Here we sit, at our keyboards, raising Hell..........

[mopaul]

maybe it's a good thing that we aren't exactly 'taking it to the streets' because we've taken it to the world wide web of the internet collective brain. it's an evolutionary, and revolutionary breakthrough, right at the time that it's needed the most.

now we can all be paul revere's, screaming the alarm to the others in their sleep, the tyrants are coming! we now have this machine in front of us, right out of science fiction land, which we can wield as a weapon of mass enlightenment.

on this site and many others, we are ACTUALLY bringing about social change. it's already started, like a wave, we are chipping away at the false veneer of tyranny, chiseling at the foundations of fascism with our little keyboards.

maybe sometimes it seems futile and pointless to shout out your thoughts and ideas into cyberspace, to strangers from all corners of the world, but, it's working. we must continue to use this powerful, swift sword to behead snakes, sacrifice sacred cows, turn rocks over to reveal scorpions, and shine light into the darkest corners.

it's us, here in cyberspace and in our living rooms and offices, versus them. we are legion, they are but a tiny handful of maniacs hiding behind castle walls.

fuck phony t.v. news, only the internet holds the truth. fuck bush and his tyrannical crazies, and for all those nazis reading this looking for some edge on your enemy, fuck you too, we got your numbers.

[KG]

1. mopaul knows what time it is.

[Jamastiene]

2. I second that

notion. All in favor, let's end this tyranny and send ALL of the right wing loony neanderthal midieval monsters back to their caves and lock them inside. You know that reminds me of my theory about the "invention" of fire. My version is so much more likely how it really went down. A few enterprising cave people started to evolve and thought it would be good idea to cook, keep warm, and have light at night. They started working out ways to start a fire. The less evolved cave people cursed them and called them heretics for trying to make civilization hurry up and get here already. Not long after that, after the "heretics" found a way to harness that magnificent resource, the pundits noticed that the heretics were advancing and making their lives better. So they ganged up on the heretics and stole their fire and left guards behind to make sure the heretics didn't get to use fire ever again without paying for plus begging for it. Hence, the Republican party was born. They've been beating us down and stealing our inventions and making us beg them for permission to use them ever since. We are still begging them to help us invent new things for them to steal and charge us for. We don't really even need them if we start thinking about it more deeply.

[xchrom]

3. they may be few -- but they have lots of guns

and like to shoot abortion doctors, or kill possibly ''gay'' soldiers, or blow up whole federal buildings while because they hate their own government, the feel no qualms about throwing in prison young african american men -- cause THEY will burn the city down if the oppressive boot gets but so far up their ass.

things will get tougher from those few before they get better -- and if the tide really starts to turn against them -- well now they have new laws to detain with out trial -- and legions of conservative christain footsoldiers to do violence against you.

these are the times we live in.

[H2O Man]

6. "they got the guns, but ....

we got the numbers." -- James D. Morrison, Five to One

[RetroLounge]

4. "only the internet holds the truth"

Very Nice MoPaul!

But it's "Internets."

as in: "All your Internets is ours!"

:hi:

RL

[mopaul]

5. "I will go nook yoo ler on so sha kyoordee"

people who can't even prounounce 'nuclear' and 'social security' should not have access to either.

internetS forever! thank god al gore invented them.

[pretzel4gore]

7. few 'elected' politicians

in history were so totally beneath contempt as this nose pickin' goofball; which makes his 'election' numbers suspect.....the herd, foolish as they are, have a sense about them visible throughout history, providing they are informed(?)

[Swamp Rat]

8. Let me raise some HELL with my latest pic... sure to piss off freepers!

:D

[seemslikeadream]

10. That's a lovely picture Swampy

Looks excellent next to Minstrel Boy's most resent work


The Life and Moonie Times of George HW Bush

To follow up on yesterday's post, let's consider one of the enduring riddles of the Bush White House call boy scandal (that is, the other Bush White House, and the other call boy): why, of all the media empires to break the story and run with it, often page one and above the fold, was it that of the Unification Church?

The expressed purpose of The Washington Times since Reverend Sun Myung Moon launched it in 1982 has been to provide a conservative Republican voice in the US capital. Paul Weyrich has called it an "antidote" to The Washington Post, its "liberal competitor." (Yeah, me neither.) The unexpressed purpose has been to win for Moon influence over US politicians. Sometimes, the two are in conflict. In fact, to succeed, on occassion they must be.

Perpetual deference makes for a fine doormat, but I've yet to wipe my feet on one of influence. And certainly Moon hasn't shovelled more than a billion dollars down the Times' boiler to have Republican feet, even Bush feet, wiped upon his satin robes.

So I'm wondering (and it's thanks to this discussion generated by yesterday's post): did the Times initially play this story as big as it did in order to win influence over the Bush White House? In other words, Look - we got the goods - what you gonna do about it? The Times said it had the names of Spence's clients, and that they included politicians, as well as military, media and business figures. Blackmail, it's called in impolite circles. This could explain why the scandal was made to go away virtually overnight, the names undisclosed. Because, they did something about it.

"In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced The Washington Times and Moon's anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event," wrote The Gadflyer last year. "Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that 'brings sanity to Washington.'" That was while on an extended trip to South America in Moon's company. A Reuters' story of Nov 25 of that year describes the former president as "full of praise" for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him as "the man with the vision." (And Moon helped Bush out with his own vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure of his company.) Bush and Moon then travelled together to Uruguay, "to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo, to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America."

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/life-and-moonie-times-of-george-hw.html


And I'm waiting for that gumbo!
:hi:

[Ironpost]

9. W M E, weapon of mass enlightenment

an older man truly worried.