Rosebud #24
What’s Cool
On the lighter side, as a redhead I have to say I think Lindsay Lohan should embrace the nickname “Firecrotch.” It has a Native American ring to it. And so it should. Slur from an oil heir, Brandon Davis, with the hotel heiress Paris Hilton smirking him on. The rich are always envious of the poor. Lindsay, child of a jailbird and a Rockette, should have the oil scion's smear engraved on her sword. Or maybe she can just name her next "album" after it. “Firecrotch....” That’s hot!
Speaking of which: If I weren’t already married to the coolest bloke, I’d be sending warm fuzzies from my firecrotch to Keith Olbermann of MSNBC's “Countdown.” Did you see his “Special Comment” on September 25? You can watch it at YouTube or 911truth.org, which offers this review:
“Extraordinarily powerful and career-threatening thunder from the increasingly extraordinary Keith Olbermann. Although this passionate indictment of the administration and the mainstream media does not address 9/11 truth head on, it exposes both the cowardice and complicity that has allowed deceit to prevail in America for so long and reminds us what a courageous press might look like. Stewart and Colbert may deftly satirize the government and help us laugh off its ridiculous hypocrisies, but Olbermann challenges us to a far braver game, a no-holds-barred confrontation with its lies, vile massacres, and tyranny.”
Speaking truth to power, as the Quakers said; it’s very, very hot.
And speaking of which: If the Republicans are so goddamn happy about 9/11 truth—as some “liberal” critics claim, saying it delegitimizes criticism of the Bush administration (huh?)—then why has the State Department been running anti-9/11 truth spin on its web site? Why has President Bush railed against “conspiracy theories”—even saying it’s “conspiracy theories” that create terrorists? (see Rosebud #15, below).
Why has John McCain written the forward to the recently released “Debunking 9/11 Myths”—which debunks nothing—by the boys at “Popular Mechanics,” publisher of the first 9/11-truth debunking piece, co-authored by a relative of Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff? And what’s with all this stuff about trying to blame Bill Clinton for Osama bin Laden?
Why, what, when, where, how? Asking questions is hot.
The 9/11 truth movement may be the nascence of a more all-inclusive truth movement that not only speaks truth to power but demands truth from power, in the spirit of Ghandi, King, and the young men and women of the White Rose.
Two of the coolest people who ever lived: Hans and Sophie Scholl, leaders of the White Rose, one of the few resistance movements in Hitler’s Germany. While students at the University of Munich, they distributed anti-Fascist propaganda and provided material support to victims of the Nazis.
Moral, honest, religious, in the truest sense of the words, they were executed by guillotine in 1943. They were brave, handsome kids, ages 25 and 22.
Last night, as I walked the streets of downtown Manhattan, in this week when America became a country that condones torture, spying on its own citizens, secret military tribunals, and the suspension of habeus corpus for those accused of—what? they may never know—I imagined Hans and Sophie Scholl, darting in and out of the oblivious, movie-going crowds, handing out their urgent leaflets.
Here is last leaflet of the White Rose:
"Fellow Fighters in the Resistance!
Shaken and broken, our people behold the loss of the men of Stalingrad. Three hundred and thirty thousand German men have been senselessly and irresponsibly driven to death and destruction by the inspired strategy of our World War I Private First Class. Fuhrer, we thank you!
The German people are in ferment. Will we continue to entrust the fate of our armies to a dilettante? Do we want to sacrifice the rest of German youth to the base ambitions of a Party clique? No, never! The day of reckoning has come—the reckoning of German youth with the most abominable tyrant our people have ever been forced to endure. In the name of German youth we demand restitution by Adolf Hitler’s state of our personal freedom, the most precious treasure that we have, out of which he has swindled us in the most miserable way.
We grew up in a state in which all free expression of opinion is unscrupulously suppressed. The Hitler Youth, the SA, the SS have tried to drug us, to regiment us in the most promising young years of our lives. 'Philosophic training' is the name given to the despicable method by which our budding intellectual development is muffled in a fog of empty phrases. A system of selection of leaders at once unimaginably devilish and narrow-minded trains up its future party bigwigs in the “Castles of the Knightly Order” to become Godless, impudent, and conscienceless exploiters and executioners—blind, stupid, hangers-on of the Fuhrer. We 'Intellectual Workers' are the ones who should put obstacles in the path of this caste of overlords…
For us there is but one slogan: fight against the party! Get out of the party organizations, which are used to keep our mouths sealed and hold us in political bondage! Get out of the lecture rooms of the SS corporals and sergeants and the party bootlickers! We want genuine learning and real freedom of opinion. No threat can terrorize us, not even the shutting down of the institutions of higher learning. This is the struggle of each and every one of us for our future, our freedom, and our honor under a regime conscious of it moral responsibility.
Freedom and honor! For ten long years Hitler and his coadjutors have manhandled, squeezed, twisted and debased these two splendid German words to the point of nausea, as only dilettantes can, casting the highest values of a nation before swine. They have sufficiently demonstrated in the ten years of destruction of all material and intellectual freedom, of all moral substance among the German people, what they understand by freedom and honor. The frightful bloodbath has opened the eyes of even the stupidest German—it is a slaughter which they arranged in the name of 'freedom and honor of the German nation' throughout Europe, and which they daily start anew. The name of Germany is dishonored for all time if German youth does not finally rise up, take revenge, and atone, smash its tormentors, and set up a new Europe of the spirit. Students! The German people look to us. As in 1813 the people expected us to shake off the Napoleonic yoke, so in 1943 they look to us to break the National Socialist terror through the power of the spirit. Beresina and Stalingrad are burning in the East. The dead of Stalingrad implore us to take action.
'Up, up, my people, let smoke and flame be our sign!'
Our people stand ready to rebel against the National Socialist enslavement of Europe in a fervent new breakthrough of freedom and honor."
On the lighter side, as a redhead I have to say I think Lindsay Lohan should embrace the nickname “Firecrotch.” It has a Native American ring to it. And so it should. Slur from an oil heir, Brandon Davis, with the hotel heiress Paris Hilton smirking him on. The rich are always envious of the poor. Lindsay, child of a jailbird and a Rockette, should have the oil scion's smear engraved on her sword. Or maybe she can just name her next "album" after it. “Firecrotch....” That’s hot!
Speaking of which: If I weren’t already married to the coolest bloke, I’d be sending warm fuzzies from my firecrotch to Keith Olbermann of MSNBC's “Countdown.” Did you see his “Special Comment” on September 25? You can watch it at YouTube or 911truth.org, which offers this review:
“Extraordinarily powerful and career-threatening thunder from the increasingly extraordinary Keith Olbermann. Although this passionate indictment of the administration and the mainstream media does not address 9/11 truth head on, it exposes both the cowardice and complicity that has allowed deceit to prevail in America for so long and reminds us what a courageous press might look like. Stewart and Colbert may deftly satirize the government and help us laugh off its ridiculous hypocrisies, but Olbermann challenges us to a far braver game, a no-holds-barred confrontation with its lies, vile massacres, and tyranny.”
Speaking truth to power, as the Quakers said; it’s very, very hot.
And speaking of which: If the Republicans are so goddamn happy about 9/11 truth—as some “liberal” critics claim, saying it delegitimizes criticism of the Bush administration (huh?)—then why has the State Department been running anti-9/11 truth spin on its web site? Why has President Bush railed against “conspiracy theories”—even saying it’s “conspiracy theories” that create terrorists? (see Rosebud #15, below).
Why has John McCain written the forward to the recently released “Debunking 9/11 Myths”—which debunks nothing—by the boys at “Popular Mechanics,” publisher of the first 9/11-truth debunking piece, co-authored by a relative of Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff? And what’s with all this stuff about trying to blame Bill Clinton for Osama bin Laden?
Why, what, when, where, how? Asking questions is hot.
The 9/11 truth movement may be the nascence of a more all-inclusive truth movement that not only speaks truth to power but demands truth from power, in the spirit of Ghandi, King, and the young men and women of the White Rose.
Two of the coolest people who ever lived: Hans and Sophie Scholl, leaders of the White Rose, one of the few resistance movements in Hitler’s Germany. While students at the University of Munich, they distributed anti-Fascist propaganda and provided material support to victims of the Nazis.
Moral, honest, religious, in the truest sense of the words, they were executed by guillotine in 1943. They were brave, handsome kids, ages 25 and 22.
Last night, as I walked the streets of downtown Manhattan, in this week when America became a country that condones torture, spying on its own citizens, secret military tribunals, and the suspension of habeus corpus for those accused of—what? they may never know—I imagined Hans and Sophie Scholl, darting in and out of the oblivious, movie-going crowds, handing out their urgent leaflets.
Here is last leaflet of the White Rose:
"Fellow Fighters in the Resistance!
Shaken and broken, our people behold the loss of the men of Stalingrad. Three hundred and thirty thousand German men have been senselessly and irresponsibly driven to death and destruction by the inspired strategy of our World War I Private First Class. Fuhrer, we thank you!
The German people are in ferment. Will we continue to entrust the fate of our armies to a dilettante? Do we want to sacrifice the rest of German youth to the base ambitions of a Party clique? No, never! The day of reckoning has come—the reckoning of German youth with the most abominable tyrant our people have ever been forced to endure. In the name of German youth we demand restitution by Adolf Hitler’s state of our personal freedom, the most precious treasure that we have, out of which he has swindled us in the most miserable way.
We grew up in a state in which all free expression of opinion is unscrupulously suppressed. The Hitler Youth, the SA, the SS have tried to drug us, to regiment us in the most promising young years of our lives. 'Philosophic training' is the name given to the despicable method by which our budding intellectual development is muffled in a fog of empty phrases. A system of selection of leaders at once unimaginably devilish and narrow-minded trains up its future party bigwigs in the “Castles of the Knightly Order” to become Godless, impudent, and conscienceless exploiters and executioners—blind, stupid, hangers-on of the Fuhrer. We 'Intellectual Workers' are the ones who should put obstacles in the path of this caste of overlords…
For us there is but one slogan: fight against the party! Get out of the party organizations, which are used to keep our mouths sealed and hold us in political bondage! Get out of the lecture rooms of the SS corporals and sergeants and the party bootlickers! We want genuine learning and real freedom of opinion. No threat can terrorize us, not even the shutting down of the institutions of higher learning. This is the struggle of each and every one of us for our future, our freedom, and our honor under a regime conscious of it moral responsibility.
Freedom and honor! For ten long years Hitler and his coadjutors have manhandled, squeezed, twisted and debased these two splendid German words to the point of nausea, as only dilettantes can, casting the highest values of a nation before swine. They have sufficiently demonstrated in the ten years of destruction of all material and intellectual freedom, of all moral substance among the German people, what they understand by freedom and honor. The frightful bloodbath has opened the eyes of even the stupidest German—it is a slaughter which they arranged in the name of 'freedom and honor of the German nation' throughout Europe, and which they daily start anew. The name of Germany is dishonored for all time if German youth does not finally rise up, take revenge, and atone, smash its tormentors, and set up a new Europe of the spirit. Students! The German people look to us. As in 1813 the people expected us to shake off the Napoleonic yoke, so in 1943 they look to us to break the National Socialist terror through the power of the spirit. Beresina and Stalingrad are burning in the East. The dead of Stalingrad implore us to take action.
'Up, up, my people, let smoke and flame be our sign!'
Our people stand ready to rebel against the National Socialist enslavement of Europe in a fervent new breakthrough of freedom and honor."
posted by NancyJo at 9:06 AM
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