elag wrote:
> Brandon Freels wrote:
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>>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.
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>>OUT WITH THEM ALL!
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>>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!
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> Would you cats be willing to vote strategically against Bush... opting
> for the lesser evil? Or will y'all be boycotting on principle?
The idea of "voting for the lesser evil" underpins the very process
which has allowed the "left" to slowly drift right, so that we now get
to vote between such "choices" as Bush and joe "I'm The Jewish Bush"
Lieberman. As far as strategies go this one is a real Dunkirk, without
the rescue at the end. I'll vote on which lampposts they hang the
bastards from, but that's about it.
dmh
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