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From: "Ja'far Railton" <railton-AT-dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:20:19 -0000


Whatever you done
wherever you been...
just say no to T-shirts!

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Gavette <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Date: 11 December 1998 2:09
Subject: Homeopathic thread is relevant; think again


>It's time to say something. In September of 1995, I was on the
>free-speech square of an American university countering the
>priest-clowns in accusing passersby of coming short of their glories. It
>is a good way for the religious-industrial complex of capitalism to see
>who raises their heads above the crowd. I was using the only weapons I
>had: D&G's philosophy. I was inexperienced, yet each time I
>counter-actualized them during their evangelizations, I learned
>something. They eventually came to know me as someone who was not buying
>their operation. I left for awhile and came back to the city. In March
>of 1997, I was diagnosed with Hepatitus B virus. The person who handed
>my papers to me always had spoken in an unemotional, monotone voice, and
>this time was no exception. This happened at a plasma center where I
>would usually take a book with me to read while donating plasma. I am at
>this moment wearing a hand-lettered t-shirt that I just completed last
>night. The front is plain. On the back it reads "Anti-Oedipus:
>Capitalism and Schizophrenia....Gilles Deleuze ..Felix Guattari." I have
>also read the book in the plasma center when donating. The HBV diagnosis
>was handed to me on March 13, not simply ironic for being my ex-wife's
>birthday, but more profoundly for being the date that the constituion of
>the state I am referring to was ratified. Among the text of this
>constitution there are a few lines about speech. It is written in bronze
>and displayed at the state capitol about one-half mile (in a direct
>line) from the plasma center.
>   Just a few days ago I finally had found some evidence that adds a
>piece to the puzzle. It was a report from 1996 about a nursing home in
>Ohio and a New York City hospital as having an outbreak of HBV.
>Epidemiologists concluded that it was the spring-loaded fingerstick
>devices that had transmitted the virus. This sets the stage for some
>speculation. I will never perhaps know for sure if the virus was given
>to me deliberately or not. Yet if one thinks that it is impossible for
>the priest to get to your veins, think again. As for the homeopathy or
>plant medicine or quantum zones, rest assured that if you were in my
>shoes, you would be investigating these things. I have studied and have
>been a reader and medicinal plant practitioner for well over 25
>years(non-professional). Since I have refused to ever let anyone
>penetrate me again, does anyone here think that it is not relevant to
>talk of such things on this list? The coils of a serpent are more
>complex than a mole's burrow. In the societies of control, there is
>experimentation going on. I know for a fact that I had the virus long
>before they told me that I did. It's easy to dump out plasma and to wait
>until the acute stage has run its course. This may well have happened. I
>could have gotten it from the fingerstick device, it was within the same
>year and  the incubation period(about three months) seems to coincide
>with other events. These "outbreak" of disease, are they not also
>planned? Could they not also be planned? This is perfect cover for more
>covert operations.......Anyway, one will never convince me that talking
>about quantum plant medicine has no bearing on this discussion. Since I
>live out-of-doors, since I refuse to let this system further impoverish
>me, since I no longer play their game, and since plants are our direct
>link and heritage to the spending star, freely available for aesthetics,
>medicine and some comfort in an economic system gone
> berserk, and since philosophy such as Deleuze and Guattari's may be the
>perfect mate for caring for the self(empirical plant medicine?)
>considering the religious-medical-industrial complex and many of its
>treacheries, I think that it is a reasonable topic to talk about. I feel
>like the victim sacrificed to the immunization movement that is now
>picking up momentum in the U.S and around the world. Eradication of
>hepatitus A and B by vaccinating infants and those adults who have not
>yet been exposed to the virus. What about me? This disease that is so
>closely linked to promiscuity and drug abuse, to those who society calls
>worthless street trash. The very person who used to put the needle in my
>arm wears a tee-shirt that says "Junkie Killer." Our eyes have actually
>met on the street as we passed and he wearing this tee-shirt. Would
>anyone else like to attempt to apply D&G's philosophy on the levels that
>I am working? No problem, there is plenty of derelict space where I
>stay, and it's rent-free.
>
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