On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, had sporadic internet access but here's the last column for now.
> I might write something else for you later in regards to our upcoming
> sub-project involving bike-based charities touching on Bushwick if you
> might be interested, but I probably won't be back in New York for a
> while. Maybe you can get Peter Weismann to do a column, lol.
>
> Anyway, let me know if you'd like me to alter this to take out the
> anti-religion stuff or anything, should have better internet access
> tomorrow and can make whatever changes.
>
> ***
>
> Each and every one of you will be filled with agony upon learning that
> I am moving down to Mexico after a quick stint in Texas where I will,
> bizarelly enough, be covering a Sarah Palin rally in East Texas like
> four fucking days after living in Yankeeland for however many years
> I've lived here. She may potentially say some foolish thing. If so, I
> will relay this information back to you through some or another
> medium, but I'll be ending the column - which is why you are filled
> with agony - since I will be living in Mexico for some reason.
>
> Special thanks to that one black guy who always calls me Larry Byrd
> when he sees me because I play basketball and so does Larry Bird, the
> Yemenis at the bodega who sell $5 packs of cigarettes, most of the
> Asian girls, and that's it.
>
> Also, I am sorry for some of the mean things I have said about various
> people and objects, or at least I ought to be, and wish to note that
> such things were in fact said simply for love of all of you. Does one
> not scold most whom one loves most? Probably not. You'd probably be
> more likely to scold, like, a child molester than your wife or
> whatever. To me, you are all child molesters.
>
> In conclusion, every Catholic is a fool who believes in the Holy
> Trinity without knowing that this pernicious doctrine was simply the
> one of several equally ungrounded doctrines that happened to have been
> ascribed to by Theodosious not long after his elevation to Augustus.
> These Catholics vow temporal loyalty to a regime that has been more
> firmly than ever shown to be actively engaged in a number of
> extraordinary malovent acts, including the aiding and abetting of
> child molesters and even putting them in charge of children elsewhere
> knowing that such priests are fond of touching them. Meanwhile, you
> see all those Pentacostal churches that keep popping up everywhere?
> Those are breeding grounds for theocracy and other forms of lunacy,
> much of which will someday be directed towards you at the polls. I
> know that these people are individually quite kind, but people with
> such beliefs have never failed to take the opportunity to seize
> control of whatever machinery of the state they can get their hands
> on, and our Christians in particular did so immediately after having
> formulated their spurious doctrine of the Trinity, in the very same
> decree promising that those who fail to believe likewise "will suffer
> in the first place the chastisement of the divine condemnation and in
> the second the punishment of our authority which in accordance with
> the will of Heaven we shall decide to inflict."
>
> At any rate, our Christians have been tamed by the ideals of The
> Enlightenment that informed this country's founding, and those ideals
> need only be lost - as they are now being lost - in order to unleash
> upon a country the inflictions that have been doled out to
> non-believers by the Christian ruling class from the religion's
> theological consolidation in the 4th century to the point a few
> hundred years ago when that theology first began to seem unlikely to a
> significant number of people who were clever enough to take power from
> them. Between those points reigned genocide and enforced ignorance, or
> at least more than usual. If you do not see those ideals on assault
> already in such forms as that of Texas giving Thomas Jefferson the
> Trotsky treatment and in the rise to prominence of such people as
> Palin and her fertile demographic, you are entirely wrong. They will
> continue to support the killing of many, many people at a negative
> strategic advantage to ourselves and with a huge degree of devestation
> inflicted on others, and the Democratic Party is not going to stop
> them for you. We have inherited a civilization worth maintaining, and
> to the extent that we abandon our responsibilities to do so, we will
> have failed a great number of people who have fought for liberty at
> great costs to themselves. To justify one's apathy on the grounds that
> the system cannot be changed is absolute nonsense and very much
> contrary to the demonstration of history.
>
> You should all be very happy to be living in a place of such interest
> and cultural divergence, within the effective capital of the world and
> among its unparalleled natives, and I hope that your time here is used
> valuably and happily. I do sincerely mean that, for what it is worth.
> I also considered many of the women here to be very sexually
> attractive.
>
>
>
> On 6/7/10, Jeremy Sapienza <
jeremy@redfit.com> wrote:
>>
http://www.thenation.com/blog/arrested-wikileaks-whistleblower-260000-classified-docs-show-%E2%80%9Calmost-criminal-political-back-de
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Barrett Brown
> Brooklyn, NY
> 512-560-2302
>