These Colors Run Dead

There is a style of flag in the U.S. that is pattered on the American flag, but is entirely black and while save to a blue band running in the middle were it should be white. A more extreme variant has it in a Punisher skull (like in the Marvel comics). This flag is called the "Blue Lives Matter" flag to most, and "The Thin Blue Line" flag to those who wave it. The idea is that the "thin blue line" is the barrier between "Order" (good, law-abiding citizens) and "Chaos" (deviant criminals and anarchists) and that law enforcement protects "Order" from "Chaos". But that is bullshit!

For one, law enforcement is the "Order"! They are its agents of enforcement. And for another, freedom — true freedom; the type Conservatives clam they want and Libertarians are more honest about — is inherently chaotic. More over, the Punisher skull variant undermines this, as it is naked display authority without justice. Cops who spot this would be less subtle with a Judge Dredd badge or if they pack Dirty Harry's Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum like they want the world to know that they are packing a baby-dick. Law enforcement idealizing a psycho who'll shoot a jaywalker is comically on the nose.

What that flag is about is just fascism, plan is simple. It is about the police-state. It is about subjugation of "The Other". It is about enabling corruption by those in power. It is about maintaining a system even when it is broken. It is the banner of the Evil Empire!

There is a reason why people are risking COVID-19 in protest. There is a reason why the burning of the Third Precinct police station in Minneapolis was a good thing. For too long, the police suffer from the "If Your Only Tool Is a Hammer Then Every Problem Looks Like a Nail" dilemma with their training. They are too reliant on firearm training and lack de-escalation skills. Are are also no better than a gang. The police culture — an informal wall of silence among members of law enforcement — is more in keeping to frat boys and organized crime, which puts the welfare of the so-called "bad apples" above any semblance of justice, with "bad apples" being a comical euphemism used by police agencies to dismiss individuals who were caught, despite them being the products of law enforcement training (no to mention the fact that the full statement is "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch", which is appropriate but always with a dumb sense of irony).

I grew-up knowing how useless the police are when you live in a "red-lined" neighborhood. I grew-up seeing how the police behave when they think know one is looking. I grew-up knowing the actions law enforcement takes when someone crosses them. I grew-up knowing that the wife and kids of a cop have no were to turn to if they are abused by him, nor can they ever escape. I grew-up hearing that the legal system dont give a damn about rape-victims how cops who rape can just get away with it. And due to all that, I grew-up with not respect for authority or the system.

Until they get their shit together the social contract is broken. Their badge — their authority — is meaningless. The scale and the gavel is broken. People should see them no better than another street gang (black people been doing that forever) and we should fight to keep our streets safe. This is nothing new in the US. In the '60s, The Black Panther Moment formed to deal with racist cops. People forget that the most successful insurrection in the United States was the Battle of Athens in 1946, and that involved a shootout with over two-hundred Sharif Deputies (who were in a prison house rigging a local election) loosing to scores of armed WWII veterans. (I don't think gun-rights activists ever bring this event up, ever. Even though is about good-guys-with-guns fighting tyranny and winning. Its like they don't want to alienate their blue-lives supporters.) I'm not saying that people should embrace mindless mayhem and lawlessness, nor am I saying that we should kill cops (I mean, outside of self-defense). No, we can do better! If there is going to be stability, there needs to be accountability as well as better methods of peacekeeping, and the only way to get there is to dismantle the system and makes something better, even it its from the ground-up.

 

Until then...

 

This Machine (Terrorist?) Kills Fascists!

Well, it seems that as an anti-fascist person — as any good American would be — I am now deemed a criminal terrorist.

My little Punk Rock heart is now all a flutter. ;)

Much like how the Russian and Chinese governments only allowing "state-approved" (that is, pro-state) Hip-hop/Rap and rock music within their countries, you can make almost anything infinitely cooler by having an authoritarian figure and/or state tell people that something is criminal (not to mention the amazing underground scenes). And in the case of Punk Rock and Hip-hop, that gives a lot of creed to the genre and performers.

So in these troubled times, just remember what we did back in WWII:

THIS... is how you make 'Merica great again!

And to all the folks who like to march goosestep to the drums of a dickless "strong leader", well...

Oh, and for anyone who is going to bitch that I'm calling Corporal Bone-Spurs "Another Hitler", I am not, as that would be giving him waaay too much credit. He is just a dumber, frumpier Mussolini.

Running for Capital Hell and The Whorehouse

My growing frustration with Washington has reached the boiling point! I found out that Megauplod(dot-com) was busted, and all their equipment seized. Natually, this just happened after the big SOPA protest. With the treasonous National Defense Authorization Act green-lighted by both sides (to me, anyone who sighed-off on that deserves to be detained indefinitely and waterboarded), and how they tried to poss two bills (SOPA and PIPA) that only benefits a few fat-bastards who are as greedy and bloated as themselves (Hollywood, the record inds., big pharmaceuticals, cabal companies, etc.), I am loosing faith in the system. Yes, the old-farts had no clue about the internet, and the people spoke-up to get the bill defeated, but that is not going to stop them form passing another shitty ass bill that would reduce the Constitution to a piece of toilet-paper!

They are all dead to me! >:(

They don't answer to us - the tax-paying people - they only answer to their big corporate suger-daddies! I could say "Get the bums out!", but who would replaces them? We would just get stuck with another bunch of greedy, incompetent assholes! The Teaparty Movement tried to change the Capital by bringing new blood, but they prove to be a bunch of retards and sellouts!

Right now the media is too focused no that political game show I call The Biggest Looser, where a bunch of mega-yuppies compete to show America who is the biggest anti-Christ, and send him to the Whor... er, Whitehorse. (yes, I know "anti-Christ" is a strong term, but I dont see it in terms of that one guy who will become "The Beast", but more on the terms of moral hypocrites like Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps, who call themselves "Christian" but have no clue what Jesus was really about - he was a spiritual rebel, who rejected much of what the Bible had to say). They all follow the Cult of Regen - who's economic policies failed twice already. They put WAY too much trust in big business to do right. They say they what less government, but only one will deliver, but that guy is not content until the US is a Mad Max version of itself, but he thinks we'll get a utopia out of it. They are all fucking jokes!

I know its hard to believe that a crazy-ass like myself would have such a view, but I see things with a balanced approach. Too much government is a grinding and rigged bureaucracy at the vary least, or a police-state at the vary worst. Too little government means no one gets help, and robber-barons fill the power-vacuum. I like a degree of government control, like business regulations, environmental protection, product safety standards, anti-trust laws, political campaign restrictions, building permits, and so on. We dont need a lot of nonsensical nanny-state laws or a draconian legal system, but it needs to be appropriate and maintain a balance of powers. Unfortunately people get a little political and/or economic power, and they loose their heads.

Well I see Governor Walker (WI - R) getting recalled by overwhelming numbers in the TV, and it is giving me such a schadenboner. >=D