oppression, like, really sucks

www.jimgoad.com ^ | 11/18/03 | Jim Goad

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

oppression, like, really sucks

I was watching this show on the cable TV, and it said that this guy had written some book that said throughout history, people in power have done things which have harmed the disadvantaged.

I couldn't believe it. I became enraged, flabbergasted, and perplexed all at once. I am going to send an e-mail to my congressman about this. I'm going to get involved on a grass-roots level and work for positive change. I'm going to become a small grass blade straining toward the sun and pulling all my brethren and, um, sistren up with me.

My name is Jim Goad, spelled just like that. I am a reasonably muscular creature of this earth with a voice that screams for decency and fair play. I am opposed to all forms of injustice, exploitation, forced servitude, meanness, and practical jokes. I am appalled at the suffering that powerful human beings have inflicted upon the weak for millennia.

I cannot account for how society initially became stratified this way—with the strong on top and the weak on bottom—nor whether it had anything to do with aptitude, merit, and biologically innate inequities, but I know in my bones that it is wrong. I have no idea how to change things, but change them I must. I must stab in the darkness at this evil which I fail to comprehend.

:::::: by jg @ 10:54 PM PST

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Mr. Goad is a pretty famous underground author. I know Michael Savage is a fan (at least when I talked to Savage's screener a couple of years ago).

Here's his book: The REDNECK MANIFESTO: HOW HILLBILLIES HICKS AND WHITE TRASH BECAME AMERICAS SCAPEGOATS

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684838648/qid=1069664183/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-6906124-4575923?v=glance&n=507846

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping

[Experiment 6-2-6]

I must stab in the darkness at this evil which I fail to comprehend.

From Hell's Heart, I stab at thee....

[KeyWest]

Funny.

In church our associate pastor started complaining about baseball players getting so much money compared to teachers, firemen and police and how the rich do not take care of the poor.

I spoke to him later and he said that the middle class paid most of the taxes and the rich got away with paying none, through tax dodges. I pointed out that was not true, that the rich paid most of the taxes. Plus, the teacher, fireman and police were paid by those taxes!

So if they are not paid enough, it is the fault of Government, by setting low wages for their employees!

[aardvark1]

Was that a United Methodist church by any chance?

[KeyWest]

Nope.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Jim Goad is a bad mofo. I used to read his old 'Answer Me!' zines.

[RichInOC]

I must stab in the darkness at this evil which I fail to comprehend.

Sincerely,
Michael Jackson

[Jonah Hex]

From Hell's Heart, I stab at thee....

You need to control your wrath, Khan...

;-)

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Hehe. He's a very interesting person. He's got a website, jimgoad.com. Not family friendly! I think he was the first hipster to come out swinging against pc-ness. He actually had a lot of fans here in SF! He needs to move back here and stir up MORE trouble.