Sat

Apr
4th

Boston.com home of great galleries and my thoughts on dissent

boston.com G20 protests

Demonstrators climb out of the broken windows of a Royal Bank of Scotland branch, near the Bank of England in London April 1, 2009. (REUTERS/Andrew Winning) #

Without much intent but on a regular basis I find myself viewing a wonderful gallery via boston.com. I really appreciate the photos they pull together to visually tell a news story. The captions are minimal and let the photos do the talking.

This morning I've come across a gallery of photos from the protests against the G20 conference in London. The photos capture the push and pull of protesters and police but they also capture something else. The journalists themselves. Photo number eleven and twelve are amazing, three or four protesters with a message and two dozen professional cameras trained upon them.

I can remember protesting the lead up to the second Iraq war and wondering if we would get any coverage, obviously we didn't get enough. Now that we are few more years into the digital age I feel it's easier to get that coverage, especially if a protester is willing to take violent or extreme action. Such action feeds the media.

In turn it also feeds the police state that we've found ourselves in and by escalating the situation the police further militarize themselves and their actions.

Protesters and dissenters feed on the lunacy of a police state and since the media gives little coverage to little else but violent action, that is the path they take.

It's a circle of violence and it's only taking us down a path that will cause more pain.

What can a dissenter hope to accomplish then? We can hope to find ways and means that disarm our police-state and make their method of containment pointless.

Is this possible? It must be, our only other choice is razing the fields that we have sowed for so long.

You say we don't have to anything anyways? You don't really believe the economy is fixing itself right now? Do you?

 

Mon

Mar
30th

Blek Le Rat

Blek Le Rat

Blek Le Rat, original stencil graffiti artist coming out of Paris. I like this guy, along with Banksy. His website

 

Mon

Mar
30th

 

Thu

Mar
26th

A 12 Trillion Dollar Mistake

I read Dear A.I.G., I Quit! by Jake DeSantis, executive vice president of the A.I.G.'s financial products unit today and for a moment I couldn't help but to feel sorry for this powerless yet noble man.

He had little involvement in our current dilemma and yet has donated his hard earned bonus to people less fortunate then him.

Reading his words, it sounds like this collapse was caused by a few bad apples and the outrage the American public is misguided anger.

Indeed, if our anger is misguided then where should it be placed? Can we blame ourselves for our spending habits? Can we blame the mega-corporations too big to fail? Can we blame our politicians for taking lobbyists money?

Rolling Stone has given us a list of a dozen people that helped to architect this house of cards and it somehow feels short.

Even more lacking are the people in the street with pitchforks and torches.

We have to blame someone, can we let this 12 trillion dollar global economic collapse go by as an accident without a guilty party at fault?

All of this makes me think of my 10th grade drivers ed class when they taught us that there are no accidents on the road, only collisions.

 

Tue

Mar
24th

Just a boxed lunch

Two sandwiches, yogurt, an orange, Salt & Vinegar chips, a Clif Z-Bar, homemade pudding and a Capri Sun

Two sandwiches, yogurt, an orange, Salt & Vinegar chips, a Clif Z-Bar, homemade pudding and a Capri Sun. Best lunch ever, thanks me!

 

Wed

Mar
18th

Wild flowers growing in an empty lot

A wildflower blooms at an idle home construction site David McNew/Getty Images

A wildflower blooms at an idle home construction site where construction has been halted, on February 24, 2009 near Riverside, California. The January median sales price for Southern California homes fell 40 percent from the same month a year prior and Los Angeles-area home prices ended 2008 down 37 percent from a late 2006 peak. (David McNew/Getty Images) via Boston.com

Innovations never happen as planned.

—Gifford Pinchot

 

Tue

Mar
17th

 

Mon

Mar
16th

 

Sun

Mar
8th

Otakon Trip

Bender, Robert and I at Otakon

Yes I am a fan of Anime and yes I go to Otakon every year. Now that I live in Baltimore I look forward to an easy commute to and from the convention smile

You humans got any money or women?

—Bender Cosplayer

 

Fri

Mar
6th

How sweet it is (to be loved by you)

—Marvin Gaye

 

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