Just checking into say hi to everyone. I'm pretty busy right now and I've been checking in to follow the conversation, but commenting takes thinking, which at my age takes twice as long as it used to. I'd have to kill you all if I told you what I'm up to, and I'm not about to travel to Chicago or whatever god-forsaken arctic wasteland Tapu lives in. I can say, it's a lot harder to sneak into the whitehouse for clandestine meetings with the president after that party crasher thing made the news.
I can neither confirm nor deny that any Whitehouse staff or I myself appear in the following image: [damnit, can't get the picture to link]
http://www.exactitudes.com/index.php?/series/zoom/115/4
A coupla things before I re-submerge. Apologies to Pax for my pedantism, pedanticism, pedestrianism, well that word, re: "murder." I'd forgotten the J. Dahmer had meet his fate at the hands of a fellow prisoner. Murder I'd call that. Reminds me why I don't want to go to prison.
"an eye for an eye" comes from the Code of Hammurabi which predates the Old Testament if I'm not mistaken and which was recored on this lovely artifact. No telling how much we can trust Wikipedia translations of very long dead ancient languages, but it was written as something like "If a man puts out the eye of an equal, his eye shall be put out." Who determines who is equal to whom else is apparently not specified, but it was probably pretty clear to everyone.
Finally, there was a little back and forth not long ago about Virginia, Klan, etc. I've never seen a Klan rally, but I do remember one near Petersburg in the mid-80's. It was unusual enough to make the news and had probably more protestors than Klan members. I've heard of others since then but can't recall exactly where. For what it's worth, at the same time graffiti saying "Fight for Worker's Rights, Join the CWP" was also pretty common in Petersburg, Richmond, and Washington D.C. and all along I95, as were posters claiming the Catholic Church owned all the major media and that "Hitler was a Choirboy." I still have one of each of those posters that come from construction sites in D.C. in the 80's. I haven't seen any of that stuff in a decade at least more likely a good 20 years. There is a guy in Charlottesville named Kevin Strom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Alfred_Strom who is the former director of a group called National Vanguard. No doubt he has some support locally and around the region, at least until his child *advertiser censored* conviction, but mostly he was just laughed at locally.
The notion that that racism is typical of or limited to today's "south" is very wrong as is the notion that Farmville fits into some filmic stereotype of what the "South' is like. Hate an equal opportunity things that lets both northerners and southerners play the game, not to mention practically everyone else in the world.
Oh my, I feel a Wikipedia rampage coming.
The Order- Washington based
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Order_(group)
Prussian Blue- sweet, adorable Californian Aryans-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wViubDpJojw
"You are my brother and in war we proudly sing. Our Cause shall never tire. Our gift to you we bring: A holy creed of Racial purpose, as a mighty Race to defend. And when we fly our holy flag Their oppressive reign shall end…. " Complete lyrics here:
http://tinyurl.com/p-blue-lyrics
http://www.micetrap.net/ A nice music label from New Jersey that features bands like Prussian Blue and Romantic Violence and Racist Redneck Rebels.
Romantic Violence - "Choosers Of The Slain" is solid R.A.C. musicianship containing the powerfully refreshing female vocals of Tara that's going to take our music scene by storm! Romantic Violence features members of Stormtroop 16, Slaghammer, Final War and many others! Mixing old school classic styles with a fresh new twist, Romantic Violence have created an album that will be enjoyed by a wide spectrum of music lovers. [Tracks include] True Warrior - Alien Invasion - Johnny - Omens Of War - Make A Choice - Drop Out - United Worldwide - Show Us Betsy - Choosers Of The Slain - Kristallnacht - Bring On The Storm - Revolution - Solitude - Hybrid Moments.
Racist Redneck Rebels - "Keep The Hate Alive!" - Move over Johnny Rebel, we have a new and much more modern set of musical heroes on the White Power country music scene! Mixing hysterical stories and lyrics with easy to understand vocals and country-western musicianship, the Racist Redneck Rebels are taking the WP music scene by storm with these 16 hilarious tracks! As with all Micetrap Records releases, this cd includes a beautiful 12 page full color booklet with all lyrics: Droppin' The Kids Off In Harlem - ******s ******s ******s - We Are All ******s - The ****** Crematory - Pederast Priests - Marty The Maggot - Jungle Bunny - All Good Things Come From Africa - Blow Up The Middle East - Free Mumia - Like A ****** On Payday - ****** Snipers - Oh My God, I Married A ****** - Reparations My *advertiser censored*! - Whatever Happened To That Dear Ol' Klan Of Mine? and The Birds Are Singing.
Warning: The lyrics are extremely offensive and contain profanities.
The NorthWest is a hotbed of racism and anti-semitism with the California born Aryan Nations having it headquarters in Hayden Lake Idaho for many years. Again from that dreaded Wiki thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations
"The origin of Aryan Nations is in the teachings of Wesley Swift, a significant figure in the early Christian Identity movement. Swift combined British Israelism, extreme antisemitism, and political militancy. He founded his own church in California in the mid-1940s, and he had a daily radio broadcast in California during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1957, the name of his church was changed to the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian, which is used today by Aryan Nations churches.[3]
From the 1970s until 2001, the headquarters of AN was in a 20-acre (81,000 m²) compound 1.8 miles north of Hayden Lake, Idaho.[3] There were a number of state chapters, only loosely tied to the main organization. The group ran an annual World Congress of Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake for both AN adherents and members of similar groups.[3]
August Kreis, an aspiring revolutionary with ties to the Aryan Nations, the Posse Comitatus, and the Ku Klux Klan, has reportedly attempted to forge an alliance between white supremacists and al Qaeda, hoping to exploit their shared hatred of the American government and the Jews.[4]"
We could go on for a very long time with this, but I hope the point is made.
ciao
