OK WHO FARTED?
Posted on 07/15/2002 4:41:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
PORTLAND, Ore. – If you are looking for a way to while away those hot summer days, you might be interested in Green Anarchy Tour, coming to "urban hells" throughout the country this summer.
The tour begins in Ashland, Ore., Wednesday and travels through California and the Southwest before making it to Washington, D.C., in August.
The purpose of the tour, according to its sponsors, is "to destroy civilization on this stolen land."
Green Anarchy Tour is a chance for "environmental" activists, animal "rights" activists, anarchists and urban hell-dwellers of all stripes to gather together to enjoy the musical stylings of punk rock bands such as "Bongzilla" and "The Fartz," and to participate in what they call "Direct Action Workshops."
Direct action is the euphemism that anarchists and ecoterrorists use in lieu of "sabotage," "arson," and other words that might better describe their attacks against government, the business community or society at large.
Wildfires raging in the West and plumes of smoke drifting across the Eastern seaboard from Canadian forest fires are reminders of the consequences that environmental extremism brings to ordinary citizens.
Decades of mismanagement prompted by extreme preservationist groups have resulted in the firestorms now erupting in our national forests. Burned-out buildings, bankrupt businesses, lost jobs, and the destruction of years of valuable medical research all bear the imprimatur of anarchists and terrorists of the sort that Green Anarchy Tour appears to want to attract.
Proceeds from the tour, if there are any, will, according to the official Web site, go to help West Coast anarchist and Earth Liberation Front prisoners such as Jeffrey "Free" Luers and Craig "Critter" Marshall, both convicted of arson for fire-bombing a car dealership in Oregon.
Writing from his prison cell, Luers had this to say about "direct action" by ecoterrorists: "For years, decades, we have pleaded and petitioned those in power, those responsible for injustice, genocide and ecocide. This pleading has gone unanswered. It is time to use actions that can not [sic] be ignored.
'Strike a Match'
"In defense of life, these actions are justified. 'Strike a match, light a fuse. We only have the Earth to lose.'"
Marshall writes from the same viewpoint. "To tear down this corporate society we're going to need more than a few 'wrecking balls' because we can't rebuild an eco-system without tearing down all that stands in its way. You can't grow a garden in concrete."
"The Green Anarchy Tour," the group posts on its Web site, "is an attempt to bridge the gap between the punk movement, the revolutionary anarchist movement, the ecological movement, and prisoners of war who have been incarcerated for their involvement in the struggles listed above.
"The majority of the content encompassed on this tour is from Eugene, an outpost of civilization in one of the most wild bio-regions in 'North America.' Eugene experienced the spirit of wild chaos during a couple [of] years of insurrection. In the aftermath, several comrades were imprisoned, several collectives endured, and what remains today is one of the most sophisticated propaganda mills in history.
"The tragedy of this historic propaganda mill is the geographic limit of it's [sic] reach. While many attempts have been made to present the critique and analysis developed in Eugene, they have not peaked outside of this locale. The Green Anarchy Tour will be an attempt to take the tools we have refined, the tools of resistance, to a new scale.
Will They Travel by Solar-Powered Vehicles?
"Through the media of slides, videos, spoken word, and music, we will share our perspective to comrades across turtle island in what may very well be one of the last state-permitted summers of 'above-ground organizing.' We understand that time is running out, for us and for the earth, and thus we will take our words, ideas, music, and spirit on the snakes of concrete, the civilized transportation infrastructure to various movements in America."
But for the more serious ecoterrorist who eschews the sort of fun and good times that Green Anarchy Tour is bringing to towns across turtle island, there is this alternative option proposed by Earth First!:
"To those feeling suicidal: this may be an answer to your dreams. If you are determined to end it all, don't slink off to some garage and intensify acid rain and the greenhouse effect by CO poisoning. Don't jump off a bridge - blow up the bridge! Who says you can't take it with you?"
Unfortunately, as Earth First! and Green Anarchy Tour remind us, and as we have been reminded in recent weeks by concerns about a dirty bomb possibly in the hands of a U.S. citizen, not all terrorism threats come from outside the country.
Analysis by Bridget Barton, editor of "BrainstormNW," a monthly magazine of ideas, entertainment, culture and politics, for Oregon and the Northwest.
Grampa Dave, I hope you don't mind me posting this here. This is an exerpt from an essay by the above mentioned "Critter". He is, from his jail cell, calling on people to destroy power plants. I see no distinction between him and these jihadis we're fighting. They really do aim to destroy power plants.
I post this just to help build the case that these characters aren't just an innocent bunch of dreadlocked hippies talking a big game. When they figure out how to do a power plant- that's exactly what they're going to do. Keep in mind, this is from this year. Critter has had much time to reflect on terrorism since 9/11 and apparantly he thinks it's a good thing.
Source: Raise the Fist Warning: I didn't delete any of the profanity.
An Introduction, April 2002 I'm not going to say much about what's going on inside the razor wire here in prison. To be honest, who really gives a fuck? Yeah, life in here sucks, and everyday is a struggle, but what's really important is what people are, and need to be doing out there. As a movement we need to focus on attacking the hub of the wheels of oppression, for without the hub, the spokes fall uselessly. Prison is just one of those spokes, not a hub. Attacking spokes may slowly make the wheel weaker, but by attacking the hubs, all the spokes will fall making the earth a place where we can healthily co-habitate with all the other creatures. To find these hubs, we need to ask ourselves what the problems of our society are, and then trace them back to a physical manifestation of these problems that can be attacked. When we realize what these legitimate targets are then we need to trace these targets back to their sources and attack there.
An example of what I mean is this-consumer society is traced back to consumer goods and the consumer mentality. These both can be traced back to corporations and their physical manifestations-factories, newspapers, laboratories etc-these can be traced back to electricity, for without it production would virtually halt. Electricity follows back to powerlines and powerlines to dams and powerplants. I'm sure you can come up with similar type scenarios. There are many places where one could attack, but in the scenario I provided, the production of electricity is the center (i.e. the hub), so it follows that if one could do something to prevent electricity from being produced (I'll leave that up to your imaginations) every process after it would halt. I'm not saying everyone needs to go crack a dam (hell, there wouldn't be enough to go around, but that's also a part of the point), but someone better start doing something because life on this planet rides on each and every one of our decisions to act or to be cowards.
I am sure it's allot like a MENSA gathering, but with music.
A true Druid would consign them to the coldness of the stone, for their careless suicide of their eternal soul!
I may not have the correct Earth religion consignment, as few actual druids continue to actively interact on this plane of existance.
There are what, nine of these people?
Try Santiago, Chile. But you're close.
GOOD JOB GREENO WHACKOS. Your efforts just wiped out the ecosystem you tried to protect. Talk about unentended consequences!
All the polls you mentioned will attend via SUV.
"The old marxist leftists at least believed in technology's possibility in advancing the status of mankind. They spilled rivers of blood and oceans of ink defending the idea that all the people on the earth could have shoes from one modern shoe factory...and all that stood in the way was the capitalistic concept of private ownership of the means of production."
"But, when the leftists discovered the undeniable truth about their system's productive capacity vs capitalism's...they turned away from industrialization, and declared that it was better for man to go barefoot."
Basically, in a nutshell, that is the underlying origin of leftist environmentalism: sour grapes. Their utopia was revealed to be a fraud, and now they have turned away from progress altogether.
OK WHO FARTED?
Aptly-named group.
Please don't knock 'em until you've listened to their music.
"The Fartz": They're loud and obnoxious. Some of their songs are real stinkers. Other songs, played so low that the band sometimes won't admit to releasing them, but yet seem to be the first to realize the melody's bouquet. Come hear the Fartz! Concert-goers are responsible for their own face-masks and air freshener. Oxygen and breathable air will be available at the medical assistance tent at the far southwest corner of the grounds. Medical Assistants, as tools of the Capitalist Running Dogs, will not be allowed outside of their roped-in area. Concert patrons requiring respitorial help after too much of the Fartz will have to walk or crawl, wheezing and gasping, to the medical assistance area
I shudder to think what kinds of diseases these leftover "flower children" are spreading.
Reminds me of an old joke about Al Gore.
Did you know Al Gore is credited with creating the first internet porn site?
It was a picture of a tree pollinating itself.
And along those lines...
Did you know the US was naming a forest after Bill Clinton?
Yep, all the tree are rotten and they lean to the left.
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