A Journal about Electoral Tyranny, the dullness of mobs, and diminishing returns.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Ice On Death Row
In honor of the Anti-MOVE Mumia Haterz Society™, here's the brand-neue Mumia Abu Jamal Viewer. Updated with 5 fresh vids, layered on top for easy consumption. Check the Pam Africa vids at the end of this 40+ episode playlist, where there's an update on Mumia's case as well.
Mum(ia)'s The Word
Sri Doktor Mumia Abu Jamal's words from death row come via PrisonRadio.Org and are video mixed by Suryu, aKa ThierSpacer Ismael. /Props!
The following is standard Propaganda, created to promote the Constitutionalist Party. I would like to say i've updated it somehow, or that it's 50% whiter or some such, but... well, frankly, i just don't care enough to lie.
Common Sense: Toward a More Perfect Union
Two hundred and ten years ago, our first Chief Executive declined the call to serve a 3rd term. The living embodiment of Enlightenment leadership offered the following caveats about political parties in his farewell speech:
"This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy. "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. "Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. "It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. "There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume."
The interceding centuries have provided well for Washington's foresight, with the landscape of our nation's political machinations springing forth new parties to reinvigorate the process of government at regular intervals. Now, it falls upon citizens of our great republic to once again reshape the corpus politic with an organic body of renewed vitality, a forumn free from reactionary positionalism borne by decades of contention. It is our duty to our history, our sacred heritage of democratic spirit, to enjoin our peers in the monumental effort to set higher standards of administrative trust. Whatever your current affiliation, allegience or obligation, it is your personal civic duty to help build this new organ of political power. Your voice will help shape the chorus we are striving to tune. Your dreams will guide our intent. Your concerns will sharpen our resolve. You don't have to join this new party to make it work for you, but your duty as an American citizen behooves you to help shape its' reality. Our primary cause is one of universal necessity: the establishment of direct democratic process in the selection of our President by the removal of the electoral system. We stand now at a technological vantage point hitherto unknown to humankind, one that easily facilitates the requirements for true democracy. The brass ring so long sought after, fought for, paid for in blood and toil by untold generations of men and women is finally effectively in our grasp. Reach out with us and take it. We owe it to our fallen, we owe it to our children. It is a matter of common sense. Join the Campaign to Elect Citizen j today, and join the dialogue that will shape the future of democracy in America.
You know i hate agreeing with 'Lex Jones, but here we are.
Brad Will - In Memorium code:
If you think it's going to get easier to convince yourself to stand up and be counted in opposition to the thickening ligumen of blind self-interest and low-budget int'uipreta'tionsz o'r human rights, think again. Count the bodies. I haven't seen so many US reporters die in the rest of my 40 years as i have in the past 6. That's counting 12 years of Reagan/Bush, when Gary Webb was researching.
You're only going to wind up hating your colaborationist self anyway, pro'lly die a coward's death trading a sobbing blowjob for border passes into Canada. Stand up soon, in a town near you, and choose your own adventure.
The only puzzle piece omitted from this succinct and informative vid is the bigest lie of all: The Myth Of Land Ownership, which is the meme driving the whole process. You think you need money because you think you can own land. Think about it.
Perhaps the least talked about aspect of American history is our fickle relationship with France. This may be a result of the perspective one is forced to take if one regards France's role in our "Revolution" with the weight it actually has.
See, the United States never would have had a chance if it had not been for France's involvement in the aristocratic coup'd'tat we like to think of as our Revolutionary War. Our ruling locals (ie Jefferson, Hamilton, Allen, Franklin, Morris, Webster et al) had no seats with votes in the British Parliament, thus thier lands were subject to taxes as per the Crown's charter agreements with the respective colonial bodies but not eligible for the same sort of representation that thier percieved peerage had. We could further interpret this as sour grapes on the part of our Founders resulting from the fact that they WEREN'T members of the peerage and thus weren't reeping the benifits of Enclosure; but that's too hard to explain right now. Let's just take it as writ; Taxation without Representation drove the aristocratic polis to whip up a "grassroots" movement for separation from the Crown. There is no way, repeat NO CHANCE IN HELL that a sparsly armed group of dissenting colonials representing perhaps 40% of the population would be able to withstand the reluctant assault of the British regulars, and if things got hot it was well known that the Hessians would be called in (as they were). Thus, the cabal orchestrating the coup knew at the penning of the Declaration that they had French naval support.
The 100 years War, the Franco/Anglo war of Succession over the Aquitain Possession, had been going for over 400 years by 1776. The last 300 had been hit-and-run via proxy, both sides using the kind of cold-war tactics the US and USSR emulated in the 20th century. The East Indies had been the fun zone for centuries, but during the 1700's the French-Indian Wars had proven most lucretive bloodshed for the privateers involved. France's ability to establish a lasting foothold on the New World had been fairly well curtailed by the British, and now the endgame was beginning. At least the French could spoil the booty for King George by encouraging, arming and lending naval support to the colonial "freedom fighters."
So they did. An overconfident British contingent was caught in a classic harbour pincher, and we celebrated Independance with our French compatriots. A few years later, the popular myth of a rag-tag group of Enlightenment liberatines had fueled the ergot-laced stew of mismanagement and peasant outrage at the starvation tactics of Enclosure into an ACTUAL revolutionary movement in France. In the first real grassroots uprising since Magna Carta the populace rose up and marched against thier monarchial oppressors and the aristocracy that supported them. They recognized the network of land owners and capitalists who had been profiting off of their disenfranchisement, and invented a quick, efficient and humane method of removing these greedy, sadistic elitists from the gene pool.
The American aristocracy called them monsters, rejecting the guillotine justice of the French revolution as "anarchy".
France was stunned. Surely the Americans would understand what it meant to the common man to be under the yoke of an undemocratic ruling class? They had been of like minds once, no?
No. The French allied with the US were of the same aristocratic class as our Founding Fathers, and did so for strategic purposes. The people's revolution in France was a different thing entirely, and the US joined the rest of the Western World in condemning it and aiding the Monarchists in acts of incursion, issolationism and terrorism against the fledgling republic.
We betrayed the French people, but stayed loyal to the internationalist class of landed aristocrats who have ALWAYS ruled us.
Later, the French gave us the Statue of Liberty.
Since we helped the Nazis gain power, our role in the 20th century liberation of the Continent is a net null; we merely belatedly helped neutralize a problem we created.
So we still owe France at least one (1) world-class Wonder.
