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Friday, September 28, 2007

I Secretly Love the Fascist Future …

posted by on September 28 at 8:39 AM

because it’s so damn poetic.

All the new wave lyrics of my youth are coming true.

Check out this beautiful blurb over at ars technica to describe an article about urban surveillance systems:

IBM has sold Chicago on a mass surveillance system that will place a set of tireless software eyes behind the city’s camera network.

Software Eyes is the name of my new band. City Camera Network is our first album.

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Hardcore.

Posted by Mr. Poe | September 28, 2007 8:42 AM
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Chicago is run by the Democratic Party. It's policies like this that keep giving me that hopeless feeling about the Democratic party changing the course that the Bush II adminstration has set on civil liberties.

No matter how much you attack Nader, he will still draw voters because the Democratic party still looks like the Compasionate Conservative party with the GOP over to the right in the Bat-Shit-Crazy-Mindless-Greedy-Extra-Hate coalition.

Posted by mirror | September 28, 2007 9:13 AM
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Do people actually think that Nader would do well in public office? I could understand the value of voting for him (or Kucinich) as a protest vote, but the idea of him in any position of power is not just scary, it seems practically negligent.

Posted by bma | September 28, 2007 9:25 AM
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I agree with @2 and @3. The Dems are awful. But, is Nader (or anyone that could come out of the Green party) actually qualified to be President?

I've voted for Nader in the past with the intention of getting him enough votes that the Greens would be included in future general election debates. He seemed to have some momentum toward this end in 2000 (until the Dems took their eye off the ball and started campaigning against him instead of Bush).

I think HRC is, by far, the most intellectually capable candidate for President. Too bad she's a war hawk and doesn't give a shit about the working class.

Posted by Mahtli69 | September 28, 2007 9:39 AM
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@4 - "anyone that could come out of the Green party" should read "anyone that has come out of the Green party"

Posted by Mahtli69 | September 28, 2007 9:40 AM
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Maybe it's my age showing, but the idea of grouping Flock of Haircuts or any other synthpop band from that period (Human League, Gary Numan, et al) in with the likes of Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Nick Lowe, Ian Drury, Reckless Eric, etc., etc., just makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Posted by COMTE | September 28, 2007 10:00 AM
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Excellent Excellent Excellent Josh!!! Great idea for a band, we can do the soundtrack for Jonah's How Was It video.

I just spoke with a Food Bank rep on Rainier Ave. I said that there's a newspaper called The Stranger which discusses social welfare issues, and that I've invited them down to do some filming. He was extremely no bullshit and stern and didn't say really anything, except for "ok."

So brush up on those snarky attitudes and insincere convictions, because I'm ready for some performance art!

Do you want the times of filming now, or just wing it when I call your office?

It's a deal, right?

Posted by June Bee | September 28, 2007 10:09 AM
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I wasn't saying Nader would be good in office or that one should vote for him. But if Democrats support buildinig and expanding a modern police state, how can I blame someone who simply can't go along with legitimizing the process with their votes?

Without a political machine in local and state government, the National Green party is going nowhere, even if they were found not to be a bunch of wackos.

Posted by mirror | September 28, 2007 10:10 AM
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oh, and please notify the intern. Shots of him with his megaphone demanding loudly "Show us your boobs," will be excellent footage. Let's go! Teamwork!

Posted by June Bee | September 28, 2007 10:20 AM
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I keep telling you guys it is too late, the Republic is DEAD!! Just get over it and enjoy the rise of Fascist Amerika! Seig Heil!!!

A little off topic but did anyone else listen to Randi Rhodes yesterday? Why was she really push to get Gore to run at this late point?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | September 28, 2007 10:42 AM
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Several sociologist have proposed that the notion of privacy is a modern construct, dating back only to the late 18th. century. Since we are now post-modern, I suppose we are also post-private. I miss the golden Age already.

Posted by inkweary | September 28, 2007 10:51 AM
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Please allow me to pluralize sociologist. I promise to edit in future.

Posted by inkweary | September 28, 2007 10:59 AM
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er, I thought I was commenting on the Flock of Seagulls post, but I have apparently been detoured into a Nader discussion.

Whatevs - I love that FoS album. On the same level as Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, etc? No - but awesome all the same.

Posted by genevieve | September 28, 2007 12:21 PM

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