May 15th, 2008
by Jessica Nitowski
Miniluv has reached a new low, what with sedating deportees with pre-flight, antipsychotic “cocktails” before shipping immigrants off to countries of origin. Not scaring the piss out of you? Let me ask you, if our government is treating immigrants who have failed to achieve legal status like subhumans, how long before people with debt, or on welfare, or in some other way “leeching off our country” are treated equally as bad? How long before it happens to someone you love? How long are you willing to wait to see what happens next?
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May 1st, 2008
by Robert Starvation
What’s this? The band that brought down Napster is now embracing file sharing?
We have FLACs and MP3s for sale. It was never about downloading per se. We have the Vault where you can download shows from twenty years ago for free, full-on and it’s been there for years. You can download recent shows days after they happen for cost. Back in the day there was a much bigger question about “on whose terms?” We said, “Wait a minute, it should be about the artist.” Then all hell broke loose and we sat on the sidelines for a while. We’ve always been fiercely independent and controlling; sometimes to a fault. That’s why we exist and why all these people show up.
This is why Slayer will always be better. That, and the gratuitous anti-religion screeds. And the talent. You can’t forget the talent.
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February 12th, 2008
by KK4
While surfing the internet over the weekend I can across another precious gem in the constant series of attacks on the Second Amendment, Ammunition Accountability. What is Ammunition Accountability? Ammunition Accountability is laser inscribing and registering all ammunition purchases with the state police. Legislation has already been introduced in several states, including California and my home state of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, under the legislation, ALL NON-ENCODED AMMUNITION MUST BE DISPOSED OF by 2011.
Interesting, the technology to encode ammunition is owned by a single company, which is set to make a lot of money if this legislation is passed. Although I cannot prove (as of writing this) that the Ammunition Accountability group if operated by this Ammunition Coding Systems, it seems far too convenient that a group which seeks to make the usage of their technology mandatory, as well as mandating the destruction of all older non-encoded ammunition, seems to have appeared overnight.
Feeling that it was my civic duty to inform people of this threat to our right to bear arms, I phoned the Alex Jones show on Sunday and brought this issue to the attention of the listeners who may have not heard of this legislation.
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February 8th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
Once a shining beacon on liberty, America’s main export has subtly shifted from goods to gulags - many of them top secret. The most well known of them all, Guantanamo Bay, was apparently too public for the Bush administration’s liking - because there is a gulag within the gulag, the hitherto unknown Camp 7, which houses the worst of the worst… of the worst.
How do we know it stops there? Given this administration’s zeal for inflicting torture, couldn’t there be a gulag inside a gulag inside a gulag in the secret underground basement of Camp 7, where the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst are summarily taken to have their eyelids removed and one of their nostrils sewn shut to increase the sheer fucking terror of waterboarding, while post-Load Metallica blasts over the loadspeakers 24 hours a day?
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January 18th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
Or, you know, express a heartfelt opinion contradicting his own. Because he is Vice President of the United States, and because he is emphatically not a people person, if you ruffle his feathers some very unpleasant things can happen. Such was the case with Steven Howards, who denounced Cheney’s part in instigating and continually advocating the war in Iraq. Mr. Howards was arrested and charged with assault based on the testimony of Cheney’s Secret Service detail, only he never assaulted Cheney, the truth of which is emerging as the agents find maintaining the official account untenable.
Didn’t Vice President Cheney know the truth would eventually get out? Wouldn’t it have been easier to throw a black hood over Howards and ship him to Bagram Airbase? This is exactly why enemies of the administration shouldn’t have access to the outside world, especially lawyers. They’re always bemoaning something. “Waa! You’re torturing me! This defies the Geneva conventions!” BIG YAWN. Now the whole affair is blowing up in their faces because someone thinks he still has rights.
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