| Millions of Dead Cops 1983 - copertina e testi | |||
| BE EXXPLOITED OR BE EXXTERMINATED |
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 SIDE A: MDC
are Alschvitz, David, Franco, Ron and Tammy Special thanks to all the brothers and sisters who take care of us, feed us and house us, giving of themselves and sharing in the dream of a better world. JUNE 1983 CRASS RECORDS |
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| Dedicated to Victor Jarra, chilean guitarist-songwriter-political activist: tortured and killed by US trained and directed chilean secret police (1973) for living, speaking, creating and thinking as a representative of all those who would be free. | |||
MULTI-DEATH CORPORATION we're the Multi-Death
Corporation |
SELFISH SHIT I don't
wanna see |
RADIOACTIVE CHOCOLATE Hershey, PA
three miles near |
NO PLACE TO PISS Cold and
filthy and out of hope |
 (INNER SLEEVE) The
Multinational Corporations in the interests of
blood-sucked profits have bought the highest levels of
the United States government with all its covert
terrorist and military tools in order to guarantee their
monetary interests in Central America and throughout the
third world. This conspiracy between these major American
bankers and industrialists and the US government is what
MDC refers to as the Multi-Death Corporations. The US has
organized under its sponsorship and protection a
neo-colonial system of client states ruled by terror to
serve the interests of US corporate greed, the local
fascist oligarchy and the military elite in each country.
The actions taken by US backed military rulers include
the systematic use of imprisonment, torture,
disappearances and murder by government military death
squads. US multinationals have welcomed the
"stability" of the new fascist order, while
these regimes are savage in their treatment of
dissidents, priests, nuns, religious workers, labor
leaders, peasant organizers or others who threaten their
order. In an important sense the torturers are
functionaries of Bank America, Coca Cola, Exxon, IBM,
Texas Instruments, etc. and the US government. The US
policy of imposing and supporting
fascist-terrorist-torture oriented regimes is taking
place today in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Uruguay (and until 4 years
ago, Nicaragua) in Latin America alone. In Africa:
Liberia, South Africa and tunisia; in Asia: Indonesia,
Philippines and South Korea; and in the Mediterranean:
Turkey. All are US client states with US trained military
personnel conducting police training and all are charged
with human rights violation over long periods of time.
Think of the tens of millions in our human family who
have suffered the abuses of imprisonment, rape and
pillage, torture and murder, directly due to the policies
of the US. The Reagan Administration coldly and callously
arms and supports murderous thugs like president
D'Aubuisson in El Salvador, general Rios Montt in
Guatemala, general Pinochet in Chile, president Marcos in
the Philippines and on and on continuing the policy of
"BE EXXPLOITED OR BE EXXTERMINATED" by the
Multi-Death Corporations. MDC feel the Reagan
Administration is guilty of violations of human rights,
genocide of third world peoples and treason against the
people of the United States for conducting an undeclared
war without their consent. It is easy
not to think of these ugly things in Fortress-Disneyland
America.The government and the media try to hide the
facts and divert attention away from these crimes against
humanity and assure people that "in case of an
emergency you will be notified and told what to do, until
then everything's ok". The pain, the suffering and
the death that the US government 's policies cause are
the responsibility of all the American people. To sit
back and ignore the horror of the truth is silent consent
for the government to do as it pleases. We in MDC feel
that we must give our support and solidarity to the most
oppressed members of our human family. We hope you feel
this way too. Together we can demand the government
change its policies and practices of exploitation, murder
anddestruction all over the world. If America stands for
you and me and the land then we're pro-American but if it
stands for the control of our lives by the wealthy who
own the corporations, the politicians and the military
then we're anti-American. MDC have expanded the scope of
our attention from the police state and MILLIONS OF DEAD
COPS to the super rich and MULTI-DEATH CORPORATIONS who
really hold all the puppet strings, the strings that
control the police, the government and the military and
cause death, starvation and terrorism all over the world
today. - EL PUEBLO UNIDO JAMAS SERA'
VENCIDO - |
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| (back sleeve) SALVADORAN DESERTER DISCLOSES GREEN BERET TORTURE ROLE A dispatch from Raymond Bonner in the New York Times placed U.S. Special Forces Green Berets at classes devised to teach methods of torture to Salvadoran soldiers. Bonner's source, 21 year old Carlos Antonio Gomez Montano, implicated some of the Green Berets directly in the commission of torture. Carlos Montano: "One evening they went and got nine young people that were accused of being guerrillas and brought them to where we were. The officers said "We are going to teach you how to mutilate and how to teach a lesson to these guerrillas." The officers who were teaching us this were the American Green Berets. They didn't speak Spanish so they spoke English and then another officer -Salvadoran- translated it into Spanish for us. Then they began to torture this young fellow. They took out their knives and stuck them under his fingernails. After they took his fingernails off, then they broke his elbows. Afterwards they gouged out his eyes. Then they took their bayonets and made all sorts of slices in his skin all around his chest, arms, and legs. They then took his hair off and the skin of his scalp. When they saw there was nothing left to do with him, they threw gasoline on him and burned him. The next day his dead body wasn't around but was found by people out in the streets - left in the street. The next day they started the same thing with a 13-year-old girl. They did more or less the same, but they did other things to her, too. First she was utilized, raped by all the officers. They stripped her and threw her in a small room, they went in one by one. Afterwards they took her out tied and blindfolded. Then they began the same mutilating - pulling her fingernails out and cutting off her fingers, breaking her arms, gouging her eyes and all they did to the other fellow. They cut her legs and stuck an iron rod into her womb. The last one that they killed that day suffered more, because they stripped him naked at midday. There they put him on this hot tin and made him lie there - he was like cooking. After about a half-hour, when they finally took him off, he was covered with blisters - like wounds. The did different types of torture to him. Then they threw him out alive at 14,000 feet altitude from a helicopter. He was alive and tied. They go and they throw them out over the sea. |
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 (inner sleeve) Interview with El Salvadoran refugee working in N.Y.C. after showing me the most horrendous pictures l've ever seen of the atrocities in El Salvador. Rene: "pictures like these hardly affect me any more because each picture represents such a small part of t he pain and suffering that my brothers and sisters in El Salvador are experiencing. Whole villages of 600 people and more have been destroyed by government troops. In some cases not even one person escaped and even all the animals were killed. l'm talking about farming villages of poor families, grandmothers, babies, pregnant mothers, you know, a farming community, the finest people you would ever meet. The soldiers come in and start shooting people, grab people and beat them with the butts of their US made M-16 rifles, they take the women and rape them, then slice them up or pour acid on them, they burn the houses and destroy the food and crops. When they're finished they just stack the bodies up and leave them. Many people are killed while trying to escape to Honduras. The government soldiers follow refugees to the border of Honduras, which is a river, and while they try to cross the Honduras army and the El Salvadoran army massacre the refugees and the bodies float down the river. Now the army has started to use chemical warfare against the native populations. They burn people to death with acid as effectively as killing them with a gun. They are using napalm and things like Agent Orange and other chemicals to make people sick. They are using sickness to kill the populations. There is no medical care or supplies for the native population and no food. All of the finest foods we produce, the meat, the fruits, the vegetables are all exported and end up on tables in the U.S. while people die of starvation in El Salvador. Ten people die each day of starvation in my country and that doesn't include the people that die of sickness, torture and murder. There is no respect for the rights and lives of the people of El Salvador by the US government nor the US backed El Salvadoran government. Finally, the people in defense of their lives, their families and their homes have organized and taken up arms against the government army death squads. For these people there is no recourse left but to fight or be killed. I am in the U.S. not to make revolution here but to alert the people and to try and help my people back in El Salvador. My people are not communist, they are farmers protecting their homes. There are no Cuban or Russian weapons. The arms flow from the U.S. to the El Salvadoran army. Sympathetic or greedy soldiers sell weapons to the guerillas. The guerillas have a stronger will than the government soldiers because the soldiers are fighting for a wage while the guerillas are fighting for their lives and treedom. There are so many massacres that occur in so many rural areas that it is impossible to know how many thousands of innocent villagers are killed each month. If those things are being done to people like you and me today in El Salvador, I hate to think what could happen to us in the next few years, even in this country. San Salvador and the area around the city are the home of the rightwing government, the multinational corporations with their offices, hotels and factories, and the small upper class. There are so many police and army troops in and around San Salvador that no one says anything about the war for fear of being caught and killed by t he police. Everything goes on as if there is no war. Businessmen and even tourists visit San Salvador. While in the rural areas massacres happen everywhere. And business as usual goes on too. There is a whole factory sector of the city surrounded by large walls like a prison so no one can enter or leave without being monitored. For much of the population even in San Salvador there is no work and no food. People eat what there is when there is something and when there isn't they do without. In the zones controlled by the guerillas there are no police and no army just people working together to supply the basic needs of food, clothes, medical attention and education to their people and children. There is a lot of love and a lot of dedication to living free from the fascist rightwing government. These people are being driven from their homes to eliminate dissidence in the country and so U.S. corporations can exploit the farming land. All of the big American companies are in El Salvador. Coca Cola, Shell, Texaco, Chevron (Exxon) and many more. Ali the companies that process sugar, coffee, cotton and produce are all American-owned. US companies exploit the people's labor and the land in El Salvador to export products to the US. The minimum wage is 12 colons ($2.00) per day. Companies take the products these peopie make in factories and on farms and make 2-300% profits while the workers' families starve. Rents and food are very expensive and families just barely survive in one small room tenements. lt is terrible poverty and there is much sickness in these conditions. El Salvador, Central America and South America are like a colony of the U.S. The governors used to be Americans but people didn't like to live. So the U.S. changed its technique and put in local rulers but nothing changed because the orders come from the U.S. |
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 There are approximately 80
corporations (including some of the world's largest) in
El Salvador. Only a dozen US firms have pulled out since
the fighting began. (The Political Economy of U.S.
lntervention in El Salvador by V. Brevetti); The
interests represented (in El Salvador) are among the
largest in the worid, ITT, Standard Oil and General
Motors to name a few. (V. Brevetti); Rate of return on
Carribean Basin investments is very high: 29% for 1980
compared with an average rate of return of 17.3% for U.S.
foreign investments. (U.S. Commerce Dept.) ; U.S.
businesses hum along despite turmoil. (Business Week) ;
Most U.S. firms in El Salvador have holdings elsewhere in
the region and form a network of corporate and banking
interests increasing concentration of wealth among these
multinational corporations. (V. Brevetti); Despite
Congress' rebuff, El Salvador's leaders appear unworried
about a cutoff in U.S. aid. Reason: They expect the
Reagan Administration to stick to its declaration that
"the decisive battle for Central America is being
waged in El Salvador. (U.S. News and Worid Report);
Washington supplied 192 million in economic aid between
1953 and 1978. Between 1979 and 1983 economie aid rose
dramatically to over 426 million. 35% of this aid in 1981
went directly to U.S. firms and 60% of this aid in 1982
went to the private sector. (Center for lnternational
Policy) ; Without U.S. aid almost all of our industries
would stop- Alberto Bonilia, President of Centrai Bank of
El Salvador (Warren Hoge, the New York. Times); Oil is
under the lands the lndians inhabit. (Multinational
Monitor); The lndians of Guatemala are simply not cost
effective (Multinational Monitor); Bank of America is
bankrolling businesses owned and led by notorious
death-squad supporters (Multinational Monitor). The civilians are considered expendable in the government's campaign. The guerillas, says General Benedicto lucas Garcia, "are difficult to distinguish from most of the rest of the local populations. Because of this, well, the population suffers." Entire villages have been burned with napalm. Communities have been occupied by marauding soldiers, robbing, raping, kidnapping, murdering, destroying, burning crops. Landowners and industrialists are lending their helicopters and planes to the Army to assist in these official terrorist operations. The greatest areas of violence have been those where the promise of oil and minerai exploration have increased the value of land held in common by lndian communities for hundreds of generations. Villages which are known to have been bombed are Chajui, Cotzai, Nebaj, Uspatan. Napalm is used. (Guatemala! The Horror and the Hope, Four Arrows) . The Guatemalan countryside has been a charnel house, a human abattoir. ... Although civilian men of all ages have been shot in large numbers by the Guatemalan army, women, and children are particular victims; women are routinely raped before being killed; children are smashed against walls, choked, burned alive or murdered by machete or bayonet. (Nat Hentoff). Salvadoran army soldiers are taught to kill women and children because all women are potential factories for more guerillas and children are the guerilla seeds that must be eliminated from their country ... The U.S. trained troops are more brutal. (Counter Spy). Ana Margarita Gasteazorro is 32; she was an English teacher. She has black hair and wears jeans, sandals and a crucifix. In 1976 she joined the MNR, a legal party associated with Social Democratic parties of Western Europe. Two years ago she was arrested. "They came in about five o'clock in the morning with about 50 uniformed men," she says. "They searched the house and looted it completely. As soon as they got there, they tied us and they blindfolded my husband. They threw him on the couch and took his shoes off. After beating him hard with rifles, they put wires in a socket and then tied them to his toes and gave him electric shocks." She and her husband were then tossed into car trunks and taken to the headquarters of the Salvadoran National Guard. "We were there for 14 days. I was put near where he was, where I could hear him scream while he was being tortured. I was beaten up. I was tied to a bed with handcuffs. I was sexually abused. (Mother Jones) In April, she too was taken prisoner by the army as she retur ned from a convent carrying medicine to her community. She was tortured for 12 days and then died of her injuries. The Army displayed her clothing in the town hall, hoping her children would claim them, so they too could be captured. When none came for ward, the Army threw her body on a slope . . . to be kept under surveiliance until the corpse had been eaten by buzzards and dogs." (Guatemala: The Horror and the Hope). Few members of the El Salvadoran National Guard have been prosecuted for civilian deaths because judges fear for their lives (Mother Jones). Amnesty lnternational has charged that orders "to commit killings in Guatemala are issued directly from the Presidential palace." (Mother Jones). Reagan hailed El Salvador's elections as a triumph for democracy. Nearly 60 activists in the moderate Christian Democratic Party, including five village mayors, have been slain this year, allegedly by death squads(Mother Jones) . It is a terribie iniustice to the government and the military to suggest that they are somehow responsible for terrorism and assassination" (U.S. ambassador to the U.N.-Jeanne Kirkpatrick) . We have a sort of religious war to save democracy in which clandestine jails, disappearance and torture are tolerated." (Ramon Custodio-Honduran government official). "Under the Carter and Nixon Administration, what we were doing was a crime. With the Reagan Administration, no one has bothered us" (Hector Fabian - leader of exiled rightwind Nicaraguan group in Florida). The people of El Salvador are being systematically exterminated (National Catholic Worker). Over 30.000 non-combatant El Salvador civilians have been killed since the war began, 5000 last year alone (Mother Jones). 1980 World Bank study found that 74% of Salvadoran households suffer from malnutrition. (El Salvador Bulletin U.S. ESR IC) . State Department reports concluded that "the U.S. government and private interests directly and indirectly promote the destruction of latin America's tropical forests through forestry, mining, cattle ranching and other agribusiness activities." (Multinational Monitor). In El Salvador there are 3 doctors or less per each 10,000 citizens and no medical schools now open. (Ed Asner). Red Cross worker Dr. Charlie Ciements, Vietnam Vet, pilot: "The El Salvador army takes no prisoners of war; enemy dead are burned on the spot ... l've treated captured government soldiers in the liberated Zones ... The guerillas have begun to fight as much with bullhorns as with rifles . . . All of the weapons l've seen have come from the U.S., not Russia ... Napalm is being used by government troops ... Our administration is waging undeclared war. The U.S. public is not in control of their government . Guerillas do want a negotiated settlement. lt's the government not wanting to talk." (Counter Spy). The FMLN-FDR want these four historic demands for the Salvadoran people: 1) A new economic and social order, 2) Agrarian reform, 3) A broadly-based government, 4) Recovery of our sovereignty (inter-continental Press) . The images of Latin America, projected on the pages of newspapers or television screens, are beset with the stereotypes that politicians, corporations and the media have created to deny us an understanding of the history, traditions and culture of the 250 million people who inhabit the rest of the hemisphere. (El Salvador-The Face of Revolution, Robert Armstrong & Janet Shenk). The other chief way in which the media echo the elite's view of the world is simply that they use the ruler's language. You can find examples almost anywhere; here are a few from the March 30, 1981, issue of Time: U.S. support for other countries is referred to as "American economic and military aid;" but from the Russians it is "Cuban and Soviet bloc intervention." Arranging things our way "is a guarantee of regional security;" but their way is "Soviet expansionism." An airline hijacking is a "victory for terrorism but when Argentina's Lieutenant General Roberto Viola, a leading member of the junta, which has presided over the disappearance of some 6,000 people -most probably into secret police torture chambers- arrives for a White House visit, he is merely referred to as "Argentina's President-designate." The civilian death rate in El Salvador is half what it was. lsn't that a resuit?" (Newsweek interview with Lt. Gen. Nutting, commander of U.S. forces in latin America, arguing for more aid .) An emerging slogan of the broad Central American solidarity movement is " Peace with Justice." It is a powerful concept, implying not just moral ideals but political judgements. It is a far cry from what prevails in much of the region today-characterized by Salvadorean FDR leader Guillermo Ungo as the peace of the graveyard. In his recent State of the Union message, President Reagan counterposed yet another concept, peace with freedom. We must challenge for whom a Reagan-style peace would bring freedom (NACLA) . "My future is death, which is chasing me." (A Guatemalan quoted in the Village Voice) |
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