Re: VIRTUAL SIT IN AGAINST THE OAS AND THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SL...

In a message dated 8/11/2002 5:34:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> The mothers will deliver a letter to the Commission Chairperson of the
> Interamerican Commission on Human Rights urging that body to intervene on
> behalf of the families of the murdered and missing women. To date, the
> local,
> state and federal government in Mexico have not responded to the crisis in
> Juarez.


I agree this is a good thing, a protest of a situation that has gone way too
far. All over. Is it legal to say that? That civil protest is a safe
activity for civilians anywhere, even in wartime?

I would like to be seeing a strengthening of Amnesty International right now,
not a strengthening of Enronia and the Great Invisible Engine of capital
gains tax cuts.

What is at stake is a looting of the public coffers to prop up a failed stock
market. This is the whole country's money, bout all there is.

So it's no turning back. Why not protest now while you can? No protestor
ever wins; that's not the issue in protest. Civil Disobedience.

I mean all we need are a few great writers to write some great texts like the
federalist papers and the oath of the tennis court and all, figuratively I
mean of course. Maybe a "Common Sense" kind of writer like Thomas Paine, an
underground prole-pamphleteer like Orwell said it can come right down to even
in bloody blue britain.

So, I'd be honored if anyone would carry a Genius 2000 sign at the march; I
can't go but I support the cause. Political imprisionment is torture, and it
stinks real hard. It's why USA rebelled from the British Empire, no habeas
me corpus guvnah.

I see no reason to resign ourselves to a rule of torture. Maybe our most
sacred duty is never to torture anyone, and if we do, we must confess it or
be investigated.

Unpleasant to think of how clearly 9/11 has altered the human rights
landscape. I say be careful and videotape everything, get it all in the Q
and A.

I myself was once a victim of garden-variety midwest police brutality; I'm
told now that the risk of reprisals to me, a clean man with zero priors no
less, makes filing any complaint suicide post 9/11. "Not worth it."

The future of Mexico as part of NAFTA is a mystery to me, an intriguing
unfolding history, almost like Conrad's Heart of Darkness in real life. It's
a full-scale assimilation of everything together. Like an annexation of
sorts. I visited Mexico City once, had the flu and took a lot of pictures.
It's an intense and frightening city, I saw an Opera there, couldn't stop
sneezing cause of the flu.

Ironically, if I were to move there and work as an independent foreign
journalist to expose these things I'd be dead fast. I had this passing
thought today about mourning, how people really do not mourn very well
anymore. Repentance, grief, sorrow, loss. Reagan said "Morning in America,"
so what's it now, dusk?

We should also make Iraq '03 the Sudeten that never happened, massive public
outcry could delay it until new elections. Even pollsters know this. Delay
this war, is my preference, my petition to the government which I can legally
make, until after the 2004 elections. Defend, but do not attack. In this
manner we can focus ALL our energy on quality intelligence and prevention.
"Unfortunate huge mistakes" should not be made anymore, manufactured,
positioned into plausibility, programmed to deceive. PR stuff.

If someone says "we have to take a huge war to Hussein today," tell him he is
not a legit president unless he's post 2004. Go to a protest or write your
local cable access station. If a big Iraq war goes down, make the Democrats
do it, and elect someone with integrity–or we are perhaps being herded to a
sorry state of affairs.

I concede the orientalized narrative I look thro (not with–Blake) is a
posture shaped by the desire to save others, a weak-erotic protagonist
observer. Heroism et cetera.

I support such protests in general.

Max Weber
genius2000.net

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