December 1, 2008 archive

Speech Speech Speech

Overpowered By Funk – The Clash

So.  Seneca has exposed me for the horrible nag I am.  I hate to push him down with something this slight, but it will be Robyn and mishima if not me.

I kind of laugh at his concern because ‘centrist’ is a label I’ve always worn proudly, Armando and I used to joke about it.  Even ‘purist’ fails to wound me because I know the policies I advocate are hardly substantive, they are political and oriented toward electoral victory.

My shallowness is astounding.  My platform but 2 primary planks.

My prescription for Democratic Officeholders and Politicians is that they stand for fucking something, anything.  The reason people don’t vote for you is that you are cowards, weaklings, and liars.  They are right not to trust you.

On the other hand Republicans are shameless bullies and bigots, common thieves,  torturers, murderers, and war criminals.

My second plank is the Village, the blow dried air headed vacuous vacant Versailles access addict asskissing idiots who think they tell us what to think.

And that’s the power new media has.  To avert your eyeballs for an instant.

The TV business is uglier than most things.  It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.  There’s also a negative side.

As little effort as that takes, it has it’s effects.  They are terribly sensitive to negative popular opinion.  They can hardly stand to be confronted with facts in public debate.

• Brian Williams by Greenwald
• Brian Williams by Spencer Ackerman

You can smell the fear in the morning like coffee.  They hate us for a reason, and they should.  If we have excess energy we should expose them to others as the fools they are.  Show them our scorn and derision in concrete ways.

The reaction shows they are vulnerable, the business model is not working for them any more than it did for the Music Biz.  Even now giving live performances is more lucrative than airtime and who is advertiser supported after all?

And why are we doing it if revenue is down anyway?  Madison Avenue leads directly from Detroit down to Family Ford with the six cute kids a shilling, five new models, four finance programs, three months no payments, two SUVs.

And from NBC to Channel 3.

We know what you are.  We’re just negotiating the price.

In 1973, when the CIA got wind of the revelations that would expose its decades-long program into mind control experiments, then-CIA Director Richard Helms, and Sidney Gottlieb, head of the Agency’s Technical Services Division, got together to destroy all the files they could find on MKULTRA and related programs. These programs consisted of experiments on human subjects on isolation, sensory deprivation, induction of hallucinations and psychosis through drugs, electroshock, hypnosis, physical debility (through hunger, mainly), and other horrifying procedures. Some of you may be familiar with one such sponsored program, if you’ve read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.

Helms, who bragged about his destruction of the evidence to Congress, and Gottlieb were never held accountable for their destruction of evidence. (No surprise to those of us fighting to get the incoming Obama administration to hold Bush Administration officials accountable for their crimes on torture and lying the country into war.) Later, when through the efforts of heroic journalists — some of them ex-intelligence officers, like John Marks — some of the programs were exposed, but it was believed much of the CIA’s crimes in this instance would never be known.Vermont State Hospital Implicated in CIA Mind Control Experiments