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Isabella Nicolette Brady January 23, 2010 5:03pm. Welcome Monkey!!

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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops just isn’t going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

- William S. Burroughs

Greetings Earthlings, check out my favorite internet writer of the moment, Frank Smecker:

The Politics of Awareness, part 2 on Dissident Voice. This article kicked me directly in my ass this morning. Please read it. Read the living shit out of it! (I’ll comment on it later.)

Have I mentioned that me and Soph’s daughter is going to be born, like any day?! More tomorrow.

BREAKING FUCKING NEWS: Mickey Z joins modern civilization (wait..oh no!) and creates a Facebook profile! (I’ve actually had one for a while but it has been managed by Sophia. I’ve now made the transition from MySpace to Facebook if anyone wants to say hola.)

So, tomorrow I want to discuss Mr. Smecker, Bringing Down Civilization, Our beloved daughter, social networking sites and my (late) hatred of the bourgeois yearly fraud “celebration” of MLK. Here is what I said last time.

I found this here:

The Christianizing of Tahiti

Reacting to the stories of Tahiti, and troubled that the crew of HMS Bounty could have found life among the Tahitians preferable to life among Christians, the religious orthodoxy of England founded the London Missionary Society in 1795 (which included their own armed police force). The sole purpose of the society was to bring Tahiti under Christian rule, in effect to remove a more pleasant alternative lifestyle that threatened Christian power (my emphasis.) Two years later the first missionaries arrived in Tahiti and were as warmly treated by the Tahitians as had been earlier visitors. But after 7 years of missionary work (children were required to recite, “For what is Jehova angry with thee? Because I am evil and do evil.” in Tahitian) there were few willing converts to Christianity.

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excerpts from the book

They Thought They Were Free

The Germans 1933-45

by Milton Mayer, 1955

Third World Traveler

But Then It Was Too Late
“What no one seemed to notice,” said a colleague of mine, a philologist, “was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all
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I found this video on YouTube channel NAMASTE!

Blog title borrowed from this...half-ass documentary.

I’m just returning from this site being hacked and around nine months of pregnancy with my poop. John should (should!) have the new and updated site up this week. Back Tuesday (for real.)

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