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The Right to Life

by Retaliate

Member since 2003 · Posted 27 Oct 2003 · 10 comments

thirty-nine million completely without healthcare the right to life: no one Florida veg consuming the media the right to life: yes trick the middle class diverting their attention from real issues Enjoin their passion disengage their reasoning you deceptive fucks and yet they still vote for you the pretend pious they bewildered herd

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[7] horus8 27-Oct-03/4:43 PM Reply
Bill Gates for Emperor of Chile!.......?
[n/a] Retaliate › horus8 27-Oct-03/4:54 PM Reply
Willie G. is worth the yearly GDP of Kuwait. He may have dropped out from Harvard, but he certainly graduated from Crazy Go Nuts.
[9] http://mulberryfairy 27-Oct-03/4:46 PM Reply
herd is right, you heard right, right, they herd, right is heard.
Nice little play on how the more visible debate obscures the real, massive scale issues.
[n/a] Retaliate › http://mulberryfairy 27-Oct-03/4:58 PM Reply
unfortunately I cannot claim these thoughts as my own, merely the words:

I think the 'bewildered herd' phrase is Noam Chomsky(?) critiquing the way those in power view the public.

As for the comparison btw health care and 'that woman in Florida', that came from a law professor on CSPAN
[n/a] ecargo › Retaliate 27-Oct-03/6:17 PM Reply
Bewildered herd? I prefer "We the Sheeple."
[7] Y2kSlamPoet › ecargo 27-Oct-03/6:21 PM Reply
thats one of the best catch phrases i have ever seen. I love it. and now im jealous of you. damn it.
[n/a] ecargo › Y2kSlamPoet 27-Oct-03/9:59 PM Reply
Well, thanks, but I didn't coin it. I just appropriated it.
[9] http://mulberryfairy › Retaliate 27-Oct-03/7:10 PM Reply
Yeah, he talked about the bewildered herd in "Media Control". Actually, in refering to your skill in drawing attention to the "big"issues, I was talking about the title- I mean, the title made it look like the poem would be about the abortion debate, but your poem pointed out that it is probably not THE MOST important thing, (even though it is worth arguing about and being passionate about) it is one that politicians fight about so often and it takes up so much time while other stuff, bigger stuff, slips by the public each day our elected officials meet. Not that we're talking about it, but you might be interested to know that the US Senate passed a bill last week that would make it illegal to perform partial birth abortions (including when it was deemed necessary by 2 different doctors for the mother's health). Contrary to what you might expect, Maine's 2 republican senators both voted against making it illegal.
[7] Y2kSlamPoet 27-Oct-03/4:59 PM Reply
The right to life..

you know, all that is completely buttfucked when you consider the right to bear arms, but i liked the poem never-the-less.

Also, theres almost no other option for folks when voting- politicians here have become experts at playing monopoly.

Blessed with 7.
[8] richa 28-Oct-03/7:15 AM Reply
Good, like the flow of the haikus.

They are haiku in spirit as well as syllable.

The argument in the last three verses loses discipline though.

None of those would stand up as a single haiku.