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ATTN, FBI:
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I moved to Wisconsin again. You can stop tapping my mother's
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telephone please. You are guilty of wirefraud; but I forgive you.
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As per usual.
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Give her back her dialtones, eh? You had her down to just
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her cordless phone, you voltage sucking sons of goats.
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LEAVE HER ALONE. SHE'S ONE OF THE BEST REPUBLICANS YOU'VE
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GOT. And if it'll save taxpayer dollars, I'd be happy to submit
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an itinerary every week with a sworn statement agreeing to hold
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to it; you spirit sucking sons of bureaucrats.
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.Issue.
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.130!!.
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Please forward, sorry this is kind of long.
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AMERICA'S SECRET POLICE: FBI COINTELPRO IN THE 1990s
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By Noelle Hanrahan (212) Part 2 of 3. (other two were/are seen in
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ATI129 and ATI131)
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This report was written in association with the Redwood
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Summer Justice Project, which pursues Judi Bari's and Darryl
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Cherney's civil rights case against the FBI and Oakland
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Police.
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* * *
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FBI LEGACY
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From the moment of its birth in 1908 as the Justice
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Department's "Bureau of Investigation," a key part of the FBI's
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mission has been to suppress political dissent. In the early
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years they used deportations and the career-destroying Palmer
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raids to target union leaders and communists. Burglary,
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blacklisting, infiltration, and disruption became standard
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operating procedure. Later, when the Supreme Court ruled that the
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Smith Act specifically could not be used to target communists,
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the FBI took it undercover, developing its "counter-intelligence"
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program dubbed COINTELPRO. In the words of then-director J. Edgar
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Hoover, COINTELPRO was designed to "expose, disrupt, misdirect,
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discredit, or otherwise neutralize" groups whose views the FBI
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deemed threatening to the status quo.
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RICHARD W. HELD: CONSTITUTIONAL ASSASSIN
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Richard W. Held was Special Agent-in-Charge of the San
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Francisco FBI Office 1985-1993 during its extensive COINTELPRO
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operations against Earth First! Of all the COINTELPRO operatives,
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Richard Wallace Held's past is particularly brutal and haunting.
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Held began his career in 1968 in the Los Angeles office of the
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FBI. He quickly became the lead agent in the "racial matters"
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squad which focused on what the FBI called "black extremists".
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Just one year later he was involved in targeting Los Angeles
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Black Panther Party leader Geronimo ji jaga (Pratt) for
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"neutralization." Framed for a murder he did not commit, Geronimo
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spent 25 years in state prison. He was released in 1997 after a
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judge overturned his conviction based on prosecutorial
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misconduct. The key witness in the case, Julius Butler, was an
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informant for the FBI, LAPD, and the L.A. District Attorney's
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office; that information was kept secret during Geronimo's trial.
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An uncanny ability to lie under oath, commonly referred to
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as "testa-lying," is a trademark of rogue law enforcement
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professionals. Under oath in a deposition for Geronimo's federal
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appeal, Held remarked on his relationship with Julius Butler: "I
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think that it may have been relevant, your honor, depending on
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what the contact was at the time and what else I knew, because I
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don't recall really knowing much about the case at all anyway."
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In fact, Held was coordinating COINTELPRO operations in L.A., and
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Geronimo was at the top of the "Key Black Extremists" list.
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Even more damning, Held was the control agent for informant
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Julius Butler. In 2 1/2 years, Held recorded contact and meetings
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with Butler 33 times. Contrast Held's repeated denials of
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knowledge and responsibility with the cold, hard facts, including
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this from a 1/28/70 memo by Held to the FBI Director: "I request
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Bureau approval ... to attack, expose, and ridicule the BPP...
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operation number one is designed to challenge the legitimacy of
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the authority exercised by Elmer Gerard Pratt."
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After a few years in Washington, DC as a headquarters
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intelligence supervisor, Held was back in the field on the Pine
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Ridge Reservation three days after the firefight between federal
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agents and the American Indian Movement (AIM) during which two
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FBI agents and an Indian man were killed. An FBI memo dated
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7/26/75 to the Washington Bureau's Intelligence Division notes,
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"Supervisor Richard Wallace Held arrived at Pine Ridge, South
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Dakota Indian Reservation Command Post on 6/29/75, to assist in
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the RESMURS investigation. He was assigned three important phases
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of this investigation; namely, the correlation of Bureau-wide
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informants into the investigation; the establishment of the
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confidential fund; and the coordination of all intelligence
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information as it relates to the American Indian Movement (AIM)
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and the RESMURS investigations... throughout the country ..."
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Held's work contributed to the framing of noted political
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prisoner Leonard Peltier, and to covering up the truth about the
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agents' deaths and the still unsolved killings of 70 AIM
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supporters on the Pine Ridge Reservation during the extensive
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FBI's operations.
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From 1979 until 1985, Held was Special Agent-in-Charge of
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the San Juan, Puerto Rico office. There he presided over a
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politically-oriented paramilitary campaign against the Puerto
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Rican Independence movement, creating files on 74,000
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individuals. In his last operation in Puerto Rico, Held led 300
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FBI agents and U.S. marshals in raids all over the island,
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trashing office and homes and arresting scores of activists. One
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advocate of Puerto Rican independence said the raids made "even
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the desire for independence a crime." Held left Puerto Rico in
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1985 to head the FBI's San Francisco, California field office.
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HELD TURNS HIS SIGHTS ON EARTH FIRST!
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In the year before the car bombing of Bari and Cherney, a
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shocking and classic political disruption campaign was conducted
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against Earth First! in Northern California. In the months just
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prior to Redwood Summer, the disruption was intense. Bari,
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Cherney and other Earth First! organizers received over 30 death
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threats from March to May, 1990. Fake Earth First! press releases
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were circulated in the community and to the press, falsely
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connecting the Earth First!ers with violence and sabotage. Local
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law enforcement refused to investigate the death threats,
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signaling their tolerance for violence against environmentalists.
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"If you turn up dead, Judi," Mendocino County Sheriff's Sgt.
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Steve Satterwhite told Bari, "then we'll investigate."
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The FBI's very act of blaming Bari and Cherney for the
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bombing that nearly killed them, and their repeated feeding of
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damaging and bald-faced lies to the press about evidence in the
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case, are both classic components of a "counter-intelligence"
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campaign. The FBI's own files refer to the use of informants, yet
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even now the full scope of their actions remains hidden.
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COINCIDENCE OR COINTELPRO?
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In depositions in Bari's and Cherney's civil rights lawsuit,
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FBI agents repeatedly denied that there was an investigation
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against Earth First! in California prior to the bombing. Yet,
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documents at first withheld and blacked out, then later released,
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show that the FBI field reports written at the time of the
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bombing stated Bari and Cherney were "subjects of an
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investigation in the terrorist field."
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The Arizona FBI Sting Operation In 1988, a major FBI sting
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operation was launched against Earth First! in Arizona. In a
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cynical attempt to discredit and criminalize Earth First!, the
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FBI spent $3 million and employed over 50 FBI agents, extensive
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wiretaps, body wires and overt entrapment in order to arrest
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Arizona Earth First!ers for conspiracy to down power lines.
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At the heart of Operation THERMCON (short for "Thermite
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Conspiracy") were undercover FBI agent/provocateur Michael Fain
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and informant Ron Frazier, who infiltrated a group of
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environmental activists in Prescott. Though unsuccessful, the FBI
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worked long and hard to entrap these individuals into using
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explosives to down power lines. Apparently the FBI sought to
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involve Earth First! with explosives in order to create a
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sensational case against them. This would serve to discredit
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Earth First! and provide justification to conduct illegal
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investigations and operations against the political and First
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Amendment activity of the environmental movement nationwide.
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Busted on May 30, 1989, in the Arizona desert, four people were
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caught with a cutting torch attempting to disable a power
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transmission tower leading to a pumping station of the central
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Arizona project (CAP). CAP is a billion dollar pork barrel
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project to carry Colorado River water uphill across hundreds of
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miles of desert to water the lawns of Phoenix and Tucson.
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Judi Bari laughingly called this, "the only joint FBI-Earth
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First! action ever to take place." Undercover FBI agents picked
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the target, drove the truck, and taught the activists to use an
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acetylene torch. The FBI paid informant Ron Frazier $54,000 cash
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in exchange for implicating the Earth First!ers, and granted him
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immunity from prosecution for various crimes.
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"The first lesson in activism is that the person that offers
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to get the dynamite is always the FBI agent," joked Judi
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Bari.
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______
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(CON'T next issue...)
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June 3, 1998. In the year of our tabasco.
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Brought to you by McHilney's Pub. Home of the hottest
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beer this side of the Mississippi.
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It is 1:10 am. CST. And this edition we give you a late breaking
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report on the NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS, a poem or two,
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perhaps a PAWN or three and that's it. No #'s run, no
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Calendula. No nothing else.
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Join the listserv at: ati@intst.com
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Send any submissions to ati@etext.org (there weren't any the
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last two weeks. (hint, hint...) and if you've got angst
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goto
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http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist
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1ST ANNUAL NAMMY REPORT FROM PRIME ANARCHIST PRODUCTIONS.
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These early raw notes go out to my readers in Southeastern
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Connecticut. Polished story will follow soon.
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Cesar Chavez isn't at this show, at least not "physical."
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Nor is Bishop Gerardi. They're dead and gone. No idea why
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that thought came to me sitting sideways in the Kings/Queens/Jacks
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sections of Fox Theatre. Perchance it'll become self evident
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in 200 years or so...
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Laughing Woman beats a drum while Eagle Wings plays guitar.
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"...a wonderful wonderful moment in history."
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"to give the Creator a good thanks again, freedom to pray
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in the Pequot language."
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I didn't know "aho" was a Pequot word. Means "garlic" in
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Spanish. "Shit yeah; right on." in Lakota.
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"Won't you wear your jingle dress for me." I think the
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new "Native Motown" sound is in danger of sounding a little too
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much like Don Imus' "Plastic Jesus," But it's early yet.
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Oye como va...
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Special segment: "Did you know they were native."
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Jimmy Hendrix got the big cheer. "...and of course my buddy -
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Burt Reynolds." -Wayne Newton's words; not mine, don't even think...
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"Recorded 139 albums:" Wayne Newton. Holy doing time in
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a studio!!!
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Entertainer of the year award. Boy they moved you right into
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that. They don't mess around. Litefoot got rap. Miss Indian World
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reads and speaks really well.
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Tom Bee and Robbie Bee show up in just about every award.
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Man oh man. This thing's in the larval stage. "Support it, support
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it." -my words.
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"To my daughter Leah." -Joanne Shenendoah.
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"Your word is your bow; your pen is your arrow." -Litefoot.
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I'm gonna cry. Face and neck hair stand on end...
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He brought out Haida and Angelique. Competed and lost; now they're
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singing with him. You wouldn't see anything even resembling that
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in any other awards ceremonies, would you???
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John Trudell and Wes Studi presenting to Apache Spirit.
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"To our 6 children; breastfeeding behind the amplifiers.
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Thank you for your patience." -Lee Kane of Apache Spirit
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"John Trudell - a complex sum of all he's seen," -Floyd
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Red Crow Westerman presenting him with the Living Legend award.
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Standing "O," built slow. Almost as slowly as the first part of his
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career.
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"Toad the Wet Sprockets." -Wayne "Ed-Sullivan-Wannabe" Newton.
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Get hip, dude.
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Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice. Love her talky voice. Way to
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wail on the saxophone too. I'm impressed. Now I know where Talking
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Heads have been borrowing heavily...
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Pardon my french - that polystyrene Indian in a loincloth
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with a bow & arrow facing the sky laquered all crystal white is
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not only distracting; but fucking distracting. Foxwoods. We shall
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take the bad with the good I guess. And those electric "open fires."
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I mean, I understand firecodes and all but...
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"I guess I got right Toad the Wet Sprocket. I said 'Indio
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Girls.' It's Indigo Girls." OK, this Wayne. No Ed Sullivan he. I
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formally apologize to Mr. Newton for calling him schlocky all these
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years.
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"They asked us to stall." -Tom and Robbie Bee.
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I got Lee Kane's autograph while they stalled. She's the
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lead singer of Apache Spirit. She was at the payphone telling someone
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she won, while I was at a phone telling my mom I didn't. Of course
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who knew? I did. I've never once claimed to be Native American.
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Just some half-breed Jewish Swede who gives a shit.
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So Robbie Bee told me at the party afterwards he became
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Born Again last year sometime. Next year's awards are likely to have
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one slot for a Christian recording. Considering the Grammy's have
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4 gospel slots and not a single Native, Indigenous or Aboriginal
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that's going some. Robbie and rap star Natay started a Christian
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Native record label called RED SEA which stands for Red Educated
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Disciples Sharing Emanuel's Anointing. Someone called Robbie
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Dr. Pray, and Natay got the nickname Snoop Doggie Dine.
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Carlos Nakai Quartet was quite awesome.
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"We're keeping up with the past to show where we're going."
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-Nakai.
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"But as they say in Groton, 'preciate it.'"
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Which comedian said that?
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"On behalf of my people, the wannabes." Which one said
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THAT: Williams or Ree???
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Joanne Shenendoah singing. Brings shivers up my spine.
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Always does. Remember that tape up in Norwich Conn? On a cheap
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RCA boombox too. First song brought first shivers. And I don't even
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speak Oneida very much. "Collie Socks."
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Robbie Robertson. A collaboration with Leonard Peltier.
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"I implore you to support the LP Defense Committee." Weird. I just
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asked a girl if she was Lisa F. (Leonard's fiance/wife. (they won't
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let them marry, but I digress...)) I mean the next table over!!!
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And that moment.
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Tom Bee, come up again. Catherine Bach is calling for you.
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You won. "If you have a dream and a desire and you're a doer; you
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can too."
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You can too, should be the theme of the night.
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Seriously, this togetherness stuff is inspiring. Bringing
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each other up on stage to jam with you even if you just beat them.
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What a world to dream about.
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"It lets people know we're still here." Nakai again.
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Presenters Bruce Cockburn and Richie Havens. I'm in
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folksingers heaven. Richie feels Joy Harjo's words. I can tell.
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I saw him digging it. Harjo got nominated a lot. Has she won
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anything? Get an album in for next year, Joy. You're "money"
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and you don't even know it.
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"If a Taos boy who was suicidal as a teenager can do it,
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you can too. My sweat goes out to you." -Mirabal.
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Redbone. They're an old band. Perhaps only remembered for
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"Come and Get Your Love," but they're singing something else. OK.
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They end with it. Now we know where Grand Funk, Chicago and Neil
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Diamond took their chops from, eh?
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"The anglo staff really boogie to this one." -Michael Gelfand
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Accepting Buddy Red Bow's award is his father from Pine
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Ridge. I remember hearing Achey Breaky (Billy Ray Cyrus' annoying
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version) for the first time on KILI out there sleeping in that
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haunted Catholic Church. I harbor fond memories of Pine Ridge.
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"Even though I'm all in black, don't mistake me for Johnny
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Cash." All in Lakota. Buddy's son translated for those of you who
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don't understand enough Lakota. Maize Red Bow in the audience. Steven
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Red Bow, etc. Cousins, brothers, sisters. All here. Just about every
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family member. Pardon my french again, but here's your traditional
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F-ing family values, Nancy Reagan.
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"Ana Mae, everything, and nothing changes." - Another Joy
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Harjo clip over the soundsystem.
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"Richie Heavens." Wayne?!?
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"If someone's not on the Vegas Circuit, Newton hasn't heard
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of them." Another Michael Gelfand quote.
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Richie HAVENS accepts Jimi Hendrix' award and sings his own
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version of All Along the Watchtower. Wow. That foot poppin' stomp
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percussive stuff like from Oh Freedom. Whooooooooo!
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My man's still got it.
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"Even records, like the Edison." -Redbone members presenting
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and describing everything "trying to be round." Well they've been
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around long enough to know. American Warriors won record of the year.
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Cheryl Makone from Ryko Disk accepted it. Aparently Mickey Hart works
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a lot with Ryko.
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Shenendoah thanked Ellen Bello for the vision for this whole
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awards ceremony. Bello dedicated the whole show to her friend Rich
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from Rosebud.
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She also gave a nod "...to you, our sold out audience on
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behalf of NAMA."
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HEREIN ENDS THE PRESENTATION PORTION OF OUR PRESS REPORT
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ABOUT THE PEQUOTS PUTTING UP PEOPLE OF MANY TRIBES FOR
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THE EVENING. NOW ON TO THE 49 PART AFTER THE GIG.
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April Whittemore is the real name of Miss Indian World this
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year. She's Lumbee Cheraw. And her mother wanted to make sure I
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mentioned that she's a goodly portion Irish too. She got the award
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April 25 and it stands for 1 year. Last week they made her do a
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promo for Douglas Spotted Eagle. This Thursday she'll be speaking
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to a Baptist youth group about tobacco medicine.
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Let's see, I already put in the part about Robbie Bee
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becoming a fine mentor to youth of all kinds.
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Wayquay recited a poem "sisters keeper." from the album
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Tribal Ground.
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"It's about the circle." -Hadrian Coumans
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"I'm an activist, no doubt about it." -Joanne Shenendoah
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responding to Activist Times, Inc.
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Lots of hanging out, and lots of high calorie food brought
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to you by the Mashantuckets. Open bar was good for a cranberry juice
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or two and there was a ton of coffee in those gigantic gazillion
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dollar Colonial Era pots. You know the kind. Til you get close
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enough to know it's fake, you'd think Paul Revere burned his finger
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off making it.
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Better go to:
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http://www.nativeamericanmusic.com
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before next year.
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Sign seen on AMTRAK
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PLEASE DO NOT
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PUT REFUSE IN
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THIS TOILET
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Poet's translation while pee'ing.
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REQUEST YOU REFRAIN
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FROM RENDERING REFUSE
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RIGHT IN RECEPTICLE
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(PAWN) Prime Anarchist World News Tonite. NY. Viagra's sales
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hurting other companies' business.
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"We're no longer the only makers of erections," says
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Beth L'Chaim, Chief of PR at Specialty Steel Operations. She said
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sale of long hard beams, kevlar reinforced rubbers, and G-strings
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have all plummetted for the added competition.
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Even ITI, Iraqui Torture, Int. is bothered, says Saddam
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Hussein CEO of ITI every M, W, & F, "Had I known Viagra could blind
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kill and constipate so many people so quickly I would've considered
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Pfizer instead of sticking by SQUIBB all these years."
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OK, we end with a couple poems; because myth is all you get.
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I have no title for this one yet. Ideas anyone?
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In a just world
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Blight does not need to
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Lead to plight.
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Drought needn't
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Kick you out.
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Injury shouldn't make
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You unable.
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But this is not a
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Just world we've brought
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Fashioned out of
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Usury.
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Success based solely on
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Anothers' misery.
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You try to remain
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Oblivious.
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Yet it smacks you
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Obvious.
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And finally,
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This one's simply called
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JENIFER
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by marco
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Jenifer.
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I took so long to find you.
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Kabooz's B&G; NYC.
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Veggie Chili; roasted garlic and tomato
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Soup.
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I took so long to find you, Jenifer.
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Wandered this station.
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Glad and happy.
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Satisfied, for I had the Penne with the
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Grilled eggplant, extra garlic.
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Remember?
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And Dave Mathews on the jukebox.
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Ah, perchance to dance.
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You head 4 back room
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Having broken a strap on your
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Jacket.
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So you come out looking
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Finer still.
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The 7:05 to Babylon is one minute late.
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I took so long to find Jenifer. |