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Subject: Re: OUT WITH THEM ALL! - The Portland Surrealists' A21 Statement
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 03:12:49 -0400
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Brandon Freels wrote:
>
> The following statement was quickly drawn up for the August 21st
> arrival of President Bush to the University of Portland campus for a
> Republican fundraiser. Distributed on 4 *" x 5 *" leaflets, the
> Breton-inspired summery of Bush's qualities was placed on the reverse
> side of the main text.
>
> OUT WITH THEM ALL!
>
> As creepy as he is heartless, the murderous businessman in the White
> House is only the most glaring example of a repressive system bent on
> expansion and global supremacy. Having launched an unprecedented
> aggression on the world under the guise of fighting terrorism, the
> Bush regime represents the most blatant manifestation of capitalism's
> predatory core.
>
> Perfectly aware of what causes what, the Bush regime has, through
> their recent massacres in Afghanistan and Iraq, knowingly increased
> the possibility of future wars and the creation of new enemies. As
> vice-president Dick Cheney smugly confessed, this is a war that "might
> not end in our lifetime." Anticipating the profits of such a future,
> Cheney's words exemplify the oil-slick wet dreams of scoundrels who
> grow rich with the help of tax revenues extorted from the working
> class.
>
> The transformation of our living conditions to reflect and satisfy
> people's needs and desires is the only real way out of this ongoing
> crisis -- a development that would mark the end of hierarchical class
> society, imperialism, and the toxic industrialism that threatens our
> lives and the planet's health. The removal of the Bush regime from
> their position of power would only be the beginning of this
> transformation.
>
> Like the people of Argentina, it is time for us to discover our own
> power by getting into the streets with adversarial intent, and crying
> out for the eradication of all political and economic elites, along
> with the system that creates them. Our entire lives are waiting to be
> reclaimed in a battle based on mass refusal and the unlimited
> imagination.
>
> The Portland Surrealist Group
> August 2003
>
> * * *
>
> Everything that is polluted, dull, wicked, foul, obnoxious, unjust,
> inhuman, self-absorbed, despotic, repressive, shit-stained,
> bloodsucking, hypocritical, fascist, dishonest, corrupt and criminal
> is summed up for us in that one word: BUSH!
Would you cats be willing to vote strategically against Bush... opting
for the lesser evil? Or will y'all be boycotting on principle?
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