#OUTRAGE! RIOTS!! ANARCHY!!!

[opedguy]

Protests Spread in Iran

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Sept. 29, 2022.--When 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Iran’s Basij militia Sept. 13 for wearing her hijab too loosely, it wasn’t a good thing.  Mahsa was returned dead Sept. 17, beaten to death with a truncheon by what the people call the “moral police,” a group of thugs paid by the Iranian government to maintain strict Sharia law in Iran.  Mahsa’s death sparked rioting in 80 cities and towns around the Islamic Republic, with young women cutting their hair and burning hijabs or face scarves.  Activists around Iran called for death to the mullah regime that had an iron grip on Iran since Ayatollah Ruhollah’s1979 Islamic Revolution.  Americans don’t forget the U.S. Embassy in Tehran seized by Shiite radicals, taking 54 U.S. hostages, holding them for 444 days until President Ronald Reagan was inaugurate Jan. 20, 1981.  Since then, the U.S. has had to diplomatic relations with Iran.

Protests spreading across Iran spark the possibility of revolution against the mullah regime of 83-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose appointed President cleric Ibrahim Raisi agrees wholeheartedly with Iran’s strict dress code for women.  Attending the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 25, Raisi told CNN’s Persian-background Christiane Amanpour he would not interview her unless she wore a hijab.  Ananpour, who lives in London, rejected Raisi’s demand and the interview never happened.  So, when it comes to women’s rights in Iran, there’s much lost from the days of Shah Reza Pahlavi, whose liberal reforms in Iran were welcomed by almost all, except strict Shiite clerics.  Amnesty International said Iran responded with “unlawful force, including by using live ammunition , birdshot and other mental pellets, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds of others,” Amnesty reported.

Instead of addressing Mahsa’s death head on, the mullah regime continues to do what it always does, use brutal force, including beatings, arrests, detentions and liquidations of protesters, to maintain control.  “For millions of Iranian people right now, the brutal death of Mahsa Amini is becoming a tipping point.  But for the Islamic Republic, the murder of Mahsa Amini is becoming a tipping point because compulsory hijab is not just a small piece of cloth. It’s like the Berlin Wall.  And if Iranian women manage to tear this wall down, the Islamic Republic won’t exist,” said Mash Aliinejad, a U.S.-based women’s rights activist.  Mash knows that protest in the past have been suppressed by Iran’s Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards.  Why Mash thinks things are different this time around is anyone’s guess.  Iran is one of the most brutal regimes on the planet.

President Joe Biden, 79, hoped to spite former President Donald Trump, working to reestablish Obama’s 2015 Iranian Nuke Deal AKA the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], attempting to slow down Iran’s feverish pursuit of an A-Bomb.  Trump cancelled Obama’s JCPOA May 8, 2018, when Iran used Yemen’s Houthi rebels to go to war against Saudi Arabia.  Mahsa’s murder by the Basij carries similar outrage as the Oct. 2, 2018 murder by the Sauid government of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.  Alinejad wants Biden to put Iran on the priority list like Ukraine, where the former Soviet satellite fights for its freedom against the Kremlin.  Iran’s state media brands protesters as “hypocrites, rioters, thugs and seditionists,” all attributing the nationwide protests to anarchy against the Islamic Republic.  U.N. High Commission of Human Rights called for an independent investigation.

Protesters chanted “Women, Live, Liberty” while chopping off their hair and burning hijabs, a symbol of strict Sharia law, something imposed on Iranians since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.  Raisi showed his Islamic zealotry at the U.S. General Assembly, demanding a respected international journalist wear a hijab if they wanted an interview.  So when it comes to the common people, the same fanaticism exists with the Basij militia known to crack heads for teenage girls putting on lipstick or listening to Western music.  Iran’s Basij thinks they can control every aspect of Iranian life, constantly threatening ordinary people with beatings, arrests, disappearance and liquidations. Saeid Golkar, professor political science professor at the Univ. of Tennessee, called on the Biden to take Iran as seriously as Ukraine, saying the Iranian people deserve freedom too.

  Iran’s women protest movement faces daunting challenges fighting off the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards.  Golkar is kidding himself thinking that during a bloody proxy war against the Russian Federation, the White House can take on Iran’s internal problems.  With the Basij murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, it’s doubtful that Khamenei or Raisi will apologize to the Iranian people or, far less likely, actually change the Islamic Republic’s hijab policy.  Biden has too much fish to fry battling Russia in Ukraine to take on liberating of Iran.  Iran’s sporadic protests are usually set down by the mullah government, using unrelenting force on protesters.  How Golkar and other Iranian freedom-activists think Biden can take on Iran’s problems is anyone’s guess.  Over 41 protesters have died for Mahsa Amini but the mullah regime is prepared to massacre many more to stay in power.

About the Author  

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

[sobsicles]

so like, how are they gonna end it? with mary burning on the ceiling?

#literally no one wanted this #and before you say 'oh im actually looking forward to it' or "oh im definitely happy about it' or 'well some people are excited' #that's. that's not what i meant #i meant literally NO ONE asked for this. #like absolutely no one was like. ah yes i would like a prequel! oh about the shitty parenting no less!!! #while a lot of people were over here waiting on the reboot to fix destiel and the mistakes of the show #i was ovee here secretly begging mr. jackles to make something of the wayward girls spin off. #so you mean to tell me we cant have more of jody and donna and claire and kaia and patience and alex???? #OUTRAGE! RIOTS!! ANARCHY!!! #anyways seriously what are they gonna do? end it with mary burning on the ceiling? okay lmao #sobs says things

[nothingbutalgae]

In case you are curious about what it's been like living in Minnesota the past year, I think this sums it up pretty well.

#there were a lot of legitimate protests in the wake of geo.rge flo.yds murder but people took it as a 'oh cool we can do this whenever' #people started shutting down streets and looting a target after a guy committed suicide with a gun while fleeing from cops last year #HE WAS A MURDER SUSPECT BTW AND HE KILLED HIMSELF #and people were outraged and started looting shit. its like ???????? #nobody waits for any facts now. they just jump to it and its like hang on plz wait 5 minutes #and then c.ops keep quitting in mass bc they are so sick of being treated like garbage whenever they go #and then people have the nerve to be like WHY ARENT THE C.OPS DOING THEIR JOB. THIS IS WHY ACAB #and its like THEY SHOW UP TO SHO.OTING SCENES AND NOBODY WANTS TO COOPERATE WITH THEM? THEY GET SCREAMED AT CONSTANTLY FOR EXISTING? #WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? NOBODY WANTS TO BE A CO.P NOWADAYS ESPECIALLY IN THIS STATE/THE CITIES #god its so annoying #and then like the crime rates have gotten worse and there's been so many shootings and carjackings over the past year and street racing #wanting to re.form the pol.ice is totally fine and understandable! but you need to have a plan in place so its not fucking anarchy???? #living here the past year has been a fucking nightmare #seriously every time i see a crime thing im just like '....' #i watched a video of a guy killing himself last year bc the pol.ice tweeted it to get people to stop rioting from thinking they killed him #its just been a shitshow. seriously look up crime in mn in the past year and yeah. #oh i just looked up crime in m.n and apparently we had a record number of murders last year! Amazing! love this state! #fuck man

[pplaidshirt]

The wrath riots

.

Everyone was angry,

Everyone’s a little enraged

We had lost years simmering

In this collective outrage.

The individual voices had long since

Sunk down to hushed whisperings

Lost and forgotten,

To become one with the winds.

We had been far too calm

And far too composed

The time was too high

To keep up the peace and repose.

So, we stood, stood strong

With our heads held high

The war was too real,

To persist in a condensed quiet.

.

Under one belief, one motive,

The procession assembles

With one war-cry bringing us all together.

But with time, the agendas dissipate

Though the march keeps moving,

Moving forward.

As the slogans start to die out

A murmured dissent fills the air

Reckless rage ignites further anger

With confused speeches at every corner.

A mob forms as the crowd turn to chaos

What started as a resolution

Is now an open ended riot.

.

Everyone's a lot angrier

Everyone's outright enraged

The original notion's forgotten

Forgotten motto stands betrayed.

Smoked up and pelted, the steps stay unabated

But the uprising isn't anymore

For which it was originally created.

Our blind actions are fury personified

And we have tongues tipped as knives.

Slashing, lashing new wounds as we speak

We further bleed through the cuts we wreak.

We stomp our feet and shout our demands

But the crown doesn't heed to a  discordant stand.

Baseless anarchy justified with sheer hatred

So now they say, that our vision was never clear in its intent.

Aimless and erratic, the populace soon loses its path

What started as a revolution has ended in riot of wrath.

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~ aranya

#wrath #riots #poetry #poetrycorner #writerscreed #poetryportal #poetselixir #poeticstories #spilled ink #anger #angst #spilled poetry #blotched words #blotched poetry #poetic prose

[guide-to-the-groove]

A Sublime Portent of the Future

Everyone has heard Sublime before: What I Got, Doin’ Time, and Garden Grove from their eponymous 1996 album are all timeless classics with a funky beat and some unsavoury lyrics. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy the occasional swear word in their music? A well placed “fuck“ can speak volumes, and the voice of the late Bradley Nowell is especially adept at delivering these expletives, and with great effect. Perhaps to the greatest effect in the song “April 29, 1992 (Miami)”, also from the album Sublime, which remains not only relevant today, but serves as a chilling prediction for the future, intentional or not.

If you haven’t heard the song, take a listen here.

It is no secret the members of Sublime are white, and that is important to note when examining this song and its subject matter, as some may feel the members of Sublime would be unfit to cover such a racially-charged topic. The title itself, while incorrect (Nowell opens with “April 26, 1992″, cited as being kept in because it sounded better) refers to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that occurred after four police officers viciously beat Rodney King, a 25 year old black man (albeit not to death, as one may unfortunately come to expect today). The community was outraged, but like any sensible folk, did not resort to abject destruction. Instead, faith was placed in the justice system to carry out its duty. As we now know, justice was not delivered, the police were acquitted, by a jury, of using excessive violence, despite video evidence. Following this outright slap in the face, riots explode across the United States. Does this sound familiar?

It is at this moment in time the riots begin, and while we hear reference to them in many a song, but we would not hear Sublime’s recount of the events until 1996, four years later. The song begins with some various police radio chatter, from Southern California, before Nowell cuts in, “April 26, 1992 / There were riots on the streets, tell me where were you? / You were sittin’ home on your TV / While I was participating in some anarchy” While not core to the song’s message, it is worth pointing out that while this line seems to be a diss towards folks merely observing the rioting from their home, but appears more apt as an observation toward the increasing presence of the media covering major social issues, almost 24/7, for the entire country and even the world to see.

Nowell continues to describe he and his crew’s escapades, taking advantage of the riots to partake in some good old fashioned looting, the tried and true counterpart to any major civil unrest. Looting only makes everyone involved look bad, especially doing so maliciously, but this is merely a pretext, and it goes without saying that the members of Sublime were not the only participants. Of course, this turns from looting to a more serious issue, with Nowell relenting, “’Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here / It’s getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year” An obvious fact, and the riots themselves a reference to this: the culmination of pent up aggression towards a heartless society. Even preceding this, we hear “Homicide, never doin’ no time”, a phrase that, when applied to police, rings true to this day. Nowell briefly describes a side of looting not often acknowledged, singing, “Some kids went in the store with their mother / I saw her when she came out she was gettin’ some Pampers” While protesting often becomes rioting and looting, usually at the hands of more unruly types seeking to exploit unrest, some people, driven to extremes, might take advantage of things for the sake of their family. Again, while not a core part of the song, it paints a broader picture of what was going on.

As much as I’ve mentioned the “core” of the song, we have yet to begin exploring it. So enough stalling: depressingly relevant lyrics, ho! Ahem. Anyway, Nowell continues with the final verses , “They said it was for the black man / They said it was for the Mexican, and not for the white man / But if you look at the streets, it wasn’t about Rodney King / It’s this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up police / It’s about comin’ up, and stayin’ on top / and screamin’ 1-8-7 on a motherfuckin’ cop” The song goes on for a few more verses before Nowell begins listing off cities where rioting took place--another hauntingly accurate prediction of the future--and the majority of the aforementioned swearing occurs in this part of the song. Saving them for these poignant lines sweetens the delivery, and leaves a powerful message when paired with the preceding scene laid out for us: The issue transcends Rodney King, as we have seen with Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd. It transcends even them, as the inherent problem lies with the police and not only their abject aggression and tendency to violence, but a clear and disturbing racial bias against minorities. While the song appears as a brag by uninvolved white men to some, I believe the song is more pertinent not only as a vision of a future world Bradley Nowell would never come to know, but as a strong anthem against police brutality (despite the pro-looting intro). I truthfully think that the members of Sublime would still wholly support screaming 1-8-7 on a motherfuckin’ cop.

Oh, and by the way, 187 is California Penal Code for murder.

Thanks for reading.

-G

Sources:

https://www.culledculture.com/sublime-april-29-1992/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/los-angeles-riots-quotes_n_1456782

https://thepolypost.com/arts-and-entertainment/2017/04/25/article_6b5b5bdc-29ee-11e7-ba86-2b08554a8e4a/

https://banana1015.com/april-29-1992-miami-why-the-sublime-songs-name-doesnt-match-the-lyrics/

https://www.sfweekly.com/music/twenty-years-later-sublimes-april-29-1992-miami-is-still-the-best-song-about-white-boys-piggy-backing-on-a-riot/

#sublime #music review #song review

[love-and-anarchy-au]

Love & Anarchy: Chapter 26

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CANT BELIEVE ITS ALREADY 2021 AND THAT WE’RE ARE IN THE LAST CHAPTER OF THE SECOND PART OF L&A :’) ace, this is a chapter i was EAGER to post, as you’ve been asking for it since chapter one; here you got it xd  i loved writing this chapter SO MUCH, as i hate this character as much as you do xd anyways, i must stop talking and you may start reading this chapter. hope you had a nice beginning of the year! <3

REMEMBER THIS AU HAPPENS IN THE SAME UNIVERSE THAT THIS ONE

Find out what this AU is about here

Masterlist

WARNING: this chapter includes murder, violence and blood.

Tag list: @healing-winston-pratt @honey-hippie-harper @obsidianfr3sk @nodrianbcyes @everyone-has-a-nightmare @magykaldealings @redassassin @cerenoya @cassin-the-assasin @cindersnightmare

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Part 2: A teen named Ace Artino

17 years old Alec

    Alec had something to do.

    Actually, he had many things to do, but above all of them, one.

    Gatlon City was a great disaster, the most beautiful and chaotic orchestra Alec had ever experienced. The message had worked like a nuclear-social bomb. The streets looked like Troy, drenched in blood and horror and violence and art made of these blood. The riots spread like a virus; one day, the suburbs were ‘peaceful’ and the next one, there were corpses in the front yards of the houses. The news channels had stopped broadcasting the news about the Anarchists and their cause, not to spread it, although it was already too late.

    The damage was being done.

    Alec was walking down the street, with his helmet not in his head, but kept in a backpack that Leroy had lent him instead. He could not wear the helmet on the streets if he intended not to catch people’s attention or draw violence to himself, so he kept it  safe against his chest, like a second heart.

    What would he be without that helmet?

    Nothing.

    At all.

    He inhaled and quickened his pace. Around him, everything was distant screams, joint silences, assaults, uncontrolled policemen, free prodigies and dead prodigies. The cars passed at full speed, desperate to escape from that crazy circus, but two blocks were enough until they crashed with another car whose owners were as desperate to run away as they were. People were beginning to accumulate fear, while every day more and more prodigies were seen using their powers as the free beings they were. Alec's chest always swelled with pride at the sight of eight-eyed humans returning boulders, wind elementals generating whirlwinds, and even his Anarchists, spreading chaos and inspiring more prodigies to join his fight.

    Alec had never felt so much hope in his life; it was as if each one of the chains that bounded him were breaking suddenly, letting him levitate a little more. His school closing its doors due to an internal riot, crack, a few inches above the ground. Gatlon’s park populated by vengeful prodigies, crack, a little higher. His Anarchists fighting the police and the military, beating them, crack, he was about to touch the sky with his fingertips.

    But a chain was still there.

    And he was going to get rid of it.

    He finally reached the apartment at Drain Way and Southwest 435, hid over the entrance, and forced the glass door open with his invisible hands. He would destroy it, when he left that sty, to never come back.

    He walked down the hall, each step rumbling in his chest, until he reached the elevator. Summoning it with his mind, he slammed it down, opened the metal doors, and  got in it. Like someone throwing a ball into the sky, Alec took the elevator up in a second.

    Until he reached the apartment where his father and brother lived.

    And where, until a few weeks ago, he did too.

    He got out of the elevator, went to the door of his old apartment, and before entering, he put on his helmet. He gradually felt how everything around him existed and how he could manipulate it as he pleased. He straightened his back, took a breath and a decision, and kicked the door open with an invisible but equally violent kick.

    He minimally entered the apartment, and slammed the door with his invisible hands, locking it. The general view of the apartment was just as deplorable as the last time Alec had been there. The armchair full of stains from different origins, the individual plastic table, the kitchen with a mini freezer and a microwave, the hallway that led to the bathroom and the bedrooms. Alec hated every inch of that hell.

    He inhaled and looked ahead.

    Dante Artino was sitting in one of the only two chairs in the apartment. His image was as intimidating as ever: the spread legs, the hunched back, the empty beer bottle in one hand and the lit cigarette in the other, the rough and unshaven beard from who knew when, the red eyes, the mouth forming a contemptuous grin, the growls in his throat.

    All his life Alec had flinched at that image and waited for the first blow.

    But not this time.

    He straightened his back even further and, with his mind, he pulled five leather belts from his backpack. He unscrewed them in one stroke and threw them at Dante like snaking whips; they wrapped around his legs and arms, exerted pressure, and brought him to his knees to the ground. A belt pulling each leg, each arm, and of his neck, keeping him still.

    Alec untied his father's belt with his mind, and drew it to his hand like a magnet.

    He unrolled it.

    He looked into his father's eyes.

    He tensed his jaw.

    And he struck the first blow.

    One by one, he took revenge for each bruise, each tear, each plea, each trauma that this man had generated on him. A whip on the cheek, another on the temple, one on the arms. The other belts tugged and tugged on Dante Artino, making sure he didn't move an inch. The man gasped and spat blood but said nothing at all.

    That frustrated Alec.

    So he insisted.

    He raised his right arm even higher and dropped it with a brutal lash over Dante's left eye.

    Blow for blow.

    “Bastard,” Alec growled and whipped him once more.

    Insult for insult.

    “Useless rat.”

    He pressed harder on Dante's neck.

    “Asshole.”

    He pulled on his arms until they were dislocated.

     “Parasite.”

    He broke his legs.

     “Villain.”

    He gave ten alternating lashes on each cheek.

    Hit for hit, insult for insult.

    He stopped for air.

    He didn't gasp, he didn't hunch over.

    With his invisible hands, he drew the belts towards him, causing Dante to hang in the air, like he did when he was a child, in the same position.

    Alec spat at him.

    “You ruined my life,” Alec muttered, looking at the person who called himself his father in the eyes.

    Dante laughed cheekily.

    “You ruined your life, useless rat,” he replied, and Alec's anger was heightened by his bewilderment.

    He twisted the leather belt, tightening it around Dante's neck further.

    “I’m. Not. An. Useless. Rat,” Alec emphasized, with every tug and pressure exerted on Dante's body.

    “Yes. You. Are,” Dante replied, in the same way. He was hanging and he still found the strength to harass his son.

    Alec roared angrily, outraged.

    “NO, I’M NOT! I’M A GOD; I’M THE VOICE OF THIS AGE!”

    Dante frowned and gathered all his strength to return his son's spit, only his was  impregnated  with blood and alcohol.

    “You are just an useless bastard that evolved into a mad villain with aspirations of an impossible greatness.”

    Alec squealed, enraged.

    “I’M NOT MAD! I’M NOT A VILLAIN! I NEVER WAS, I AM NOT, AND I’LL NEVER BE, THOUGH YOU CALLED ME THAT ALL MY LIFE, YOU BASTARD, YOU ASSHOLE, YOU...!”

    Dante didn't lose his cool calm when Alec ran out of insults obscene enough to describe him appropriately, and he replied, with a superior smile.

    “Yes, you are. And I’ll always despise you because of that.”

    ‘Enough’, said Alec's trigger.

    He was not mad.

    He was not a villain.

    He was a god.

    And gods gave their verdict.

    He did the same.

    He let his mental hands lose control as he directed all his fury to them and they pulled so hard on the belts that Dante's head was separated from his body in the blink of an eye.

    The head rolled on the ground, leaving a trail of blood, as satisfying as it was macabre.

    Dante Artino was dead.

    And his own son had murdered him.

    Just like he deserved it.

    Alec did not feel an inch of guilt; he just felt thirsty. He wanted more, more blood with which to satisfy his appetite for revenge after having lost so much to that man and many more. He needed to see suffering in those who had made him suffer, agony in those who had ruined him. That act of justice had not satiated him, no matter how much he had prolonged and squeezed it to get the most out of it.

    He still needed other people's pain to avenge his.

    Alec smiled, kicked Dante's head like someone would kick a ball to make a score, and left the apartment.

    He would find it in the streets.

#love & anarchy #love & anarchy au #ace anarchy's backstory #ace anarchy #a teen named ace artino #ace artino #alec artino #alec james artino #dante artino #marissa meyer #my au #au #renegades au #renegades #before renegades #my fic #fic #tw: blood #tw: murder #tw: violence #renegades fandom

[eretzyisrael]

Hijacking justice for George Floyd and African-Americans to promote hatred of Jews and Israel - by Jonathan Tobin

Jews share the pain of those who protest racism. But extremists who link this crime to Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Palestinian terror are spreading a big lie.

The outrageous murder in Minneapolis of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, by local police is a crime that cannot be tolerated or excused. Efforts by extremist agitators to hijack peaceful demonstrations and turn them into violent riots should also be condemned and not falsely rationalized as a form of legitimate protest or part of a necessary path to progress. Sensible people know both those things can be equally true, and that concerns about the anarchy in the streets of major cities shouldn’t diminish our anger about Floyd’s death or any other crime that appears rooted in racism. This perilous moment in American history should have created a consensus about the need to address both injustice and nihilist violence that ought to transcend partisanship. That is why Jewish organizations and religious groups have joined with people of faith throughout the denominational spectrum to express their dismay about what happened to Floyd, as well as their desire to combat prejudice. But not everyone is prepared to observe the political ceasefire most Americans would prefer to observe in the wake of these traumas. And, as always, some of those looking to exploit tragedy are attacking Jews. That was made clear when a synagogue and Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized in Los Angeles with pro-Palestinian propaganda. In and of itself, that would be terrible, but those buildings were just a few out of the innumerable places around the country that suffered the same indignity or worse. The context for that incident—and the spate of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate that has flourished in recent days on the Internet—is not random anger that could have been directed at any target, no matter how removed it might be from the incident that set off this crisis. Such incitement is the direct product of an intersectional movement that has continued to attempt to link crimes committed on American streets against African-Americans with the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. And just like other forms of prejudice for which there should be no tolerance, the effort to blame Israel or Jews for what rogue American cops might do needs to be clearly labeled as a form of hate speech. The effort to manufacture a connection between slayings of African-Americans with Israel isn’t new. The notion that the struggle for civil rights in the United States is connected to the Palestinian war on Israel has become a staple of the BDS movement. It is rooted in intersectionality, an idea that has gained popularity in certain sectors of academia. (Continue to Full Column)

#antisemitism as anti-zionism #intersectionality

[thepatriotplace-blog]

The Patriot Warrior Class

Its been awhile since I’ve posted on Tumblr. In fact I actually kind of forgot I had the account. I created this account a few years ago and I named it “the patriot place”. Pretty self explanatory.

Let me tell you about me. I am first and foremost a patriotic American. I have always called myself a patriot. I’ve been a libertarian party member for many years. I’ve voted in many POTUS general elections for the libertarian candidate (with the exception of 2x). I’ve always had a deep love for the US constitution have spoken out about the blatant corruption of the constitution that has been going on in America my whole life.

I also consider myself a warrior. Although I have never served in the military I was a police officer for 25 years and have since retired. My duties as a police officer included SWAT and emergency tactical medicine. I have been trained by the best warriors America has to offer.

Since the election of Donald Trump (who I didn’t vote for) I have seen the rapid decay of the Libertarian Party. It has become polluted with progressives, pedophiles and people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. My interactions with the neo-libertarians has been sad. Justin Amash has completely flipped in my view and I align more with Rand Paul than I do with Ron Paul. Jo Jorgesen who is the Libertarian’s Party POTUS candidate is and her public support of a Marxist organization was the last straw for me. I am no longer a member of the libertarian party.

I now consider myself a member of the patriot warrior class. I am prepared to fight and die for the Republic and its constitution. I took an oath to uphold the constitution of the United States and that doesn’t end when there is  (Ret.) at the end of my name. There are many like me. Men and women who served and are currently serving to protect our Republic who believe in what I believe in are what will save this country from the Marxist insurrection, which is back politically by the Democrat Party and financed by the CCP and George Soros that is taking place within the US’s borders.

The neo-libertarians wont fight for the Republic. They are feckless and nothing more than internet bottle throwers and trolls. Their mentality is the same as the progressives, ‘Burn it down at all costs to get Trump out.”

The single most important event that turned the page in this chapter in my life had to be Trump’s speech at the National Archives Museum on Constitution Day. I have never heard a politician since Reagan deliver a speech more patriotic than this speech. I’ve included the transcript of that speech. So I will end this post with this.... In 2020 I will vote Vote Trump.

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you, Mike. A great Vice President. I am truly honored to be here at the very first White House Conference on American History. So important.

Our mission is to defend the legacy of America’s founding, the virtue of America’s heroes, and the nobility of the American character. We must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms, and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. We want our sons and daughters to know that they are the citizens of the most exceptional nation in the history of the world. (Applause.)

To grow up in America is to live in a land where anything is possible, where anyone can rise, and where any dream can come true — all because of the immortal principles our nation’s founders inscribed nearly two and a half centuries ago.

That’s why we have come to the National Archives, the sacred home of our national memory. In this great chamber, we preserve our glorious inheritance: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

On this very day in 1787, our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. It was the fulfillment of a thousand years of Western civilization. Our Constitution was the product of centuries of tradition, wisdom, and experience. No political document has done more to advance the human condition or propel the engine of progress.

Yet, as we gather this afternoon, a radical movement is attempting to demolish this treasured and precious inheritance. We can’t let that happen. (Applause.) Left-wing mobs have torn down statues of our founders, desecrated our memorials, and carried out a campaign of violence and anarchy. Far-left demonstrators have chanted the words “America was never great.” The left has launched a vicious and violent assault on law enforcement — the universal symbol of the rule of law in America. These radicals have been aided and abetted by liberal politicians, establishment media, and even large corporations.

Whether it is the mob on the street, or the cancel culture in the boardroom, the goal is the same: to silence dissent, to scare you out of speaking the truth, and to bully Americans into abandoning their values, their heritage, and their very way of life.

We are here today to declare that we will never submit to tyranny. We will reclaim our history and our country for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed.

The radicals burning American flags want to burn down the principles enshrined in our founding documents, including the bedrock principle of equal justice under law. In order to radically transform America, they must first cause Americans to lose confidence in who we are, where we came from, and what we believe. As I said at Mount Rushmore — which they would love to rip down and it rip it down fast, and that’s never going to happen — two months ago, the left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.

As many of you testified today, the left-wing rioting and mayhem are the direct result of decades of left-wing indoctrination in our schools. It’s gone on far too long. Our children are instructed from propaganda tracts, like those of Howard Zinn, that try to make students ashamed of their own history.

The left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, and lies. There is no better example than the New York Times’ totally discredited 1619 Project. This project rewrites American history to teach our children that we were founded on the principle of oppression, not freedom.

Nothing could be further from the truth. America’s founding set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism, and built the most fair, equal, and prosperous nation in human history. (Applause.)

The narratives about America being pushed by the far-left and being chanted in the streets bear a striking resemblance to the anti-American propaganda of our adversaries — because both groups want to see America weakened, derided, and totally diminished.

Students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory. This is a Marxist doctrine holding that America is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression, and that our entire society must be radically transformed. Critical race theory is being forced into our children’s schools, it’s being imposed into workplace trainings, and it’s being deployed to rip apart friends, neighbors, and families.

A perfect example of critical race theory was recently published by the Smithsonian Institution. This document alleged that concepts such as hard work, rational thinking, the nuclear family, and belief in God were not values that unite all Americans, but were instead aspects of “whiteness.” This is offensive and outrageous to Americans of every ethnicity, and it is especially harmful to children of minority backgrounds who should be uplifted, not disparaged.

Teaching this horrible doctrine to our children is a form of child abuse in the truest sense of those words. For many years now, the radicals have mistaken Americans’ silence for weakness. But they’re wrong.

There is no more powerful force than a parent’s love for their children. And patriotic moms and dads are going to demand that their children are no longer fed hateful lies about this country. American parents are not going to accept indoctrination in our schools, cancel culture at our work, or the repression of traditional faith, culture, and values in the public square. Not anymore. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

We embrace the vision of Martin Luther King, where children are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that to happen.

Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.

That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible. (Applause.)

The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.

Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history. (Applause.)

We are joined by some of the respected scholars involved in this project, including Professor Wilfred McClay. Wilfred, please. Thank you very much. Welcome. (Applause.) Thank you. Dr. Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars. Dr. Peter. (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. And Ted Rebarber. Thank you, Ted. (Applause.) Thank you very much, Ted.

Today, I am also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. It will be called the “1776 Commission.” (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you. It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding. Think of that — 250 years.

Recently, I also signed an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who have ever lived.

Today, I am announcing a new name for inclusion. One of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was a patriot from Delaware. In July of 1776, the Continental Congress was deadlocked during the debate over independence. The delegation from Delaware was divided. Caesar Rodney was called upon to break the tie.

Even though he was suffering from very advanced cancer — he was deathly ill — Rodney rode 80 miles through the night, through a severe thunderstorm, from Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote for independence.

For nearly a century, a statue of one of Delaware’s most beloved citizens stood in Rodney Square, right in the heart of Wilmington.

But this past June, Caesar Rodney’s statue was ordered removed by the mayor and local politicians as part of a radical purge of America’s founding generation.

Today, because of an order I signed, if you demolish a statue without permission, you immediately get 10 years in prison. (Applause.) And there have been no statues demolished for the last four months, incredibly, since the time I signed that act.

Joe Biden said nothing as to his home state’s history and the fact that it was dismantled and dismembered. And a Founding Father’s statue was removed.

Today, America will give this Founding Father, this very brave man, who was so horribly treated, the place of honor he deserves. I am announcing that a statue of Caesar Rodney will be added to the National Garden of American Heroes. (Applause.)

From Washington to Lincoln, from Jefferson to King, America has been home to some of the most incredible people who have ever lived. With the help of everyone here today, the legacy of 1776 will never be erased. Our heroes will never be forgotten. Our youth will be taught to love America with all of their heart and all of their soul.

We will save this cherished inheritance for our children, for their children, and for every generation to come. This is a very important day.

Thank you all once again for being here. Now I will sign the Constitution Day Proclamation. God Bless You. And God Bless America. Thank you very much.

#trump #nationalarchives #libertarian #liberty #freedom #trump2020 #potus45 #potustrump

[readingismyname]

A Few Words On the Capitol Violence

Yesterday, January 6th, 2021, a mob of people organized at the Capitol to protest the Congressional proceedings on the Electoral College votes from the November presidential election.  They breached the Capitol, breaking windows, making their way to the Senate and House chambers and congressional offices, and killed 4 people.  Pipe bombs were diffused.  What happened was inexcusable, horrific, and criminal.  The actions of the rioters are criminal and should be denounced by every American.  Thousands of people had gathered in peaceful protest out of anger not just at the results of the presidential election but at their leaders having failed them.  Though I share this anger, I know that this is no way to express it.  Anger can be a positive or negative emotion, depending on how it is managed and used.  It can either lead to positive, productive change or cause violence and destruction.  Anger is no justification for the behavior that we witnessed yesterday at the Capitol. 

On another note, we must remember the riots that took place last summer after the murder of George Floyd when cities across America experienced murder, looting, property destruction, assault on police officers, and other violent acts.  These acts, just as those done yesterday by people claiming to support President Trump, were inexcusable, unjust, horrific, and just wrong.  The riots last summer were carried out by Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other individuals who were angry about systemic racism in this country, and, as now, their actions obscured and detracted from the real message they were trying to convey.  They were just excuses for anarchy, chaos, and division, and they had nothing to do with George Floyd’s death.  The same can be said of the violence at the Capitol; they really did not have to do with protesting the Electoral College votes, and they had nothing to do with Trump, in actuality.  All of the riots of the past year have been the result of individual choices to engage in criminal behavior.  

The media has rightfully expressed outrage about yesterday’s violence at the Capitol.  This is not the America we should ever be, nor is it the America we are capable of being.  But they failed to express the same outrage about the riots last summer; in fact, they promoted the violence,  They are fine with people being violent when it fits their agenda, but when their opponents do the same thing they are outraged.  Their hypocrisy and double standard on political violence is astounding.  Violence is always wrong, no matter who does it and for what purpose it is done.  

We are better than this.  However, we must see this as a teachable moment.  We need to stop vilifying each other and start listening to each other.  There is enough room at the table for all of us.  Stop shouting and start listening, because you just might learn something.  

#us capitol violence #politics stopthismadness

[freehawaii]

KE AUPUNI UPDATE - JUNE 2020

Keeping in touch and updated on activities regarding the restoration of Ke Aupuni o Hawai`i, the Hawaiian Kingdom.

Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka `Aina I Ka  Pono.

Aloha `Aina at Selma March 25, 1965

The Kingdom Past and Future

The shocking murder of George Floyd under the knee of policeman Derek Chauvin was horrific! What happened was terrible and the outrage it triggered and demands for justice are totally warranted. But the inexcusable, yet now sadly predictable rioting, looting and wanton destruction, shows that America has more serious problems than racial issues; it has a dangerous culture of ignorance, hatred, violence and anarchy.

The knee-to-the-neck almost immediately reminded me of a story titled, “Strangling Hands on a Nation’s Throat” published in a San Francisco newspaper on September 30, 1887. It was referring to what America, with its greedy push for annexation, was doing to Hawaii. The article described a meeting in Hilo where people gathered to sign a petition opposing annexation and to voice their opinions. What ensued was an overwhelming, impassioned expression of Aloha ʻĀina. The clear motivation when our kupuna signed what we now call “The Kuʻe Petition” was Aloha ʻĀina, their deep, abiding love for their country.

Thank God that despite more than a century of Americanization, Aloha ʻĀina is still in the DNA of Hawaiians. We see it every day even amidst the pain and anguish of injustice. Aloha ʻĀina prevails.

Contrast how Americans respond to extremely provocative situations with violence and mayhem; and how Hawaiians with extreme provocations like the overthrow and seizure of our country, all the way to today’s Mauna Kea, Kahuku, Hunananiho… we respond with Aloha ʻĀina. It’s who we are! It is part of our deep culture that embraces and infects everyone who lives in our islands.

Due to many circumstances, including the destabilizing effects of the Covid-crisis, we are entering a time to envision the future we want for Hawaii. Study groups are having deep discussions about many facets of sustainability: our food supply, our economy, our education system, housing, our general health and welfare, orderly communities, preserving the environment, safe and peaceful neighborhoods… making roadmaps for the future.

So, can we Free Hawaii, jump-start and operate the Hawaiian Kingdom? Yes, we can! We are already eminently qualified — not in just with the knowledge and understanding of legal and political status — but in what matters most... Aloha ʻĀina.

Year of the Hawaiian Kingdom

If you are (or if you know of someone who is) interested in being a facilitator for any aspect of the Year of the Hawaiian Kingdom Celebration, please contact: [email protected]

The campaign to Free Hawaii continues to grow ... as soon as this pandemic subsides, we expect significant movement in gaining support from the global community. Your kokua is vital to this effort...

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Your kōkua, large or small, is much appreciated and will help greatly to move this work forward.

To contribute, go to GoFundMe.com/FreeHawaii  

To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, clerical help, etc...) email us at [email protected]  

Also... Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase HERE  

All proceeds go to help the cause. Mahalo Nui Loa!

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Leon Siu

Hawaiian National

#ke aupuni #leon siu #free hawaii #hawaiian kingdom

[theworldisntflatbutitsureis]

make real change

I stand on the side of the protestors who screamed to be heard about the injustice of George Floyd's and every other innocent black person's death at the hands of a racist police system. I understand the frustration at being pushed too many times by police that drove some of those protestors to wreck property and push back. I am outraged at the police response which escalated this behavior, the aggressive and violent actions against peaceful protestors, journalists, and teenagers which turned streets into places of urban warfare and spat in the face of the constitutional democratic rights to protest and free speech.

I recognize the value in the actions of police who have shown solidarity with the cause. I respect the frightening position that law enforcement officers have been placed in, the difficulty that must come with being faced with this level of anger and violence. I acknowledge the life of David Dorn, a retired officer who was shot and killed when responding to a burglary alarm following riots. I condemn the non-black people who have used this situation as an excuse to release their own gratifying dreams of anarchy and violence, taking advantage of the chaos to loot and smash property belonging to innocent people while mobilizing criticism against the ones who are solely trying to impact positive change.

It seems to me that the message of the riots has come across clearly: individuals in this society have been pushed to the point of no return by unresponsive systems that are supposed to be there to stand up for them. This message is clear. Lives have been lost and thousands of dollars of damage have resulted in order for it to be made.

However, it is at this point in the development of these issues that chaos seems to have dominated the problems at hand. The questions being asked by the rational person have shifted from how to address and deconstruct systemic police brutality to how to survive the erupting conflict on the streets. It is necessary now that we refocus the anger and frustration from both sides in order to find a way forward that remembers past injustice and forges systems ingrained with stronger morality and equity for the future.

Change now, requires continued peaceful pressure and an administrative process of rooting out corruption. It will not occur within a day and it will not occur while the streets are still on fire.

Keep protesting. Keep speaking out. Derek Chauvin has been charged with third degree murder but the three officers who stood there and watched need to be tried for complicity. A complaint has been filed against the Minneapolis Police Department by the state of Minnesota but review, follow through, and change need to come next. Keep going. But if you genuinely care about change at this point, don't do it in a way that distracts from the real problems.

#BLACK LIVES MATTER #please read #black lives fucking matter #make real change #blackouttuesday #politics #riots #peace

[opedguy]

Barr Says Trump Detached from Reality

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), June 14, 2022.--Testifying before the Jan. 6 House Select Committee today, 72-year-old former Atty. Gen. William Barr said former President Donald Trump was “detached from reality,” after the Nov. 3, 2020 loss to 79-year-old President Joe Biden.  Trump was told by his inner circle that the election was marred by extensive voter fraud, something that robbed him from a second term. Barr confirmed to the Jan. 6 Select Committee that Trump did not accept his loss to Biden, other than explaining it as election fraud.  Trump’s abysmal approval ratings, due to antagonistic Democrat press, demonized him to the point Trump personified white supremacy, botched the Covid-19 crisis and was responsible to sending the U.S. economy into recession.  Trump didn’t see that by the time the election rolled around, the public was ready to toss him out, even if they voted for a cognitively challenged rival in Biden.

           Jan. 6 Select Committee has been building a case against Trump since Feb. 13, 2020, the date the Senate Judiciary Committee acquitted Trump of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection.”  When you consider the same impeachment managers that worked feverishly to convict Trump are running the House Select Committee it’s outrageous.  Congress, which is not a court of law, doesn’t care about the Constitution’s double-jeopardy clause, prohibiting any criminal defendant from getting tried twice for the same crime.  Congress is a purely political body doing their utmost to rake Trump and his campaign over the coals for a second time. Republicans have objected to the House Democrat hearings putting Trump in double-jeopardy all for politics.  Biden’s historically low approval ratings drag all Democrats down before the November Midterm elections.

           Speaking in Philadelphia today on the economy, Biden’s approval ratings can only go down because he has no answer for his profligate spending, all caused because he’s funding Ukraine’s government and the war.  No government can add over $40 billion funding Ukraine and the war to without repercussions to the U.S. economy.  When Barr talks about Trump being “out of touch with reality,” he’s referring to Trump believing his close advisers that told him that Biden upended him with fraud.  Trump’s legal adviser on the election, Law Prof. John Eastman, said, if nothing else, it was impossible to determine fraud because of universal mail-in ballots.  Barr has nothing to say about how universal mail-in ballots affected the results.  So when it comes to Trump being “out of touch with reality,” Barr refers to the certified results by secretaries of state.

           When it comes to the Nov. 3 election, Trump needs to look at a confluence of unfortunate events that affected the outcome, regardless of what universal mail-in ballots did to the ultimate outcome. It’s undeniable that Covid-19 whipped the public into a bad mood about Trump because the pandemic continued to escalate out of control in 2020.  Trump promised vaccines but they didn’t materialize, as Trump predicted, until after the election.  Yet by the time Pfizer announced the release of its vaccine Nov. 10, 2020 it was already too later  Earlier in 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis cop May 25, 2020, sparking race riots around the country.  Four months of riots, looting and anarchy gave Democrats everything they needed to demonize Trump as a racist and white supremacist.  Democrat-controlled press did everything to demonize Trump in the Nov. 3 presidential election.

           House Democrats all embrace Barr now because he’s willing to denigrate Trump before their biased House Select Committee produces their final report on Jan. 6.  All House Democrats hope to do what House impeachment managers couldn’t do in Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial that ended Feb. 13 in acquittal.  Democrats know that the Jan. 6 riots could have been prevented if the FBI, D.C. and House police did a better job with security around the Capitol on Jan. 6.  When Biden was inaugurated Jan. 20, 2021, there were no security problems at all because the FBI and police did their job setting appropriate security around the Capitol.  Democrats called the Jan. 6 riots an attempted coup, when in fact, it was nothing more than a white backlash to all the race rioting, looting and anarchy over the summer of 2020.  By the time the Nov. 3 election rolled around, Trump was thoroughly demonized.

           Barr, like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Ut.), is a favorite of Democrats now that he’s confirming only one point that Trump that didn’t accept the Nov. 3, 2020 election.  At no time in U.S history has the press been so biased, so committed to getting rid of a U.S. president.  Trump’s approval ratings because of his bad press was about 40%, something artificially set by the Democrat-press.  When it comes to Biden who has the press behind him, his approval ratings are now a 38.9%, abysmally low when you consider the press is behind him.  Trump warned in the campaign of Biden hitting the U.S. with a wrecking ball should he become president.  Now prophetic, Biden has destroyed the economy and foreign policy in a year-and-half.  His Ukraine War has sapped the U.S. economy and wrecked U.S. foreign policy.  Never before has a president done more damage in such little time.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The  Bullet and Operation Charisma

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[omni-han-tyumi]

When humans become reliant on lab grown meat, god becomes angry with them and asks Satan to cook up a disease so foul it wipes humanity away. This disease is called superbug and it’s a highly evolved contagion. That has no weakness or signs of stopping.

“ Superbug coming up   Feels like he'll never stop   Should'a used phages   Instead you took ages “

A long arduous process is killing humanity. Superbug is infecting at a rapid rate but making humans suffer for their sins. Satan and God watch from above and below

“ Superbug gave a shrug   And ate all your prescription drugs   And never, ever, ever stopped   Deadly contagious   And inter-generational   Never ever, ever stops   And never ever gives a fuck “

An inter-generational disease is a terrifying prospect. Imagine having the plague still going on today and having no way to combat it except for hope and basic cleanliness. This is the situation humans are in post-superbug ridden world.

“ Pony up   Join the club   Shake my hand   Let's run amok “

At some point humanity loses it. Realizing they are effectively going extinct they look for any way to save themselves or enjoy their lives while they can. Riots, Looting, and total Anarchy ensues. Adversely, from what we know about ITRN this could be about an upper-class citizen being coerced into either leaving earth to head to mars or to become a cyborg. 

“ Superbug in my blood   Superbug made of the disturbing stuff   Superbug in my blood   Superbug made of the disturbing stuff “

Humanity continues their path to destruction. Going insane over the superbug and what it has done to our world and society. Anarchy is reigning and nobody can stop it or wants to. 

“ Superbug coming up   H1N1 was a flop   Anti-microbial   Resistance is futile “

Since superbug is resistant to drugs and medical sanitation there is no hope for humanity. H1N1 or swine flu was a disease that was fabled to be the big bad one, it was not but this song pokes fun at its meager attempt at ruination compared to superbug.

“ Superbug is like a truck   Penicillin is a duck   That's sitting on the road for luck “

The bug is uncaring in who it kills or infects. Its purpose is to kill and it will do just that. It does not discriminate it embodies death.

“ Faceless and ageless   It's simply outrageous   Never ever, ever stops   And never ever gives a fuck   Unnecessary   Anti-Bs   Likely killed humanity “

Superbug will kill off humanity unless they find a way to counter act it or fight against it somehow...Cyborgs are a possible option.

#KGATLW #SUPERBUG #ITRN #Australia #Music #Hantyumi

[thegreythoughtsblog]

Rambling 91: George floyd Protests and Riots

What happens when you kill an innocent unarmed black man for no reason, but treat armed and dangerous mass murderers with respect because they’re white? A dissection of the George Floyd Protests and Riots, on this episode.

 Story:

After having evaded the coronavirus plague from the safety of their toilet paper castle located in Zombie Island Theme Park, the duo return to civilization to witness a world gone mad with rage. Chaos and anarchy rain the streets. Surprisingly enough, the cause wasn’t even the coronavirus.

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Topics Discussed

Buildings on Fire

Black on Black Racism

Corrupt Media

The “Narrative”

Perspective Shift

Murder of Innocent Unarmed Black Men

Respectful Arrest of Armed White Murderers

Outrage Rioting

Police Struck First

Arresting Peaceful Protesters

Police Attacking Journalists

Police Attack and Arrest Black Senator

Newark N.J. Residents and Police Unite

Cops Vandalize To Frame Protesters

The Second Corona Wave

Ice Cube’s Perspective

Trump Threatens with Martial Law

Trump Threatens to Shoot Protesters

Make Billionaires Fix Racism

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[red-hot-moon]

At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they’ll be creative about it, and do something good besides. Realise their own potentials and finally start doing what they really want to do. Which also presupposes that people don’t want somebody else telling them what to do. That most people are capable of a certain spontaneity, given the option. That, like Richard Hell says, anybody can reinvent him or herself and should. As it is, the punks constitute a form of passive resistance to a slick social order, but the question remains of just what alternatives they are going to come up with. Singing along to “Anarchy” and “White Riot” constitutes no more than a show of solidarity, and there are plenty of people who think this is all no more than a bunch of stupid kids on a faddist’s binge. They’re wrong, because at the very least all of this amounts to a gesture of faith in mass and individual unrealised potentials, which counts for a lot in an era when there are plenty of voices who would tell you that all human behaviour especially including music can be reduced to a formula.

Lester Bangs, Six Days on the Road with the Clash

#lester bangs #the clash #joe strummer #mick jones #paul simonon #topper headon #punk #punk rock #richard hell #new wayfarer

[blackrockandrollmusic-blog]

Rising out of London in the late 1970s, the radical, riotous band X-Ray Spex pioneered a sound and aesthetic that would go on to influence everyone from Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill, to Sonic Youth and Henry Rollins, with lead singer, songwriter, and founder Poly Styrene – otherwise known as Marianne Joan Elliot-Said – renowned for her unique, thrown-together second hand ensembles. At a time when punk was taking over the capital, and leather, chains, and bondage were being adopted by the masses, the singer stuck two fingers up at the scene with her thrifted granny cardigans and shift dresses, plastic-fantastic dayglo jewellery, and signature dental braces.

Before starting X-Ray Spex, Styrene had long had an interest in fashion. Setting up her own market stall on the King’s Road, not far from Vivienne Westwood’s SEX boutique, she sold what she called ‘plastic trash’. “Before she started doing music, she had her own store, and she was really into making jewellery and selling secondhand clothes,” explains Styrene’s daughter, Celeste Bell. “She also worked as a junior buyer for a high street store before the whole music thing, and could have ended up going in that direction. So fashion was always something really important to her life.”

Though punk was supposedly all about anarchy, and carefully considered style might seem more the forté of a manufactured pop band, Styrene understood the importance of image, encouraging her bandmates to cut their hair short and dress themselves in similarly scrabbled-together, thrown-on ensembles. Much like their lyrics, X-Ray Specs’ outrageously original aesthetic was a warrior’s cry against consumerism, and a statement on environmental issues and equality – long before ‘sustainability’ and ‘feminism’ became co-opted by corporations and commercialised for monetary gain.

Released today, Bell’s new book DAYGLO – co-written alongside music biographer Zoë Howe – charts the iconic, underground singer’s legacy, and explores the impact she had on the world through both her music and her style. As well as contributions from those who knew her best, including former bandmates Lora Logic, Paul Dean, and Jak Airport, and those inspired by her, including Kathleen Hanna and Vivienne Westwood, the book also comprises a series of previously unseen excerpts from Styrene’s own notebooks and diaries, on everything from her love of fashion through to her struggle with mental health and the challenges she faced as a woman navigating a heavily male-dominated industry.

Having also pretty much pre-empted the Riot Grrrl movement of the early 1990s, inside the book Bikini Kill founder Kathleen Hanna asserts that, had X-Ray Spex not come before them, her own band might never have come into being. “The idea that just anyone could (start a band) was really big to me,” she explains. “That people in your neighbourhood could start a cassette label or a record label, that you could see people who were making records walking down the street. And they didn’t necessarily have to be in a glossy magazine, and they didn’t have to weigh 90 pounds and have blonde hair down to their ankles or whatever was the fashion of the day.”  

Ahead of the release of DAYGLO, which launches alongside a knitwear collection designed in collaboration with cult Brtisih knitwear label HADES, we sat down with Celeste Bell to talk about her mum’s inimitable legacy, her relationship with fashion, and one particular look she calls her ‘ghost outfit’. [Read More]

#X Ray Spex #Poly Styrene #Lora Logic #Henry Rollins #Kathleen Hanna #Paul Dean #Sonic Youth #Vivienne Westwood #Celeste Bell