“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
Jose Marti

So, alot of things have gone on since I last posted…on Monday. I did throw up a picture of the Meyer kid…but I won’t even really go into it, save to say one thing. This is another incident that when you get opinions from various races you can learn alot. Plenty of white people were shocked and said, “I can’t believe they did that to him” lot’s of black people just said, “Damn, they tased the shit out that white boy”. I’ve seen things like that go down to many times to be surprised. I do love the attention brought to it when the victim is white though…perhaps people will consider such situations more. Oh…and to the people who said, “He was resisting and he got what he deserved” when the cops grab you it’s never in a nice a way and the natural reaction is to pull away.

Let’s see what else happened:

France pissed off Iran.
Hamas is pissed at Israel.
Al Qaida is bucking on Pakistan.
Sierra Leone is going crazy.
Beirut is getting back to the 80’s.

But of course the thing that’s probably at the fore today…The Jena Six.

Ahhhh…this is America isn’t it, just when you forget and the surface appears calm, two ingredients disagree adn the melting pot starts to bubble. I will say this, that will be an effective protest. I’m not in favor of marches and sit-in anymore. Due to the size of that town though, my freshman class in High School could have taken it over so the people going there now will surely cause disruption. Disruption. That is the purpose of protest, even peaceful ones. The problem is even when they break out into some violence rallies are to easy to pass by these days. How many times do I drive past the folks with the peace signs on Charles St. How many times are there rallies or marches in any place that you just change your travel plans for and be done with. Initially it was a great idea. I mean when you didn’t even want black people to sit at a lunch counter at Woolworths then it was a big thing for a whole bunch of them to march through the streets. People got scared. There was a risk as well. Fire hoses, police dogs, beatings and so forth. Now there has been enough practice that surgical strikes can be conducted against protestors. At the G8 the police got scent samples from the protest organizers and when the rally began they sicced dogs on those specific individuals. My man Dallas once said that the form of protest that is most effective now is one that causes money to stop flowing. If we look at the whole Imus thing we can see this clearly. It wasn’t outrage or cries for justice that got Imus fired. It was threatening to boycott those that sponsored his show. Then plugs got pulled and things were shut down. The people with the money got him out of there. If the money had kept moving Don would be on the air right now. However a warning goes with that means as well, things are in the works to jump out ahead of protests of that sort. Number 20 on this list I got from Mobtown shank (the whole list is worth reading ) talks about how they are calling the disruption of a companies business terrorism. So even a boycott could be considered an act of terror. It’s suppossed to be about animal activists, but the terminology says, “any enterprise that uses or sells animals or animal products”. That’s pretty damn broad. So consider this. The Jena protestors are blocking the way into a supermarket during their rally. The market sells milk, eggs and meat. Perhaps that’s not the intention, but when things are left in a broad manner the potential is there for all kinds of things to come up. Besides, how long before such definitions are applied to other manners of protest?

This whole no baggy pants law that’s popping up everywhere, including Baltimore, I will wipe my nuts with a copy of this law. Come the hell on…you lawmakers better start doing some real work, like getting drama, art and music put back in public schools. This coming from a young man who can’t stand to see another dudes boxers. Get real. I’m sure that’s going to solve the problems in the city, seeing as how they’ll be so scared to get a fine they’ll pull their pants right up. None of these young people want to run afoul of the law. For those that mention the tape from the security company that shows the kid pulling 26 guns out of his baggy pants…shut up. First, show me some video of that kid walking with 26 guns in his pants. Second, like peacoats and suit jackets could never conceal a weapon. Goddamn you poor dumb assholes.