Crossposted from The Wild Wild Left by Diane Gee, author, ranter and scathing critic of the status quo.
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Resisting the Cult of Non-Violence
ORIGINALLY AT QUOTHA.NET / Suggested by J. Timperio
People who enshrine Gandhi’s tactics forget the entire context of struggle and the fact that British Raj, brutal as it was in repressing the natives, was a far cry from the sadistic ferocity of a Pinochet, the Argentinian junta or the Salvadoran oligarchy and its death squads. Nonviolence as the solution to grave social problems in all places and climes is a myth, especially when the change connotes a deep change in class relations. —Eds.
Check out this letter from comrades in Cairo. What a relief to see Egyptians speaking out in English against the ICNC spin, as one after another “leader” of the Egyptian revolution is trotted out to represent Nonviolent Egyptian Youth in “solidarity” with Occupy Wall Street protesters, with their neutered Gandhis and MLKs (no anti-imperialism/anti-capitalism here) and “turn-the-other-cheek” blather. Regardless of who is actually behind this letter (it is signed “Comrades from Cairo”), it speaks some very important truths about what happened in Egypt. Here’s a quote:
We faced such direct and indirect violence, and continue to face it. Those who said that the Egyptian revolution was peaceful did not see the horrors that police visited upon us, nor did they see the resistance and even force that revolutionaries used against the police to defend their tentative occupations and spaces: by the government’s own admission; 99 police stations were put to the torch, thousands of police cars were destroyed, and all of the ruling party’s offices around Egypt were burned down. Barricades were erected, officers were beaten back and pelted with rocks even as they fired tear gas and live ammunition on us. But at the end of the day on the 28th of January they retreated, and we had won our cities. Read more…
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Reprinted with permission, by Michael Alton Gottlieb writer, actor and stage director.
Dick Cheney: War criminal at large. Where’s Robert Jackson when we need him?
Hi – I am Dick Cheney’s heart. Not the new one. The old one. I am currently in a jar in a laboratory with all kinds of electrodes poking and prodding me. Seems some mad scientist wants to study me to understand the heart of a monster.
Fool. And that’s why I am transmitting this message. To clear my name.
It’s not the heart of a man which carries the content of his character. It’s his brain.
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There’s one thing they tell you when you start a cancer treatment schedule, sitting there in wide-eyed horror and shock. “I know this all seems unthinkable right now, but believe it or not, it will soon just become your routine. Your new normal.” Anyone who has lived through childhood abuse, or been in an abusive relationship will tell you the same. “Well, most of the time he was nice,” they will say, “its just sometimes it got really scary or bad.” There has been reams written about co-dependent behaviours already, both personal and societal. Me? I think mostly its a matter of acclimation. Its the conversation you have about TV on your way to chemo, and the new meals that become routine; creating food the cancer-stricken might possibly eat. It kids playing soccer among the rubble where the bombs just fell. It learning your new wheel chair. Or learning to read in Braille. I say it a lot. “It is what it is.“
There’s a flip side to this too. As my husbands 6’1″ frame dwindled to 130 or less pounds, as his hair fell out? He avoided mirrors like the plague. Its like the restaurant you no longer frequent because its where your ex-girlfriend and her new man hang out. Its like changing the channel every time that commercial comes on, with Sara McLoughlin singing and all the abused animals cover your screen. Its refusing to look at the reality of what homelessness, starvation, or what the ravages of War truly are. Its the pictures of children struck by depleted uranium you never really look at for long. Put even more basically? Its blocking someone on Facebook who has been cruel to you. You compartmentalize the bad away, and let normalcy be created by routine – and you just avoid the damned mirrors.
You see? Mirrors tell the truth. Mirrors belie the little boxes in our psyche that say everything is normal. So we veil them.
I like Chris Hedges. He is what he is. I’m not even remotely insulted he used the cancer analogy as a fresh cancer widow.
What I find particularly offensive after giving it a night of thought? Is Hedged opining how a few kids in black pajamas breaking a window has become an unthinkable Cancer to bringing the Public Sway on board to the “treatment” that Occupy is trying to apply to the REAL CANCERS of our Society. The Cancers that have become both our “normal” and our “mirror avoidance.”
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PATRICE GREANVILLE
Kelsey De Santis and Justin Timberlake at the Marine Corps Ball. Disgraceful that the make-believe syndrome in America has reached such grotesque proportions. Is this what our Marines are fighting for?
BEEN ABSENT A WHILE, swamped with those inevitable “other” things we must attend to while keeping the dialog going. I missed the exchanges here. Anyhow, let’s get to business.
Don’t you all feel great this morning to live in this great and free republic-er, democracy-the very best in the world, and to see, also, that the American Dream is alive and well?
Yes, folks, fairy tales still happen in America. Where else could a lower middle class kid in a Marine uniform get a date with a Galactic-class celeb like Justin Timberlake, just by “asking”…? Only in America, folks. That’s why the media are giving this important story saturation coverage. Those willing to die to protect “our freedoms” can literally have anything in America—anything. Which is bunk, of course. Both subject and predicate. In a companion article on this site, my colleague Phil Rockstroh puts his finger on this scandalous pretense with his usual perspicacity:
Freedom rises despite cops and soldiers not because of them. And that is exactly why those who despise freedom propagate military hagiography and fetishize those wearing uniforms–so they can give the idea of liberty lip service as all the while they order it crushed. (See The Police State Makes Its Move: Retaining one’s humanity in the face of tyranny)
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The Professional Left: Fuck Obama and his bullshit, but vote for him anyway, because PERRY is the alternative.
The Real Left: These are no alternatives.
THE PROPHESY FORETELLS IT. I mean, it’s like, inevitable, dudes. No man can kill the witch king, and we have to vote for the Democrat. Don’t mess with the system or the really big bad wins.
Don’t matter if it’s Lord of the Rings (LOTR) or Lesser of the Two Evils (LOTE).
Witch King: You fool. No man can kill me. Die now.
Eowyn: I am no man.
Unless you’re Eowyn, that is. The only way to smite the evil is to smite the fucking evil, dig? You don’t play tiddly winks with it. You don’t give it your lunch money for a one day pass on the school bus, and you certainly don’t suck off its twin brother in the alley.
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You’ve got your CIA, you’ve got your DIA, and even take your Special Forces daily. Still not feeling like your Espionage is Spooky, Droney, Infiltratey, or Black Ops wet-worky enough?
