Fess up. Did any of you ever carry around the little red book and quote from it like it was the Bible? Or know someone who did? I knew a guy who did until the cops frisked him one night and found it, he's lucky they only took it away without kicking his ass. He used to share gems like: We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them. It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you don't hit it, it won't fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. The people's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs. Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
That was not in their right of course, to steal from citizens. Those pigs were violating our constitutional guarantees to be secure in our person and free from censorship. But many of us have been hassled and abused by the pigs back then (and even today).
It was an illegal search to begin with. The constitution may have told him he could refuse to be frisked, but common sense told him he'd better not. The cops probably took the book because they were pissed that they didn't find any drugs!
In the sage words of the Beatles: "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow."
Come to think of it, the whole time I knew him he DIDN'T make it with anyone anyhow! (Women, that is.)
