I’ll repeat again, the homosexuality is the red herring.
The Log Cabin Republicans are affiliated with communists, ANSWER and the antiwar movement.
We are not talking about two guys that want to listen to Barry Manilow on the weekend. We are talking about the communist party.
The more everyone allows them to use homosexuality as the area denial from looking further, the more we will not see Stonewall and ANSWER.
FIRST OF ALL: I'm not now, nor ever in this thread been talking about the "Log Cabin Republicans"..... Your information in post #17 was interesting, but not really significant to my basic opinion on the substance of the ORIGINAL topic.
I specifically said, more than once, essentially that 'homosexuals that are otherwise conservative' are welcome in the GOP as far as I'm concerned. If you hate them, and believe that ALL homosexuals are communists; If you would rather they vote Democrat; that is between you, them, Karl Marx, God and the RNC.
SECOND: I repeat; My initial post that 'set you off' was never intended to speak to you AT ALL. I was only stating my opinion. The 'reply to thing' was only a matter of convenience from the (at the time) last post in the thread. As I have said previously: I blanked out the 'reply to' box, indicating that I was not answering anyone directly. If you chose to make this a personal feud, it is misdirected, and a complete waste of your time and mine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958/
W.R. - Misterije organizma (1971)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia’s relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich’s theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression. Also known as W.R. The Mysteries of the Organism in English subtitled version. Was banned in Yugoslavia shortly after it was made. Written by Malcolm Humes {mal@emf.net}
Half-documentary about Wilhelm Reich, scientist who tried to bring together teachings of Freud and Marx and was persecuted by Hitler, Stalin and McCarthy. The movie deals with the scientist and with the people who try to put his teachings into practice. Written by Dragan Antulov {dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr}
This film treads a remarkably thin (perhaps non-existent) line between self-consciously satirical art and anarchic pornography. A sort of sexually liberated Eisensteinian journey, Makavejev proves that truth is always stranger (or at least more disturbing) than fiction. Waxing brilliant at times, and at others resigning to a sort of “Pull My Daisy” super-realism in the beat tradition, there are few films from this period that effect a more riveting commentary on Communism (whether or not any conclusions are actually reached).
Makavejev was always one of the clowns of the Third Cinema, and WR, his masterpiece, is no exception. Makavejev interweaves fiction, documentary, and found audio and video clips (a Stalinist propaganda film, electro-shock treatment footage) to create a fantastically bizarre but intelligent discussion of both the orgone energy theory of Wilhelm Reich and the relationship between Yugoslavia and the USSR in a post-Stalinist era.
I know. It sounds tedious, but it isn’t. In fact, it’s really fascinating. Among the clips Makavejev (a film theoretician in his own right, WR harkens back to the pre-Stalinist era of Soviet Montage) assembles are footage of performance art by the Yippie poet/singer Tuli Kapferberg and documentary clips of Jim Buckley, an editor for Screw Magazine, getting a mold of his penis made.
WR is bizarre, dogmatic, and at times, hard to watch, but having seen it twice now, I’ve come to appreciate its ways. By the time Vladimir breaks into song at the film’s end, you’ll be smiling too.
I have been trying to see this for many years, particularly after I discovered Reich in my reading in the early 80’s, read some of his writings as well as a great biography “Fury on Earth”. Now our library has it on a new video release, and I have to say it was worth the wait. It is a masterpiece of documentary insight into its subject Wilhelm Reich, of subversive cinema in that it has a great power to undermine the beliefs of the viewers/participators, and of classical comedy and drama as embodied (good choice of words) in the “fictional movie” within the documentary. Occasionally punctuated by the wild and crazy NY poet/musician Tuli Kupferberg roaming the streets of Manhattan in full battle array and carrying an M-16 (I don’t think they could get away with that these days, unless they had a Mr. De Niro in the cast.) Yes, it is blatant hippie/yippie revolutionary zeitgeist of 1968-1971, which was very much fueled by the father of the sexual revolution, Dr. Reich, who had died in 1957 in jail for not answering a subpoena to defend his claims of cancer cures. He said he would be judged by scientists but not by lawyers. Inasmuch as he was the only individual to have his books burned by both Hitler and the US government (FDA), his story and his philosophy should be more widely known, but of course he is still suppressed by some of the powers that be. The erotic content of “WR” is tame in the face of today’s hardcore but all the more effective for it, in that Reich condemned pornography but glorified healthy sexuality above all else. And for those “doves” that still populate the earth by the millions or billions, the words and deeds of the good Dr. Reich, who was exiled by Hitler and then Stalin (who is shown in this documentary in some amazing pseudo-heroic films he had made of himself,) still resonate. As do the words of Tuli Kupferberg and his band The Fugs, on the soundtrack: “Kill, kill, kill for peace...Near or far or very middle East...”
A prismatic view of hell-tinted sex, a subject explored exhaustively the same year by Ed Wood in NECROMANIA, Russ Meyer in BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, and Michael Sarne in MYRA BRECKENRIDGE. Sex here is a schizophrenic action, emotionally and politically liberating, yet still somehow sinful and inflammatory. The subplot about Wilhelm Reich is more proof that society will brutally slaughter anyone even remotely resembling a potential savior. The bizarre collage and documentary parts are great, but the tangential Marxist subplot stinks, trying vainly to coalesce cultural suicide with political slapstick. Still intriguing is the notion that liberation is tied to the release of feelings and personal experiments such as breathing through crying and anger. But WR:MOTO poses more questions than it answers. Are free love and anarchy antithetical? Is communism really “milk and cookies?” Is sexual repression evil? Does beheading a female revolutionary qualify as gratuitous violence? The severed head pontificates: “Life without f**king isn’t worth a thing.”
The gist of the sex positive agenda? No moral judgements over any sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
If it feels good do it.
Everyone sexually active at every age.
And how this has ANY ties to conservatism I’ll never know. Pure pinko philosophy.
The Log Cabin Republicans are affiliated with communists, ANSWER and the antiwar movement."
Reminds me of the Greek communist Ariana Huffington who, with her homosexual husband, penetrated the upper levels of GOP.
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