Come Meet the New Boss – Obama to defend Telco Spy Immunity

Posted on January 22, 2009

Yes We Can … continue George Bush’s well established precedent of violating citizens privacy rights, protecting big corporations, and trading our freedoms for the false security of a Police State. Come meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
By David Kravets, Wired Magazine

The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program.

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Grats to ya boy.

Posted on November 5, 2008

Last night around 8pm I was at a house party here in Oakland getting ready for my band’s set when somebody across the room shouted out “Obama won!  he did it!” and the whole room broke out in cheers and clapping.   I pulled out my cellphone and sent a text message to my friend Labrie (who’s been pulling hard for an Obama victory and recorded a couple songs supporting him and his candidacy) saying “Grats to ya boy” and went back to working on getting our sound set up.  Later that night as we closed our set with ‘None of the Above’ several of the Obama supporters, including my bandmates wife, waged a bit of a counter-insurgency, shouting out “Obama!” every time the chorus of “Which one?  None of the Above!” came up.

Such is the fate of an Anarchist among Liberals.

Seriously though, I know this is a big day for a lot of folks who’ve put time and energy into getting dude elected, and in particular – as even McCain acknowledged – it’s a big day for black folks in America.  For over 200 years black folks have watched white Presidents completely ignore their issues and support policies that hurt them.  Now, thanks to Obamas historic win, poor and working class black folks get to have their issues and their needs ignored by a person with the same color skin as them.  That’s an honor that poor and working class white folks have enjoyed in isolation for far too long.  It’s only fair to spread the joy around a bit. Read more

On John McCain

Posted on August 1, 2008

Let me start out by saying that, on some level, I can relate to John McCain. If it wasn’t for the whole ‘married to a multi-millionaire heiress’ thing and the fact that he’s a bonified member of the ruling class by virtue of his long tenure in the US Senate, he’d fit right in at one of my extended family’s get togethers’. In a lot of ways, he reminds me very strongly of at least one of my uncles. Read more