File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2004/anarchy-list.0401, message 339


From: "Old Goat" <old_goat-AT-charter.net>
Subject: Re: stupor bowl ad
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:05:32 -0600


OK, Fish, you've convinced me.  I'll vote for Jimmy Dean or whomever you
want me to.  *But if he (Jimmy or whomever) wins and it don't get really
better real fast you can prolly expect an really ugly midnight visit from a
band of really pissed-off gipsys, who do tend to see things as
black-and-white.

"Dixie Chicks"?  C'mon, now.  If they banned "Amici Forever" I could get
exercised.  But "Dixie Chicks"?  Naaaah.

*(It's nasty on account of it's all the State and that's the State's natural
progression--bad to worse--, in case anybody who don't read history is
wondering.)

How's the family?

Old knows-where-you-live Goat  ;^)

----- Original Message -----
From: "dan combs" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
To: "Old Goat" <old_goat-AT-charter.net>
Cc: <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 13:15
Subject: Re: stupor bowl ad


> Damn, goat, you're getting about as far into denial about how bad it is
getting as you can go.   My post wasn't about who to vote for, it was about
the corps taking one more step to censor opinions that don't match up with
the state's.  First a corp like Clear Channel comes on and bans dissenting
voices like the Dixie Chicks and now CBS bans dissent itself.   That this is
overt now instead of the covertness of the past means mainly that the forces
of resistance are being taken less and less seriously.   What we had 10
years ago was a fumbling attempt to consolidate capital and state powers.
What we have now is a successful attempt, and it has fostereed arrogance.
>
> But if you truly think everyone is as bad as the
Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft axis then you need to get out more
> often.  You really do sound like the youngsters I teach who think of
everything is in terms of black and white and that there are no shades of
gray.    Which is worse, that hundreds suffer or millions?    True, in both
cases someone is suffering but to argue that the total sum of the pain is
equal in both situations is simply bad addition.   I am not of the mind that
"If one is in chains then none are free."   If "one" is in chains the job of
freedom is a lot less hard than if "all" are.




   

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