While I haven't usually been a big fan of the rap acts Abby Martin has featured on "Breaking the Set," the performance today was interesting. Instead of the usual hip hop beat the group featured a girl playing what looked like a variation on a dumbek and she was giving a very cool beat to the rap. Shahid Buttar is the name of the rapper and his anti-NSA lyrics are powerful and accurate, particularly about 'blood on the Constitution.'
Abby Martin has been emerging as the leading media voice in opposition to the NSA and wholesale spying and it's very encouraging that finally there is such a voice, particularly such a literate one. For decades there has been bleating about 'liberal-dominated media' but any liberal has known through the entire time there is no such thing as the left and the right have just been slight variations on the same thing. For example, Martin pointed out today that Democrat, Diane Feinstein, delivered some legislation to constrain the NSA but the actual content of the legislation only cements NSA spying in place.
All this reminds of Simon Leis, Chief Sheriff of the Hamilton County sheriffs in the Cincinnati area. When asked about civil rights he replied, "My rights? My rights? I'm sick of people talking about MY RIGHTS!"
And that was over twenty years ago. He was re-elected repeatedly after that statement and was ultimately elected to be a judge.
Also on "Breaking the Set" today was Jamie DeWolf, great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard, failed science-fiction writer and inventor of Scientology. There was a brief reading from him in performance and he is quite a poet. Contrary to what you may be thinking, he is not at all a supporter of Scientology.
Martin can piss off the NSA but tangling with the Scientology is dangerous as those psychos will come around to jump on your sofa and kill your dog.
In late-breaking news, thanks to the NSA for intercepting the text message from the shooter at LAX and stopping him ... or it would have been if they actually did anything. Good job keeping the travelers safe. Maybe they are spending a little too much time listening to Angela Merkel having phone sex.
Abby Martin has been emerging as the leading media voice in opposition to the NSA and wholesale spying and it's very encouraging that finally there is such a voice, particularly such a literate one. For decades there has been bleating about 'liberal-dominated media' but any liberal has known through the entire time there is no such thing as the left and the right have just been slight variations on the same thing. For example, Martin pointed out today that Democrat, Diane Feinstein, delivered some legislation to constrain the NSA but the actual content of the legislation only cements NSA spying in place.
All this reminds of Simon Leis, Chief Sheriff of the Hamilton County sheriffs in the Cincinnati area. When asked about civil rights he replied, "My rights? My rights? I'm sick of people talking about MY RIGHTS!"
And that was over twenty years ago. He was re-elected repeatedly after that statement and was ultimately elected to be a judge.
Also on "Breaking the Set" today was Jamie DeWolf, great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard, failed science-fiction writer and inventor of Scientology. There was a brief reading from him in performance and he is quite a poet. Contrary to what you may be thinking, he is not at all a supporter of Scientology.
Martin can piss off the NSA but tangling with the Scientology is dangerous as those psychos will come around to jump on your sofa and kill your dog.
In late-breaking news, thanks to the NSA for intercepting the text message from the shooter at LAX and stopping him ... or it would have been if they actually did anything. Good job keeping the travelers safe. Maybe they are spending a little too much time listening to Angela Merkel having phone sex.
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