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Zapatista Army Of National Liberation

Emma Said:

Do you think Rage Against the Machine are terrorist supporters ?

We Answered:

Come come, Deepak...there are many in this country who support the 'anti-terrorist' police of the UK - and if they shoot the wrong guy, point guns at the wrong people or chase anyone with cameras all across London, they are seen as heroes.
Now you've asked the question, some poor sod will pick up on it and call the populist right wing newspapers, and come Monday, we'll have an 'exclusive' - and all who bought the single will be jailed.

Marcus Said:

what do you think about the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional)? are you against it or you not?

We Answered:

For Free Trade is what they struggle against

Christopher Said:

What is the Zapatista Movement?

We Answered:

The only thing that is definitely known about Subcomandante Marcos, the ski-masked mystery man who leads the Zapatista rebels in the jungles of Chiapas, is that he is an intellectual. Conflicting sources who assure us that they know the true identity of the man behind the mask have variously identified him as a disillusioned government official, a university professor and a Jesuit priest.
One thing these rival Marcos spotters do agree on, is that he functioned in an area requiring a certain amount of gray matter before launching his career as the Robin Hood of the Lacandon rain forest.
This favorable assessment of Marcos' mental acuity is shared by foreign observers, Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic English Marxist who writes a column for The Nation, rarely has anything but disdain for the intellect of other writers. But he was so impressed by a collection of Marcos communiqués reprinted in California's Anderson Valley Advertiser, that he described them as "55,000 words of some of the most savagely eloquent prose in the history of Mexico."The closest look that most of us have had at Marcos was when he was interviewed earlier this year by Ed Bradley of the "60 minutes" team. In the course of the program it came out that Marcos speaks quite passable English. Not only that but it appears, from Bradley's comment, that the Subcomandante also granted interviews where he communicated in Italian and French. Nor was the professorial aura diminished by the spectacle of Marcos reflectively puffing on a pipe during the interview.
I mention all this because comparison is inevitable between this Zapatista movement and its predecessor in the early years of this century. Marcos is not just a político out to seize power. He is a revolutionary and make no mistake about it. Though he may not be from Chiapas originally, the extent to which he has made the cause of Mexico's most exploited state his own is evident from this excerpt from one of his communiqués: "The natural wealth that leaves these lands doesn't travel over just these three roads (leading to Chiapas). Chiapas is bled through thousands of veins: through oil ducts and gas ducts, over electric wires, by railroad cars, through bank accounts, by trucks and vans, by ships and planes...And what tribute does this land continue to pay to various empires? Oil, electric energy, cattle, money, bananas, honey, corn, cocoa, tobacco, sugar, soy...and Chiapan blood flows out through a thousand and one fangs sunk into the neck of southeastern Mexico."

Cindy Said:

What are your views on US involvement with Mexico fighting the EZLN?

We Answered:

there are dark forces at work throughout the americas- one tip in the arctic oilfields down to the tip of argentina.call it the new world order or fascism or globalism, bottom line is a massive power play- no country spared the yoke of subservience, " full spectrum dominance" as the US and Nato have termed it. this is not rule of law- this is force of arms.
nazis are nazis in my book- they can come with all kinds of accents, but the message is clear , submit, obey, or we we will kill you.
" many will come to hate the new world order, and will die fighting it"
HG Wells 1940.

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