[T]his country's "radical" activist contingents [are] making a big mistake by not openly, actively attacking corporate media personnel and equipment at major protest-attracting events such as [the Republicrat conventions].That's Mugsy Flugo right here in SMBIVA's comments.
I agree.
We rads need to change targets -- stop attacking the hams up front on the podiums and start attacking the actual culprits, the giant media congloms that provide us with all our degenerate political theatre; these elite mass media production companies, these studios of news-fic. Let's knock over their remote teams, trash their reporters while on camera live, bust up their megadollar griffs, festoon their broadcast towers with sacks of cowshit, storm their studios, get the Kiev boys to lance their web site's software: proclaim nonviolent but total war. Threaten to "virtually" bring down the beast, the giant red white and blue corporate news hydra, and by using only the miracles of voodoo agitprop, sizzle the beast's zillion heads right off at the stump, one by one.
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And the great thing about it is - who the hell would risk their necks trying to protect the *media*? (As opposed to journalists.)
Posted by cthulhu's mom | September 14, 2008 12:49 PM
Posted on September 14, 2008 12:49
Eh, the police might. It's an occupation that attracts the violent types.
Posted by StO | September 14, 2008 5:18 PM
Posted on September 14, 2008 17:18
While you're taking a breather from bashing talking heads, you might want to take in the Robert Jackson conference on prosecuting war criminals featured on The Real News Network.
Posted by Jay Taber | September 15, 2008 12:34 PM
Posted on September 15, 2008 12:34
...and, speaking of which, it looks like at least a couple of guys have got the right idea:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=adb_1221494431
Posted by Mike Flugennock | September 16, 2008 6:04 PM
Posted on September 16, 2008 18:04
Although, the media, malignant as they are, are just another group of mercenaries--the real culprits are the ones who fund the media.
...Granted there's a good chance targeting the media would lead to results, since the propaganda apparatus plays a crucial role in conning us into giving up our freedom and our resources--state violence (or its private equivalent) has largely lost its efficacy.
Posted by Peter Ward | September 17, 2008 9:33 PM
Posted on September 17, 2008 21:33
Wow, this blog has practically died. If this inactivity keeps up, dennis perrin's blog is going to replace you guys in my heart! ;-)
Posted by tim d | September 24, 2008 11:18 PM
Posted on September 24, 2008 23:18
Is SMBIVA ever going to wake up from its slumber? Surely you'll be stirred into action by the "debate" -- if not by the $700bn giveaway to the ruling class.
Posted by Lajany Otum | September 27, 2008 12:04 AM
Posted on September 27, 2008 00:04
Is SMBIVA ever going to wake up from its slumber? Surely you'll be stirred into action by the "debate" -- if not by the $700bn giveaway to the ruling class.
Posted by Lajany Otum | September 27, 2008 12:09 AM
Posted on September 27, 2008 00:09
Perhaps I'm just projecting -- I'm suffering through an intolerably difficult amalgam of career flameout, personal trauma, and political disaffection -- but perhaps Mr. Smith simply said "fuck it" and let his watercraft drift out to sea. From this perch it seems that of late there is a mini-boomlet of various figures on the US radical left who have just vanished "into the wild" (as it were), be it geographically, psychically, or otherwise.
The debates merely confirmed what we already dreaded, knew, and had no solution for, save nursing wounds privately. That will add up to madness after a steady suite of small doses, like Chinese water torture.
It is mildly heartening to see the groundswell of mass contempt for the bailout, but its main political expression is of the libertarian
"don't fuck with the self-regulating market" variant. You know, the same guys who brought you the Congressional class of '94.
Posted by gluelicker | September 27, 2008 8:34 AM
Posted on September 27, 2008 08:34
Jeez, I hope everything's okay with you guys. Hurry back soon before the liberals start making sense to me.
Posted by peter | September 27, 2008 12:52 PM
Posted on September 27, 2008 12:52