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some video of Woodstock
Марк Эймс про National Rifle Association
(американских мразовидных ультраправых
ебаноидов, лоббирующих гражданский огнестрел).
Рассказывает, что культ ружей есть заговор
корпораций и американских фашистов-олигархов.
Довольно убедительно.

http://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/newtown

...Because it's now so deeply ingrained that owning guns is a
form of radical subversive politics, the people who still
engage in real politics have the pick of the litter. That
first became really clear in the depths of the 2008-9
collapse, when a lot of people who thought of themselves
as radicals and anarchists made a lot of feckless noise
about how they were arming and preparing for the collapse
and revolution. They could've gone out and organized
something and maybe built a politics of people power or
even a politics of what they call revolution, a politics
that actually changed things. But instead, they locked
themselves in their homes and apartments with their guns
and fancied themselves political revolutionaries just
waiting to be swept up. But no one came. No one bothered
or cared. And really, why would any plutocrat or evil
government agency bother with the suckers, all harmlessly
atomized and isolated and thoroughly neutralized by the
false sense of political empowerment that their guns gave
them, while you do the real work of plundering budgets,
bribing politicians and writing laws even more in your
favor?

So while everyone was hiding out in their homes armed and
ready for Hollywood finales that never came, in the real
world political power was concentrating at warp-speed with
zero resistance.

From the oligarchy's perspective, the people were
thoroughly neutralized by the false sense of political
empowerment that guns gave them. Guns don't work in this
country - they didn't work for the Black Panthers or the
Whiskey Rebellion, and they won't work for you or me
either.

* * *

Много занятных деталей.

Интересно, как политический ландшафт 1990-х
(когда "правый" и "левый" совершенно потеряли смысл)
на глазах поляризуется по тем же линиям, как
в 1960-е, с оккупаем вместо хиппи, и братьями
Кох на пару с NRA вместо Никсона.

Вот еще занятное, с противоположного конца.

...If you are old enough to remember the so-called "Summer of
Love" that was perpetrated on this land by a bunch of
bored, spoiled kids and their liberal enablers in 1968,
then I don't have to draw you a picture of all that it
entailed. On the other hand, if you are fortunate enough
not to have that awful year and the subsequent decade
seared into your brain, unfortunately you can still get a
whiff of it by pointing your nose toward lower Manhattan.

Although I've tried to steer clear of coverage of the
Occupy Wall Street gang due to the fear of non-chemically
induced flashbacks, I've seen enough to recognize that
we've been here before. For a quick history lesson watch -
if you can bear it - some video of Woodstock and you'll be
shocked at how similar are the dreadful inanities of the
those hippies and their woeful imitators at OWS; minus the
awful music of course.

Диссиденты 1990-х, коллекционировавшие ружья
сторонники секса-драгсов-рокнролла (типа того же Эймса),
стали борцами за пис и лав и синдикализм, а Вудсток
превратился основной политический символ и в точку
отсчета, став политической утопией левых, и такой
же антиутопией для правых.

Говно повсюду, но в Америке по крайней мере
говну дают укорот.

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