IS IT TIME FOR INTERNET GORILLA WAR?

Is it time for gorilla tactics against the corporate machine?

Vicious and sustained attacks against truth and in support of the subversion of information are the stuff of the Koch's and their right wing think tanks (CATO, Hudson, etc).  These things find their way to the Internet through  the systematic planning and financial support of the Koch and others of the extreme right.  They are display more legitimately through Drudge, Brietbart and other hate based venues.  They are also a large part of the "astroturf" underpinnings of the Teapublicans.

For centuries the poor, disenfranchised, and oppressed have fought back against power and wealth by using gorilla tactics.  It appears to be the intent of the Koch's and their minion to disenfranchise us all.   In this age of information it may be time to call for an all out attack on disinformation and hate bating.  One weapon we may have at our disposal are gorilla information tactics.  This has been used by "Anonymous" and the folks cited in the lawsuit that is linked to this post.

The link that is attached, discusses a case that has been adjudicated and found to be legal.  Perhaps this decision should be a basis for planning how to go about conducting this gorilla war.  The Internet is the obvious vehicle to spread the news and assemble the troops.

Perishable Democracy’s Lament (Ballad of the Rigids)

Perishable Democracy’s Lament

(Ballad of the Rigids)

Lines all drawn, trenches all dug

No remedy apparent to spur our economic slug

Corporate interest to the right, tangled interest to the left

Imbalance certain only to leave us bereft

Deficits are bad, of that no doubt

Spending on both sides lead to this rout

Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Rigid’s refrain

Working and middle class people run down by Rigid’s train

FDR’s party briefly held clout but without spines

Result was health care reform upon which big Pharma dines

Old and infirm held hostage in the Medicare debate

Health insurances vouchers at 65, a ludicrous spate

Social Security easily fixed

Rigid’s privatization means compromise nixed

More money for their markets Rigid’s goal

More wealth to the wealthy, Rigid money will go

Wars and Military Actions, harsh, habitual befuddle

Unrudderable ship afloat on an abhorrent muddle

Lives and treasury gush onto the table

No measure results in our world more stable

Rigids exact sharp labor rebate

Remove working people’s voice while cleaning their slate

Sharing the wealth is a socialist plot

Sharing the pain, the progressive Gordian Knot

Employment the paramount both parties pledged to attain

Rigids focus on Planned Parenthood and PBS to detain

Rigids hold our nose and plunge us further in deep

2012 is the objective, Rigid power monopoly complete

                                                                                Trent Rager

                                                                                    5-10-11

Mother Joad or Mother Rand - America's Choice

Tom Joad's Mother

On Mother's day 2011 America faces a choice of which kind of mother we will revere.  The extreme rightest who are taking over our government would have you make the choice of Ayn Rand as our Icon of mother hood. That choice will require that you brand the American mother who devoted her life to caring for her children and providing a home for the family a looter.  Whether those women worked only in the home or worked in both the home and the workplace most of them do not meet the standard of the new "Children of Mother Rand" as producers.  Most did not create wealth therefore they are looters.  This distinction is made more dramatic by the fact that American working mothers have always faced a workplace that paid them significantly less; and was less likely to give them the promotions and raises they deserved.

Mother Rand

Given the Choice I will take the Icon of American motherhood represented by Tom Joad's mother.  That women is a powerful producer of the wealth generated through' nurturing, organization, compassion, and copious amounts of endless hard work.  The enterprise of motherhood is one of the things we should value most in America.  We should value it above; wealth, and the manipulation of wealth to maintain and create more wealth.