Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Curfew Protest #2 & Outlaw Puppet Theater #5

Dave Ridley & pals again ratchet up their civil disobedience in Manchester, NH, violating (at least) 5 laws ostensibly in place "for their own good." In turn, the local constabulary, helpfully forewarned in writing of the late-night noncompliance by the aforementioned Mr. Ridley, once again ignore their duty, and empirically refuse to "protect" them. Chaos, once again, ensues. Why is this stuff the law if it doesn't need to be enforced? 9/23/2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Mad as... A Hatter?

The GOP partisans extolling Sarah Palin as the future of the Republican Party conveniently forget that that party has been, for the past 18 months, actively demonizing the philosophy they now maintain she represents. If she represented a future toward which the GOP actually wanted to move, it could have had Ron Paul now.

But it clearly, passionately doesn't want him. Hell, it wouldn't even let him speak at their convention. And it equally doesn't want the Sarah Palin of legend in any position of real power. Her advertised politics will not be allowed to survive intact beyond an impotent (Cheney notwithstanding) VP slot. If she is to become a leader of the party, she must be transformed. She will be assimilated. Right now, at best, she's just an ephemeral bone, a tantalizing but false mirage, a siren's song. And that's hardly anything to get excited about. I've no doubt the GOP as currently constituted -- the GOP of Bush and Cheney and McCain and the rest of the big-government neocon powerbrokers -- is determined to prevail. They've spent the last year-and-a-half proving that.

The Constitution will lose, regardless of which of the 2 parties that we're "allowed" wins in November. There's not a dime's worth of difference among the Demoblicans, who have no interest in endowed individual liberty, Constitutionally limited government and the rule of law; who pick and choose the Constitutional restrictions by which they'll abide, a number that is rapidly approaching zero. We need a better way. Soon. We need our guaranteed Republic back. And the 2 major parties will never, ever "grant" that. Indeed, there exists a negative incentive.

But we're stuck with the government we have only as long as we accept it telling us that we have no other choice. "Lesser of demonstrable evils" is still evil, and I will no longer (haven't for a while) willingly facilitate their continuous and escalating degradation of my freedom. And if everybody who believed the same way actually did the same, the problem would be solved. That's why I'm (still) writing in Ron Paul in November.

My point, though, is really more precisely to take heed of George Washington's Farewell Address and eschew, at least, the self-serving 2-party system. Don't fall for the "wasted vote" canard. Sure, I'd love to convince everyone to write in Ron, too, but it's more important that we all just fundamentally reject The Powers That Be. Stop taking their nakedly worthless word. Vote for Ron Paul or Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin or Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney or George Phillies or even NOTA or... Anyone not anointed by our corporate government.

Tell them you're mad as hell and you're not gonna take it anymore. If you don't, it will definitely never matter to them. And it's true, isn't it?

What if a plurality actually voted for "Not a Demoblican?" Hmmm...?

Friday, September 5, 2008

Curfew Protest & Outlaw Puppet Theater #4

Rogue Puppeteer Dave Ridley prefaces his 4th illegal performance by leading an early-morning park beautification project to protest recently heightened enforcement of Manchester, NH's overnight parks curfew, 9/5/2008. No squirrels were harmed...

Read the back story here and here.

And here's the Union Leader article & video on the protest.

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