BACK TO BASICS!

FLEX YOUR RIGHTS VIDEO (its funny but loaded with info!)


KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!
1. The right to remain SILENT! the 5th Amend. to the US Constitution give every person the right to not answer questions asked by a police officer or government agent. only a judge can order you to answer a question, and still plead the 5th amend.

2. The right to be free from "Unreasonable Searches and Seizures." The 4th Amend is supposed to protect your privacy. Without a warrant, police or government agents may not search your home or office without your consent, and you have the right to refuse to let them in. They can enter and search without a warrant in an "emergency". New laws(like the PATRIOT ACT) have expanded the government's authority to conduct surveillance. It is possible that your email, phone, cell, and conversations in your home office, car, or meeting place are being recorded without your knowledge.

3. The right to advocate for change. The 1st amend to the US constitution protects the rights of groups and individuals who advocate changes in laws, government practices, and even the form of government. However, the INS can target non-citizens for deportation, for 1st Amend activities.

4. What if police stop me on the street? ASK IF YOU ARE FREE TO GO! If they say "yes" WALK AWAY! IF they say "no" you are being "detained." They do have the right to frisk you. DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY FURTHER SEARCH!

5. What if they do have a warrant? DEMAND TO SEE IT. The warrant must detail the places to be searched and people or things to be seized. If they take something, make sure its listed on the warrant. TAKE NOTES!

6. If I am under 18, what rights do I have? YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT! You do not have to talk to police, probation officers, or school officials. You have the RIGHT TO BE POLITICALLY ACTIVE at your school, as long as you do not disrupt class. Your locker and backpack can be searched without a warrant, if they suspect you are involved in criminal activity or have a weapon. DO NOT CONSENT! But if you physically resist, you can be charged with a crime.

7. What if I am treated badly? You have the right to demand the name of the officer. Remember his name and badge number. Write everything down as soon as you can. Take photos of injuries, and try to find witnesses.

compiled from www.nlg.org

COPWATCH 101:

1. MAKE YOUR PRESENCE KNOWN. Stand a reasonable distance from the incident, but close enough to see clearly. Remain calm and watch everything. If an officer approaches, simply say you are there to be a witness. They cannot make you leave unless they determine you are "interfering."

2. TAKE NOTES. write down, take pictures or video if possible. Some people may not want to be photographed and you should respect that but a police officer cannot refuse to be photographed! DO YOUR BEST TO REMEMBER EVERYTHING.

3. Follow through. exchange info with the victim if possible-at least their name. Follow up with them-you may have to track them down or go to the magistrate's office. Let them know that you are a witness and are willing to testify against the officer. GO PUBLIC! with the consent from the victim. publicize any photos or information you have about the officer and the incident.

SUPPORT:
OCT 22 Coalition, http://october22.org/index.html

Americans, Canada's Mexicans.

Great social theorists(Dave Chapelle, Negri, and Michael Moore) of our current times are calling on people to migrate, mobilize, and delete the borders, we will create a global community and reap the fucking benefits. We have found a whole through the wall and it is only a little bit more north than the first whole in the wall between the US and Mexico, its the great Canadian border to the north! Lets hop on this new underground railroad and make it high times for us all eh! When Dave Chapelle ran for president years ago he had a solution to what HMO's and the US government call health care, fake Canadian ID's. Michael Moore's solution take yourself down to sunny Cuba and get a check up and pay, literally, cents for prescription drugs that cost 100's in the US and free doctor visits.

1. Get one of these: whatever they charge has to be less than your insurance!

The Police to Protect and Serve(..or punch you in the face)?!

New Orleans is mighty strange these days..."he footage filmed by an AP cameraman showed Mr Davis being repeatedly punched and kicked by a group of police officers.
The police said the man was being arrested by two officers for public drunkenness, and then a number of others joined in.
He appeared to show little aggression towards the police, who pulled him to the ground, punched and kicked him in the face.
He was handcuffed and the film clearly shows a pool of blood on the pavement as a result of his injuries."

Watch closely and answer these questions. So at what point should a person who is being arrested stop having his/her hands behind their back, is it when the police start punching you in the head send your head cracking into the wall or when they slam you to the ground? When did it become standard procedure for the police to physically harass the press? It was probably the stress factor.





If you want to see impressive resistiing arrest


Articles:

US Police Dismissed over Beating

Infoshop

What is "anarcho" about "Anarcho-Primitivism"?

"Primitivism is a pipe dream - it offers no way forwards in the struggle for a free society. Often its adherents end up undermining that struggle by attacking the very things, like mass organisation, that are a requirement to win it. Those primitivists who are serious about changing the world need to re-examine what they are fighting for."

For a long time now I have been thinking about the actual meaning behind the "anarcho" in "Anarcho-primitivism". Also, I have asked myself why have I given an ideology that i do not subscribe to so much thought? It all comes down to the conclusion that primitivism and primitivists have nothing to do with anarchism, ideologically speaking.

It would seem that the movement/idea/current mainly housed within the US is an interesting intellectual question that wastes a lot of time trying to pass itself off as an anti-mass movement social movement, which recruits within the autonomous/anti-parliamentary left while claiming to not be left but still is left, somehow, and hopes to do all these things with out us or them realizing the contradictions looming overhead. As libcom's article will adress, I was sold on anti-civ ideology until I could not explain to myself what to do with some 5 billion human-beings and what that question and answer have to do with anarchism or the social liberation from work, can you?

With that being said, I would like to state being against primitivism does not make you an enemy of "nature". Primitivists do not have a monopoly on eco-defense.

Libcom.org on Primitivism:

Anarcho-Primitivism?

G8 Summit or Lord of the Rings?

So it seems that the Great-8 have changed tactics and no longer want to show off their awesomeness in the glory of their metropolitian city's filled skyscrappers, shopping districts, and streetlights decorated to welcome the G8, NOPE those days are gone! A new era has blessed us, Today we met them in the fields to duke it out like the old days! From the streets of Genoa to the fields of Scotland and Germany, Resistance is global!





G8 pics

Indymedia1

G8 pics

Indymedia2

BEWARE of Your Perspective.

All jobs I have ever had I have been told by management to NOT discuss my hourly worth with fellow workers to "avoid problems". Bullshit, they dont want YOU to discuss what you are making in comparision to they girl next to you on the sandwich line. Because,"It can cause ill will and feelings of inequity among employees."


"I might be an engineer and my salary could be different from yours for a variety of reasons," says T. Ray Bennett, vice president of human resources at the 2,600-employee American Bureau of Shipping in Houston. "They could include time with the company, industry time, performance, specialties, additional training -- there are a lot of reasons why guys in the same job could have different salaries," its called division of labor, and divided workers cant fight the boss.

Read the disturbing article yourself.


Beware of Sharing Salary Details

Black Panthers in the Triad.



Yes Weekly!(Jordan Green)

The Strange History of the Black Panthers in the Triad


Newspaper clips on traid Panther activity!

The Black Panther, Black Community News Service


It's About Time, The Black Panther Party:

The Black Panther Party (most comprehensive and official website by the Panthers)


Libcom.org:

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

Marxists.org:

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

Wiki source:

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

FBI DE-CLASSIFIED:

Winston Salem(NC) BLack Panthers DE-CLASSIFIED

But I too want to live in the future.

I have often asked myself this question over and over, yet I lack a good enough answer. What do I want? Better said, what would I like my community to look like? The obvious answer always seems to be a question or a statement on how I do not want society to look and operate. Also, with this very important question comes one more, how the hell do we get there? Capitalism seems to be able to adapt itself to any thing we throw at it and that is both good and bad, the never ending duality. Our lives are almost at the mercy of an economy run mad, almost. Our reforms and campaigns under the last few hundred years has always, sadly, allowed a smooth return to business as usual, with percentages here or there. Have we not gained anything genuine under our struggles, riots, activism, organizing, and strikes? Sure we have! Do I think we want more? Yes! In fact, I know we want more because the system is still breathing.

Capitalism is as fascinating as it is horrible. I am always amazed at how it can recuperate after all blows we have given it. No matter how much we level the economic playing field, get more money or benefits, profit and reinvestment still goes on. It continues because we allow it to continue, our labor and creativity is the life blood and brain of capitalism. So no matter how good our hours, conditions, or pay we still produce a great amount of surplus-value for capital. The cycle continues. This tells us that no matter what we want to do or how he would like to live our lives there will always be a price as long as capitalism remains. The price, our work that benefits someone else and spending the little amount of money we have in comparison to the wealth collected off our labor.



Anyway, I am drifting for my original thought, what do I want and how do I want to get there (how can we get there)? I would like to see communities standing up and organizing movements, campaigns, etc… that concentrates on the economic aspect of our lives and begins to redistribute the wealth horded by capitalism. I am not very interested in trying to coordinate some social experiment or alternative within the economy because that just takes to much time and becomes to ritualistic. Rather, I would like to see a community tackle the economic needs of human beings according to needs and equity, not equality or rations. Face it we all want different things on a material basis. I am not very interested in Cuban ration cards, though food being a right is an interesting thought (I still want more than rice and beans). In Lenin’s, What is to be Done, he argues against the trade union mentality of only dealing with economic questions (pay and the miniscule “% wage increase”) and the trade unions not being political enough. But I am beginning to see the economic aspect of our lives as the very core of our own captivity.



Mr. Marx what would you say? “…It ought to have been said that with the abolition of class distinctions all social and political inequality arising from them would disappear of itself” (Critique of the Gotha Program, Part II. Marx, K). Yes, well how important is the economic aspect of our lives in comparison to the political? What was true for the Paris Commune is true for society today, “its true secret was this. It was essentially a working-class government, the produce of the struggle of the producing against the expropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work out the economic emancipation of labor. Except on this last condition, the Communal Constitution would have been an impossibility and a delusion. The political rule of the producer cannot coexist with the perpetuation of his social slavery. The Commune was therefore to serve as a lever for uprooting the economical foundations upon which rests the existence of classes, and therefore class-rule. With labor emancipated, every man becomes a working man, and productive labor ceases to be a class attribute” (The Civil War in France, Part III. Marx, K).

So then, “What is to be Done”? As I said before, I would like to see a great deal of agitation on the issue of our material existence and how we spend our time. Why stop at a campaign for an increase in the cities minimum wage? Is it not also possible to demand more than our 1968 standard of living? How about taking up the Wobblies old struggle for the 4hr. work day (20 hour work week), is it not time that we got more “free-time”? The liberal/conservative twin joined at the hip seems very worried about putting people to work, well put your money where your mouth is! You want higher employment or even 100% employment, decapitate the 8 hour/1 person monster of drudgery, and let’s replace it with 4 hour /2 people monster drudgery. But don’t you dare try to counter with lower wages.

A citizens, though not the absolute correct term, wage or global citizens guaranteed income could produce a security net and workers who are more eager to be productive and creative not only for the community but for themselves. More free time and money can only spark people’s interest in new and better things! The Situationist inside me tells me this is not radical enough, this is not good enough. But hell we have to start somewhere. Do we really want the responsibility, no burden, of taking care of it all? This is the withering away, the transition from the old to the new. No seizure of state power. Rather, the impending destruction of an out-of-date economic system. Our freedom will rise from the corpse of the working day; let’s do the everyday to make the revolutionary possible!

Radicalizing the Everyday

In response to a comment posted on the minimum wage article/debate regarding GRAF’s stance on wage-labor, it seems prudent to write an official statement. Our stance and debate with Doug Clark of the News & Record concerning a minimum wage hike to $9.36, the economics in a “globalized” economy and ways of organizing workers stands on its own. It is not always necessary to constantly remind ourselves or our readers that we are anarchist-communists who are for a social revolution to rid human interaction of capitalism, wage-labor, private property, etc.... We are quite tired of constantly reading texts that are packed with radical rhetoric (abolish, smash, revolution, etc…) which just gives us another great pamphlet how the “extreme-left” dresses the part of awesome radicals. I want more, we want more, a social movement against capitalism, real action! A system that is highly organized and kept in place largely by a state monopoly on violence and liberal/conservative (twins joined at the hip) moral hegemony which quickly marginalizes any opponents with the feeling that, “there is no need to argue…” is our everyday life.

With that said, I now realize that we should have been more forthcoming or radical in our suggestion on what we as workers should be thinking about and how we should organize in for the minimum wage campaign. Organizing within the community and allowing ourselves to realize we have power in numbers should be the main method of organizing this campaign. Sure the minimum wage hike is reformist but our everyday lives are riddled with compromises. We must make sure the way we organize ourselves and communities is not reformist but takes on a social character. It is not about taking power or giving away power to city councilmen because that is not the issue. Nor is it a matter of getting a 3 dollar raise on our labor. Rather, the most important component during this campaign and the future is how we organize.

The problem with our movement or the “anarchist movement” is that we are against so much and almost pride ourselves on always pointing out the negative rather than doing something worth while with our time, ourselves included. We are not about hijacking movements or events. We should base ourselves in our communities as part of that community and no longer live up to the stereotype of wanting to be so different, allowing ourselves and our politics to become incoherent and abstract. When a campaign, event, or idea that will end up benefiting our communities pops up lets contribute with our politics, organizing methods, social outlook, and creativity. We know how to organize ourselves in for “anti-globalization” protests in relation to the state and other groups, now its time to do the same in our communities. We know we have something to offer so lets do it! It is about building networks and communities that will have the ability to leap into a new era free of capitalism.

GRAF draws inspiration from the old bearded men, the old school IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), left-wing communists, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,1960’s-70’s strands of communism/Marxism which lead to contemporary autonomist-Marxism, the Zapatistas, ourselves, the dramatization of the Spanish Civil War in “Land and Freedom”, etc…but through all this history, theory, and practice we realize that we cannot resurrect ghosts. Inspiration is just that, inspiration and now we must move forward if we wish to remain relevant. As the theorists and activists of the 70’s in Italy leafleted their way to insurrection, GRAF would like to see communities come together for just that.

Abolishing wage-labor, of course! Seeing the dismantling of the state and ridding ourselves of capitalism, of course! And we see an important step in doing just that by changing our everyday lives on the way to a classless society. Being realistic no longer means compromise. Rather, realizing that we can struggle in the everyday for the future is realistic and militant. A campaign for a minimum wage hike is not won by voting or petitioning but by making it no longer profitable to NOT hike up minimum wage. Organizing and networking our communities to come together is our only strength.

Min.Wage $9.39 or $5.15?

Is Greensboro coming together to make minimum wage $9.36!?


From the Greensboro Minimun Wage Campaign,"We are working to increase the Greensboro minimum wage to $9.36/hour. This amount equals the purchasing power of the minimum wage in 1968. In the richest country in the world people who work should not live in poverty. Santa Fe, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and Albuquerque have already raised their citywide minimum wage. Register. Sign the petition. Vote. Volunteer."

PART I. The News & Record tries to get political?!

Doug your argument against a wage increase is about as relevent as the good old southern democrats argument against "free-labor", silly. first and last, your argument stinks of free-market fetishism and you assume that change can only happen when it is granted and sacrificed from above.

Hell, working for 6 dollars per hour as restuarant dish washers, car washes, chain stores, or package centers all around greensboro hardly making ends meet without skimming off the top or having to stir things up abit in the triad to gain a decent wage??? we will take our chances with the ladder. Doug your opinion is offensive and written from a place of privilege that continues to justify "free-market" vulgarity. the cost, of our dignity and everyday life is at stake and your business minded opinion is not appreciated.

Maybe the problem with the south is lack of labor laws, labor unions, the low wage, the right to work laws, and all other laws and repression of southern workers that continues to put profit over workers rights and high wages. Maybe the continuing problem with North Carolina and Greensboro/triad area is regional goverments favoring businesses while pretending to be all charitable like saying, "look we have brought you jobs after the textiles took off." ah, what a favor...low wage jobs and part-time jobs in place of industrial jobs...having two generations racing for the same job...

No, your arguements and the entire stack of these "well reasoned" arguments against a wage increase are anti-worker and yet another attempt to justify low wages and bad working conditions.

Doug stated,

"Higher restaurant prices might not drive many families out of town for a cheaper meal, but some might eat at home more often. With less business, restaurants likely would lay off staff."

You are automatically assuming that workers will have to pay up for that difference...why not make someone else take that hit....say shareholders and store owners....

After all this is class warfare and your arguments have been used since the 1800's to continue paying workers less than they deserve. Just like back in the day, your form of media has been used to spread misinformation and reactionary ideas throught nations and cities to scare people of change for the better. It is the business world, owners, and goverments fault that we have low wages, dont put that blame on us! Why dont you do something usefull with your time and blog and side with humanity.

"Ain't ten cents[$9.36] worth as much to us as it is to Pulitzer and Hearst[Food Lion, Harris Teeter, etc...] who are millionaires? Well, I guess it is. If they can't spare it, how can we?"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Newsboys_Strike)

PART II: What is capitalism and how does it work?

I call that bluff. Restaurants would not raise prices because that would cut into profit on top of the raised wages for workers (hypothetically). higher costs equals less business. Rather if a Restaurant wants to remain competative and in operation it will keep the old prices and take the $4.21 x A as an added cost in production. So ya, no worries Greensboro will not become a ghost town.

If a business is already taking a dip in the profit margin from the $4.21 x A("A" being the number of employees) wage increase and you claim that this is such a huge increase in price that a business would have to raise prices to make a profit, then I do not think that $4.21 wage increase is that businesses main concern. If a business has come to such a stand still economically that it can not afford to pay its workers I think the "free-market" shark will eat that establishment for lunch. Plain and simple they can afford it, it is just that "they" dont want to pay it, its called greed.

The age old arguments against wage increases and reduced work hours come from one perspective, the business perspective. First off, higher wages = more consumerism. The money isnt disappearing its being relocated into the pockets of workers who will then spend that money...a nice little economic reform that helps everyone because at the end of the day someone gets paid $9.36 a hour and the company this person works at is still producing products to be consumed, thus the system continues.

Higher wages will make thousands of people in greensboro very happy!

PART III: Enough is Eough...

Doug states, "Look at the auto industry if you want a model of unionism in the 21st century economy: Union automakers are laying off workers up north; non-union (Asian) automakers are hiring for new plants in the South. They're still paying good wages and benefits, just not noncompetitive wages and benefits.

I'm just not following your magical formula for how businesses can absorb higher wages (other than they should be less "greedy"). I'm sure business owners struggling to keep prices down and make payroll in a competitive market don't think of themselves as greedy."

Doug once again your argument is laced with standard run of the mill "neoliberal" ideas based on romatic notions of generous businessmen running around like chickens with there heads cut off to stay afloat in a the "free-market" gone mad!

I am going to save the both of us a whole lot of writing and just say that we are on two different sides of the arugement. You are for low consumer prices at the cost of a decent living for workers and you claim, through neo-liberal romanticism, that this somehow benefits the workers. No matter how i read or look at your article it states that workers should not attempt to gain higher wages because that will end in corporate bankrupcy.

In essence your arguments and article are anti-worker and pro-business. Not only that, your arguments say more about your perspective than your heartfelt sympathy.

My "magical formula for how businesses can absorb higher wages (other than they should be less "greedy")," is quite simple. If you look all over the globe and throughout history we can see how this "magical formula" was put into practice. Historical materialism shows the history of capitalism as in phases of conflict between workers wanting more and owners of capital wanting more...

Making things simple, currently we are in a period of economic and government reorganization or restructuring on a global scale and both sides are scambling to get a bigger "piece of the pie".

As for unionism, I have a better example of functioning unionism, look at South Korea's labor movement. As for historical unions with something positive to offer the future we have the IWW (industrial workers of the world, wobblies). Neo-liberal anti-unionism is a reactionary and very anti-worker perspective that attempts to get workers to see themselves as their job. We must never forget that people work out of the necessity of survival nothing more. we are not our jobs, we are not wal-mart, gas stations, or computer stores, etc...in a service economy addicted to low-wage labor across the borders and seas it is a race to the bottom and in order to survive campaigns such as these in coordination with campaigns and activism across the globe must happen to improve our lives. we are thinking globally and acting locally.

As for blaming auto-workers and auto-unions for factories closing down and moving out of state is just ridiculous. I understand the point about lower wages and people "willing" to work for less in mexico or asia but I dont buy it. Nor does this argument justify workers to do nothing. To do nothing is an impossibility anyways.

Business owners do not think of themselves as greedy just was kings did not think of themselves as despots. Either way we can never ignore what despotic rule or "competitive business owners" regardless of their justification force the rest of us to scrape by.

My arugment or "magical formula" still stands and i have history on my side. If you are still skeptical you can just ask these questions.

1.In all of human history, especially post-industrial revolution, workers have struggled to improve their lot(8 hour day from 12 hour day, payed holiday, benefits, less work same pay, more workers on the lot same pay, etc...) by various means of action(some peaceful, some not) and through all these changes and raising the cost of labor have businesses still not obtained their profits?

2.Also, during these events in history when workers won union contracts, better working conditions, or higher pay has there not always been present arguments of economic collapse or higher unemployment due to the coming changes to scare people of change?

TO BE CONTINUED???

Fight For Köpenhamn

So much can be said about the historical, current, pratical, and cultural importance regarding The Ungdomshuset (Youth House) in Copenhagen, Denmark for Norreboro, the youth, the left, and city culture but it all seems to be slipping away as if it is something from the past already in memory lane. After taking part in an 8,000 person strong demostration filled with all types of people young and old in defense of Ungdomshuset I can only say that I am sad for never giving myself the time to actually enjoy enough of what Copenhagen had to offer and sad because we are losing a place that allowed "us" to communicate and entertain in the open. The state is attempting to both marginalize, criminalize, and neutralize the Dannish autonomous-left by first demolizing the Blue House Squat, now evicting Ungdomshuset and selling the property off to some right-wing evangilical christians, and making it harder for people to openly and inclusively organize and congregrate. The state sees the autonomous-left as a threat and are hoping by destroying "our" places and kicking us to the curb we will fall apart and disappear. But if the last few days are anything to indicate what the Dannish state has brought upon itself, the UNGDOMSHUSET LIVES ON!

Ungdomshuset








Ungdomshuset FOR SALE: house including 500 stonethrowing autonomists from hell!



8,000 supporting Ungdomshuset. March 3rd. Copenhagen.

DING DONG THE BUSH IS DEAD

The Death of the President.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

-George Orwell.

George Orwell once wrote…that, "It's not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. A hierarchical society is only possible…on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past...and no different past can ever have existed. In principle, the war effort is always planned...to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects. And its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia...... but to keep the very structure of society intact. "

-George Orwell, Michael Moore (Fahrenheit 9/11).

Gabriel Range's film, Death of a President which won the International Critics Prize at the Toronto 2006 Film Festival is a pseudo-documentary about the assassination of the 43rd President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush (Dubya). The White House did not even comment on the movie and oppositional party member Senator Hillary Clinton thought that Range’s film was, “despicable” and “absolutely outrageous” but Marx-Trek must say the film was compelling, ultra-realistic...to realistic…, and a very cleaver critique of the American psyche, paranoia, ultra-nationalism, despotism, and the complete disconnect between the state and America’s citizenry.

It was something of comedy to see such an accurate glimpse into a possible future out come. The film was set in 2008 where President Dubya is successfully assassinated and the following fake interviews from a jolly god-filled presidential speech writer who just seemed be one step away from seeing beyond our realm who reminds me of the ever so clueless mother in the Adam Sandler movie, Water Boy, a self-righteous lying scumbag police chief who refers to peaceful demonstrations with the crack of his baton, and finally a entire population held hostage and ignored by the state. A spectacle so gripping it cannot be ignored, no matter how fake it is.

The sad reality of this pseudo-documentary is that the US government did not have to wait until the assassination of a president to implement measures that track, spy, and kidnap human-beings. Nor did the US government have to wait for some terror attack such as 9/11 to occur before introducing Big Brother. No, the US government did not have to wait for such dramatic events because legally or “illegally” most of these outrageous practices are already in place. During the feature all I could think about is how such spectacles can either be down played or turned up in high gear so that Empire can achieve its objective. The film played on the all too familiar gut wrenching reality or possible reality, it does not really matter how fake or real, where I was left with a satisfied thought. President Bush does not need to be assassinated to achieve some political goal nor does he need to be killed so that people around him understand that he truly is a war-monger and demon for capitalism not a drunkard born-again saint. This film pretty much lets Bush and Co. know that there is an immense amount of hatred for them all and that plenty of people around world will actually get satisfaction from watching President Bush go down from a semi-automatic carbine sniper rifle from 300 yards away. For satisfied customers the bonus is that they can watch his assassination over, over, and over again.

Knowing that Death of a President is a fake documentary and that the people in the film are in no way connected or based on reality I still feel that the film itself could pass-off as reality. Point being, reality passes us all by with little or no thought and the horrors of reality themselves go unnoticed. Actually, it is not that the far off third world tragedies go unnoticed it is more accurate to say that our own horrors and alienation from our everyday lives keep us all in a constant state of disconnect. So the film itself is as much a real documentary as it is fake. In the early 1900’s it was anarchists, from the 50’s to the 70’s it was communists, the 80’s drugs, and the 2000’s terrorists of all sorts lurking around every corner ready to take your freedom. No matter what decade the threat remains, a faceless problem, a ghost, a spectre! Its not that the US is at war with terrorism or Iraq, they are at war with us all.