I read a document that calls for a “Plan against order and counterrevolutionary disturbances,” a call for the creation of rapid response brigades in workplaces. Fortunately for us, the civilians, the document has been leaked and I have been able to learn that, officially, I can be attacked by a “worker” with an iron bar.
I try to keep my sanity, this horrible call to civil lynching reminds me, despite the low level of the approaches if we compare it, of that poster I came across in The Polynesian restaurant titled, “Philosophy of Struggle of Our People.”
I wonder how it is possible that these gentlemen who today rule my country are capable of authorizing people to beat, abuse and even kill – more than authorizing, even exhorting them to kill, I cannot get the horrible combination of letters out of my head: i-r-o-n-b-a-r-s in order to s-m-a-s-h-m-e all to remain in power, to achieve what is denied them by the nature of man: eternity, divinity, absolute power.
Has the president gone mad? Who wrote this call to civil war in the name of the Cuban government? Is it the Communist Party that urges its members to physically attack other human beings? Who – good God call me naïve – has the courage, the shamelessness and the bestiality to be a part, or even to subscribe to this “post-modern” body of volunteers?
**Following is a Translation of the Document Posted Above**
PLAN TO DEAL WITH THE DISTURBANCES OF PUBLIC ORDER AND COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY RIOTS
UNIT X:
I. Objective: To take all necessary measures, directed at repudiating the disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots that could begin nearby the Unit.
II. Brief appreciation of the possible disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary actions:
It’s known that counterrevolutionary demonstrations can occur, without taking into account the possibility of actions against them, with the objective of harming or acting against the integral security of our workers and our customers, with the goals of causing uncertainty and affecting our economy.
III. Missions to repudiate the disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots:
1. Observe without interruption the areas of possible disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots.
2. Determine and maintain the organization of Unit forces with simple weapons that are available nearby, in accordance with the location of personnel.
3. Repudiate the disturbances and riots that originate.
4. Extinguish fires that are ignited and provide first aid to anyone injured as a consequence of the confrontations.
5. Keep the Command Post of the top organization you belong to informed, and also MININT [Ministry of the Interior], about the situation as it develops.
Military Sector OG….
Central Administration – MININT PNR
Command Post of Businesses and Corporations
Firemen
OLPP PM….
IV. Structure of the Forces:
To accomplish their mission, the workers will organize if they are at work, and if the situation requires it, if possible, they will alert the rest of the workers who are off duty.
V. Weapons:
Sticks.
Iron bars.
Cables (electrical cords).
APPENDICES
1. Plan for the protection and defense of the Unit.
2. Methods for repudiating the disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots, and for the protection of the Unit.
3. Plan for warning the Units.
4. Acts of cooperation.
Appendix I: Plan of ways to repudiate the disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots, and for the protection of the Units.
Number 1:
Type of Demonstration: Disturbances of the public order by taunts
Actions to be Implemented: Don’t let the participants use part of the Unit to demonstrate.
Collect and guard in secure places the cash received and the fund for change.
Repudiate the disorders and riots together as a Unit.
Put out fires and give first aid to the injured.
Immediately find the Administrator.
Perform complementary actions as necessary.
Immediately inform higher organizations.
Performers: Workers on shift at work.
Person in Charge: Administrator.
Date: When they [the disturbances and riots] occur.
Number 2:
Type of Demonstration: Actions or expressions against the Revolution, Party cadres, or the Government on any level.
Actions to be Implemented: Respond with arguments, convincing strength and energy to such demonstrations and make it very clear that such things are not permitted in our centers. Immediately find the Administrator. Perform complementary actions as necessary. If necessary, immediately inform the PNR, PCC, OLPP.
Performers: Workers on shift at work.
Person in Charge: Administrator.
Date: When they [the disturbances and riots] occur.
Number 3:
Type of Demonstration: Performance of actions that can be qualified as counterrevolutionary.
Actions to be Implemented: Respond with actions and in ways that are necessary to accomplish the goal of impeding at all cost that these performances materialize. Immediately inform the PNR, PCC, OLPP.
Immediately find the Administrator.
Performers: Workers on shift at work.
Person in Charge: Administrator.
Date: When they [the disturbances and riots] occur.
ACT OF THE CONSTITUTION ON THE CREATION
OF RAPID RESPONSE BRIGADES (RRB) OF UNIT X
At ____o’clock, in the month of ____, on the day of ____, “Year 52 of the Revolution” is raised the present Act with the objective of leaving constituted the Creation of Rapid Response Brigades.
Disturbances of public order and counterrevolutionary riots will never be permitted by our working people. The streets belong to the revolutionaries. This declaration that we will never permit these acts will be retroactive.
As part of this people, we, the directors, civil servants, and workers of this unit declare ourselves in solidarity with the Rapid Response Brigade and will act unconditionally in defense of our Revolution without regard to the sacrifices we must make.
We demonstrate the aforesaid by signing here and now what from this moment constitutes a pledge for all of us to resolutely repudiate whatever counterrevolutionary riot or disturbance of the public order shall happen, wherever it happens, and no matter what its extent.
Translated from the Spanish by Regina Anavy
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