the heavens fall...
This "time' in history is so very strange.
How do you explain this social and political climate?
How do you rationalize "society"?
Hunter Thompson gave a new name to the United States:
THE KINGDOM OF FEAR
And bubba, you better believe it's true.
I know it's all a state of mind for the most part but I'm sick and tired of being affected with "world events", with the "winds of change", with the concentrated B.S. that clogs our TV's, radios, computers, schools and newspapers.
Is there no place for a man or woman to toil away in their garden, whatever that garden may be?
Why is there so much strife, so much angst and FEAR?
Anybody got an answer?
The only thing I can come up with is that it's absolutely true that we have a built-in self-destruct system, ready to blow, no matter how prosperous or "good" our lives are.
Even if you still think this foul uncertain smog which hangs over our beautiful planet is due to TERRORISM and that the world began on September 11th, you gotta admit that this world is not a friendly place.
Never has been.
Kindness and peace and goodwill are the REAL dangers lurking in the shadows. Those are traps, illusions.
Come on, I mean look what happened to John Lennon.
A mastercraftsman songwriter.
One of the greatest musical talents to ever stroll the earth.
A poet. I can call John Lennon a poet.
A poet of the people.
And the man who took this legend from us sits in Attica, where he's been for almost 100 SEASONS. 24 years, fed very well and kept toasty warm by the United States Prison System, reading the fine volumes that rest on the tall prison library shelves, all on your taxpaying nickel, while great photogs like Mr. Benson take stark black and white art photos of Mr. Chapman smiling like the collossal jerk doofus he will eternally be.
He's kept in jail to protect us.
He's a gunman who's a little kookoo, they say.
He could kill again...
Why is he treated so well?
I have a theory.
Chapman is an American- from Hawaii apparently.
Lennon was a pain in Nixon's ass for a long time.
Nixon tried to have John deported back to England.
If you're an American, you apparently have the keys to the kingdom. Subconciously Americans have got it in their marrow that they are somehow superior to the rest of humanity.
That's the driving force of the U.S.A.
That supremely misguided idea that they are NUMBER 1 in EVERYTHING.
That's how Abu-Grahaib can happen.
That shit was textbook "American Mentality with an Army-twist"
HA HA, subhuman Iraqis! WE OWN YOU.
That's how John Lennon can be murdered near the stroke of midnight while his killer gets to relax in a well-monitored setting for the rest of his life.
I wonder why he's not on death row.
Is he?
Shouldn't that death-date have come and gone?
Yes it did: December 10th 1980.
In less than 24 hrs the authorities knew who they had and what he'd done.
Hell, minutes after the shooting, when a police cruiser arrived, Chapman was excitedly shrieking for the police not to "hurt him".
Coward.
It's so tragically sad that John was gunned down by a man so monumentally cowardly.
Don't extend any graces to anybody- the person standing next to you is probably a terrorist.
Where should my moral compass be?
Huh?
There is great hope, though:
If Michael Moore has got the celluloid that I think he does,
we might actually see Dubya impeached and thrown out on his ear like he should have been 5 years ago.
Bring The Pain Mike.
We're all ready to see this administration crumble.
Destroy it with the truth buddy.
Unload again.
You're stronger than when you made Fahrenheit.
What doesn't kill you...
Do it brother. I know you will.
Kill them with Selluloid.
The film is mightier than the pen.
The wrath, indeed...
"Set the controls for the heart of the Sun" - Pink Floyd
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