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[Jan. 5th, 2005|02:26 am] |
just wanted to bring this back long enough to let everyone know that I dropped out and I'm getting out of this shithole town!
later, assholes! |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 5th, 2004|08:48 pm] |
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| | resist and exist - identity hatred | ] |
A small get together at my place next weekend is likely.
I heard a rumor that Hot Water Music broke up. Ha. If only.
Hm...yep. That pint of So Co is calling my name. Out.
raise your voice in swells
find your meanings then
use your signs inside to relive and live again
no point in back on what you're holding
no matter it be shit or it be golden
foundations shift and still they're shifting
we set up our falls hold on tight to your fears
cause that's your hatred and that's your love as well
learn to use your fears as a fuel as an engine to get you where you need to be
i must always remember there's no point to surrender
i shift |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|06:40 pm] |
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I feel really good now that I've read this:
(Note- I posted this on my own journal and I am bit hesitant to post it here, because I seem to be getting enough flack for not seeming cynical and "officially" anarchist enough. Pondering this, I especially see the need for what I am about to say...)
My friend John Haugh, then singing for a band called Fallen Short, introduced a song by saying he was sick and tired of punk rock and such forms of rebellion preaching anger, hatred, and violence, when those have been the status quo. If we really wanted to do something new and rebellious, what we really should do is LOVE EVERYBODY. (He screamed this and used a few expletives.)
Here I am, a few hours after feeling defeated. I felt like giving up, I was set to eat meat, get drunk, buy single-use packaging and throw it away. I felt we are doomed. For a moment. Just for a moment.
Fuck that.
Politics seem to be a failure, but live doesn't have to be, and I choose to be revolutionary, and I am going to do something revolutionary right now.
I am declaring my complete, unconditional love for each and every one of you right now. That's right, I love you. You are a human, I am a human. You are a sentient being, I am a sentient being, we're in this together.
This is not to say I will put up with all shit. If I catch you stealing from me, I will still take back what you stole and kick you out of my house. If you are hurting another, I may hurt you if that's what it takes, but I will still love you.
I love you even if all you do is complain. Loving you means I will try- at least try- to explain to you that maybe are being counterproductive, or that your complaining is self-defeating.
I love you even if you say stupid things. Loving you means that I will try and remember that you say stupid things, you are expressing believes that somehow got into your head- not that you chose to be stupid. And this goes for stupidities such as racism, sexism, homophobia.
I love you even if I disagree with you. Just remember that disagreement and love are not the same. Nor are agreement and respect.
I love you even if you voted for George Bush (see 2 paragraphs above) but that don't mean I won't point out how you probably wouldn't if you stopped to learn about what he stands for. (do a search engine of "Bush Supporters, incorrect")
It might be tough love. I might say things you don't want to hear. But I'll try and do it to make you think, not make you seem lesser.
I might even forget. I might mess up, and start acting like I don't love you...likely because it's hard to keep up this sort of idea when so few people are willing to love one another.
But then again, nothing is stopping anyone from loving anyone...hint, hint.
(Disclaimer 1- some people might want to take this for themselves and note that destroying a white power printing press or lock gluing a Starbucks might count as keeping someone from hurting another.)
(Disclaimer 2- Love you, not IN love with you. Not hippie "I looove you, brother" lip service.)
(Disclaimer 3- nothing is stopping anyone from loving anyone, but I admit the political trend is to make certain displays of love illegal.)
written by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rickmackin |
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| How? |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|02:51 pm] |
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| |  shocked | ] |
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| | brother inferior - poverty crime | ] |
I feel like I'm stuck in the twilight zone...
We're all going to die. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 28th, 2004|03:12 pm] |
Today in first period, we did a mock poll for president and florida senate seats.
This is what it was in my class for prez:
Kerry: 9
Bush: 10
Nader: 2
I was one of the Nader votes. Guess thats what I get for voting third party in a swing state. Heh. |
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| Ride... |
[Oct. 23rd, 2004|06:45 am] |
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| |  restless | ] |
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| | cowboys became folk heroes | ] |
We first met on a golden night
As the moon radiated love light
On the dock of the bay.
Somewhere between the real deal and an illusion
We lay unapologetically
Stroking each others lack of responsibility.
'I want to be a poet,'
She said looking over the mountain,
'I want to be a hippy,'
She said checking out me natty dread,
'I want to be political,'
She whispered as she admired my scars,
'I may not look it, but I'm really oppressed,'
She said smiling,
Handing me her welfare book.
The sea lassoed the shore
Time and night hovered towards daylight
And bellyfilled foxes sniffed their way home.
She put the blanket over her head
Farted, and fell asleep.
The next time I saw her
She was trying to find The Goddess of Plenty,
Desperately seeking the freeway
And after me money.
'It's different for women,' she said
'We can use men for their bodies
Men do it to us all the time.'
The next time I saw her
She ran over me with her wheelchair.
-A Poet called Benjamin Zephaniah |
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| Flake... |
[Oct. 21st, 2004|01:07 am] |
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| | this is my fist! - wine and cheese (acoustic) | ] |
Not much to say.
Fest 3 in less than two weeks.
I will be there. |
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| Blood Morons |
[Oct. 16th, 2004|05:58 pm] |
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| |  excited | ] |
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| | this bike is a pipe bomb - casey jones | ] |
Political factions stepping into line
They think they're helping people when they give a nazi sign
But if they knew the truth of what was going on
There'd be no campaigns or party broadcast songs
They're sitting in the backrooms giving orders out
Go and smash a wog a week and get the bastards
Make a perfect world; is that your fucking aim?
Or are you just another sect who wants its slice of fame
Government, law and order, can't you see that that's the con
Can't you use your fucking heads and see what's going on?
They're all just rulers to dish the orders out
Go and smash each others side, but leave the people out
( Exploitation )
Conflict in about 2 hours. Wooooooo.
a big happy birthday and fuck you to marissa. :-D |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 12th, 2004|09:35 pm] |
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| | this is my fist - last of the ammunition | ] |
You think you know someone...
Fuck Winter Haven and all its inhabitants.
( One Nation Under the Bomb ) |
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| Libertarian and Green Party Presidential Candidates arrested for "civil disobedience" |
[Oct. 9th, 2004|12:08 pm] |
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| |  aggravated | ] |
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| | carrie nations - top gun | ] |
Shortnews reports:
US Presidential candidates arrested entering CPD debate site US Presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green) were arrested Friday in St. Louis after breaking through a police line barricading the Commission on Presidential Debates event hosted at Washington University.
The candidates peacefully surrendered, protesting the exclusion of their opposing viewpoints and questioning the legality of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).
Local police responded to the incidents by delivering two additional busloads of officers in riot
gear to the University’s event site.
From Mr. Badnarik's election site:
Jon Airheart just called to tell me, “WE FOUND HIM!” He is reported to be at some medium-security lockup at 7600 North Hall Street. They are going to call Tamara Millay to see if she is closer than they are - but Fred and Jon are going to catch a cab nonetheless to pick up Mr. Badnarik.
An anonymous hotel employee employee told Jon, “We need to get him out of there - it is not a pleasant place to be - but if you wish to escape its not that hard.”
The facility is locally known as the “City Work House.”
Airheart reports that he called one number to find Mr. Badnarik, which led him to another number, which led him to another number…
Eventually, before Fred and Jon found Mr.Badnarik, Mr. Badnarik called Jon.
Jon reports that Mr. Badnarik said the whole process would have taken a lot less time but there was a lot of commotion on campus. They arrested five students who “literally just accidently crossed over into the ‘no-longer-a-free-speech-zone’ and they nearly were nearly taken out by snipers. According to the report, it was just five kids trying to go back to their dorms. After expressing outrage over the way the students were treated, Badnarik stated that this slowed his processing dramatically.
As Airheart was reporting this to me, he suddenly said, “Cab is here - got to go! But tell people that this is just like a scene from the movie Brazil.”
http://badnarik.org/newsfromthetrail.php?p=1346
http://www.votecobb.net/news/arrested |
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| Enforcing Hegemony |
[Oct. 7th, 2004|11:44 pm] |
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| |  discontent | ] |
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| | sofahead - make it worse | ] |
The imperial grand strategy asserts the right of the United States to undertake "preventive war" at will: Preventive, not preemptive. Preemptive war might fall within the framework of international law. Thus if Russian bombers had been detected approaching the US from the military base in Grenada conjured up by the Reagan administration in 1983, with the clear intent to bomb, then, under a reasonable interpretation of the UN Charter, a preemptive attack destroying the planes and perhaps even the Grenadan base would have been justifiable. Cuba, Nicaragua, and many others could have exercised the same right for many years while under attack from the US. though of course the weak would have to be insane to implement their rights. But the justifications for preemptive war, whatever they might be, do not hold for preventive war, particularly as that concept is interpreted by its current enthusiasts: the use of military force to eliminate an imagined or invented threat, so that even the term preventive too charitable.
Preventive war falls within the category of war crimes. If indeed it is an idea "whose time has come," then the world is in deep trouble. As the invasion of Iraq Began, the prominent historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger wrote that
The president has adopted a policy of "anticipatory self-defense" that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor, on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy.
He added that "the global wave of sympathy that engulfed the United States after 9-11 has given way to a global wave of hatred of American arrogance and militarism," and even in friendly countries the public regards Bush "as a greater threat to peace than Saddam Hussein." International law specialist Richard Falk finds it "inescapable" that the Iraq war was a "Crime against Peace of the sort for which surviving German leaders were indicted, prosecuted, and punished at the Nuremberg trials."
Some defenders of the strategy recognize that it runs roughshod over international law but see no problem in that. The whole framework of international law is just "hot air," legal scholar Michael Glennon writes: "The grand attempt to subject the rule of force to the rule of law" should be deposited in the ashcan of history--a convenient stance for the one state able to adopt the new non-rules for its purposes, since it spends almost as much as the rest of the world combined on means of violence and is forging new and dangerous paths in developing means of destruction, over nearly unanimous world opposition. The proof that the system is all "hot air" is straightforward: Washington "made it clear that it intends to do all it can to maintain its preeminence," then "announced that it would ignore" the UN Security Council over Iraq and declared more broadly that "it would no longer be bound by the [UN] Charter's rules governing the use of force." QED. Accordingly, the rules have "collapsed" and "the entire edifice came crashing down." This, Glennon concludes, is a good thing, since the US is the leader of the "enlightened states" and therefore "must resist [any effort] to curb its use of force."
The enlightened leader is also free to change the rules at will. When the military forces occupying Iraq failed to discover the weapons of mass destruction that allegedly justified the invasion, the administration's stance shifted from "absolute certainty" that Iraq possessed WMD on a scale that required immediate military action to the assertain that American accusations had been "justified by the discovery of equipment that potentially could be used to produce weapons." Senior officials suggested a "refinement in the controversial concept of a 'preventive war'" that entitles Washington to take military action "against a country that has deadly weapons in mass quantities." The revision "suggests instead that the administration will act against a hostile regime that has nothing more than the intent and ability to develop [WMD]."
( Meat Means Murder ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 30th, 2004|06:10 pm] |
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| | billy bragg - tender comrade | ] |
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| Hell hath no fury... |
[Sep. 24th, 2004|03:22 pm] |
Note to all:
if you scorn me, expect a good deal of spite headed in your general direction. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 22nd, 2004|10:24 pm] |
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| |  not....good | ] |
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| | conflict - the institute of dreams | ] |
We must strive on for what we know is right. We know all too well there's no end in sight. But human nature is still on our side. As the politicians fall into landslide. We're out on the street, feeling the beat. Of the hearts in anger at the upper crust elite. Who don't hear us scream or beg for a halt. Or when we weep over what their society aborts.
( A Declaration of Independence... )
Conflict after conflict. Now it's just the bare bones of what we are. A vicious circle in an open ended struggle. Life goes on as if all around is not relevant. As we look through closed eyes we try and understand. If we had a view, what would it show?
We're stuck in a room that has no view.
And so are you ... or are you? Well, are you? |
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| A Message To Who... |
[Sep. 19th, 2004|03:05 am] |
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| | discontent | ] |
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| | conflict - carlo giuliani | ] |
( Fuck )
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| The united states of hypocracy... |
[Sep. 16th, 2004|12:55 am] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
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| | utah phillips - moose turd pie | ] |
I was prompted to post this by a recent thread in the anarchists comm. about the illegality of being forced to stand for the pledge.
I pledge allegiance to the flag,
of the multi-national corporations,
and to the profit for which they stand,
one interlocking directorate,
under no government, indivisible,
with monopoly and cheap labor, for all.
-Utah Phillips |
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| Bah... |
[Sep. 12th, 2004|06:25 pm] |
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| |  recumbent | ] |
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| | david rovics - jenin | ] |
They tried to pass an amendment in the U.S. Congress
Seems these thugs have some grievance to redress
They said we all must pledge allegiance, 'cause that is what they need
We may not desecrate their symbol of hypocrisy and greed
But the flag is just a rag
Just a worn-out, tired, dirty, blood-soaked rag
Pledge allegiance to the symbol, well how about the deed
Allegiance to democracy or blind authority
It's a flag of war from L.A. to Vietnam
It desecrates itself each time the Air Force drops a bomb
Like they say in Mexico*, "Yankee Go Home"
Uncle Sam and his club thinks the world's there to roam
And to make the point well they do the traditional thing
Light a match and let freedom ring
So burn it, stomp it, tear it up or at least hang it upside-down
Tie it to your foot and drag it on the ground
Let everybody know how many lives are gone
'Cause of idiots who said, "My country right or wrong"
But the flag is just a rag
Just a worn-out, tired, dirty, blood-soaked rag
*Fill in the blank (i.e., Serbia, Puerto Rico, Big Mountain, Iraq, Colombia, etc.)
( Hate Day ) |
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| Redundancy... |
[Sep. 10th, 2004|04:57 pm] |
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| |  listless | ] |
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| | fifth hour hero - at the borders | ] |
The weekend doesn't look like its going to be too eventful, and with lack of things to occupy myself with, I figure I should do something less counter-productive than usual. So, I'll probably be making some mix cd's for anyone who wants one. Just let me know, and I'll be glad to share my musical tastes. |
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| Zinn at USF... |
[Sep. 9th, 2004|12:16 am] |
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| |  satisfied | ] |
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| | zyklome a - save the last pogo for me | ] |
Howard Zinn will be speaking at USF in Tampa, Nov. 30, at 7:00pm, Special Events Center!
This event is sponsored by Alliance USF and Tampa FNB (www.TampaFNB.org). It's gonna be a really great event, and hopefully, if we can get our stuff together, that entire week will be a Florida FNB/anarchist gathering. Besides that event, we will have a Feral Visions workshop, and we're planning on a camping retreat to Pirate Island that weekend.
from fl_radicals comm. |
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