Imperial State Power in America (Barf Alert)

AlMartinRaw.com ^ | 3/25/02 (as far as I can tell) | Al Martin

[LibWhacker]

Bizarre. Checked USPS' homepage . . . Sure enough, the stamp is for sale. The post office describes it as an Art Deco stamp.

[onedoug]

Frankly, I don't think our federal gummint is this sophisticated.

[Iwentsouth]

Looks Art Deco to me.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

For you, and Mr. Martin:

GET A GRIP!!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Oops, just noticed Barf Alert, my bad. Only Mr. Martin is gripless!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I think we should truck on down to the nearest Jewish community center to hold a press conference deploring this hateful stamp.

"We find this Nazi imagery to be offensive and hateful.^TM"

[ccmay]

Hey Martin! Lay off the mushrooms!

-ccm

[Sandy]

"Another commercial, which is now in production, will show a quiet peaceful neighborhood with American flags plastered everywhere. And everybody's got a George Bush bumper sticker. Then you'll see a troop of seven or eight year old kids coming home from elementary school marching, with their uniforms of white shirts and blouses and blue pants. They have their child's Civilian Defense Force volunteer armbands on and their Good Citizen badges that the local CDF chapter leader gave them. But they're actually marching down the street with big smiles on their faces. And the kid in the front who's leading them is holding up a little American flag. The child will be talking to the commander of the group, who's telling the child about being obedient to your parents and being obedient to your government."

OMG. No way. Please tell me this guy is kidding.

[Sandy]

Check out the article snippet that I posted above.

[Lurker]

Unbelievable.

Thanks for the flag.

L

[x]

Very art deco. You can see things like this in any FDR-era post-office or public works project.

A bit Darth Vaderish, too. Sci-fi seems to have taken over art deco.

The eagle was always a symbol of imperial power going back beyond Hitler and Roosevelt and even the establishment of the United States. It was, even more than the lion, a symbol of Europe's empires and monarchies. I think this was even true as far back as ancient Rome.

Maybe this was one reason why Benjamin Franklin is said to have wanted wanted the turkey for our national symbol.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Very art deco. You can see things like this in any FDR-era post-office or public works project.

I'm pretty sure you can see eagles like that at Hoover Dam as well.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Went to Google, did a search for "Obsidian Order" "Black Shirts", and came up with the following, single hit -

Imperial State Power in America, by Al Martin
... romanesque column in the background. This is also the same symbol that Mussolini
adopted for the Obsidian Order of the Black Shirts. In the Third Reich, you ...
www.almartinraw.com/column53.html - 27k - 25 Mar 2002 - Cached

You can also find similar artwork all over the US, here's some from Hoover Dam -

[Tennessee_Bob]

Oh, man - it figures I'd miss a source....do you reckon that this is one of the sources this guy uses for information???

[Doctor Stochastic]

Looks like an NRA eagle from The New Deal.

Art Deco indeed. If it had been a picture of a lizard instead, would it have been Art Gecko?

[LibWhacker]

lol

[Capitalist Eric]

...Senator Daschle's speech on how he intimated that he would run for president in 2004. He laid out the Democratic Party agenda and what the plank will for the presidential election -- a platform of fiscal responsibility...

The stamp may be real, but this one line demonstrates that the rest of the article is, indeed, a complete fiction...

Never heard of a democrat that really stood for "fiscal responsibility." I doubt tom Dash-hole will change that record...

FReegards,