Well, I don't know if any of the Camp Wellstone students in Seattle the same day will be participating, but denizens of the putative Moonbat Left are planning to gather in a park near Bellevue Square and stage a "walking dead" march to the Medina home of Microsoft exec Peter Neupert Friday morning June 16 for a "die-in" to honor U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, as President George W. Bush arrives at a fundraiser for Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert (WA-8th). The news is found on the Internet in several locations. It originates here, dated June 7; the online ringleader is named Kenn Dzaman. The same text shows up here and here, as well. A WA Democratic Congressional candidate expressed awareness to supporters in a Mercer Island, WA Starbucks shortly thereafter of protest plans pegged to Bush's Eastside visit, according to a reliable source. FWIW.
Dzaman sounds like a very balanced, rational fellow. Here is a letter to the editor he had published in the Seattle bird-cage liner called Eat The State in 1998, just part of his grand and voluminous Internet ouvre.
I find the culture and society of the United States to be disgusting. The United States uses an invented and imaginary power of an intellectual and social-cultural status to consume more. This "power" is something people have invented between themselves and has little correlation to actual consciousness. Being conscious is not an intellectual, cultural, or social status. I feel it is being aware of what you are consuming, and what is being created out of that consumption. People in the United States use their "status" and "intellect" to be a more privileged consumer, one whose consumption is more important than another person's. Look at Timothy McVeigh, and Kip Kinkel: they took the United States consumption ideal to its fullest education. Do not worry what it creates or what it destroys, "just do it." (Or as Nordstrom's has plastered all over its store windows, "go with the flow.")The United States is a nation with an intellectual and social- cultural hierarchy that is based on consumption. It makes the rich consumer and the barbaric murderer media stars (i.e.: Bill Gates, Timothy McVeigh).
Good luck next Friday Kenn. I think I should let you know I'm not fooled, though: you're clearly a Rovian plant well-versed in cointelpro ops. Good work, Karl!
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 10, 2006 06:59 PM | Email This1)Those "die-in" events are SOOO lame!
2)"I find the culture and society of the United States to be disgusting."
Friends, this is pretty much the opinion of most activist Dems, except that they are usually too afraid to say it in public (but we all sense it pretty regularly from y'all, Dems). This guy was too honest for his own good.
I find the culture and society of the United States to be disgusting
I am sure he'll find Cuba more amenable, I'd even buy him a one way ticket... oh wait that's consuming... I know send in back in one of the rafts of a refugee. You know reuse, recycle... he'd be much happier in Fidel's paradise.
'Till he open his yap. Then he'd be pounding on the US interest sections door before you could say "enemy of the state."
Posted by: JCM on June 10, 2006 07:28 PMAs for the "Die-In" event that is planned for this Friday, do they really think they are going to make a difference? Protests have not had any effect on anyone in the United States government since the American civil rights movement protests in the early 60's.
Posted by: Andrew S. on June 10, 2006 10:44 PMAnd maybe we could try to help Mr. Dzaman find happiness. So, everyone---Don't consume: don't eat. Don't drive. Don't wear clothes (they DO wear out, ya' know), in short---just STAND there! After all, he must spend his days like that--otherwise he'd be (horrors!) CONSUMING!
Posted by: Misty on June 10, 2006 11:26 PMWhat is funny, however, is that whenever I read something from someone like this individual, with an overuse of double quotes to sarcastically diminish a word (for example, in this missive: its "power", their "status", etc.), the image of Dr. Evil in his lair seems to come to my mind.
I'm thinking Kenn wears a grey suit with white shoes, and carries a cat named Mr. Bigglesworth around with him to these events -- maybe?
I propose an American anti-consumerism day, a monunent to self-sufficiency, to be held at each American's family's soonest convenience:
- Provide all the vegetables and leafy green for the day's meals from a garden of your own.
- Cut your own wood to heat your home and cook your food.
- Bake your own bread.
- Shoot, slaughter and cook an animal, and serve it up next to the greens and bread.
- Provide for your own security: shoot intruders with the same gun you use to put meat on the table.
- Erect a structure on your own land, using timber you cut yourself. I recommend an outhouse: sewage systems are consumer services. No need for a building permit, why should anyone have say in what you do on your own land?
- Place a well on your land. Water systems are consumer services. Place it carefully in relation to the outhouse. Filter the water and use it for all the day's needs. Alternatively, get your water from a rain-barrel.
- Ride a horse to work. If you do not own a horse and cannot rent one for the day, calculate what it would cost to own and keep a horse for a day, and spend no more than that on your transportation needs for that day.
- You may use electricity to light your home, but only so much as the equivalent cost of tallow candles, less the amortized daily value of household wiring and lightbulbs.
- Brew your own beer. You can start this in advance. In fact, I see no reason to stop.
- Reload your own rifle or shotgun shells.
- Educate your children at home.
- If anyone mentions taxes, reply that everything you did that day was completely without the assistence of any others, and why should anyone get a cut of what you do to provide solely for your own family? Then, shoot the intruder.
- If you need medical attention, barter with the doctor for it. Trade him some of the animal you hunted. Or provide it yourself.
- Band together with your like-minded neighbors for the common defense. If anyone comes to complain that you are collectively being self-sufficient, tell them it's none of their business. Then, shoot the intruder.
- Entertain yourself. Read a book. Play chess. Carve game pieces from bits of wood. Climb a tree. Go fishing. Bury all the idiot intruders that keep coming around to collect taxes and force you to be dependent on the collector of those taxes.
- Be sarcastic at authoritarian wolves wearing "liberal" sheepskins. It's its own reward. Also, offer them a place at the dinner table if they put in a good day of working in your garden, digging your outhouse pit, hoisting water from the well and chopping wood.
So, maybe before you take one idea and run with it, perhaps consider it for a moment and you'll realize that there is a lot of truth behind what he's trying to say. Doesn't take much head scratching to figure it out.
Posted by: Eve on June 15, 2006 06:34 AMSo, maybe before you take one idea and run with it, perhaps consider it for a moment and you'll realize that there is a lot of truth behind what he's trying to say. Doesn't take much head scratching to figure it out.
Posted by: Eve on June 15, 2006 06:35 AM"Needless over-consumption and the created death (or extinction) of any life (for status, consumption, or education) is barbaric; until this correlation is realized, expect more of it. You can blame the government, the military, corporations, the media, or this culture and society, but really, it is the peoples' fault. We create the environment that fosters the need for all this barbarism. Go ahead, people, consume until we all die (and blame whatever)."
There. Now it should all make sense.
Posted by: Eve on June 15, 2006 07:09 AM