Re: RAT "Politics antithetical to BCT" Readers please delete!

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

God!  I forgot how much I love dem Seattle boyz.


--- William Houts <houts.w@ghc.org> wrote:
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> 
> 
> 
> Yay, Chris! Let's you and me be on the same team,
> okay?
> 
> Seriously, this whole "throwing away your vote"
> thing is an Illuminati plot.  I'm terrified that
> Bush imight end up choosing three or four Supreme
> Court justices.  But sometimes you just have to bite
> the bullet.  We're talking about our country here,
> not just the next four years, but the next four
> hundred. 
> 
> What is this talk I'm hearing, anyway?  "Vote for
> Mr. Bones because he's not Mr. Tambo!"  That's not
> the behavior of free people.  That's the posture of
> a slave what's afraid of a whuppin.
> 
> It's hard for me to use words like this, because
> they've been very successfully coopted by racist
> homophobic troglodytes.  But maybe it's time to
> think about being patriots, for Goddess's sake. 
> Back in the day, patriots had panache and wit.  They
> weren't always murderous creeps living in Idaho
> compounds. 
> 
> Back in the day, being a patriot was synonymous with
> being a creative, thinking human being. Thomas
> Jefferson spoke at least three languages fluently
> and read Homer in the original Greek.  He was
> curious about things, interested in things, got a
> bang out of reading the outrageous writings of his
> friends, especially the stuff that pissed people
> off. 
> 
> And Ben Franklin, let's not even TALK about Ben
> Franklin.  He was a crazy motherfucker. 
> 
> And finally, today, I'm thinking about Patrick
> Henry. He said a lot of great things, because he was
> influenced by big ass political philosophers. But
> the one everyone remembers is the one I'm thinking
> about today. 
> 
> "Give me liberty or give me death."  
> 
> What he meant, I guess, is that nothing iss
> worthwhile if you aren't free.  And there's no
> compronise.  He didn't say "Well, give me liberty or
> give me death, but I'll settle for some new
> curtains."
> 
> But isn't that what we're saying with this election?
>  We want to vote for Nader, we really do. He's the
> only one we trust farther than we can throw a
> wheelbarrow. But trust and freedom and all that is
> for those crazy kids.
>  
> So we'll settle for the curtains. 
> 
> 
> 


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