Too Weird for Words

Too Weird for Words

As anyone who reads my rants knows, I like to make fun of people who deserve it (particularly tyrants and their stooges). And I often employ sarcasm, exaggeration, and analogies to do so. However, I just ran across a story that has all but left me speechless. It's just too weird, too funny, and too amazingly ironic to fully express in words.

Apparently two sets of federal parasites--those from the IRS and those from "Homeland Security"--had a little difference of opinion recently down in Austin, Texas (to put it nicely). It seems that the IRS parasites, as members of the National Treasury Employees Union, wanted to protest how the agency treats them. (Stop that snickering!) However, the other set of parasites showed up and informed the IRS parasites that they needed a permit to do a protest. They didn't have a permit, and so "Homeland Security" ordered them to disband. Yes, the cops forcibly silenced the IRS employees by breaking up their demonstration.

HOW DOES IT FEEL, YOU SOCIALIST BASTARDS?!

Sorry. That was a typo. Unfortunately, none of the IRS parasites were flung in cages for a year or so for speaking their minds (unlike some people I know).

But here is where the story gets REALLY amazing. If you watch the video at the following link, you can see IRS employees carrying protest signs. When I first watched it, I thought some "tax protestors" had decided to get in on the action. But no, the signs were being proudly waved around by employees of the INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/perry/perry44.html

Some of the signs said "IRS anti-family" and "IRS not family friendly." How's that for an understatement? And how's that for hypocrisy? Does having my home invaded by IRS thugs, so my kid had to hide under a dresser in terror, count as the IRS being "anti- family"? I hope all the IRS employees protesting get raided by armed thugs. THEN they'll know what it means to be "not family friendly." And have any of the paper-pushers who were protesting taken two seconds to ponder just how "family friendly" their day-to- day extortionistic activities are? Highly unlikely.

But wait. It gets worse. Others were carrying signs saying: "Empower, not raw power." Yes, these were IRS employees carrying signs saying that. Like I said, I'm at a loss for words. How psychotically hypocritical can someone possibly be?! How about whining to the hundred MILLION people you robbed this year, by means of your "raw power," and asking them what they think of your complaints, you damn thieves?

But, just when you thought it couldn't get any more insane, there were other IRS employees carrying signs that said this:

"IRS management: follow the law"

Un-freaking-believable.

Sincerely,

Larken Rose

http://www.kickingthedragon.com

(P.S. Next time IRS employees and Homeland Security thugs have a disagreement, I hope someone is there to hand out machine guns to both sides.)

An Anarchy Primer

Take Your Money Back!!!

When Will You Stop Believing In The Illusion Of Law?

Deity condemned anal orifice porcines and their bureauRAT advocates!!! Why should these mater fornicator offsprings of unmarried parents be allowed to continue to exist peacefully in this town? If you want to do something, help THIS guy at least with something! -

Tracy Ingle: Another Drug War Outrage

Radley Balko | May 7, 2008, 10:45am

About a month ago I got a call from a reporter for the Arkansas Times inquiring about my research into paramilitary drug raids. He'd been reporting on a raid in North Little Rock involving a 40-year-old man named Tracy Ingle. When he told me the story over the phone, I was floored, even given all the abuses and mistakes I've reported and read about over the last few years. What makes the case especially egregious is not that the police may have gotten the wrong home, that they shot a man, or that they were covering it up or going silent. We've seen all that before. What's mind-blowing about this one is that they've continued abusing the poor guy, even after it should have been clear for some time now that they made a mistake.

Here's a quick rundown:

• On January 7, 2008 a paramilitary police unit in North Little Rock, Arkansas conducted a drug raid on Tracy Ingle's home. Ingle says he had fallen asleep for several hours, and was asleep when the raid happened. He awoke when the police took a battering ram to his door. Another team of officers approached form the outside of the house, and shattered the window to his bedroom.

• When he awoke, Ingle says he thought his home was being invaded by armed robbers. He reached for a broken gun, a pretty clear indication that he had no intention of killing anyone, but rather was trying to scare away the intruders. When he grabbed the gun, an officer inside the house fired his weapon. The bullet hit Ingle just above the knee, shattered his thigh bone, and nearly severed his lower leg. When the outside officers heard the shot, they opened up on Ingle, hitting him four more times. According to Ingle's sister, one bullet still rests just above Ingle's heart, and can't be removed.

• Ingle was taken to the hospital, and spent a week-and-a-half in intensive care. He was then removed from intensive care—still in his hospital pajamas—and taken to the North Little Rock police department, where he was questioned for five hours. He was not told he was suspected of a crime, and his family wasn't allowed to speak with him. After the interrogation, he was arrested and transferred to the county jail.

• Ingle spent the next four days in jail. He says he was never given his pain medication or his antibiotics. Though hospital nurses told him to change his bandages and clean his wounds every 4-6 hours, Ingle told the Arkansas Times that jail officials changed them only twice in four days. Ingle's wounds became infected during the time he was in jail.

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A Tale of Two Trailers: 'Batman' and 'The Dark Knight' Compared?

False alarm: It's just another mash-up...and I LOVE mash ups!

In case you haven't seen the most recent Dark Knight Internet meme to hit IM, blogs, Twitter, humor sites and just about every user-generated link farm around let Freedom Shenanigans & High Jinks be the latest site to post the "Dark Knight/Batman Trailer Split-Screen" video -- but with a twist. For those who haven't heard about it yet, the video was passed around by many 'net users who claimed it was a split-screen comparison of the eerie similarities between the trailers for the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film and the upcoming Christopher Nolan film, The Dark Knight.

Despite the video's sudden popularity today (with quite a few people linking to the video via the College Humor website -- which also seemed to frame it as a comparison of the two trailers), this video has been around since late 2007, and was created by YouTube user VaportrailFilms after the Dark Knight trailer was released. As many Digg.com users have pointed out, this is also not a magical moment of synchronicity in the vein of Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz, either. In fact, it's actually a "mash-up" of the Tim Burton film and the Dark Knight trailer -- made up of bits and pieces sampled from the 1989 film and arranged for the best possible match.

So, while I hate to burst a good online conspiracy bubble, that's not the original Batman trailer in the video, folks. It is, however, the product of some very nice video editing skills.

But I have to admit, the version that used the 1966 Batman film is more my cup of tea.

That being said, as much as I'm looking forward to seeing Iron Man, I still believe Dark Knight will kick it's tin ass in the theatres.

What's great about Batman is that he is vulnerable. He goes in with black kevlar and a utility belt - and NO GUNS and still kicks ass. It's one reason why Superman doesn't do anything for me - unless you happen upon a piece of kryptonite - he's invincible.

Batman is the shiznit and the best franchise around. Sorry - you can't deny this.

Concerning Iron Man, the Civil War Series and the killing of Captain America, I don't care for Iron Man. Now that doesn't mean I won't see the movie or can't appreciate a good action flick with all the CGI bells and whistles. I just don't care for the overt fascist memes promoted by Marvel. (After close to 60 years in print, Marvel Comics has killed off Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, one of its most famous and beloved superheroes amid an already controversial story line, "Civil War," which is pitting the heroes of Marvel's universe against one another. In the comic series, Rogers was to stand trial for defying a superhero registration law passed after a hero's tragic mistake causes a 9/11-like event. Steve Rogers eventually surrenders to police. He is later mortally wounded as he climbs the courthouse steps.Marvel says the comic story line was intentionally written as an allegory to current real-life issues like the Patriot Act, the War on Terror and the September 11 attacks.)

Now if Marvel were using the "Devil's Advocate" technique to actually criticize the contemporary state of our Federal Fascist Union that would be great. However, they seem to be actually endorsing the fascist behavior. (How many military recruitment ads are running along with this everyday? Right, ruin the economy, devalue the money so that poor folks have no other option than to become government employees and work to capture and incarcerate their fellow citizens for things that were not crimes before this present administration stole the elections.)

Since the end of Civil War, Iron Man has been running S.H.I.E.L.D. as its current Director. His main goal seems to be making sure the SHRA is followed and that illegal heroes are shut down. This makes me wonder why the SHRA doesn't apply to the villains running around. Sure, many of them have public identities, but that isn't the same thing as registered.

We have seen many moments of Tony Stark being an asshole ever since Civil War started. From kowtowing to Miriam Sharpe all the way to taking his best friends in for being noble and selfless.
Partial list of crimes:

-Supporting a blatantly unconstitutional Law.

-Failing to provide adequate security for Steve Rogers (a man known to have many powerful enemies.)

-Employing known killers and thugs in the pursuit of unregistered heroes.

-Failing to apprehend known villains in favor of apprehending unregistered heroes.

-Attempting to use his authority to recruit a new Captain America

-Engineering two near-International situations in order to further his agenda.

-The unlawful imprisonment of American citizens

-Attempting to bind non-American citizens to the Registration Act

-Using the good name of a deceased American Hero in order to trap and apprehend
unregistered heroes.

The acts of this man are clearly fascist and elitism at its worst. The hubris of this man, who believes himself to be the one to lead all heroes leans towards megalomanicsm (yeah, I made the word up, you know what I mean) >8{D}

At this point, I don't think there is anything Marvel can do that would repair the harm to Tony's character. They may even have had a chance at retconning some of it if this did seem out of character. Instead, this looks like a direction that Marvel was headed towards for a long while now. As far as I am concerned, the only way to save Iron Man is for Stark to go away and a new man step in.

However, that won't happen, at least not in the near future. According to http://io9.com/378102/iron-man-armor-now-comes-with-proprietary-software

Iron Man! Now he's the kind of guy who's off crusading against... Linux? The latest interview promoting movie tie-in comic The Invincible Iron Man seems to suggest a more software-based approach to the character than ever before. According to series writer Matt Fraction, the battle between Tony Stark and new bad guy Ezekiel Stane is really just an allegory for the battle Bill Gates wages against smaller software providers every single day of his life.

For me, there is no redemption for Iron Man.

How To Think

By Ed Boyden

Ed Boyden is an assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab. His lab broadly invents new tools to engineer brain circuits, in order to treat intractable disorders, augment cognition, and better understand the nature of existence.

When I applied for my faculty job at the MIT Media Lab, I had to write a teaching statement. One of the things I proposed was to teach a class called "How to Think," which would focus on how to be creative, thoughtful, and powerful in a world where problems are extremely complex, targets are continuously moving, and our brains often seem like nodes of enormous networks that constantly reconfigure. In the process of thinking about this, I composed 10 rules, which I sometimes share with students. I've listed them here, followed by some practical advice on implementation.

1. Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.

2. Learn how to learn (rapidly). One of the most important talents for the 21st century is the ability to learn almost anything instantly, so cultivate this talent. Be able to rapidly prototype ideas. Know how your brain works. (I often need a 20-minute power nap after loading a lot into my brain, followed by half a cup of coffee. Knowing how my brain operates enables me to use it well.)

3. Work backward from your goal. Or else you may never get there. If you work forward, you may invent something profound--or you might not. If you work backward, then you have at least directed your efforts at something important to you.

4. Always have a long-term plan. Even if you change it every day. The act of making the plan alone is worth it. And even if you revise it often, you're guaranteed to be learning something.

5. Make contingency maps. Draw all the things you need to do on a big piece of paper, and find out which things depend on other things. Then, find the things that are not dependent on anything but have the most dependents, and finish them first.

6. Collaborate.

7. Make your mistakes quickly. You may mess things up on the first try, but do it fast, and then move on. Document what led to the error so that you learn what to recognize, and then move on. Get the mistakes out of the way. As Shakespeare put it, "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

8. As you develop skills, write up best-practices protocols. That way, when you return to something you've done, you can make it routine. Instinctualize conscious control.

9. Document everything obsessively. If you don't record it, it may never have an impact on the world. Much of creativity is learning how to see things properly. Most profound scientific discoveries are surprises. But if you don't document and digest every observation and learn to trust your eyes, then you will not know when you have seen a surprise.

10. Keep it simple. If it looks like something hard to engineer, it probably is. If you can spend two days thinking of ways to make it 10 times simpler, do it. It will work better, be more reliable, and have a bigger impact on the world. And learn, if only to know what has failed before. Remember the old saying, "Six months in the lab can save an afternoon in the library."

Springfield, IL Censors Free Speech

A SIGN OF THE TIMES

Freedom Shenanigan #29

Use The Miranda Civil Rights Camera Recorder
Document Your Arrest!

Ok you activists who still believe in going out in public without your masks on, and if you still believe that a mass protest accomplishes anything other than a field day for poLICE agents to gather names, pictures, facial recognition patterns, voice prints, DNA etc., THEN YOU NEED MIRANDA!

"Security for Civil Rights." By designer, Gabriel Lam via Core77. First impression of the project is a marriage of personal passion with elegant design sensibilities; the small unit is simply a cheap video recorder with some flash memory and a 3-axis accelerometer, ruggedized with a Santoprene boot and blessed with clean, utilitarian styling reminiscent of early Peter Saville. As a recorder and protector for political protesters, it's a solution whose appropriateness is immediately obvious.

It helps you to record all things happening around you and also helps finding thieves or anything suspicious as it goes around with every time. It’s small, adaptable and cheap. Lams convincing thoughts has helped in showing the results of the brutal processions. It is very effective in the elimination of corruption from a body (mostly government). Requires very little maintenance and very effectively and generate proportional benefits. It also plays a major role in the security of civil rights.

It also works well in the night as it has embedded flash light. It can help the police in their dangerous work. It works more effectively than a CCTV camera, CCTV camera has a limit range view, but this device has no range as it is in motion all the time with you, help you solving many problems such as theft in your daily life. This designer with his unique mind has bought out something fantastic and has done something good for the mankind and making them independent of cops and working towards their own security.

They Are Building a PRISON State

Resistance IS NOT Futile!!! Making poLICE Accountable

Here is another GREAT reason to sign the WTP petitions below. We are rapidly becoming a PoLICE State UNLESS one resists and holds the poLICE accountable. Compare with how they lied under oath in the their affidavits of what happened on the street versus the actual recorded account. It is not just the poLICE, it is also the legal bureauRATS that perpetuate the pedantic persecutions by pejorative prosecutors. It is time to DARE to discipline the poLICE individually and collectively.

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And Republicans Aren't Closet Fascists Because?

Republican Candidate speaks at Hitler Birthday Party Celebration
By Times Staff and wire reports | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |

A congressional candidate is defending his speech to a group celebrating the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth, saying he appeared simply because he was asked.

Tony Zirkle, who is seeking the Republican nomination in Indiana's 2nd District, stood in front of a painting of Hitler, next to people wearing swastika armbands and with a swastika flag in the background for the speech to the American National Socialist Workers Party in Chicago on Sunday.

"I'll speak before any group that invites me," Zirkle said Monday. "I've spoken on an African-American radio station in Atlanta."

The 2nd Congressional District includes a large portion of north central Indiana spanning from South Bend to Kokomo. It includes Pine and Jackson Townships in Porter County and parts of Washington Township, which includes the eastern edges of the Valparaiso.

It is currently served by Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly.

Porter County Republican chairman Chuck Williams on Tuesday denounced Zirkle's appearance at the gathering.

"He certainly doesn't hold the view of the of the Republican Party," Williams said. "I don't know why you would stand up in front of a picture of Adolf Hitler when millions of Americans fought against that kind of oppression."

Zirkle compared his speech to other politicians appearing at Bob Jones University.

George W. Bush, then a candidate for president, was criticized eight years ago for speaking at the South Carolina school, which teaches students that Catholicism is a cult. Also at the time of the speech, the school banned interracial dating, a policy that has since been dropped.

Zirkle said he did not know much about the neo-Nazi group and that his intention was to talk on his concern about "the targeting of young white women and for pornography and prostitution."

Zirkle will face John Frame and Joseph Roush, in addition to Puckett, in the May 6 primary.

The event was not the first time Zirkle has raised controversy on race issues. In March, Zirkle raised the idea of segregating races in separate states. Zirkle said Tuesday he's not advocating segregation, but said desegregation has been a failure.

Zirkle received 30 percent of the vote in the 2006 primary, losing to incumbent Chris Chocola, who was defeated in the general election. Zirkle said Tuesday that winning the election is not his primary goal.

"My primary purpose is to educate and inform," he said.

Freedom Shenanigan #1 in ACTION!!!

Come on people, don't let the fascist authoritarians win!!!

Who Rules The World?

The following article and link to Newsweek verifies what many have been saying for years. There IS a global elite that believes that the world belongs to them as their own "planetation" and we are their property. What we need to consider, in the light of the history of what has and has not worked, is how to limit or rid the planet of these elitists. The French, Russian, Chinese, Cambodian and multiple African national revolutions pose a dire warning to upsetting even a rotting apple cart.

"The world can only be turned right side up by the conscious collective activity of those who construct a theory of why it is upside down. Spontaneous rebellion alone is not sufficient. Without adequate advance preparation, the old world will simply reappear after any rebellion, embedded as it is in the psyches of the fabled "people." An authentic revolution can only occur if there is a coherent and practical mass movement of self-conscious individuals in which all of the mystifications of the past are being consciously swept away as they fearlessly confront the realities of the use of force with or without physical violence in a defensive reaction to undo the authoritarian constructs of the few over the many." - Mit Etagniw

Shaping Conventional Wisdom

By Henry See

Newsweek ran an article recently about the elite that run the world. It is about the group of people the author calls the "Superclass" and who are:

"part of a new global elite that has emerged over the past several decades. I call it the 'superclass.' They have vastly more power than any other group on the planet. Each of the members is set apart by his ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people in multiple countries worldwide. Each actively exercises this power, and often amplifies it through the development of relationships with other superclass members. This new class of elites is both more permeable, and more transient, than elites of the past...

The top 10 percent of all people, for example, now control 85 percent of all wealth on the planet.

That such a group exists is indisputable. It includes the heads of the biggest financial institutions, the 14 families Blankfein joked about, and then some; the top 50 control almost $50 trillion in assets. The heads of the world's biggest corporations are also members; the top 2,000 support perhaps 500 million people, generate almost $30 trillion in sales and have well over $100 trillion in assets. The list also includes top government officials with real cross-border influence... media barons...religious leaders...cultural icons..."

The author goes on to describe the lifestyle "up there", looking down upon the rest of us peons from the leather seats of their private jets as they circle the globe entangling us in their machinations. No standing in line at airports and passing through humiliating security checks for these folks. No way. They just implement those rules to keep the rest of us in line.

It is a small group, and they all know one another.

Says Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Wall Street's Blackstone Group, "The world is pretty small. In almost every one of the areas in which I am dealing or in which we at Blackstone are looking at deals, you find it is just 20, 30 or 50 people worldwide who drive the industry or the sector."

They meet at places like Davos to "get to know one another, hatch deals and exercise perhaps the greatest power the superclass has collectively: to shape conventional wisdom."

Did you catch that phrase about shaping "conventional wisdom"? You know what that really means, right? Brainwashing. Telling us what to think. Shaping the insides of our heads by creating the invisible prison bars of thought that keep us prisoner while they scurry around robbing and plundering under our very noses.

They have it down to a well-oiled and highly perfected machine. They have conquered our minds, and once that has happened, there is precious little one can do until the mind has been reclaimed.

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April 12, 2008

The Constitutional Conspiracy: Courts Colluding With White House to Avoid Accountability

The proof is in. The federal courts have been found to be co-conspirators with the Executive Branch in a collusive scheme to avoid being held accountable to the Constitution by the People. There can be no doubt. The federal judiciary is now being utilized as an weapon of oppression rather than for the ends of Justice for which it was designed. Not only has the Judiciary abandoned its role as an independent arbiter of legal controversies involving injured citizens seeking remediation for Government wrongs, the Judiciary now refuses to even discuss the most basic, underlying Founding Principles upon which our Republic rests, i.e., the Rights of the People to Sovereignty and to hold Government accountable -- particularly its obligation to respond to Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts as provided by the First Amendment. The most egregious result of these developments is that not only are the People effectively unable to secure Redress against Government entities that have harmed them, but the Judiciary has now abdicated its fundamental function under the Constitution by refusing to interpret the Constitution where questions of the Sovereignty of the People are implicated. This is no small matter for the People. Without substantive recourse through the courts and no means by which to secure a declaration of these fundamental Principles from the Judiciary, the People are, indeed, left with very few means by which to peacefully secure their Rights against the majority or the tyrants. (continued...) Click here to access this important update

Freedom Shenanigan #28

Do Reverse Graffiti

Say what you want to say, show what you want to show! It is not vandalism, it is cleaning with a purpose. The authoritarian anal orifice porcines can only arrest and then let go as it is not (yet) a "crime" to clean with intent to amuse, educate, warn, or entertain.

Spreading the Freedom Meme one dirty wall at a time!

REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art

by Matt Chapman

When is cleaning the sidewalks a crime? When you’re doing it to create art. Obviously.

A number of street artists around the world have taken to expressing themselves through an innovative practice known as Reverse Graffiti. Taking a cue from the “Wash Me” messages scrawled on the back of delivery trucks, they seek out soot covered surfaces and inscribe them with images, tags, and even advertising slogans using scrub brushes, scrapers and pressure hoses.

The UK’s Paul Curtis, better known as “Moose,” is one of the technique’s pioneers. Operating around Leeds and London, he has been commissioned by a number of brands, such as Smirnoff, who want to convey a sense of “clean” in an innovative way.

On a more overtly environmental bent, Brazilian Alexandre Orion, turned one of Sao Paolo’s transport tunnels into a stunning mural last summer. The mural, comprised of a series of skulls, very succinctly reminds drivers of the impact their emissions are having on the planet.

The practice puts authorities in a definite moral quandary. According to Moose, “Once you do this, you make people confront whether or not they like people cleaning walls or if they really have a problem with personal expression.” The Leeds City Council decided to lead their attack with an hilariously nonsensical position:

“Leeds residents want to live in clean and attractive neighborhoods, and expect their streets to be free of graffiti and illegal advertising. We also view this kind of rogue advertising as environmental damage and will take strong action against any advertisers carrying out such campaigns without the relevant permission.”

What action was taken against the advertisers is unknown. What is known is that Moose was charged under the very scary sounding Anti-Social Behaviour Act and ordered to clean up his clean act. I’m not exactly sure how he managed to did this. By making it dirty again?

The Brazilian artist’s work came to a happier resolution. The authorities were certainly miffed but could find nothing to charge him with. They had no other recourse but to clean the tunnel — but only the parts Alexandre had already cleaned. The artist merely continued his campaign on the other side of traffic. The utterly flummoxed city officials then decided to take drastic action. Not only did they clean the entire tunnel but also every other tunnel in Sao Paulo.

Bravo!

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Tom Tomorrow Says it All

On a Not too Distant Unalienable Planet

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How To Brainwash A Nation

From Episode Two of the film series "The Century of the Self" by Adam Curtis. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays who was one of the engineers of the Cold War. He perfected the technique of manufacturing a distant but ever-threatening enemy and then creating a constant state of fear by generating false news reports that endlessly re-stated and exaggerated the threat.

The stated purpose of Bernay's methods was to give those in power greater control over what he called "the mass mind." It worked well in the 1950s and sadly, it appears to be working quite well today... but maybe not forever.

Are We "Bushed" with Bush? Oliver Stone's New Movie "W"

Will it be better than this version? We'll see....

Freedom Shenanigan # 27

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Using the Principles of Freedom Shenanigan #21 10 Ways YOU Can Fight Fascism Around the World

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2. Minimize Destructive Backlash

3. Establish Robust Communication

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This war against anger makes me see red!!!

The powers-that-be promote happiness and demonise anger because they prefer us to be little lambs rather than assertive firebrands.
Brendan O’Neill

‘I’m a bloody billygoat trying to screw the world, and no wonder I am, because it’s trying to do the same to me.’ So said Arthur Seaton, the hero of Alan Sillitoe’s angry young masterpiece Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958). Seaton was a womanising wideboy, who worked in a Nottingham factory by day and drank himself stupid by night, and spent the rest of his time, fuelled by booze and fury, ‘fighting with mothers and wives, landlords and gaffers, coppers, army, government…’ (1)

These days, Seaton would be carted off for a short, sharp dose of anger management therapy. He wouldn’t be given the respectful title ‘angry young man’ - he’d be labelled a ‘victim of the rage epidemic’. Anger, or at least the unmediated expression of it, has effectively been outlawed. The emotional police have declared war on anyone who remotely resembles an angry young man (or woman). The aim, it seems to me, is to turn the ‘billygoats’ into sheep, yet barely an eyebrow has been raised in response to this insidious campaign of mental manipulation, emotional conformism and spirit-dampening...

...This all-out war on anger is driven by the authorities’ deep suspicion of edgy or assertive emotions. It may dress itself in the caring language of protecting the population from breakdown, sickness and heart failure, but in truth the demonisation of anger - more than that, the borderline criminalisation of anger - is part of today’s new insidious, intimate policing of the emotional mind. The wholesale management of anger is an attempt to enforce conformity, spearheaded by politicians, police, officials, judges and health practitioners who seem to prefer a populace that resigns, fatalistically, to the problems it faces, rather than one that asks awkward questions and kicks up a furious fuss...

...Anger was once seen as an understandable reaction to unpleasant experiences or less-than-civilised living and working conditions; it was a rational, sometimes even dignified ‘strong feeling of displeasure’ (7). Now, in the Anti-Angry Decade, it has been psychologised: anger is looked upon as a condition, a disease, a moral failing on the part of individuals which must be treated and corrected...

...The psychologisation of anger has two consequences: first it separates our anger from the experience or the condition that gave rise to it, so that our ‘expressions of rage’ are always judged to be disproportionate, irresponsible and illegitimate. This can be seen in the relentless rise of rages, from ‘air rage’ to ‘golf rage’ to ‘work rage’. People who suffer from these rages, from the alleged psychological condition of losing the plot in airports, on golf courses or around the water cooler at work, are seen as irrational individuals with moral and mental flaws rather than rational actors expressing loud’n’rowdy displeasure with having been treated badly...

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Just Desertion

"The president carries the biggest burden, obviously. He's the one who has to make the decision to commit young Americans, but we are fortunate to have a group of men and women, the all-volunteer force, who voluntarily put on the uniform and go in harm's way for the rest of us."

Dick "Cthulhu" Cheney, the incarnate expression of unfiltered evil, discussing the completely useless and unjustified death of 4,000 Americans in the Idiot King's illegal war

Does anyone living where reasoning bears sway honestly believe that George W. Bush, whose brow has never known the sweat of honest labor or been furrowed in socially useful thought, is "burdened" by his whimsical decision to send Americans to kill and die in Iraq?

Is there anybody -- apart from Sean Hannity and other cerebrally-challenged and character-deficient partisan whores -- who would profess to believe that Bush, who lives in the cushion of unparalleled luxury, travels in a cocoon of impenetrable security, and whose every transient appetite is immediately satisfied, groans under a burden comparable in any way to an American GI on his second, third, fourth, or fifth tour of duty in Iraq?


With his "surge" proving to be a pointless, cynical exercise in marketing, Bush has blithely let it be known that a "pause" will take place in the process of withdrawing troops from Iraq. This means that tens of thousands of Americans who had dared entertain the hope of returning to their families and putting the war behind them have had seen those hopes ruthlessly crushed.

Some of them won't return. Many others won't return whole in body, mind, or soul.

Some will see their marriages end, their families disintegrate, their civilian jobs evaporate, or their homes foreclosed on as a result of repeated deployments to Iraq. But their burdens are trivial, according to Cheney. They are mere trifles compared to the sufferings of our divine Emperor-King.

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Can YOU Handle The TRUTH?

Bush Resigns!

Fraternal Order of Police to Provide Real Time Tracking of Police Officers

April 1st, 2008

Njection and the Fraternal Order of Police to Provide Real Time Tracking of Police Officers.

FOP has entered into an agreement with Njection.com to allow for the installation of GPS trackers in police vehicles nationwide.

Portland, OR April 1, 2008 – Njection.com has acquired permission from the world’s largest organization of rank and file sworn officers, the Fraternal Order of Police, to install Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices in the vehicles of patrol officers, undercover cars, and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) vehicles. The information will be available on the Njection.com Website giving its visitors a detailed view of where police officers are in their area and how well they are responding to crime in their neighborhood.

“This level of transparency is highly unprecedented.” says Shannon Atkinson, President/Founder of Njection.com. “It is very heartwarming to receive this level of access for such an organization. We feel honored to be in such an exclusive arrangement.”

Not only will the “Near Real Time” information be available on the website (http://njection.com/coptrak) , but it will be available via Windows Mobile 6, Blackberry Mobile phones, and Palm Mobile Phones as well for anyone to access.

“I feel a lot better with this announcement.” Jeffery Jarvis, 2nd time felon looking at his 3rd strike. “This information will be very helpful for me in my line of work. I am just upset that is has taken this long to get something like this started.”

“There are always some bugs we need to work our initially,” Shannon adds, “but I am confident that injuries will be low and people will feel a lot safer knowing where they are at all times.”

What Statist Promises Amount to

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Let's Revise History!

Boos As Bush Tosses Out Ball at Opening of DC Stadium

baseball
by krs601

Taxi to the Dark Side—The Axis of American Evil

by Kahentinetha Horn
Kahentinetha2@yahoo.com

Special to The Libertarian Enterprise

MNN. Mar. 25, 2008. Was the Mohawk-Oka Crisis of 1990 a dry run for overseas terror? On July 11, 1990, the Quebec Police paramilitary forces opened fire on a group of peaceful demonstrators in the early hours of the morning. We were resisting the nearby town of Oka from illegally building a golf course on top of our burial and ceremonial site. The attack on us escalated after Prime Minister Brian Mulroney met with President George Bush. 4000 heavily armed soldiers surrounded three of our communities, Kanehsatake, Kahnawake and Akwesasne. They wanted us to fire a shot so they would have an excuse to kill us. We were on to them.

Col. Musgrave of the British Secret Service was brought over by a Canadian think tank to put a plan in motion to break us down. He was going to use tactics the Brits used against the Irish. He vowed to accomplish this in three weeks.

The corporate press stepped up its habitual demonization of us. The soldiers shouted and threatened us. The media "spinners" portrayed our men, women and children as the nasty enemy and we were less than human. This created the conditions required to get the public to accept mistreatment and violations of our rights. We were subjected to sleep deprivation by flying choppers over us all night long. Even jets were flown close over our heads. Bright lights were shone on us and into our windows. Food was cut off or left to rot or spat upon and peed into by the soldiers before it was turned over to us. Water and hydro were turned off and on. Incendiary devices were blown up around us. Snipers were everywhere.

When we finally walked out September 26th 1990, the soldiers and cops attacked, beat and threw us into buses and took us to prisons at Farnham army base. We were left on the tarmac all night long. They would not let us go to the bathroom or get medical attention for our injured. The soldiers beat their guns on the sides of the bus to stop us from sleeping, swore and shouted racial slurs at us and took out their penises and urinated at us...

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More "Isolated Incidents" by Anal Orifice Porcines

Two, actually. Both involve police intercepts of packages using the DHL delivery service on the campus at Duke University.

In the latest, police intercepted a package of marijuana bound for a fraternity house, then raided the place in full SWAT attire when one of the fraternity members signed for it. One of the residents describes the raid:

I am writing to share both my relief over the dropped charges against my housemate, senior Eric Halperin, as well as my continued anger at the blatant abuse of power by the Durham Police Department. On the morning of Feb. 27, our home off East Campus was raided by a team of State Bureau of Investigation agents and members of DPD. Without warning, our front door was knocked down and a handful of fully armed officers entered our home. Subsequently, we were ordered to the ground at the behest of assault rifles, dragged across the floor, hand-cuffed and forced to strip naked. In carrying out their search warrant, police officers destroyed hundreds of dollars of our personal property. Upon failing to find anything incriminating, my friend, Halperin, was falsely charged with drug trafficking without any investigation or evidence, except his signing for a DHL package not addressed to him.

It took a month, but police have now dropped all charges against Halperin. The earlier incident followed almost the same formula, except it took place in a dorm room. In that case too, the charges against the Duke student were dropped.

Even assuming it’s appropriate to arrest a college student who signs for a package of marijuana addressed to someone else, why the SWAT tactics? Did the police department really think the fraternity was going to put up a fight? (Note: It was also the Durham police department that gave us this photo—discussion on that here.) Last month, there was a similar incident at LSU, in which a SWAT team raided a college student’s home based on an anonymous tip that there might be some pot inside. They found nothing.

For some righteous outrage on the case, check out the "Liestoppers Board," a site set up by the parents of the wrongly accused Duke lacrosse team.

Just Isolated Incidents? It Is An Epidemic!

Death of an innocent.	Death or injury of a police officer.	Death of a nonviolent offender.
Raid on an innocent suspect.	Other examples of paramilitary police excess.	Unnecessary raids on doctors and sick people.

Source: Radley Balko, Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Epidemic of Isolated Incidents, 1985–2006.

Words Mean Things

Rather than me do this for you and be charged with bias, do it yourself. Get a sheet of paper and a pencil. Draw a vertical line down the center. Label one side Liberal and the other side Conservative. Add the following words to the column the words best represent.

Abortion - Individual Choice Abortion - State Control Altruism Art Bigotry The Blues Callousness Canning Classical Music Help the poor Help the rich Civil Rights Collective bargaining Compassion Conservation Country Western Corporal Punishment Creationism Dogma Environment Equal Rights

Evolution Exclusion Execution Freedom from Religion Guns Hate Radio Hitting Homophobia Human Rights Humor Inclusion Intolerance Jazz Jingoism Journalism Law and Order Literature Mercy Militarism Movies Nationalism

Pacifism Peace Reason Rock & Roll Racism Science Sculpture Selfishness Sexual Freedom Sexual prohibition Slapping Shooting State Religion Teaching Theater Tolerance Universities Violence War mongering War

Now sign your name to the bottom of one side or the other, laminate it, and nail it to your forehead.

REPUBLICAN PARTY ADMISSION TEST

1. Can you say "my country right or wrong" no matter what? Yes No

2. Are you more or less intolerant than you think you are? More Less

3. How much do you hate sharing your stuff? A lot Very much

4. Do you whine about taxes every: 15 seconds 30 seconds 2 minutes

5. Check number of stocks owned: 10 or more 20 or more Lost count

6. How many people would you enjoy putting in prison? 5 20 more than 20

7. Who do you hate most? Blacks Communists Gays Liberals Libertarians Democrats
   

8. Hours a day spent hating above choice? 8 hrs 12 hrs 24 hrs

9. Would you kill anyone speaking ill of your mother? Yes No

10. Are you an Aggie? (If not sure check Yes) Yes No

11. What upsets you more? Nuclear-warfare Genocide Affirmative Action?

12. Check machinery you can operate: Electronic vote machine, Pickup truck, can opener

13. What organizations are you a member of? VFW, KKK, NRA, CFR, TC, Bilderburger
    

14. What sports do you participate in? Stock Market, Commodities Market, FOREX
    

15. Put these words in the correct order. God Race Country Family

16. Can you quote Readers Digest without feeling like an idiot? Yes No

17. Hours a day do you listen to Rush Limbaugh? 1 hr 2 hrs 3 hrs

18. Does this questionnaire piss you off? Yes No

Circle each answer and send a copy to:
RNC
310 First Street, SE
Washington, D.C. 20003
Please include copy of picture ID (you know why!)

"In our dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply." -Rockefeller Foundation Director of Charity, Frederick Gates, 1913

The Statue of Control