Planning and plotting.

April 2008

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and a vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men."

- Woodrow Wilson
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Sept 2008

The two-party system is morally bankrupt.:
"It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration ... agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one … against another … it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption … thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

- George Washington

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May 2009

There Is A War Going On For Your Mind

There’s a war going on for your mind.
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks.
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads,
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel.
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers,
Now it’s raining pornography.
Lovers take shelter.
Post-production debutantes pursue you in Nascar chariots;
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies.

There’s a war going on for your mind

Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads.
They flash logos and blast ghettos.
Their embroidered neckties say “Stop Snitchin’.”
Conscious rappers and whistle blowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings.

There is a war going on for your mind

Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them.
The desert sky is their blue screen.
They superimpose explosions.
They shout at you,
“Pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection."
And meteors these days are the size of corpses.

There’s a war going on for your mind

- Flobots, Fight with Tools