In Defense of Self Defense

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In Defense of Self Defense....
by Huey P. Newton
MINISTER OF DEFENSE
Laws and rules have always been made to serve people.  Rules
of society are set up by people so that they will be able to
function in a harmonious way.  In other words, in order to
promote the general welfare of society rules and laws are
established by men.  Rules should serve men and not men serve
rules.  The man is greater than the rules or laws that he constructs.  Much of the time the laws and rules which officials
attempt to inflict on poor people are non-functional in relation
to the status of the poor in society.
These officials are blind to the fact that people should not
respect rules that are not serving them.  It is the duty of the
poor to write and construct rules and laws that are in their
better interest.  This is one of the basic human rights of all
men.
Before 1776, white people were colonized by the English.  The
English Government had certain laws and rules that the colonized
Americans viewed as not in their best interest but as a colonized people.  At that time, the English Government felt that
the colonized Americans had no right to establish laws to promote the general welfare of the people living here in America.
The colonized American felt he had no choice but to raise the
gun in defense of the welfare of the colonized people. At this
time he made certain laws insuring his protection from external
and internal aggressions from governments and agencies.  One
such form of protection was the Declaration of Independence
which states, "...whenever any government becomes destructive
to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness." Now these same colonized white people, these ex-
slaves, robbers, and thieves have denied the colonized black
man the right to even speak of abolishing this oppressive system
which the white colonized American created.  They have carried
their madness to the four corners of the earth, and now there
is universal rebellion against their continued rule and power.
The black people in America are the only people who can free
the world, loosen the yoke of colonialism and destroy the war
machine.  As long as the wheels of the imperialistic war machine
are turning there is no country that can defeat this monster of
the West.  But black pwople can make a malfunction of this machine from within.  Black people can destroy the machinery that's
enslaving the world.  America can not stand to fight every black
country in the world and fight a civil war at the same tirre.  It
is militarily impossible to do both these things at once.