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02~12~02
My drive south to San Diego yesterday to see Slayer was for naught. En route I did see the presence of increased border patrol activity, boats along the shore line, helicopters flying low over the scrub brush skinned hills and big double 'copters patrolling the coast line, the beach and the marshes inland. They certainly are making a show of looking like they don't want cheap illegal laborers entering the land of the free. That's what it is, of course, a show. Nobody, least of all big business and the government actually wants to stop the rising influx of illegal workers, but you must, to remain popular, pretend you want it stopped. Back to Slayer. I had never seen the band before, and still haven't. I returned north to L.A. and drank two tall Budweisers and listened to the Butthole Surfers instead. Not the best substitute for a Slayer concert, but what can you do? They had to cancel the show due to the death of Tom Araya's father, and it wouldn't behoove the band's evil image if, whilst in the midst of singing about severed limbs and rotting bodies, Tom broke down and cried, would it? 02~07~02 Reinvention or reinventing oneself; it's an old phrase that usually applies to racist confederacy praising lackeys like John Ashcroft turning coat and rallying behind racial equality or like cocaine snorting dogs who spearhead a $3 million dollar plus pro-Drug War advertising campaign like George W. Bush. Why do we allow these political leaders to shift and squirm and change their positions on important issues without ever holding their new political stances up to critical light? It's sad really, because the only ones who have the resources to take the leaders to task also happen to be, indirectly, in these leaders pockets. The old venerable news sources of the past who still rake in ill-begotten Pulitzer prizes are so tied in to corporate sponsorship, ad revenue and friendly back-patting with the same corporations that inflate an otherwise failing political party to absolute power that they can't risk doing anything but praise every minutiae of the current power head. Thusly, you don't bad mouth a friend to a mutual friend; they may both turn on you. Remember FDR:
Gwar
Review added to Essays
section, includes grainy jpegs.
Terrorists could poison drug supplies and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration probably can't do anything about it. Politicos have warned that dirt-cheap, high-potency heroin will soon flood world markets and cause an epidemic of overdoses... I wonder if that was just the governments way of saying they, the U.S. federal government, actually intended to poison the drug supply themselves, so look out, baby. That sort of shit really pisses me off too, and raises some serious questions about a friend's death, a death that occurred not long after that article's publication date of October 18th 2001. But I can't let myself believe that because then something certainly must give, and I am most emphatically not whistling Dixie. If the U.S. government
wasn't entrenched in Christian morality and oppressive corporate sponsorship,
then maybe the path to stopping terrorists from getting funding through
the sale of illegal narcotics would be made clear, and maybe one could
argue the case that the government's fear
of legalization and subsequent federal regulation of drugs is actually
what funds terrorists, is what made September 11th possible, and not harmless
marijuana smokers or heroin users or coke snorters like our beloved President
George W. Bush.
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Oh,
yes. Please, please, please. I always knew it would be coming.
I made the Bush convicted picture, not as a joke, but because the guy is
really a criminal and he and his entire administration deserve to be brought
up on trial for treason against the United States of America just as much
as anyone involved with the Sept. 11th attacks, which by the way, was the
single most beneficial event for the George W. Bush presidency. How
could anything top selfishly using a national disaster as a means, an excuse,
to throw out any portion of the U.S. constitution that got in the way of
his administrations goals? I mean, sweet bleeding christ, it seemed
the Bill of Rights evaporated right along with the WTC towers. Let's
just hope George and his accomplices can be treated in all the special
ways criminals can be treated without protection under the Bill of Rights,
that same Bill of Rights they so eagerly aimed to fuck into submission
like a bitch in heat. Hell, I sure can't say it any more scintillating
and succinctly than it's said by Mr. Michael Moore.