Logos

1. Policy-making: the Trila- their related radical networks who States during the 1980 presidentialteral Commission and the New defined the "issues" which led to campaign.-Any evidence support-York Council on Foreign Rela- the confrontation and activated ing this thesis was published intions which determined to pro- their political supporters to kick it gruesome detail--inter-racialceed with its "planned shrinkage" off. murders, mutilation, demonstrapoliciesdomestically. These are 5. Realization: the "left" and tions, confrontations. So-calledthe same people who picked "right" gangs of terrorists and academic specialists reallyJimmy Carter from obscurity in provocateurs who established the mouthpieces for the policy of1974 and ensured that he would _precedent for violence and esca- planned shrinkage claimed thatbecome President to carry out lated each confrontation. In the "economic injustice" for minorithesepolicies. Miami case, it appears that this ties, compounded by police bru-2. Implementation: the Carter level includes the deployment of tality and a resurgence of the Kuadministration's Department of professional killers to wreak may- Klux Klan, insured social chaosJustice and the Federal Emergency hem. would be unleashed.Management Agency. These two All five elements share certain In particular, America's urbanagencms participated jointly beliefs, despite their widely dis- black population, the sectionthroughout the entire process of parate class and condition. Each hardest hit by unemployment andheating up the situation in Miami presumes avid commitment to the cutbacks in social services as aas well as during the riots, belief that the scarcity of resources result of the CFR's policy commit-3. Conditioning: the news me- renders impossible (in the case of ment to zero growth, has beendia and certain think tanks. 2"hese the lower levels of the operation) targetted by the Justice Departnotonly prepared the population or undesirable (in the case of the ment's trained and funded "comasa whole for unrest, they target- controllers at the top) the ending munity organizers" to accept zeroted specific vulnerable sections of of the depressionary collapse of growth as inevitable. They havethe population and manipulated the U.S. economy. It is precisely used the line that black "survival"them into an almost inescapable this belief which the news media depends upon fighting for a biggerconfrontation, focused on during the months long piece of a shrinking pie to exacer-4. Activation: the Justice De- barrage of propaganda "predict- bate racial tensions which propartment'sbought-and-paid-for ing" a constitutional crisis, and the vide the basis for generating riots.urban community organizers and social unravelling of the United These elements all came to-CAMPAIGNER / August 1980 9