Time to say goodbye to the GOP
Oct 25, 2006 Politicians / Politics
OK, I’ll admit that my youth was a long time ago. The term SDS ring a bell with anyone? I came from a time of radical change in our world, radical change in our country. But I also came from a time, and a generation, of the catch phrase “Everybody is a liberal, until they get their first decent paycheck and see how much comes out for taxes.”
Like many from my generation, I migrated toward the Republican party as my job became a career, and I had a family to worry about. The ideas of working hard and living comfortably in return didn’t seem so bad, so far off the mark. Capital was good, capital encouraged growth, encouraged ideas.
Over the past few years, something has fallen apart. The values of integrity, individual accomplishment, freedom and independence have gone through a morphing process. Integrity has disintegrated, replaced by the collapse of ethics. Individual accomplishment has been viciously distorted in to the concept of winning at any cost. Freedom and independence are waning, replaced by paranoia, collusion, and the dismal shadow of Orwellian control.
As the mid-term elections approach, there is reason for paranoia. Not fear of what’s happening in the outside world, but fear of what’s happening within. Not only in Colorado, but throughout the country, the people who used to believe in individual liberties are hawking amendments, initiatives, and candidates that strip at the very core of those individual liberties.
- Candidate after candidate talks of the illegal immigrant problem, while financing their campaigns with the money of the parasites who bleed immigrant labor, the parasites who seek workers throughout the third world that they can pay for pennies a day. The loudest mouths yapping about immigrant health and education benefits belong to those who profit from the pittance paid to the immigrant housekeepers, farm workers, textile workers, and others they bring into this country.
- Candidate after candidate campaigning on so-called morality platforms, that ignore the First Amendment protections regarding freedom of religion and freedom of speech. When it comes to church leaders trying to enforce legislation that restricts human rights, do the words Taliban, Inquisition, or Final Solution come to mind?
- Before you start on lifestyles legislation, look in your own deep dark closets. Think about real morality. How many jobs do you have to cut for a $1,000 bonus. What about the little white lies to your stockholders and the SEC? The hookers you find in every convention hotel in the United States? Don’t forget the congressional page or two….
Seeya, GOP… you don’t get my vote this year.
Quack
JOHANNESBURG BLUES – From the 1980s
Oct 21, 2006 Racism, Suppression of Ideas, Suppression of People
CHORUS:
You can tie my hands, you can shackle my feet
But you never can kill the beat
Of Freedom
You can jail my brothers and my sisters too
But you never can jail the truth
Of Freedom
So few of you have all the power
you seem so afraid of darkness
But you have to know it’s the eleventh hour
and recognize the real darkness
is in your hearts,
and in your minds,
and in your souls
CHORUS
The truth is something you fear most
you use your guns and jails to keep it quiet
You shoot the children, then you boast
that you have quelled a riot
It’s in your hearts,
and in your minds,
and in your souls
CHORUS
The day’s coming soon when you’ll have to run
and leave South Africa to its owners
You secret police will throw down their guns
and escape to different shores
you have no hearts,
you have no minds,
you have no souls
you have no hearts,
you have no minds,
you have no souls
repeat til fade
Cry Freedom – 1987
Oct 21, 2006 Racism, Suppression of Ideas, Suppression of People, Uncategorized
Just watched this film last night. I saw it when it first came out as an experience with the Denver International Film festival, had forgotten what an incredibly moving experience this film was. Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington were both brilliant. The story of the courage of Steve Biko and Donald Wood’s against the rages of an oppressive regime is incredible. Anyway, I moved on the inspiration and did some more research… here are a couple of the more interesting links I found.
Freedom Blues: S.African Jazz Under Apartheid
for more interesting stuff, Google music apartheid
Over the next couple of days I’ll dig into my archives and post a couple of pieces from the past.
Quack
