JOHN JUDGE: “These boys plan ahead.”

EXCERPT FROM SPEECH AT FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH IN COLUMBUS, SUMMER OF 2007

Kennedy was also bucking the entire military industrial complex. In June, he announced that he wanted to end the cold war. He wanted to end the arms race. He said “we all breathe the same air, we all live in a world where we want our children to grow up in peace, we all drink the same water, and if we don’t get rid of nuclear weapons, we’re not going to have that world.” He said, “and we’re all mortal.” In October, he said he wanted to scatter the CIA to the four winds.

My mother was the highest paid woman in the Pentagon. She worked there 30 years, and she was a manpower analyst for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She ended up in a GS-13, very high for a woman in those days – and came in ‘43 and left in ’73. She had been a pacifist between WWI and WWII – showed me her pacifist poetry – like much of the pacifists in the international community she came to believe that Hitler was so evil that we had to go to war to fight Hitler. About the only person that got it, and said anything, in 1936 was Thomas Merton. He said, “if America fights Hitler, it will become Hitler.”

February 9th, 2010 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »

Bill Hicks on War and Freedom: Let it go?

Bill Hicks thoughts:

People ask me where I stood politically you know. It’s not that I disagree with Bush’s economic policy or his foreign policy. But that I believe he was a child of Satan here to destroy the planet Earth.

Yeah, I’m a little.. a little to the left there, I was. I was leaning that way.

Yeah you know who else is going, little Quayle boy. Little Damien.

Is that guy Damien? Tell me those blank empty eyes aren’t gonna glow red in the very near future.

[eyes roll back in head]

Stop making jokes about meee. Nrrr. I’ll spell potato any fucking way I want. Nrrrr.

Rioters in LA, let’s nuke them.

Bush was a pussy Nrr.

He held me back.

Frightening people man. Bush tried to buy votes towards the end of the election. Goes around, you know, selling weapons to everyone, getting that military industrial complex vote happening for him. Sold 160 fighter jets to Korea and then 240 tanks to Kuwait and then goes around making speeches why he should be Commander-in-Chief because, “We still live in a dangerous world.”

Thanks to you, you f***er!

May 24th, 2009 | Posted in Web-Only Content | Read More »