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...presents... Political Rant #1
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by THE NIGHTSTALKER
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09/01/1997-#339
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__///////\ -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc- /\\\\\\\__
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\\\\\\\/ Everything You Need Since 1986 \///////
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___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___
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|___heal_the_sick___raise_the_dead___cleanse_the_lepers___cast_out_demons___|
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It's 1997, Mourning in America. Hillbillies hold the White House, Illiterate
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ideologues command the House and Senate. The only voice of reason in the
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tripartite of Government seems to be the Supreme Court. (However, their
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decisions on cases heard today won't be known until later this year, so God
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only knows what lunacy may result.)
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Rush Limbaugh still rules the airwaves, with Howard Stern a close second. If
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Howard would JUST STOP OBSESSING with tits and pussy and lesbians and all
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that other stuff, and be the articulate intelligent individual we know he is,
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he could be the Anti-Rush, and maybe get some of those dittoheads actually
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thinking about freedom and inalienable Rights, and not obsessing about some
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illegal immigrant (read: someone with non-white skin and an accent) who has
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actually gotten his/her child into a Public School! Or worse, had the
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effrontery to actually have given birth to a child within our Sacred Borders,
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which makes that little brown tit-sucker an American Citizen, with all the
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Rights and privileges thereto. Makes ya wanna puke, don't it, Rush?
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But wait, surely there's someone in America that knows the score and wants
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to make some changes? What, you mean The Youth of America? Sumimasen,
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gaijin-san, as I laugh 'till I hemorrhage. This is Generation X, Slackers, the
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"Whatever" generation. All they care about is hip coffee and maybe getting
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another part of their body pierced or pigmented.
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OK, what about the teenagers? Too many of them seem to be more interested
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in going to raves or just plain getting high (Remember kids, Just Say No... to
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overpriced, underpowered dope! Sez MacToke, the drug-sniffing dog. "Just, Ah
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say, just say no to Some Drugs!" Says Senator Helms, who is both pimp and
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whore for the Tobacco Cartel, when he isn't sniffing bicycle seats.)
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But there is a small minority of people, mainly kids who've grown up with a
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joystick in their hands, who have rewired their brains to take in huge
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amounts of information at one shot, filter the crap and distractions and make
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The Right Decision instantly. For whatever reason, videogames (and computer
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games on the family PC) seem to Do Something to kids at an early age. Maybe
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they just see the computer as their gateway to better games and don't want
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the grownups to turn off the supply by such things as the Communications
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Decency Act. (Hey, didja know about Senator Exon's Little Blue Book? He had
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this binder, fulla dirty pictures he had downloaded for him offa the Net. He
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really liked to carry this around with him and show it to fellow Senators and
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Congresscritters. You might say he gets a big kick out of sneakernetting porn
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around the Capitol. Hmmmm.)
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So there's one group who's interested in freedom and being left alone by Big
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Brother.
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Then there's the cypherpunks. I think the only reason they really exist is that
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they enjoy pissing off the Feds with their encryption hijinx. Thanks
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for the PGP, Phil! You're OK in my book. (You're shit in Janet Reno's book,
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though. But by me, that's REAL street cred!)
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There's also the more literate and aware members of the cyber-community
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(hey, I used the word cyber, does this make me one of the digerati? Huh?)
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who actively work to promote freedom on the Net (oooh, there's another hip
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term from the Digital Zeitgeist. Screw you, cDc, I'm sending this to WIRED
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so I can be a Digital Pundit!) and restrict the overarching influence of the
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inbred Kallikaks and Jukes' in the House and Senate. (Paw! Junior's lookin at
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the ladies underwear in the Sears catalog agin! Well, lock out that site and
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update Net Nanny! I gots to go slop them hawgs agin! "And when shall I say
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you'll be back in your office, Senator?")
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In their own feral way, the political majority in the House and Senate dimly
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realize that there is a threat to their authority Out There, and it has
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something to do with this thing called the Net (and as Bob Dole sez, "The net
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is a good thing to use to access the Net... Now for some STAGE
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DIVING!") and that scares them. The can't control the content, they can't
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control where it goes or who reads it, and the whole flipping point of
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Congress is to MAKE LAWS, and the whole point of A Law is to enforce control
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on someone or something.
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On a very basic level, which most people really don't want to think about, ANY
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law passed by Congress implies that the United States Government will do
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whatever it takes to make you obey that law, up to and including killing you.
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How do you kill data on the Net? You can't. You can only kill the Net, and
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there's too much money being made for that to happen anytime soon.
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The "Computer Underground", once made up of people interested only in free
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software, free phone calls, and flaming each other's hardware, now finds
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itself having to actually think about politics and strategies. They have to get
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involved in the political process, they may actually have to go out and vote,
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fer crissakes!
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Some fall into the bottomless pit of Libertarianism. Talk about masturbating
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with both hands! Some advocate anarchism, some actually know what they
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are talking about when it comes to anarchism. (Most people, under the age of
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twenty who have computers or read 'zines, consider anarchy as something to
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do with stinkbombs during school assemblies. uh huh huh huh huh, he said
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'ass'!) Kropotkin would weep!
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The sad thing is that the only people who actually vote are those who actually
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care about what's happening. Some vote the way Rush tells them to vote (and
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if Rush told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? "DITTO!!!"), some vote
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to try and do the Right Thing, whatever that might be, and some vote merely
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for one or two items on any given ballot.
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I feel that the North American peoples are fundamentally decent, and can be
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trusted with banned books and free choice in abortion and fundamental rights
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for everyone regardless of sex, color, religion or perverted unnatural sexual
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obsessions. (Faggots thinking they've got the same rights as normal folks.
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Absolutely disgusting. Oh. look, there goes J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. A
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couple of REAL Americans!) It's just that it's hard work keeping up with
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what's going on locally, let alone nationally, to make that difference
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politically. Which is why Limbaugh can sway people. He's a brilliant man,
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speaks well and is skilled in the use of rhetoric. He's also devastatingly funny
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and an equally brilliant satirist. His gag commercials are hysterical.
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Pete Wilson, governor of California can tell people that Mexicans are taking
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your jobs and eating your pets, too, and get away with it. People see all these
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Mexican laborers sneaking over the border and taking jobs for miserable
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wages and make that assumption that yes, my job is endangered too. Well,
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maybe if you do shit labor like washing out garbage trucks for minimum wage.
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But by using the "Mexican" as a stalking horse, Wilson got re-elected to
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office. He's still got his power and his job for another few years.
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And this is why the Right has such sway over the voting populace. They are
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masters of the sound bite. Something that takes ten seconds to say and
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resonates with the voters, yet takes 30 minutes (at least) to refute and
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requires a blackboard, reference works and an audience that wants to invest
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the intellectual time and effort to listen and digest and independently
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confirm the proofs of your refutation. Good Luck getting THAT to happen
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anytime soon, Sparky!
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The big problem with the Liberal/liberal/left political scene is the
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overwhelming insistence on arguing over the smallest details, as if the lives
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of every sodding Spotted Owl depended on it.
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I once heard from a lesbian friend of mine how a meeting devoted to selecting
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a candidate to endorse devolved into a hour-long emotional debate
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over whether or not it should be spelled "woman" or "womyn". Jesus Red
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Roaring Christ! Anyone who cares about that and holds up everyone else,
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should be flogged, as should the people who let her get away with that sort of
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thing in the first place.
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Consensus is the Holy Grail of the Left/Liberal community. When Lyndon
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Johnson rammed through the Voting Rights Act and diverse social welfare
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acts, he didn't care a fat rat's ass about 'consensus', you voted how you were
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told to vote... or else. And LBJ had the juice to enforce that 'or else', as did
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Harry Truman, FDR and JFK. Jimmy Carter, Mr. Consensus himself, couldn't
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even wipe his ass without consulting half a dozen people. Richard Nixon,
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slammed through significant welfare improvements and benefits, thanks to
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his having the very balls of most of Congress in his pocket. The Republicans
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didn't like it, but screw 'em, consensus wasn't in his vocabulary, either!
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Seems to me that what we need is another charismatic leader, ala' FDR or
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JFK, someone who can motivate the people to do the right thing. Or at least,
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another LBJ, who knows where ALL the bodies are buried and is willing to
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pass out the shovels.
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Forgive me if I don't hold my breath waiting for THAT to happen. Looks like
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Al Gore will be our first President of the 21st Century, Hey, Macarena.
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God's Sweet Mercy on us all!
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/.ooM \ / \ .-. [ x x ] .-. / \ /.ooM \
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/lucky 13\ / \ / `-(' ')-' \ / \ /lucky 13\
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\ / `-' (U) `-' \ /
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`-' the original e-zine `-' _
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Oooo eastside westside / ) __
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/)(\ ( \ WORLDWIDE / ( / \
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\__/ ) / Copyright (c) 1997 cDc communications and the author. \ ) \)(/
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(_/ CULT OF THE DEAD COW is a registered trademark of oooO
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cDc communications, PO Box 53011, Lubbock, TX, 79453, USA. _
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oooO All rights reserved. Edited by Grandmaster Ratte'. __ ( \
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\ ( \__/ Save yourself! Go outside! Do something! \)(/ ( /
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\_) xXx BOW to the COW xXx Oooo
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