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[catelin]

Thanks, PJammer for bringing this piece of shit to my attention. The sheer fucking callous ignorance of this just floors me. SHAME ON YOU!

millarca sez:
There was once a big bully that thought it was OK to pick on people, and third world countries. One day the bully's enemies got together and decided there were force in numbers.

The people got together and rallied for social and political change. When their cries went unheard they took measures into their own hands, and started fighting back.

Now the bully is crying, and calling them terrorist.

I call them freedom fighters!

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[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

yeah, even if one goes with the 'finances is evil' (which would be silly for bin Laden), it's a lame excuse if they're using it, there was other stuff going on the building besides head-of-the-snaking. i think they picked it in part b/c i was an easy & effective target close to boston. if they'd gone the other way and hit the las vegas sprawl coming out of LA, it wouldn't have been the same. nyc is sorta the second capitol of the states (ok maybe after hollywood depending how you see it, growing up in the rather poor northern ny it's considered the capitol of ny b/c they get all the money & we get all the tourists & their garbage & swaths of trees cut to run power lines up to their summer cabins), and it's dense. but that's a tangent, the image of Borders bookstore as being "evil" is an irony that under other circumstances might be funny (thinking of people's reaction to the damage to the starbucks HQ after the quake here, i dunno...)

rage and stuff are masks for fear, fear is a mask for hurt.. i'm one of those idiots that believe even freakos like cuddles (or jeffrey dahlmer for that matter) are in there somewhere under all that wrecked psychology (not saving everyone is a simple issue of resource allocation, i'd rather put more money into noaa or education or helping people who haven't fallen that far yet than fixing dahlmer's (or bin laden's, or probably even most of my neighbours') head, which would have put him through all kinds of the hell people wanted for him, only worse for him -- as callous as that may be). i guess that convoluted statement was me trying to say i grok that emotional energy will snap through the first circuit it finds. it also means i'm one of those hippie dippies who believe everyone is innocent at the core. i get accused of being very b/w on issues but it's mainly b/c i don't see both, i see a long spectrum and a dimensionless point at the same time, making Truth both a decision and a responsibility.

one of my big political issues has always been palestine. why? i met a woman in the plo b/c i was screwing her 2nd husband, essentially. i felt wierd and called it when i found out he was married (and expecting!) and we sat in his car by the beach listening to morroccan music & talking for a while. through abdulla i learned that she grew up in the same area i did and went to school in london where she met & fell in love & married a palestinian, which eventually led to her spending two days hiding under a pile of bodies (including her husbands & son) after israel bombed palestinian refugee camps in beirut. she escaped & met abdulla from morrocco & they came back to my hometown. i wanted to meet her and went to some student group meetings and got hooked on activism. i only met her a couple of times, briefly. she was this terse, fierce, tiny pregnant woman. we are in part our wierd bundle of influences. it's the clash's fault, really. it's bill hicks' fault i swear so much, too.

the reason for that trip down memory lane is just that i have a really unpopular attitude towards israel, against a stance i feel is part of the cyclone of shit policy we've had in the middle east. we freaked out when iran wanted to nationalise it's oil resources b/c a) they'll run out if you pump as fast and cheap as you can for the benefit of a handful of ultra-rich and b) most iranians weren't seeing the benefit of their main resource. we sabotaged their government, installed the shah (think marcos), and sparked off a holy revolution, and an ayatollah. this is even wierder, i don't even know how to be pissed off at some fucked up richass wierdo building a michigan militia in the dust who i can't punch in the mouth myself or at least demonstrate on his lawn. i'm angry at us, for bringing this on. my fingers aren't deep enough in the pie for logic to be the only determinant for where the anger circuit connects up.

[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

i removed my first reacton for a while but decided shit, even if it was head detached from typing it was sincere freakin out. it was kinna creepy waking up to The Phone Call & The TV after staring at shear turbulence simulation movies all night after sorrento posted a link to that piece about the plane crash in 1985. i dunno if i've ever woken up so fast so slow.

anyhoo, thanks for letting me babble in your journal, mine was getting a little crowded feelin

Mi journal es su journal. : )

[catelin.livejournal.com]

You can babble anytime and anyhow you like here...I like you and I care about you. So I'm always glad to hear what you have to say. And that's how I feel. : )

Re: Mi journal es su journal. : )

[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

well shucks... *:)*