Posted by Captain Blowtorch in Hot Pursuit
Bruce Dixon in The Black Commentator:
The religious right does not follow politicians. Politicians pander to it....There is only one place America’s next progressive mass movement can come from. There is only one identifiable constituency with a bedrock majority of its citizens in long term historical opposition to our nation’s imperial adventures overseas. This is America’s black one-eighth.
Civil disobedience? Not this time, Mr. Dixon. Now we have the White House, The Courts, Congresss, and every Sheriff in Alabama. You are with us or against us. Insubordinate son of a bitches! I say hanging is too good for these traitors! Any of you liberals want a piece of this?
I doubt they want any piece of it. But I'm sure they'll welcome a hard Hobbesian crackdown when you get far enough out of line to be bad for business. They'll support a pro-war, pro-Patriot Act, pro-NAFTA, pro-"a million other bad ideas" vulture as long as he's Brand Democrat™.
Posted by: Harry | June 30, 2005 at 08:56 AM
So how can we make a buck of this? Or get Candidia's pony boy elected? How do we play the crackdown angle? What is in it for us? Go long on riot gear? Start a social venture using prison labor? Start a liberal membership site and sell the names to the Fatherland Security Deparment? What is the key variable we can leverage here, Harry?
Posted by: Smoky Joe | June 30, 2005 at 05:46 PM
Safety debentures! Joe, come on over for a chat. People can buy safety debentures against Blowtorch, as a premium service above police protection. We're going to need the police for the press gangs anyway, so the funds gathered from the debenture sales can be used to hire force specialist contractors. Interested people can buy into a series of special debentures, that can eventually be converted to full voting shares on safety issues.
Posted by: Tigg Montague | June 30, 2005 at 06:17 PM