| EDITORIAL: THE GREY SPOTTED OWL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS/ WHERE IS MY GUN? �TO REBEL IS JUSTIFIED� �WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR ONE PEOPLE TO DISSOLVE THE POLITICAL BANDS WHICH HAVE CONNECTED THEM WITH ANOTHER, AND TO ASSUME THE POWER OF EARTH, THE SEPARATE AND EQUAL SITUATION TO WHICH THE LAWS OF NATURE�S GOD ENTITLE THEM, A DECENT RESPECT TO THE OPINIONS OF MANKIND REQUIRES THAT THEY SHOULD DECLARE THE CAUSES WHICH IMPEL THEM TO THE SEPARATION.----- WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.- THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED.- THAT WHENEVER ANYFORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF THESE ENDS, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, AND TO INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT, LAYING ITS FOUNDATION ON SUCH PRINCIPLES AND ORGANIZING ITS POWERS IN SUCH FORM AS TO THEM SHALL SEEM MOST LIKELY TO EFFECT THEIR SAFETY AND HAPPINESS.� LISTEN UP PEOPLE AND TAKE A LOOK AROUND. THE END IS NEAR AND THE SKY IS FALLING. WACO, RUBY RIDGE, OKLAHOMA CITY, WTO RIOTS, IMF DEMONSTRATIONS, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION PROTESTS, STUDENT ACTIVISM AND A DEAFENING SCREAM ANNOUNCING SOMETHING IS AFOOT. THE �ELECTION� WAS STOLEN--STRAIGHT OUT FUCKIN� SHOPLIFTED! NOW POLICIES ARE BEING INSTITUTED, OUR RIGHTS USURPED, OUR FUTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES PILFERED. AND WE COULDN�T CARE LESS! NO WE ARE JUST GONNA LAY HERE AND LET THE SODOMY CONTINUE. WE�D RATHER WATCH FRIENDS, DRINK ZIMA, WEAR OLD NAVY, AND LEAVE IT FOR SOMEONE ELSE! THERE IS HOWEVER, SCATTERING ABOUT, A FLOURISHING �MOVEMENT.� THEY ARE OUT THERE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND IN THE POCKETS OF ENLIGHTENMENT, AROUND THESE CORRUPTED UNITED STATES. THOUGH THEY ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH PRESENTING AN IMAGE OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF CHANGE THROUGH THE SYSTEM. HA!!! UNWILLING TO FIGHT, DIE, KILL, OR BE EXILED FOR THEIR BELIEFS. DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVING THAT THEY ARE THE INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE. PROPOSING SOLUTIONS THAT THEY ARE UNWILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICES TO ACHIEVE, AND FEELING GOOD ABOUT BITCHING. WE HAVE BECOME SO SEDATED THAT WE�D LET OUR WAY OF LIFE BECOME AN ILLUSION. LEAD ME, FEED ME, GIVE ME THE MIND NUMBING GLOW OF THE IDIOT BOX WITH ITS 500 CHANNELS. THOSE WHO WOULD AND HAVE PICKED UP THE BANNER WITH ONE HAND AND CARRIED THE WEAPON OF REVOLUTION IN THE OTHER ARE SHUNNED BY THEIR LESS �RADICAL� BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE MOVEMENT. THEY ARE VIEWED AS TROUBLEMAKERS AND RABBLE ROUSERS BY THOSE SEEKING THE SELF GRATIFICATION OF THE MOVEMENT. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT AND PRESENTING A KINDER AND GENTLER PUBLIC IMAGE. FUCK THAT! FUCK THEM! IT�S ABOUT CHANGE--REAL CHANGE! IT�S ABOUT REVOLUTION! �A REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY OR WRITING AN ESSAY, OR PAINTING A PICTURE, OR DOING EMBROIDERY. IT CAN NOT BE SO REFINED, SO LEISURELY AND GENTLE, SO TEMPERATE, KIND, COURTEOUS AND MAGNANIMOUS. A REVOLUTION IS AN INSURRECTION, AN ACT OF VIOLENCE BY WHICH THE OPPRESSED OVERTHROW THE OPPRESSOR.� --CHAIRMAN MAO back to may's table of contents |