As we listen to Obama’s and others’ predictable platitudes about “staying peaceful” and how violence is not the answer and all that, please remember this: Violence is ALWAYS the answer when it is the State that is delivering it and it is ALWAYS denounced by the power structures when it is directed against them.… Continue Reading
Obama: “We need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make.” 100 years ago would he had said the same thing about the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, that we need to accept that it was the supreme court’s to make? Legalized injustice is still injustice and it must never be accepted.… Continue Reading
The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” was set aside to commemorate the end of hostilities on the western front of the “war to end all wars.” As we now find ourselves in the midst of “perpetual war” let us take a moment to remember all those who have lost their…… Continue Reading
So, I thought I was done with election commentary but I have now endured through more than enough posts and comments by folks who are expressing their anger at the election results by effectively blaming generic non-voters for bringing about the end of the world and other such calamities. Ok, I get it. Last night…… Continue Reading
Election hangover recap. A few silver linings. Minimum wage hikes won in several places. Not exactly the revolution but a few more dollars in the pockets of hard working families is definitely something to feel good about. The lunatic fringe (i.e. you are a person deserving the full protection of the government from conception till…… Continue Reading
Tis the season for radicals to argue about elections again so here are some more thoughts that have emerged from conversations in the last couple of days. I consider myself an anarchist (or at least one who aspires to anarchist ideals and practices, I have a long way to go from saying I live up…… Continue Reading
My dad would have been 81 years old today. It is a curious thought actually, especially considering that he has been dead for twice as long as I knew him and I am now older than he was when he died. It is hard to imagine him being in his eighties, most likely because my…… Continue Reading
(Partial) Police Blotter for one week in August 2014 Aug. 6th: Beavercreek OH police shoot and kill John Crawford inside a Walmart. John was apparently looking and handling an air rifle that is sold by Walmart. Aug. 7th: A police officer shot and killed Jeremy Lake in Tulsa OK. Jeremy was dating the officer’s daughter…… Continue Reading
I grew up listening to him announce the top 40 and had no idea about his political activism, till one year, when I was arrested during a civil disobedience action at the Nevada Test Site, and found myself two seats in front of him in the bus where some of the arrested had been loaded…… Continue Reading
To all of us guys out there: This is the time for us to take a deep breath and listen. Keep breathing and keep listening. If we hear anger and frustration and rage, then let us listen to the anger, the frustration, the rage. There is a reason why those emotions are there. In at…… Continue Reading