Arthur Silber

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:25:51 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

powerofnarrative.blogspot.com is Arthur Silber's essay blog. I have been there before, but I rediscovered him last night, via a Twitter post. Incredible stuff! Lots of his essays focus on Alice Miller's ideas that the mass mistreatment of children is ultimately responsible for many of the world's woes. Children are forced, psychologically and physically, to worship imposed authority, their parents. This worship naturally shifts to the state for many. Mr. Silber does not pull his punches. When he sees evil, he calls it evil. Added to my news aggregator.

From On Veterans Day: Fuck that Shit, commenting on the Obama administration's argument that their decision to assassinate New Mexico cleric Anwar al-Awlaki could be questioned by "no legal authority":

You know about this case, and you know the Obama Administration's arguments. Most of you refuse to understand the meaning of what you know. Allow me to offer some assistance.

The highest levels of the United States Government have told you -- repeatedly, at great length, always emphasizing the critical significance of their conviction on this point -- that the lives of Americans are worth less than shit. Your life, the lives of all those you love and all those you know, the lives of everyone in your city and state, the lives of all Americans are worth absolutely nothing.

Some idiotic, vicious, drooling, evil piece of shit human being can declare you and any other American at all to be an "enemy of the state," a threat to "national security," a "terrorist," and he can order you to be murdered.

And then you will be murdered.

The United States Government also claims that it never needs to explain to anyone how it decides who to murder and what its reasons are, or whether it has any reasons.

There is no power greater than that of life and death. This is absolute power. This is the power claimed by every slaughtering monster in history. You know this. You refuse to understand what it means.

From A Story for the Children: Making Friends with Evil (emphasis in original):

Consider again the nature of the subjects under discussion: the immense evil of torture ("Lies in the Service of Evil" might help make the nature of that evil clearer to you), and Obama's claim that he has the "right" to assassinate anyone without judicial process or evidence of any kind whatsoever, simply because he says so. Reread the little story offered above. And then be brave enough finally to state the truth, at least in what should be the sacred space of your own mind:

This is insane.

This is monstrous.

This is deeply, unforgivably, irredeemably evil.

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A Friendly Note to Hugh (and

Submitted by Junker on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:47:14 GMT

<quote>
A Friendly Note to Hugh (and a bit more)

...saying that Krugman is another corporatist hack...

[Well, Krug is.]

...I discussed Krugman's hackery...
...
You'll find one repellent example of this pattern
in Krugman's thought in...
</quote>

He's not a member of Fighting Evil Everywhere,
or FEE. Nor does he pay the $2/mo dues there
to help fight Evil Everywhere.

Too few of us are or do.

Maybe we should start the club now before it's...

--J.

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There is one little Club coming along.

Submitted by feralfae on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:14:39 GMT

There is one little club coming along.
GNAP, slowly coming along.
One site, one new visitor at a time.
And they are from all over the Earth.
So cool.
We smile.
If there is another club to join, I would like to be a Charter Member.
ff

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Submitted by Junker on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:37:38 GMT

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o The Black Smurfs - Wikipedia, gets stung, reducing vocab to the single word "gnap! ...
o Gentoo Network Appliance
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or
o http://projectgnap.org - GLOBAL NET OF ANARCHY AND PEACE

Hurrah!

--J.

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