Thursday, June 19, 2008

Boot to face, forever



The news around Philadelpia three or four cycles ago was this hippie/terrorist got detained or something while cops and city inspection crews stole his collection of booty call contacts. Who hasn't distributed anti-surveillance literature from a dilapidated North Philly former shoe store/current grow house? Not any respectable bearded California transplant, that's for sure.

The money quote that swings the whole situation comes from some cop who said: "They're a hate group. We're trying to drum up charges against them, but, unfortunately, we'll probably have to let them go."

This guy deserves a medal for spouting some message board material fit to unify Marxists and Paultards both. "Drum up charges" is the kind of buzz-phrase that gets any anti-authoritarians blood boiling, reputable source or no. This kind of thing makes plain to many simple minds that American neo-fascism is alive and thriving.

The tipping point has been crossed, as the Roots or Malcolm Gladwell might say. A man doesn't even have the freedom to run an illegal hedge-fund operation. The Keating Five wouldn't be regarded as heroes if they were around today.



But the internet, say some! Surely this vast hive mind of apes will prevent a police state from occurring! Like it's fucking magic. Just wait til this blogpost inspires the most vicious flamewar ever conceived, which then spills out into the streets. These ideas are like viruses infecting society, eventually leading to the holocaust of enlightenment, whatever that means.

Nope, everyone will soon leave their computers and make molotov cocktails. That Philly.com commenter who so wisely said: This whole story sounds odd. "Drum up charges..."??? Those three question marks mean this "bronzie" is ready -- are you? Remember, there are no idiots on the internet. Everyone has something coherent and important to add to the conversation. Reading for comprehension is elitist.

Of course, for every sarcastic blog paragraph there's two posts on domelights from some guy with a confederate flag avatar. Far be it from me to criticize a guy for trying to live by the code.

edit: Upon reflection I may have tried to shoehorn too many disparate ideas into this post for it to have any relevancy or pertinence. Sorry.

4 comments:

grant said...

wwjd? he apparently would put your ass in a wheelchair. he's probably having a good laugh about it right now. although the devil horns might force him to give you a pressure ulcer on your ass. nice work dude.

tdenevi said...

see if there's a black and white who can do a drive by.

see if there's a black and white who can do a drive by.

I haven't beaten anybody this bad in a long time.

I haven't beaten anybody this bad in a long time.

Oh come on those beatings those people were resisting arrest.

[In comes Ice Cube]

Mr. Law had to hit me in the jaw /
cause I called them faggots /
with guns and badges.

-"Who Got the Camera?"

charles said...

Wheelchair burnouts aside, any cop who uses the term "drum up the charges" is probably not too intelligent.

Anonymous said...

I see what you're doing. Testing my knowledge of Constitutional law. You sly bastard. Well, my research indicates that the founders intended to exclude hippies and drifters from the Bill of Rights and therefore this is all perfectly legal.

And you can take that to the bank. The money bank.