Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, November 12, 2004
Rumor Club (gossip as direct action?)
A highly placed operative from the DNC told me Bill “Bubba” Clinton was going vegan, taking martial arts lessons and devoting 9/10 of his income to charity. “I’m tired of being an unhealthy wuss”, the former president said to him. “I woke up one day and realized I was war criminal, liable to die before I made amends, however inadequate, and when Hillary joined the Green Party I knew it was time to take some positive steps”.
Amen, Mr. ex-President!
Posted by harry on from 11/12 at 02:19 PMThis may or may not be true...but I hear Bubba visits my site every day.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/12 at 02:57 PMI like the rumor mill idea. It could be a lot of fun, especially if you’re in on the gag. I was thinking about a similar tactic, to flood the web with so many bogus death threats against the president that the Secret Service would not be able to investigate them all. Perhaps in that way they would be forced to only investigate credible threats instead of intimidating ordinary people for venting their frustrations, like the high school kids in Oregon after their “Masters of War” recitation. In the end though, I think the rumor mill idea is better.
Posted by Mike on from California 11/13 at 02:59 PMSome have said I could never mobilize enough people for such a rumor mill but they are ignoring the dynamics of the Internet. One does not need to be “mobilized” to forward an e-mail. How many rumor-like e-mails do we each get --every single day--that are forwarded without much thought? This could be a fun experiment.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/13 at 04:37 PMFlooding the web with death threats to the president would to lead to random persecutions of completely innocent people. Militant authoritarians don’t get sensible and back off. They get vengeful and stupid. They have no way to differentiate between what is credible and what is not. The ones who do, don’t last. There are few threats more worrying to illegitimate authority than honest cops and the powers that be make their life as difficult as possible.
Cops who go after the biggest threats to people learn not to bother after a while. They concentrate on building easy cases against the vulnerable or despised groups and individuals.
To jam up the works of repression takes constant creativity and should leave the targets bemused and looking very silly. The violence of aggressive and brutal police doesn’t undercut them in the eyes of the TV audience. Gullibility does. A confirmed sighting of Jesus blessing the president in the waters of the Rockefeller Center fountain would be a better rumor to spread.
Posted by harry on from 11/13 at 06:49 PMThank you, Harry. I was remiss in not saying something like this...and in now way suggest anyone shuold take seriously a plan that included death threats to anyone.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/13 at 07:55 PMLots of typos in that last post...sorry. The main point is this: Count me out of the death threat idea.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/13 at 08:00 PMSpeaking pie to power still helps people get over their tendency to hurt others. The Biotic Baking Brigade has many recruits, sleepers, inside the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. It’s highly likely that one has managed to get inside the FBI by now and I’m fairly certain there are a dozen or so—a bakers dozen, if you will—planted in various branches of the federal government. It’s just a matter of time before a president or cabinet member gets a face full of pie on national TV.
Posted by harry on from 11/13 at 10:14 PM
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