COMRADE DAVID FAGUS: A BASTION OF IRON

ATTENTION COMRADES! AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT FROM COMRADE LEADER DAVID FAGUS, INTERIM RULER OF THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ROGERS PARK!

Don Gordon is a paper tiger. He has gone on and filed his complaint regarding the election and it will make its way through court system until it reaches a conclusion. BUT THAT CONCLUSION WILL BE MEANINGLESS, FOR WE HAVE TAKEN CONTROL. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!

It will not change the election results in any significant way. There will be no more elections. The Party is now in charge, and we know what is best. Don Gordon is no longer relevant. Soon we will have news about fallen Comrade Joe Moore, who has been removed from power.

As a revolutionary unit we could not afford to stand by and wait. The events of recent weeks demanded decisive action. I acted, with the party faithful, as a bastion of iron.

What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who genuinely and sincerely support the revolution. That is the real iron bastion, which it is impossible, and impossible, for any force on earth to smash. The counter-revolution and Don Gordon cannot smash us; on the contrary, we shall smash them. Rallying millions upon millions of people round the revolutionary government of Rogers Park and expanding our revolution, we shall wipe out all counter-revolution and take over the whole of Chicago and Cook County.

There are many things to do in PDR of Rogers Park as we move past the corrupt campaign and into our Four Year Plan. I don’t believe that anyone is content with things exactly the way they are. I believe that while there are differences in the level of importance we assign to things, the differences in what things need to be done is small. The imperialists are bullying us in such a way that we will have to deal with them seriously.

Not only must we have a powerful regular army; we must also organize contingents of the people's militia on a big scale. This will make it difficult for the imperialists to move a single inch into the PDR of Rogers Park in case of invasion. We must keep a careful eye on the running dogs and lackeys in the corrupt and degenerate 50th Ward to our west.

Things that most agree upon are perhaps a good place to start. These are my Top Ten:

1.) Crime should continue to decrease as we round up more running dogs.
2.) Affordable housing should continue and increase and more rich people are forced into work camps.
3.) Attack dispersed isolated enemy forces first; attack concentrated strong enemy forces later.
4.) The lakefront must continue to be protected from attack by the capitalists and reactionaries in nearby occupied lands. (Maybe even the much debated dog park idea can be addressed with some space.)
5.) We need to develop a strategy to force the people and business owners to give us their hard earned money for our business trips. People would not invest because the former, corrupt Alderman said so or asked for money nicely. It has to be done for the Party.
5.) We need to confiscate single family homes and turn them into detention centers for the land owners who have exploited the People, when it makes good sense and even when it doesn’t.
6.) Take small and medium cities and extensive rural areas first; take big cities later.
7.) Make wiping out the enemy's effective strength our main objective; do not make holding or seizing a city or place our main objective. Holding or seizing a city or place is the outcome of wiping out the enemy's effective strength, and often a city or place can be held or seized for good only after it has changed hands a number of times.
8.) Concerning attacking cities, resolutely seize all enemy fortified points and cities that are weakly defended. At opportune moments, seize all enemy fortified points and cities defended with moderate strength, provided circumstances permit.
9.) Replenish our strength with all the arms and most of the personnel captured from the enemies in the 50th Ward, Evanston and Chicago. Our army's main sources of manpower and materiel are at the front.
(10) Make good use of the intervals between campaigns to rest, train and consolidate our troops. Periods of rest, training and consolidation should not in general be very long, and the enemy should as far as possible be permitted no breathing space.