.: Love and Rage

A requiem for wasted youth,

uncouth and far too clever.

Never really innocent,

[though well-read] still ignorant.

Misled by elders and grown ups,

now I can't seem to grow up.

So I shrink away

from fake affection.

[doesn't take direction]

No, I don't vote in elections,

I'm fed up with the factions

Reactionary

Ready to mask up,

armed with fact; we come

correct. Tactics packed,

our task ahead.

Direct action.

Its gets heated,

people start to feel empowered

with the cops retreating,

but its a ruse.

Soon they let loose

with senseless beatings.

Overreaction.

Block streets and charge

at us with horses,

to intimidate of course.

[all go through the motions]

Of course it's all just bait,

designed to aggravate

a crowd's emotions

Instigate fear and commotion.

Plain-clothed units infiltrate,

with hidden weapons they inflict

indiscriminate violence midst

the panic of the crush.

Now badges are removed,

Gloved hands brush glocks.

The rushing crowd throws rocks,

so forming poses

for the shots that show the

cops were merely victims.

Oh, we know they'll smell like roses

on the news at six o'clock.

Yes, we are scared

as the night falls. So what

if we are right? Now

we each, alone, must choose.

Try and run away

from here,

or stay and fight?

One voice no longer.

Once more, must

we settle for surrender

to the choice of

hate

or fear?

[if only we were stronger]

Surrounded.

So stand our ground,

around us, all strength that

we could ever need.

We found

respect, reflected

in the eyes of equals.

I was proud to stand

beside you. I would bleed-. No,

I would die for you.

Defiant,

we held our heads erect,

in bliss, amongst the

burned out wrecks and weeds,

We turned

and kissed.

Sister.

True resistor. My beloved

Anarquista. Above the barricades,

we embrace like ancient gods.

Burning cars groan,

spit and crack glass.

True fire flickers in our eyes.

This smoldering love,

we cannot hold.

Like a hot coal it burns you.

and it burns me too.

Lover,

always we'll be

free, and bold.

So, let's swear to never-ever:

-do as we are told,

-act our ages,

-obey the rules,

-allow our secrets to be sold,

Lets disregard authorities,

whomsoever they may be.

They rent us our own cages,

for a fee.

Tomorrow's not what they said

it would be.

Tonight, my love,

rage and passion,

might just be enough,

to ignite this soulless city.

September 2011

.: Kill the Corporation!

Source

.: Noam Sayin'? The High Times Interview with Noam Chomsky

Brandon Bird: "Signifier and Signified"

Noam Chomsky  - interviewed by T.A. Sedlak - High Times, July 29, 2011

Q: You've spoken out against the War on Drugs, explaining that it's

essentially a means to lock up poor people, that it actually increases

drug use, and that it serves as an excuse to control foreign nations.

Would you briefly elaborate on these points?

A: Let's grant that there's a drug problem, for the sake of argument --

drugs meaning, you know, cocaine, marijuana and so on. Suppose you

accept that. How do you deal with it? There are studies -- government

studies and others -- that say that the most cost-effective way is

prevention and treatment. More expensive and less effective is policing;

still less effective and more expensive is border interdiction. And the

most expensive and the least effective is out-of-country operations,

like what they call "fumigation" -- which is, in fact, chemical warfare

-- in Colombia and so forth. I've seen it firsthand; it really is

chemical warfare. So those are the basic facts, and I don't think anyone

questions them very much.

Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40

years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very

little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a

ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations.

And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug

prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two

possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or

they have another purpose.

Well, in the law, there's a standard way of trying to determine

intention, and that's by looking at predictable consequences. You have

40 years of experience with almost no effect on what they claim they're

trying to do, and you have very predictable consequences -- in fact,

several. At home, you lock up the people who are essentially

superfluous. The economy shifted dramatically in the '70s away from

domestic production and towards financialization and the export of

production. That leaves a class problem: What do you do with unemployed

workers? We happen to have a very close class/race correlation in

America, so that means, overwhelmingly, black males and Hispanic males.

Well, you know, we're a civilized country, so you don't assassinate them

-- you stick them in jail. And, in fact, the incarceration rate has

been shooting up, especially since the early '80s; it's now way out of

line with any other comparable country. Meanwhile, overseas, the War on

Drugs contributes to counterinsurgency operations. So a rational

conclusion is that those are the purposes. The only alternative I can

think of is sheer lunacy....'

.: Read the rest of the interview.

.: Smash Fascism

You know it's right.

.: "Why I am an anarchist" - ESR

Eric S Raymond [or ESR] is most widely known for his definitive book on the history of the rise of open source software and Linux,  'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'. He is also responsible for the assembling of  'The Jargon File'. aka 'The New Hackers Dictionary'
He is a bit of a legend from way back in hacker culture and open source dev & his website is a must-visit HTML treasure, well worth exploring. His essays are very interesting and wide ranging.
lots of great stuff to read.
I read this one many years ago,

• WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is one of the most subtly horrific pieces of writing ever uttered. The single most chilling paragraph in a book that does not flinch from describing Nazi atrocities is this one:
On August 19, 1934, 95% of the Germans who were registered to vote went to the polls and 90% (38 million) of adult German citizens voted to give Adolf Hitler complete and total authority to rule Germany as he saw fit. Only 4.25 million Germans voted against this transfer of power to a totalitarian regime.
With this vote, the position of Führer as an amalgam of President and Chancellor — the elevation of Adolf Hitler to the status of dictator — was formally and democratically approved by the German people.

.: Jacques Ellul - The Betrayal by Technology

Betrayal of Technology: A Portrait of Jacques Ellul from Jesus Radicals on Vimeo.