Posted on 01/30/2009 10:34:55 PM PST by Lorianne
Kirsten Brydum pedaled away from the Howlin' Wolf club into the darkness of another American city that she didn't know very well. It was 1:30 a.m.
She rode a black cruiser bicycle with a basket on the back, borrowed from friends of friends. In nearly every city she had visited on her 2-month-road trip, it seemed someone was willing to lend her an old bike.
The Rebirth Brass Band was on the bill that night. Brydum, 25, had danced for a while outside the club in her flip-flops. She thought that the bouncer would eventually let her in for free, and that suited her in more ways than one. She believed, passionately, that people would one day reject a basic mechanism of free-market societies: the exchange of goods and services for money.
She arrived in New Orleans in late September with a rail pass, a little red notebook and a head full of ideas about the oppressive forces of capitalism and government, and how they might be replaced with something better. The road trip was partly a rite of passage in the grand tradition of Jack Kerouac -- an adventure to mark her recent graduation from college in San Francisco. But she also hoped to report on the small, scattered outposts where fellow radicals had established alternatives to mainstream culture.
It would all end in New Orleans, four miles from the Howlin' Wolf, in a forlorn and out-of-the-way block in the 9th Ward.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
as an example....If a conservative turns on the weather report and it says its Hot and sunny...but looks out the window and its raining...He'll grab an umbrella on his way out the door....
A liberal will grab the sunscreen....
Nice picture of cop-killer Abu-Jamal there.
Betcha Kirsten would have liked to have seen a cop in her last moments. Betcha she wouldn’t have been worried about police brutality either.
Poor deluded child. RIP.
Yeah, that’s one way of looking at, but it’s an even scarier prospect when you realize that their belief in a misguided ideal is thoroughly fascistic. You either share in this religious fervor, or you are evil. Abortion, capitulation to Mohammadans and America/Civilization haters, Global Warming, Nanny State, the False Messiah... They have it ingrained into their heads by the dysfunctional and brainwashing education system, college, the pop culture, Hollyweird, the media, et al.
We REALLY need a revolution in this country from top to bottom. The evil has flourished greatly, especially since after 1965, probably the turning point year. The False Messiah himself isn’t “Hope and Change”, he’s the culmination of the evil and twisted misguidedness and dysfunction that’s been building for decades. Real hope and change comes from overthrowing the leftist-fascist tyranny before it destroys everything our country was founded upon.
Or even better, the perp in her own gun sights! I worry almost as much about the cops in N.O. as the other bad guys.
Tragic, but predictable course of events.
lol
I drove through the 9th ward about 7 years ago to interview for a job and was scared s***less by the “ambience”. I would copare it to the capital of Somalia.
My daughter does a lot of bikeing in the city she lives in. She trys to stay out of the bad areas.
But just in case she has her CCW and a light weigh 38 load with +P125 jhps. Shes a very good shot.
Plus she has her head screwed on to the right instead of the left.
He wound up as waste too.
As Blanche DuBois probably could have told her, if you depend on the kindness of strangers, it’s probably a good idea to make sure they have some.
The LA Times chronicles “In the Ruins of New Orleans.” This is a relief from its daily chronicling ‘The Ruins of Los Angeles.”
This girl should have read about Timothy Treadwell. He was the man who, along with his girlfriend, was killed and eaten in Alaska. She was behaving according to her liberal nature which is to deny reality and of course those nice folks in the Ninth ward, like the bears, were merely following their instincts.
She should have followed in the footsteps of the great author Henry Miller. She probably wouldn’t have died as soon. ;0)
Another Eloi eaten by Morlocks. I find these stories tiresome. I understand why newspaper reporters identify with them, however.
Then, of course, ole Blanche was being taken to the Funny Farm.
Why did the white guy in Houston stick a gun in your chest?
“Every murder here in New Orleans looks like a ‘hit job’, mainly because our criminals are professionals.”
Communism was responsible for about 100 million murders in the last century. Here’s more proof the rate is on track for this century.
She arrived in New Orleans in late September with a rail pass, a little red notebook and a head full of ideas about the oppressive forces of capitalism and government, and how they might be replaced with something better.
Like Fidel and Che combing down from the mountains in 1959. Or Pol Pot flying back to Cambodia from Paris.
To many Americans, this kind of New Orleans neighborhood has come to symbolize a near-criminal lack of government presence.
And our intrepid heroine was working to ensure "government presence" for all.
Central to her thinking: "She didn't believe that we lived in a world of scarcity," Viola said. "That scarcity was a myth that was used to keep people divided. And so if resources and goods are taken care of and shared equitably, then there's enough for everybody."
So much economic stupidity in one sentence.
"Because there is enough for everyone," the slogan read. "Because sharing is more fulfilling than owning."
Only if producers get properly remunerated for their labor and creativity. Without that, you get the Soviet Union.
We borrowed bikes and rode all over town, visited the urban farm, danced at a benefit for Critical Resistance" -- a group that advocates the eradication of prisons
At this point in the article, you kind of get the idea how deeply insane these people are.
She was shocked by Detroit's vast landscape of blight. The broken city seemed to support her ideas about the folly of capitalism.
Er...capitalism doesn't do that. Only where the free exchange of goods is impeded because of crime and socialism are things like Detroit created. Capitalism built Detroit. Socialism and anarchy destroyed it.
"Sure, there's some romanticizing of a place like this:
From crazy people.
a post-industrial workless wonderland free for the taking, ripe with opportunities to create a pirate utopia,"
This is the real comedy in this tragicomedy. There is no such thing as a "pirate utopia." The reality is that pirate communities are the most dangerous places on earth. Where there are no private property rights, every person has every motive to plunge a knife into a neighbor and seize his property. This is exactly what is happening in Somalia now.
I just back from NOLA with my daughter one month ago.
The place seemed taken over by black kids to me....ghetto thugs and Spike Lee movie looking college kids where the guys all looked like Lil Wayne and the girls in 5 inch heels
I saw a group attack a white couple (for her purse)right under my Sonesta balcony on Bourbon, the white guy and girl fought like hell and the wold pack ran off empty handed...they were lucky.
The few whites in attendance being the softassed pussies most whites are these days just stood there. I was trying to come off the balcony. I ain’t one to lick my nuts ..not even at 50.
Anyhow....New Orleans has been a part of my life since 1957 and I grew up 150 miles away and have kin there.
I love the place but the worm has turned there. Outside the nice places you mentioned, it’s a savage third world violent mess and it’s the fault of the folks who live there, not anyone else.
They made it, they live in it and we are at their risk when we travel there....sorta like those open range safari tours.
But I do believe it should be saved.
PS: I’ve never been “mugged “ anywhere but I was witness to one at 93rd and Columbus in 1982.....Puerto Ricans on white
deranged white guys in Houston notwithstanding
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