Posted on 08/29/2005 7:46:19 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Cutting edge publishing house Four Walls Eight Windows' edition of Hoffman's survival guide contains introductions by activists Al Giordano and Lisa Fithian.
This is more than pop culture. This is not a nostalgic walk through time to Lisa Fithian. Fithian, friend of Hoffman, union organizer, and "non-violent activist" who was "arrested, searched, and detained while preparing protests for the G-20 summit in Ottawa", writes a letter to the dead Abbie as the foreword to this edition. She tells him, "Planes turned into bombs. The Twin Towers collapsed. The Pentagon in flames. Two of the most powerful symbols of capitalism and militarism left gaping and destroyed in a matter of moments. The foundations of the old order were cracked open." She continues:
Meanwhile the Government Inc. propaganda machine is in full-tilt boogie and the right-wing is doing everything it can to consolidate its power. Our democratic system is a joke. Would you believe the Supreme Court actually chose the last President? You know when his wife's nickname for him is STUPID, we're in trouble. Yup, baby George W., son of the ex-CIA director drug dealer and oil man, George Bush, is now the Prez. He can barely articulate a coherent sentence. Just makes you sick. Now he gets to wage a war in the name of fighting terrorism.In reality this war is just another front in the capitalists' efforts to expand and control world markets, keep the rich, white boys in charge and squash an intensely amazing, growing resistance movement. A movement that captured the attention of the world on your birthday! November 30, 1999 over fifty thousand people swarmed the streets with song and dance to shut down the Millennial Rounds of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
This movement arose from the fact that corporations with the support of elected officials are selling our water, endless polluting our air, genetically modifying our food, clear cutting our forests. For them, "developing" means "destroying."
…same shit, different generation…
Al Giordano sees the release of this issue of Steal This Book differently. The biographical blurb about Giordano says he is ". . . a free speech defendant currently being sued by billionaires in the Drug War on Trial case in New York City." A longtime friend of Hoffman, Giodarno describes him as a man who thought ". . . a task was either worth going to jail for, worth dying for, or it was not worth doing." While admitting that, of all Hoffman's seven published works, Steal This Book is the most widely read and notorious, Giordano claims much of the book is obsolete.
My son, Andrew is joining the Army today. His best friend, Govi (who is like a son to me as well) is joining the Marines today as well. I am both very proud and scared a very strange feeling. I asked him why? he said "mom, how can I support the war and not risk my life as well, it is time I put up or shut up.
To quote Gomer Pyle, USMC< "Surprise, surprise!"
Isn't there some kind of "30 imes and you're out" law? Doesn't such a record account for anything, speak of a habituality? How many times will she be allowed to bugger police forces across the country? When will she be called upon to be responsible and do the time for the crime?
Wow! Your son and his friend will be in my prayers as well as both families. Your son is wise beyond his years because he sees what the "me generation" can't or won't see. Your story gives me real hope for our future with this new generation. It also says much about his upbringing.
Ping!
That goes beyond an unlucky draw from nature. She had to work at it.
Was their ever any doubt that Ms Sheehan was not just sitting at home one nite and out of "frustration" decided to go confront Bush? Her leftist politics and her acquaintance with her knew handlers long precedes her Crawford expedition.
Sheehan would have had an active part in the anti-war movement, in some way, even if her son never went into the Army. Her exploitation of his death and her grief over it is no more than a convenient public excuse for her positions.
The rest of the insane clown posse is finally showing up.
Ernestine T. Bass?
Are you sure that's not Lynnette "Squeaky" Fromme, Manson Family member and would-be assassin?
She looks like somebody got two ugly sticks and played the drum solo from "Inna Gada Davida" on her face.
To boil all that "non-violent this/non-violent that" down to one sentence, in other words,
Lisa is an aging, unemployed, leftist trouble-maker.
Lord-a-Mighty! What IS it with these "earthy" looking female lefties?
Sounds like Lisa needs to get a life.
Ewww! Three-bagger alert!
I remember back in college we had two basic types of girls on campus -- the radical leftist hippie girls and the sorority girls. Yes, the hippie girls might have been a little more "accessible," but in addition to being a bit on the plain side (some more than a bit) they were also hygenically challenged. That was probably the main reason I preferred the sorority girls.
Oxymoron alert?
They misspelled "Strategerist"
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