth, high unemployment and high debt for a prolonged period. The forecast, contained in the organization’s updated World Economic Outlook (WEO), marks a shift from previous economic projections in acknowledging that there is little prospect of a return to the growth levels that prevailed prior to the 2008 Wall Street crash.


The document’s grim analysis amounts to a tacit acknowledgement that the crisis ushered in nearly seven years ago by the financial meltdown is of a historical and fundamental character, and that the underlying problems in the global capitalist system have not been resolved.

THE ASSAULT on the AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS by the DEMOCRAT PARTY:

“By large margins, even in opinion polls conducted by the corporate-controlled media, the American people support sharp increases in taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs and provide jobs for the unemployed; they oppose cuts in Social Security and Medicare and view education, health care and other public services as basic rights; they oppose government spying on the telephone and Internet usage of ordinary Americans, as well as other police-state measures; and they oppose overseas military interventions in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates stand on the other side of the barricades on all these issues.”


 

THE LOOTING OF AMERICA: BARACK OBAMA AND HIS CRONY BANKSTERS set themselves on America’s pensions next!


The new aristocrats, like the lords of old, are not bound by the laws that apply to the lower orders. Voluminous reports have been issued by Congress and government panels documenting systematic fraud and law breaking carried out by the biggest banks both before and after the Wall Street crash of 2008.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and every other major US bank have been implicated in a web of scandals, including the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and global foreign exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and lying to bank regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent borrowers, credit card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of energy markets, and complicity in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

MUCH, MUCH MORE ON OBAMA’S ECONOMIC CRIMES PERPETRATED ON BEHALF OF HIS CRONIES ON THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS



One government-organized settlement has followed another, utilizing “deferred prosecution” deals and other gimmicks to allow Wall Street CEOs to get off scot-free. All the banks have had to do is pay largely fictitious fines, much of the nominal amount written off as tax credits.
 

Hillary Clinton on rape victim: it’s just another laugh and buck in her pocket




Hillary Clinton’s promise to illegals: 49 more
Mexifornias.

The staggering cost of Mexico’s looting of America




RASMUSSEN POLL: Hillary Clinton is a bad clone of Barack Obama owned by the same bankster paymasters as Obama


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/rasmussen-obama-and-hillary-friends-or.html

 
 

OBAMA'S CRIMINAL ILLEGALS - DHS Secretary: Illegal Charged With Murder ‘Should Not Have Received DACA’ | CNS News

DHS Secretary: Illegal Charged With Murder ‘Should Not Have Received DACA’ | CNS News


THE LA RAZA MEX CRIME TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS MEXIFORNIA: RAPE, MURDER and CHILD MOLESTATION…. then they go out and vote for Hillary Clinton

 

“It was aimed at "ruthless" and "lethal" gang leaders associated with Nuestra Familia, which was started at Folsom State Prison in 1968 and continues to be run out of the state prison system, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said. Nuestra Familia controls most of the Nortenos street gangs in Central California and has ties to Mexican drug cartels, according to law enforcement officials.”

LIST OF MEXICAN CRIMINALS ON THE LOSE IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA:

 

ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. (LA RAZA DEM FOR AMNESTY), KAMALA
HARRIS, NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE NOW BY MEXICANS!

VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?

OBAMA KEEPS PROMISE TO MEXICO: jumping U.S. borders will never get easier!

THE OBAMA SABOTAGE of AMERICAN BORDERS and LAWS to build the dems’ LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of looting illegals.


 
JUDICIAL WATCH: 165,000 MEX CRIMINALS ON THE LOSE.
IT’S ALL PART OF OBAMA’S CATCH, RELEASE, LOOT AND VOTE DEM PROGRAM!
 
OBAMA PROMISES MEXICO: Only 3 out of 100  invading looting Mexicans will ever be sent packing!
 
 
 
 
 

SHOULD OBAMA WORK AS HARD FOR BLACK AMERICANS AS HE DOES ILLEGAL MEXICANS? Baltimore Councilman: 'System' Has Failed 'Under-Educated' Looters and Rioters | CNS News

Baltimore Councilman: 'System' Has Failed 'Under-Educated' Looters and Rioters | CNS News


The fraud of Obama’s “Student Aid Bill of Rights”


By Nancy Hanover
23 March 2015 
 

Last week President Obama announced a series of executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.”
 

The initiative is partially an exercise in damage control. It follows a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department of Education (DOE). The government agency has become the target of growing anger for protection of predatory student loan collection agencies, its bailout of the for-profit career college chain Corinthian and its overall profit-taking from student loans.

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/03/barack-obama-and-his-crony.html

 

The 43 million Americans who owe some $1.3 trillion in student loan debt were offered zero forgiveness. In fact, Obama does not propose even one measure to actually lessen the ever-escalating cost of college or encroach on the lucrative business of student loan debt. All the “rights” remain in the hands of the government, the banks and hedge funds.
 

 Far from a “Bill of Rights” Obama continues to deliver a fraudulent bill of goods. At every point, his administration has protected the financial industry in looting an entire generation of students, preventing millions of young people from either attaining the education they desire or making them pay through the nose for the rest of their lives.

COP CRIMES IN AMERICA - City of Chicago offers payouts for police brutality and torture

City of Chicago offers payouts for police brutality and torture


OBAMA AND HIS CHICAGO: SINKING IN A CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION!



 
TAKING DOWN AMERICA:

Obama and the LA RAZA Mexican Drug Cartels Hit Chicago!

 

 
BANKSTER RAHM’S VICTORY FOR HIS 1% CRONIES – FIRST ON THE RAHM AGENDA: CUT PENSIONS, MORE “BAILOUTS” FOR CRONY BANKSTERS.


RAHM EMANUEL…. only one more of Obama’s dirty crony banksters implementing OBAMANOMICS: loot from the middle-class and hand it to the 1%!


“Mayor Emanuel embodies the foulest characteristics of American politics in general and the Democratic Party in particular. An operative in the Clinton administration, Emanuel made millions as an investment banker before returning to the White House as Obama’s chief of staff.”


OBAMA’S CRONY BANKSTER-DRIVEN ECONOMY


First he  sabotaged America’s borders and then invited endless waves of illegals to grab America’s jobs and keep wages depressed.

Then he went after America’s pensions, medicare and social security towards his design of destroying the American middle-class.

AND IT’S WORKING!


“Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America (ALL MAJOR DONORS TO BARACK OBAMA) and every other major US bank have been implicated in a web of scandals, including the sale of toxic mortgage securities on false pretenses, the rigging of international interest rates and global foreign exchange markets, the laundering of Mexican drug money, accounting fraud and lying to bank regulators, illegally foreclosing on the homes of delinquent borrowers, credit card fraud, illegal debt-collection practices, rigging of energy markets, and complicity in the  Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.


THE ASSAULT on the AMERICAN MIDDLE-
CLASS by the DEMOCRAT PARTY:

“By large margins, even in opinion polls conducted by the corporate-controlled media, the American people support sharp increases in taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs and provide jobs for the unemployed; they oppose cuts in Social Security and Medicare and view education, health care and other public services as basic rights; they oppose government spying on the telephone and Internet usage of ordinary Americans, as well as other police-state measures; and they oppose overseas military interventions in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The Democratic and Republican presidential candidates stand on the other side of the barricades on all these issues.”




  

AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages depressed


“A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal work.”

“In the two advanced countries with the greatest income inequality, Spain and the United States, job losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all the increase in inequality.”

Net Job Growth Since Recession Still To Foreign-Born

“The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March job’s data released Friday — as in previous months — again shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession has gone to foreign-born workers.”
“From the beginning of the recession in December of 2007 through March of this year, while the native-born population has experienced a net decline in employment, their foreign-born counterparts have experienced a net increase.”

OBAMA IN SELMA: Is it his biggest hoax and lie to date?

"The lies and demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents privilege."
 


THE HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN AMERICA:
The Democrat Party’s OPEN BORDERS agenda at work.


OBAMA IN SELMA: Is it his biggest hoax and lie to date?

"The lies and demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents privilege."
 


 
THE HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN AMERICA:

The Democrat Party’s OPEN BORDERS agenda at work.
 

COP CRIMES IN AMERICA - Federal agent kills 20-year-old Detroit man in front of family

Federal agent kills 20-year-old Detroit man in front of family


AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages depressed


“A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal work.”

“In the two advanced countries with the greatest income inequality, Spain and the United States, job losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all the increase in inequality.”

Net Job Growth Since Recession Still To Foreign-Born


“The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March job’s data released Friday — as in previous months — again shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession has gone to foreign-born workers.”

“From the beginning of the recession in December of 2007 through March of this year, while the native-born population has experienced a net decline in employment, their foreign-born counterparts have experienced a net increase.”

COP CRIMES IN AMERICA - National Guard deployed in Baltimore after anger erupts over police killing

National Guard deployed in Baltimore after anger erupts over police killing


AMNESTY: The solution to keep wages depressed


“A more recent national survey by the Federal Reserve, based on 2013 data, suggests the problem has not only persisted as the economy recovered but may even have worsened. More than 30 percent of Americans reported spikes and dips in their incomes. Among that group, 42 percent cited an irregular work schedule; an additional 27 percent blamed a span of joblessness or seasonal work.”

“In the two advanced countries with the greatest income inequality, Spain and the United States, job losses and wage cuts accounted for nearly all the increase in inequality.”

Net Job Growth Since Recession Still To Foreign-Born
 


“The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March job’s data released Friday — as in previous months — again shows that net employment growth in the U.S. since the beginning of the recession has gone to foreign-born workers.”

“From the beginning of the recession in December of 2007 through March of this year, while the native-born population has experienced a net decline in employment, their foreign-born counterparts have experienced a net increase.”



 


OBAMA IN SELMA: Is it his biggest hoax and lie to date?

"The lies and demagogy in Obama’s Selma speech cannot conceal the huge class gulf between the government he heads and the self-sacrificing workers and youth who led the fight for civil rights. They fought for equality. He represents privilege."
 


 
THE HIDDEN UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS IN AMERICA:

The Democrat Party’s OPEN BORDERS agenda at work.

 
 
 Capitalism, the working class and the fight against police violence

Capitalism, the working class and the fight against police violence

1 May 2015
The events in Baltimore, Maryland following the police killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray mark a political turning point in the United States. The enormous class divide in America, the bankruptcy of the entire political system and the collapse of democratic forms of rule—all have been laid bare by this latest act of state brutality and the military-police mobilization against the eruption of social anger.
In recent days, thousands of people have participated in demonstrations in Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia and other cities throughout the country. Further protests will take place today and over the weekend. While the police violence is the immediate spark, far deeper issues are involved: mass unemployment, poverty, the decay of cities and social infrastructure, and unprecedented levels of social inequality.

The entire political superstructure has responded to the unrest in Baltimore by backing the deployment of thousands of troops from the National Guard, a branch of the armed forces. Baltimore, only 40 miles from the nation’s capital, has effectively been occupied, with heavily armed units placed in key public locations throughout the city, accompanied by armored vehicles and military helicopters. A state of emergency has been declared, and a curfew imposed on all residents.

The actions in Baltimore come half a year after the crackdown in Ferguson, Missouri last August, when the city was turned into a war zone in response to demonstrations over the police killing of Michael Brown. The state violence was repeated later in the year, following a rigged grand jury proceeding that exonerated Brown’s killer.

The irony is hard to miss. The United States government, which wages war all over the world on the phony pretext of defending “democracy” and “human rights,” increasingly relies on the methods of martial law in response to any indication of social unrest within its borders.

Conditions in Baltimore exemplify the immense social inequality that is the defining feature of American society. As a whole, it is ranked the sixth poorest city in the country. In the Sandtown-Winchester area where Gray was arrested, more than half of the working-age population is unemployed, and a third of all residential properties are vacant or abandoned. A report put out by the city in 2011 found that nearly a third of all families in the neighborhood live in poverty.

To regulate this social catastrophe, the police have been armed to the teeth and given free rein to terrorize the population. Arrests, beatings and harassment are a daily reality. A report by the Baltimore Sun last year found that the city paid out $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits related to police violence. “Officers have battered dozens of residents who suffered broken bones—jaws, noses, arms, legs, ankles—head trauma, organ failure, and even death, coming during questionable arrests,” the newspaper reported.

While the vast majority of the population in Sandtown-Winchester is African-American, the fundamental division in Baltimore—as in American society as a whole—is class, not race. Like many urban centers, Baltimore is run by a predominantly black political elite, including the mayor, the city council president, the police chief, the top prosecutor and many others. Half of the police force is black as well.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake—who led the charge in denouncing Baltimore youth as “thugs” earlier this week—personifies a layer of the African-American upper middle class that has become part the Democratic Party political establishment and attained positions of power and privilege. The daughter of a longtime Maryland politician, Rawlings-Blake has worked closely with the city’s business elite to develop and gentrify sections of downtown, while areas like West Baltimore have been laid to waste.

It is now a half century since the wave of urban uprisings that swept the United States in the late 1960s—including in Baltimore and countless other cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968.

The rebellions in the 1960s came during the last gasp of liberal reformism in the United States. Over the past 50 years, the ruling class has gone on the offensive, carrying out a relentless assault on jobs, wages and living standards. Social inequality has soared to levels not seen since before the Great Depression of the 1930s. Cities like Baltimore have been deindustrialized, with entire sectors of the economy wiped out.

To facilitate the war on the working class, the ruling class worked deliberately to integrate a small minority of the African-American middle class into the mechanisms of state power, including through policies such as affirmative action. Meanwhile, conditions for the vast majority of African-American workers and youth are worse today than they were in the 1960s.

Obama himself represents the culmination of this process. The first African-American president has presided over an unprecedented transfer of wealth to the top one percent, unending war abroad and an assault on the most basic democratic rights. Since the economic crisis of 2008, unlimited resources have been funneled to the banks and Wall Street. The stock market and corporate profits are at record highs, while the administration has spearheaded the assault on wages, public education, health care and the conditions of life of the working class as a whole.

Since 2009, nearly all income gains in the United States have been captured by the top one percent of the population, with the 400 wealthiest individuals in the country now controlling a staggering $2.29 trillion. More than $600 billion a year is devoted to financing the US military juggernaut, yet in cities like Baltimore and Detroit thousands of households are being shut off from running water, the most basic necessity of modern life.

There are no political mechanisms within the political system through which any of the grievances of the vast majority of the population can find expression. Everything that has passed for “progressive” or “left” politics—including the politics of race—has been exposed by events. It is precisely this that terrifies the ruling class, and explains its ever more direct resort to force and violence.

The rights of the working class can be achieved only through revolutionary struggle, uniting workers of all races in an independent political movement in opposition to the Democratic and Republican Parties and the capitalist profit system they defend.

The SEP calls for the mobilization of the entire working class in defense of the workers and youth of Baltimore. The same police-state apparatus, trained in Iraq and Afghanistan, that terrorizes the population of Baltimore and has been called out to suppress popular protests is and will be deployed against all opposition to the policies of the corporate and financial aristocracy.

Mass meetings and demonstrations should be organized throughout the country to demand the immediate arrest of Gray’s killers, the lifting of the state of emergency in Baltimore and the withdrawal of the National Guard and the demobilization of the police. These democratic demands should be linked to a program that advances the social rights of the entire working class—including a massive redistribution of wealth to provide decent-paying jobs, education and health care for all.
Nothing can be achieved without a frontal assault on the domination of society by a financial aristocracy that is determined to maintain its stranglehold through violence and terror. Their grip over economic and political life must be broken through the establishment of a society based on public ownership and democratic control of the forces of production. To implement this program, the working class must take political power—in the United States and internationally.

The solution to the crisis confronting workers depends on the construction of an independent, socialist leadership of the working class. It is to build this leadership that the International Committee of the Fourth International has organized the International May Day Online Rally, to be held on Sunday, May 3. We call on all workers and youth to make plans to participate today.

Joseph Kishore