Fuck a buncha Hanoi Jane

12.30.02 :: 11:06 pm

Received this in email form from Bear's brother today, and since I pretty much agree with the fact that she's a traitorous bitch, I'm posting it.  This is for all the kids born in the 70's that do not remember this, and didn't have to bear the burden, that our fathers, mothers, and older brothers and sisters had to bear. Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."  Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam.  The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat.  In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho Lo Prison-the "Hanoi Hilton." Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "Peace Activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received. He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and dragged away.  During the subsequent beating, he fell forward upon the camp Commandant's feet, which sent that officer berserk. In '78, the AF Col. still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying days) from the Vietnamese Col.'s frenzied application of a wooden baton. From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's).  He spent 6 years in the "Hilton"- the first three of which he was "missing in action". His wife lived on faith that he was still alive.  His group, too, got the cleaned, fed, clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.  They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they still survived.  Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his SSN on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper. She took them all without missing a beat.  At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him the little pile of papers. Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Col. Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know about her actions that day.  "I was a civilian economic development advisor in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held for over 5 years.  I spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a cage in Cambodia, and one year in a "black box" in Hanoi.  My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border.  "At one time, I was weighing approximately 90 lbs.  (My normal weight is 170 lbs.) We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals.  "When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with Jane Fonda.  I said yes, for I would like to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received different from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by Jane Fonda, as "humane and lenient." Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees with outstretched arms with a large amount of steel placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane till my arms dipped.  "I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda for a couple of hours after I was released.  I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She did not answer me."  This does not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women."  Lest we forget...  "100 years of great women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.  There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them.  current mood: DISGUSTED...again.  current music:  MC Frontalot - Indier Than Thou

 

Security and Safety Uber Alles

12.30.02 :: 3:24 am

Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife's Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?  http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html This poor guy's wife was subjected to groping and humiliation by airport authorities in what is now a hideous continuation of 'preventative *safety* measures'. His reaction was only natural, and the cops jailed him and blatantly lied about it.  Part of me wants to run, and part of me wants to fight.  I find myself wondering if this sense of nervous anxiousness I feel was the same thing the German Jews had to endure under the Third Reich, when they were waiting for everything to 'go back to normal'.  =================  Listen to the victim, abused by the system  The basis is racist, you know that we must face this.  "It can't happen here". Oh yeah?  "Take a look around at the cities and the towns."  See them hunting, creeping, sneaking,  Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking.  The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb:  There is no future when the past soon come.  And when they come to ethnically cleanse me,  Will you speak out? Will you defend me?  Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives,  Trampled underfoot by the right on the rise.  Ich Bin Ein Auslander.  Welcome to a state where the politics of hate  Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down"  There's a rising tide in the rivers of blood  But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence.  If they come to ethnically cleanse me,  will you speak out? Will you defend me?  Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright  Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right.  Ich Bin Ein Auslander.    current mood: DISGUSTED  current music:  Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

 

Ice-T and wierdness

12.29.02

I'm currently perusing Ice-T's first book, The Ice Opinion, and it's really outstanding. He's a very well spoken individual without adding a snotty white tone to his writing. Granted, on the cover of the book it states in small letters on the bottom, 'As told to Heidi Siegmund', but it looks like she's pretty much put his statements and ideas down word for word. Go out and read it!  From the back cover:  "I didn't write this book to make you like me, though I hope you do. I wrote it in an attempt to inspire conversation...I know there are enough of you out there who will read this and understand that we're all not really that different."  And, on a severely wierd note, for those of you unaware of the News of the WIERD:  But is it art?  The performance "XXX" by the Spanish theater group La Fura dels Baus opened in May in the small town of Lorca, Spain, the only venue available because the play's rawness continues to keep it out of mainstream European theaters. Its nude, sexually acrobatic troupe performs a work by Marquis de Sade ending in a woman's staging the rape and mutilation of her mother as punishment for having sheltered the daughter's life (about which one actor said, "(W)e have achieved something essential, which is to leave nobody indifferent"). The show opens with a nude woman picking up a pen between her buttocks cheeks and scrawling (in Spanish) "A better world is possible" while squatting over a video projector.  [The Guardian (London), 6-5-02]  current mood: bookwormy  current music:  NWA- The Art of Sucking Dick

 

Lovely crashy snow.

12.24.02

On the way into work tonight, I experienced the childlike wonder of sliding along slippery, slushy pavement. The guardrails, trees and embankments danced around the outside of my vision in a circular pattern as I did my best to try to maintain control of the vehicle. After coming to terms with the fact that when one is in a spin, all control has officially been lost, I just kinda sat back and watched the show, hoping that I didn't end up going into a guardrail, jerseywall or off a steep hill into some trees. When the car finally came to rest, it was butted back against a little man-made hillock at the edge of a ditch.  I was able to rock the car out of the ditch and continue my merry way on into work, thankfully. I love Saturns. Now the car just shimmies slightly when I get above 60MPH.  Oddly enough, while it was happening, I wasn't as tweaked as I thought I'd be. I got tweaky afterwards, when I saw all the other cars that had run off the road, meeting a much worse fate. It's funny how, after something like this happens, your mind begins replaying it, making it worse and worse with all the various hideous possibilities that 'could've happened'.  Stupid snow.

 

TECMO - Chum in the water?

12.21.02

It is at this critical point in my life that I need to slay somebody in ritual blood atonement at TECMO for making a game that can neither be completed or cheated on. Both of us have gotten to the point where we've damn near run out of film, and I keep getting my ass beat down by a goddamned dead monk. Oh, he's tenacious, he is, but it makes my enjoyment of the game NIL since I can't advance any further. ARGH!  TECMO...you shall PAY!!!  Oh, and I'd really like to thank all the 'helpful' souls that posted 'hints' along the lines of 'Successfully complete the game, and...' It pretty much chaps my ass that if I wanted to continue this game, I'd have to toss down seventy bucks for a fucking gameshark in order to do so. ARGH, I say!    current mood: IRATE  current music:  Heaven 17 - Let Me Go

 

Work camps...again? That old trick never works.

12.21.02

Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in California  Thu Dec 19,12:05 AM ET  By Jill Serjeant  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.  Shocked and frustrated Islamic and immigrant groups estimate that more than 500 people have been arrested in Los Angeles, neighboring Orange County and San Diego in the past three days under a new nationwide anti-terrorism program. Some unconfirmed reports put the figure as high as 1,000.  The arrests sparked a demonstration by hundreds of Iranians outside a Los Angeles immigration office. The protesters carried banners saying "What's next? Concentration camps?" and "What happened to liberty and justice?."  A spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service said no numbers of people arrested would be made public. A Justice Department (news - web sites) spokesman could not be reached for comment.  The head of the southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) compared the arrests to the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during the Second World War.  "I think it is shocking what is happening. It is reminiscent of what happened in the past with the internment of Japanese Americans. We are getting a lot of telephone calls from people. We are hearing that people went down wanting to cooperate and then they were detained," said Ramona Ripston, the ACLU's executive director.  JAILS OVERFLOWING  One activist said local jails were so overcrowded that the immigrants could be sent to Arizona, where they could face weeks or months in prisons awaiting hearings before immigration judges or deportation.  "It is a shock. You don't expect this to happen. It is really putting fright and apprehension in the community. People who come from these countries -- this is what they expect from their government. Not from America," said Sabiha Khan of the Southern California chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations.  The arrests were part of a post Sept. 11 program that requires all males over 16 from a list of 20 Arab or Middle East countries, who do not have permanent resident status in the United States, to register with U.S. immigration authorities.  Monday was the deadline for men from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Sudan. News of the mass arrests came first in southern California, which is home to more than 600,000 Iranian exiles and their families.  Officials declined to give figures for those arrested or for the numbers of people who turned up to register, be fingerprinted and have their photographs taken.  "We are not releasing any numbers," said Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) spokesman Francisco Arcaute.  CALLS FOR HELP  Islamic groups and the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said they had been swamped with calls for help.  INS spokesman Arcaute said those arrested had violated immigration laws, overstayed their visas, or were wanted for crimes. The program was prompted by concern about the lack of records on tourists, students and other visitors to the United States after the Sept. 11 hijack plane attacks on New York and Washington.  Islamic community leaders said many of the detainees had been living, working and paying taxes in the United States for five or 10 years, and had families here.  "Terrorists most likely wouldn't come to the INS to register. It is really a bad way to go about it. They are being treated as criminals and that really goes against American ideals of fairness, and justice and democracy," Khan said.  The Iranian protesters said many of those detained were victims of official delays in processing visa and green card requests.  "My father, they just took him in," one young man told reporters. "They've been treating him like an animal. They put him in a room with, like, 50 other people and no bed or anything."  Khan said one of those in jail was a doctor, who was being sponsored for U.S. citizenship when his sponsor died.  One Syrian man said he went to register in Orange County with a dozen friends. He was the only one to come out of the INS office. "All my friends are inside right now," M.M. Trapici, 45, told reporters. "I have to visit the family                               for each one today. Most of them have small kids."    I find myself wondering when the camps will go up. This situation adds a higher terrfying factor, now that I'm involved with an immigrant myself. Granted, Australia is on America's 'friendly' list, but still...  I also find myself wondering if they're going to start making middle eastern immigrants wear little 'defining' symbols. Perhaps 'festive' red crescents or something. *gnashes teeth*    current mood: querelous  current music:  Dosheimsgard - Oneiroscope

 

PS2 Fevahhhh

12.18.02

Picked up a Playstation 2 over the weekend, my first gaming console. Usually, I just went over to friends' houses and ganked time on their boxes, but NO LONGER!  Consequently, I'm now addicted to Fatal Frame. It really is an amazing horror game that does quite nicely at terrifying me, and I now play it so often that I have dreams about begin trapped in this mansion with my mighty ghost repelling camera. Ah, sweet adrenaline juice!  That, coupled with State of Emergency and Tekken4 will keep me in games for the duration of my hibernation season. Woo hoo!  On the update front, Hell Comes to Frogtown arrived, and I fell asleep halfway through it. The bits I stayed awake for were highly entertaining, at least.                                   current mood: full of terror juice!  current music:  Rhapsody - Lamento Eroico

 

The New Look

12.17.02

With a sporty new, low impact format, my experiment in internet trepanation through vituperous raging continues. I think I'm going to be going pretty much full bore on this design idea, since I'm too goddamned busy to come up with anything vivacious and shiny. Besides, who wants to see all that extraneous crap that isn't text anyway?                                   current mood: elated!  current music: Soilwork - Song of the Damned

 

The Worst Porno Story Ever

12.16.02 :: 8:20 am

I started this as a thread on aforementioned site in ye olde 'post before this one', and I liked it so much, I've decided to just keep adding to it until I find a combination of ideas and phrases that make me physically ill.   current mood: twitty  current music: white noise

 

I need a break

12.16.02 :: 5:26 am

I've been a member of a rather decent online community for the better part of a year (one in which I've met an almost painfully cool Mate, so kudos to the admins for making a site like that possible), and I've come to the decision that daily checks on the boards to see what people are yammering about during the more boring parts of their day - well, it's driving me crazy. When one actually begins actively hating certain people online, and fretting over what people post or don't post, it's time to cut the cord and walk away for a little bit.  It's really disturbing how many cock/punani vultures exist out there, flocking in their little diseased droves to the newest piece of meat thrown into the fray. Ah, and the SHEEP. How they happily trot from one side of the field to the other, based simply on what a few 'chosen golden ones' utter, bleating along their haggard little, "Me too!"'s and "Oh, I completely agree!"isms. I've been well aware that this is how large social groups, of ANY stripe, function, but there had been enough entertainment and honestly outstanding fucking friendship provided by a few insane individuals that had kept me there. Now, even that is getting drowned out by the 'peasandcarrotspeasandcarrots' mentality of the "OOh, pay attention to me and my little five word posts/answers!" crowd.  Now I just need a breather.  I'm just going to go fuck off to the somethingawful.com forums until my eyes bleed now.   current mood: snitty  current music: Rhapsody - March of the Swordmaster

FICTION:

Jhada and Argent || The Model and the Mad Scientist || Gabriel || An Unlikely Pairing || The Worst Porno Story Ever

POETRY:

No Longer Angry || Depression || Run with the Moon || Love is a Virus || BloodDance || Diamanda || Murderer || The Watcher || Confusion || Dream || Romeo is Bleeding || Cribdeath || HoPeLeSs || Soulmate || Darling || Illuminate || Madness || Insecurity || Fear || Angel || The Job || Pathetic || Shard of Hate || Thin || Departure of Friends || Empty Life || Kindred Spirit || Why Bother? || Loss of Control || Lonely Girl || Loss of a Dream || Damaged || Done || Excision  || Missing You || Jhada|| Hope ||  Reflection ||  History Repeating

TIRADES:

Sucky Movies || Relationships || Marriage || Shortcomings || Parents || Monstrous Brats || Barbie's Newest Trauma || Babies in Trashcans || Religion || Listening || Public Facilities || Choices...Grieving || Legalize Prostitution ||  Sports VS Public Service || Y2K || Abortion || To Buffy, or not to Buffy? || Enough with the HATE Already! || Christmas || Valentine's Day || Love in the 90's || The Big Trenchcoat Freakout || Keeping Up Appearances || Presidential Scourge|| Legislating Safety || Anti-drug commercials || Dating || Annoying Anonymity || America West || The Great Bug Debacle || Smoking || Anthrax, anthrax, anthrax || The USA Patriot Act