Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Disobey The U.S.A.

“The Trouble With Our State”
By Daniel Berrigan

The trouble with our state
was not civil disobedience
which in any case was hesitant and rare.

Civil disobedience was rare as kidney stone
No, rarer; it was disappearing like immigrant’s disease.

You’ve heard of a war on cancer?
There is no war like the plague of media
There is no war like routine
There is no war like 3 square meals
There is no war like a prevailing wind.

It flows softly; whispers
don’t rock the boat!
The sails obey, the ship of state rolls on.

The trouble with our state
– we learned only afterward
when the dead resembled the living who resembled the dead
and civil virtue shone like paint on tin
and tin citizens and tin soldiers marched to the common whip

– our trouble
the trouble with our state
with our state of soul
our state of siege –
was
Civil
Obedience.

Is This Heaven?

by Mike Palecek

Disobey the USA.

That is what I encourage.

Sit down and consider how bad you think things are, our leaders, our lies, our FBI and CIA and CBS, and murdering troops.

And the truth is, it's probably ten times as bad as the worst thing you can imagine.

And now ...

Scooter Libby isn't going to prison.

That part's just fine.

Anybody named "Scooter" should not be put into prison.

Actually, nobody should be in prison.

Prisons and jails are immoral. They are mean and bad and nobody should go there.

You say, well, they are not supposed to be nice.

Well, they are not. And you do not know shit about the world. Go back to your church league softball game.

Okay, maybe I'm sorry I said that.

More likely I'm not.

Go to jail and then come and tell me that anyone should be there.

Or go visit someone you love who is in prison. Then come visit me. We might have more to talk about then.

We are supposed to be intelligent beings. We should be able to think of something else.

Bush said he commuted Scooter Libby's sentence because it was excessive.

Of course, he is a liar. That is a given. When he tells his children it is nice outside they put on winter coats, because "Dad is a fucking liar."

It wasn't. Excessive. Bush gave Libby something and now Libby won't snitch on Cheney and Bush and whoever else.

That's the way it's done.

Just for kicks, what about all the thousands of people in prison right now for marijuana "crimes." For possessing and using a plant that grows naturally. Is there a chance that might be "excessive?"

Anybody in Terminal Island these days for distribution of Coors Light?

Is your headache and memory loss and spousal loss this morning due to ... oh, forget it. Let's move on.


What about these headlines that we have pretty much forgotten, just like the millions of lost souls in our prisons:

Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.
ttp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/anthraxcoverup.php

EVIDENCE MOUNTS THAT PAUL WELLSTONE WAS MURDERED!
DID DICK CHENEY GIVE THE ORDER?

Point of View By JIM FETZER
One man's opinion: Evidence indicates that Wellstone crash was no accident
http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/fetzer.htm

Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan No Coincidence
by Ira Chernus
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/30/2234/


Shit, there are one hundred more headlines that could go here regarding the Bush crimes: torture, stealing elections.

I still can't believe those two.

Can't believe we don't tear down the White House fences to get at these criminals and haul them to federal district court.

And yet they are not sitting in prison, eating meatloaf squares next to some guy from Duluth who sold a plant and won't be able to ever watch his son's ballgames, because he doesn't get out of the federal prison in Milan for another eighteen effing years.

I was happy to serve my country in prison, but for the record, I went to prison for Stepping Over A White Line.

It was definitely political. I kept doing it and doing it, and it was well-known that it was in opposition to the United States military.

I wasn't trying to get onto the air force base to oooh and aaah at the new Stealth bombers.

It's obvious that it's all political, that's all.

Bush is a liar. He is a murderer.

He should be in Terre Haute Penitentiary right now, or Lewisburg or Leavenworth or a SuperMax in Colorado.

Or, might I also recommend the Sarpy County Jail, not so far from Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha.

That would do just fine. The people of the United States would be well served by having His Moron Fuck Highness in one of those dark little cages for a few years.

That's all I'm saying.

If we are going to have these idiotic things called prisons, then there should be a bunk and a register number and a meatloaf square and a stainless steel toilet for the biggest idiot of them all.

seeya

— Mike
_________________________________

Before I left on my book tour this past spring I sent a letter.


March 27, 2007


Internal Revenue Service
Kansas City, MO 64999-002


Hello,

Enclosed is a crossed-out tax form.

I will not cooperate with the murderous regime of George W. Bush.

President Bush and his administration planned and carried out the attacks on the United States on 9-11-01, in order to attack Iraq and steal their oil.

In the eyes of Bush and Cheney and Rove, the war is going according to plan. They and their friends are making millions, billions, from the oil, from the defense industry, while the poor go without, while social services are cut in order to pay for more war and killing.

As a Christian, I cannot go along with this.

I must protest.

Sincerely,

Mike Palecek
___________________________________

Palecek website: www.mikepalecek.com

Palecek blog: http://isthisheaven-mike.blogspot.com/


Interviews:

C.B. Smith, Madhatters Review
http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue6/interview_palecek.shtml

Tony Christini, Mainstay Press
http://www.mainstaypress.org/MP-interview-mike-palecek.htm

Jason Miller, TomPaine's Corner
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6053

Mickey Z:
http://www.countercurrents.org/arts-mickeyz050107.htm

Articles:

Hearing Noam Chomsky
http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=04/02/04/2212204&tid=

So This Is Christmas, And What Have You Done?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1206-15.htm

Books:

• Reviews: Positive Universe
http://www.positiveuniverse.com/JusticeEducation/WorksofMikePalecek.html

• Cryptomundo, Looking For Bigfoot
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/look-4-palecek/

• NCW, What the Critics Say About
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/Ncw/palacrit.htm

— Review of Twins, Nimble Spirit, Michael Wilt
http://www.nimblespirit.com/html/twins_review.html

— Review of The Truth, Sheila Conroy
http://cpnn-world.org/cgi-bin/read/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=112

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