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Rocktown Rebel: The Revolution is Not a Tea Party!
Comrades, these spectacles are organized by none other than factions of our enemy's camp! FreedomWorks, a 501(c)(3) primarily responsible for organizing the September 12th "Taxpayer March on Washington", is financed in part by General Motors, General Electric, Verizon, AT&T, and Phillip Morris. (1, 2) Glenn Beck, the public face of the Obama administration's official opposition, and extensive promoter of both the Tea Parties and the September 12th march, was offered in 2007 a contract deal by Clear Channel Communication "valued at $50 million over five years". (3) Beck's mentor, Cleon Skousen, was both an FBI administrator and Salt Lake City's chief of police (who, according to Salt Lake City mayor J. Bracken Lee, "operated the police department like a Gestapo") before becoming a figurehead of the Mormon populist-right. (4) Beck's own website boasts that: "The American Federation of Police & Concerned Citizens, an organization that assists families of police officers killed or injured in the line of duty, recently honored Glenn with two awards. Dennis Wise, National President of the AFP&CC, presented Glenn with the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Award for distinguished public service, along with the Civilian Medal of Appreciation, for Glenn’s support of law enforcement[...]". (5) One of Beck's favorite subjects of verbal defense is Wal-Mart, which here in Virginia recently won the go-ahead to build a Super-Center on part of the Wilderness Battlefield, which will destroy 55 acres of wilderness. Glenn Beck, while posing as a right-populist radical, is cynical towards any genuine armed assertion of self-determination, opting instead for the "peaceful revolution" pioneered by "Martin Luther King and Gandhi". (6) The analogy is appropriate, since Malcolm X's words of harsh criticism directed towards the March on Washington (for which Dr. King's illustrious career has been shamefully boiled down to in the public mind) could just as easily substitute as words to describe the Tea Parties and tax-payer demonstrations; "there wasn’t a single logistical aspect uncontrolled", "They had been told how,to arrive, when, where to arrive, where to assemble, when to start marching, the route to march", "Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lily-pad park pools [...] Hollywood couldn’t have topped it", "The very fact that millions, black and white, believed in this monumental farce is another example of how much this country goes in for [..] the escape ruse, instead of truly dealing with its deep-rooted problems." (7) It goes without saying that the ruling Democrat regime is playing the "race card", just as the official opposition has claimed. Should we expect a Republican regime not to do the same, were they in the position of having a prominent non-white figurehead? (Observe, for example, the immediate rush by the '08 McCain campaign to label anti-Palin vitriol as sexism.) The Washington Post claimed, for example, that a popular protest graphic depicting Obama wearing the make-up scheme of the Joker, the antagonist of the 2008 film The Dark Knight, was an example of racism, despite the fact that the Joker character is white. (Rather being racist, the graphic is simply stupid: In terms of The Dark Knight, Obama should be compared to Batman, who's shown courageously constructing a technocratic surveillance apparatus to spy on the masses of Gotham) That doesn't however, discount the obvious reality, that the official opposition is manipulating and exploiting feelings of right-populist backlash rooted in pathologically white supremacist attitudes, not to mention attitudes of patriarchal control. Observe, for example, how so much of the anti-healthcare backlash was rooted in concerns over provisions for abortions, as well as provisions for medical services offered to illegal immigrants. In the political ideology of the Tea Partisan, state-subsidization may be acceptable or even desirable in certain situations, but not when it is even to the slightest benefit of certain ethnic populations, or grants women the slightest control over their own bodies. Republican congressman Joe Wilson's outburst at Barack Obama - which liberals quickly denounced as an unpatriotic act of an alleged political decorum that is in fact historically non-existent - was motivated by, prompted by, and directed at these intrinsically racist and sexist concerns. Photographs from Tea Parties preserve for posterity the attitudes of white supremacist backlash being channeled and co-opted. Mockery of bureaucrat Obama's Kenyan ethnicity is a popular recurring theme; one sign reads "What’s the difference between the zoo and the White House? The zoo has an African and the White House has a lyin’ African!” Another says “Cap Congress and trade Obama back to Kenya!” A third reads ""Stand idle while some Kenyan tries to destroy America? [...] Homey don't play dat!!!"" Others mock Obama's Arabic name; "Impeach Osama Obama AKA Hussein", "Obama Bin-Lyin". Others connect Obama's middle-eastern ancestry to alleged subterfuge of U.S. sovereignty by Arab politicians; ""Obama was NOT bowing, he was SUCKING Saudi JEWELS!"" One sign parrots the bizarre but typical Glenn Beck claim that Obama is "racist" against whites for pandering to black grievances over police brutality. Numerous signs compare Obama to TV sitcom stepin fetchit characters such as Steve Urkel and Arnold Jackson. This is of no surprise. These events claimed to be organized against government bail-out, against forms of exploitation such as taxes and mortgage, against the alleged totalitarian socialism of Obama's health care scheme, yet intrinsically injected into these movements is a white male's politics. "God is judging America: over 50+ million abortions", "Barack Obama supports abortion [and] sodomy", "Stop murdering babies", "Freeloading Illegals are Raping U.S. Tax Payers", "Don't Barney Frank me!" (a reference to the homosexuality of capitalist scum-bag Barney Frank) Nothing intrinsic towards opposing the bail-out, either naively as some unprecedented innovation in capitalist skulduggery, or realistically as business as usual in the world of global economic exploitation, necessitates a desire to outlaw abortions, a genocidal hatred towards Spanish-speaking migrants, or a sadistic desire to oppress and ostracize homosexuals. Yet nowhere amongst these crowds do these off-topic slogans seem out of place... General political confusion abounds. One sign reads; ""Karl Marx Would Be Proud...." Marx, unlike his apostles (Kautsky, Lenin, et. al) desired a total rejection of the social foundations of our current society. Another, presumably written by a worker or small-farmer who lives from check to check, reads ""Proud American Capitalist!" Dozens of examples can be produced comparing Obama to Hitler, because they both approved of state-subsidized healthcare. (If we apply this principle consistently we find that Nixon joins Hitler and Obama as among the ranks of "socialist" capitalist leaders One local letter-to-the-editor observes "Recent letters to the editor have justly criticized the “conservative” depiction of President Obama as a 'Marxist dictator.' [...] 'statist,' 'corporatist,' even 'fascist' come closer to the mark. A comparison, not to Hitler or Stalin, but to the much more benign Mussolini, would be more accurate."(8) Amidst this sophomoric incoherence over political terminology, is reflected the evident reality that every one of these thrown-about political labels, "fascist", "socialist", "free-market", "capitalist", "marxist", "democratic", "corporatist", "statist", has been passed around indiscriminately to exalt or denigrate one form of bourgeois control over another The white nationalist line is rooted in class-collaboration. To demean Obama's Kenyan ethnicity implies that white workers' interest lie with the bourgeois monopolists who happen to be white. To compare Obama to Hitler is to say that American capitalism "as usual" - overseen by white figureheads - never approached the historically unprecedented barbarity and totalitarianism of fascism (or Stalinism, Islamism, etc.) - before the dangerous historical example of Obama's presidency. (Tellingly, liberals applied this same class-collaborationist tactic to Bush) As a comrade observes, health care reform is within the interests of the most dextrous faction of the bourgeoisie. The predominately working-class and predominately white masses participating in the anti-healthcare movement, in defense of the medical status quo, are serving as a "pawn" in the "game" of the opposing faction. (And, in the process, are being duped into throwing back the meager crumbs offered to them by the more competent bourgeoisie) We must appropriate the militancy, the anger, the mass-disillusionment of the Tea Parties towards the one political project that offers freedom from the global technocratic order: the libertarian project, known under the name of both "anarchism" and "communism", which recognizes "the state" and "the free market" as a false dichotomy constructed to obfuscate the extensiveness of social domination. |
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Anyone interested in
Anyone interested in anarchism should know a little Malatesta - Errico argued that anarchists should avoid the word ' communist' due to its rancid associations with Leninist left-fascism.
This remains a convincing argument for this anarchist so long as Marxist red-fascist regimes pollute politics in China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, and the DPRK.
communist = leninist/red
communist = leninist/red fascist? guess i get your point after a fashsion (but hey, whilhelm reich was also a homophobe and a frued disipel! fuck frued, thinking about fucking his mother all day and night and then projecting his feelings on to others...) but communist is just a word...a word different people use differently and, you know, mental mastication is involved, chewing and digesting of what someone actually means based on the context of a word, that sort of thing...yeah, i am a communist myself but i am not a mother fucking marxist (or mother fucking fruedian, for that matter..frued jizzed to his mom, ha ha ha!) and fuck no i ain't no mutha fuckin' bolshevik...debating on the internet well drunk is fun btw....
"We must appropriate the
"We must appropriate the militancy, the anger, the mass-disillusionment of the Tea Parties towards the one political project that offers freedom from the global technocratic order"
I'm sorry but all I could was laugh my ass off at this, bust a gut.......
It is also funny that Alice in wonderland is/was an exercise in logic from mathematician Lewis Carrol and a way to get young girls around the age nine to pose for his pedophile photo collection.
fuck I hate character
fuck I hate character assassins, especially those who are "anarchists." FUCK YOU, SPOOK.
Sorry no assassination here
Sorry no assassination here Carrol is known for his pedophilia and alice in Wonderland is logically all correct when broken down to scientific notation!!
That isn't correct. It is
That isn't correct. It is speculative and often assumed by those that look into these matters.
What is not correct
What is not correct HP??
Their was a big uproar in this area over Carrol's photo collection of half nude, pre pubescent girls being shown in the art museum.
Lewis Carrol was a mathematician first, and alice is all logically correct. I studied it in a logic/math class where it was broken down in scientific notation.
As I understand much of his
As I understand much of his nude pics have only been re-discovered recently. http://photographyoflewiscarroll.googlepages.com/
Doesn't make a person a
Doesn't make a person a pedophile. 19th century sculptures and paintings often place the nudity of a child as a form of innocence. I've seen plenty of youth angel sculptures and paintings where they are serving the will of god. How Cupid has been developed is just one part of the association of child nudity with purity, not sexuality. I don't know Carrol's mind, but it is speculative that he was a pedophile. You got anything else you'd like to add to the gossip column about Carrol?
Dear Wombat, did I neglect
Dear Wombat, did I neglect to mention he was also a priest!
http://pseudoccultmedia.blogspot.com/2008/11/was-lewis-carroll-paedophile-discovery.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20061026/ai_n16816379/
http://www.newser.com/story/43135/lewis-carroll-letter-points-to-pedophile-leanings.html
Here's your sign:
Here's your sign:
A bit touchy when evidence
A bit touchy when evidence does not point to what you want?
Its not evidence, it is
Its not evidence, it is gossip and innuendo.
Like your little pic post to
Like your little pic post to me?
Glad you do.
Glad you do.
Does not answer the,
Does not answer the, touchiness of the HP question, nor the, inquiry of the pic post intent.
I'm not being touchy. You
I'm not being touchy. You haven't provided any evidence, you have provided gossip. As stated before, the 19th century has lots of pictures of nude or partially nude children done for the purposes of exemplifying innocence. Since you are providing gossip, I am mocking you with the picture.
Yes.... innocence and
Yes.... innocence and purity. http://photographyoflewiscarroll.googlepages.com/carroll-ethel.hatch.age.9.jpg/carroll-ethel.hatch.age.9-full.jpg
Since he kept the pictures
Since he kept the pictures hidden, and hid the fact that he took them from their parents denotes other than innocence. He went to lengths to get children alone from their parents to take them.
He pretty much admits it in his letters!
He wrote childrens books yet had none of his own. Was a priest.
How does 19th century artists putting pagan imagery in christian art prove me wrong (by the way fine arts major was one of the many things I have done)?
Do you believe M. Jackson wasn't even with a theme park on his front lawn?
C'mon HP you are way to intelligent.
Here is a link that
Here is a link that discusses the "Victorian Cult of the Child": http://www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/Cult.html
Wikipedia on the Carol Myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll#.22The_Carroll_Myth.22
"The Carroll Myth"
The accepted view of Dodgson's biography has been challenged recently by a group of scholars led by Hugues Lebailly and Karoline Leach and others who argue that Dodgson's diaries and letters reveal him to have been very different in many key aspects from the traditional image. Leach's book, In the Shadow of the Dreamchild, in particular has raised a considerable amount of controversy.
Lebailly has endeavoured to set Dodgson's child-photography within the "Victorian Child Cult", which perceived child-nudity as essentially an expression of innocence. Lebailly claims that studies of child nudes were mainstream and fashionable in Dodgson's time and that most photographers, including Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron, made them as a matter of course. Lebailly continues that child nudes even appeared on Victorian Christmas cards—implying a very different social and aesthetic assessment of such material. Lebailly concludes that it has been an error of Dodgson's biographers to view his child-photography with 20th or 21st century eyes, and to have presented it as some form of personal idiosyncrasy, when it was in fact a response to a prevalent aesthetic and philosophical movement of the time.
Leach posed a new analysis of Dodgson's sexuality. She argues that the allegations of paedophilia rose initially from a misunderstanding of Victorian morals, as well as the mistaken idea, fostered by Dodgson's various biographers, that he had no interest in adult women. She termed the traditional image of Dodgson "the Carroll Myth".[37] She asserts his diaries show he was also keenly interested in adult women, married and single, and enjoyed several scandalous (by the social standards of his time) relationships with them. In later life many of those he described as "child-friends" were girls in their late teens and even twenties.[38] She argues that suggestions of paedophilia evolved only many years after his death, when his well-meaning family had suppressed all evidence of his relationships with women in an effort to preserve his reputation, thus giving a false impression of a man interested only in little girls. Similarly, Leach traces the claim that many of Carroll's female friendships ended when the girls reached the age of 14 to a 1932 biography by Langford Reed,[39] who Leach claims intended to suggest from this that Dodgson was a "pure man" untainted by sexual desire.[40]
Sherry L. Ackerman argues that the Carroll Myth also extends to traditional, mainstream views of Carroll's spirituality.[41] Ackerman proposes that Carroll, rather than being a conservative Victorian Anglican, was actually a mystic. She links Carroll to the nineteenth century Neoplatonic Revival in Great Britain, as well as to accompanying trends of theosophy and spiritualism.
The concept of the Carroll Myth has been opposed by some leading Carroll scholars, in particular Morton Cohen and Martin Gardner. Cohen repudiates Leach's position as being simply a plea for the defence, and, in a recent article in the Times Literary Supplement labeled Leach and her supporters as 'revisionists' attempting to rewrite history. Gardner was likewise dismissive in an article published by the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Similarly, in a review published in Victorian Studies (Vol. 43, No 4), Donald Rackin wrote, "As a piece of biographical scholarship, Karoline Leach's In the Shadow of the Dreamchild is difficult to take seriously".
Challenging an "accepted"
Challenging an "accepted" view is hardly "Gossip".
It means you have a problem with the majority.
Wikipedia on Gossip
Wikipedia on Gossip
ditto to you as well
ditto to you as well
don't feed the troll.
don't feed the troll.
Let me see here! I do not
Let me see here! I do not agree with your opinion, assessment of a subject,
I am labeled as a gossiper with a little denigrating pic even.
I just can not seem to see it your way so I am now a troll??
You might need to get some anti-authoritarian cream on that rash before it spreads further!
I also suggest to quit scratching it!
You're not a troll. Your
You're not a troll. Your comments are a troll. You're ranting about something totally irrelevant to the above article. So what if they used a quote from Alice in Wonderland? It's not a big deal.
So yes, you're trolling. And to his fault, wombat is (or, was) feeding your troll. So stop trolling. You're filling up the comment board with nonsense.
I commented on the article,
I commented on the article, I didn't start the trolling.
Are these links something
Are these links something more speculation?
I find nothing factual here! Just authoritarian I am right gossip and innuendo with the ability to add visuals to emphasis an elitist attitude.
shame on you Mr. wombat
You're a fucktard.
You're a fucktard.
The imagination is strong in
The imagination is strong in this padwan! NOT
(No subject)
Don't feed this troll! -VZ-
Don't feed this troll!
-VZ-
Who removed the Wombat troll
Who removed the Wombat troll as anti-troll from the cess pool?
I feel sorry for you HPWombat such intelligence yet childish.
I've been around here long enough to know that next you threaten a ban.
You might wish to step down as a moderator if your desire for king of the internet anarchist web site gets the better of you.
Peace brother.
More than a century after
More than a century after his death, the famous writer Lewis Carroll has sent from his grave a letter that might answer long running speculations about whether he was a pedophile, the British Daily Mail reported, citied by the Bulgarian information agency BGNES.
Rumors about just how close Carroll, a lifelong bachelor, was to the children he loved have been spreading for decades. He had many child friends and was an avid photographer, taking pictures of young girls, often nude.
In the letter, the Alice In Wonderland author, reportedly discusses his fondness for children suggesting that he prefers girls to boys, but the letter's cryptic nature, according to Daily Mail, does little to resolve the questions about his sexuality which have long preoccupied the experts on his work.
Although the name of the addressee is almost illegible, it appears to begin with "Dear Miss Liddell'.
Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass after telling stories to a girl named Alice Liddell while on picnics and boating trips with her and her family on the river in Oxford, where he was a mathematics tutor.
The letter was written 12 years after the publication of Alice in Wonderland, and three years before Alice married. In his correspondence with her, the writer, allegedly, defends his fondness of little girls and his enjoyment of taking their naked pictures.
Alice's father was the Dean of Christ Church and Carroll was a close friend of the family until there was a mysterious cooling of relations in 1863, when Alice was 11.
Following his death, pages from the writer's diaries were censored or destroyed, and not one of his ten brothers and sisters ever spoke about him to outsiders.
The letter, which has been in private hands, is to be sold next week by auctioneers Hampton and Littlewood, of Exeter.http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=99445
Lets speculate a bit here Wombat. A cooling of relations between Alice's parents and Carroll in 1863 when she was eleven. The missing/destroyed diaries are from 1858-1862 which puts alice at 6-10 years of age.
I can also assess her age to be around 24 when she married if you can handle the math with the clues from the article.
Isn't 24 a bit old for this Victorian thing you are whining about?
One would think they would have been pregnant by 13 or 14 due to this "cult" thingy!!
Fuck you, asshole.
Fuck you, asshole.
Thank you! Do I work with
Thank you!
Do I work with you???
I only ask because people yell across the shop "Asshole" when they need my help!!
Are you Female? If so why yes I will fuck you, if not, well I'm flattered but not for me. I can refer you to some good friends of mine though.
"Are you Female? If so why
"Are you Female? If so why yes I will fuck you"
you sound like a keeper.
- DBC (disturbed by creeps)
Well as a nihilist the
Well as a nihilist the semantics is irrelevant!Silence can be golden and affirmative in itself from the neutrality of total negation,something the more pedantic 'purists'(which does not apply to nihilistic non-ideology,attempt to enforce)There are true dichotomies such as order/chaos,that rise above even the anarchist autonomous threshold of social delineation.
actually i'd say semantics
actually i'd say semantics (or maybe idiom, not sure) is highly relevant...as a nihilist. trying to understand just what it is other people mean, read in between their words if you know what i mean, rather than just saying "you said this and that" so, logically, because i wank off to the dictonary, you are a "this or that". i think you get my point...i hope. trouble stating it...lonliness and alochol don't always mix well...
That's a good point about
That's a good point about idiom,and the symbolism that language projects beyond the literal nomenclative and grammatical meaning.However it's relevance is only to interpret an objective social paradigm and then discard it,laugh at it,or utilize it,but all the time not being moved it.
Fucking seriously...
Fucking seriously...
No.Not 'Fucking
No.Not 'Fucking seriously...'.Because we are not moved by it.Can you understand,,,or go away?