A letter from the hong kong office

When this came, last year, total war for total peace was sweeeping the planet and a revolution came, man... and we did it peaceful as possible. It is a year later and the secrecy has settled back down. They have told me they will kill me for writing this book. Bring it on. I Am

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by jsr

01/03/07
10:27 AM
THIS LETTER IS FROM A REAL HIPSTER -- THAT MEANS HIS HEART IS AS WARM AS HIS MIND IS OPEN.... this dude knows music, people, and pain.... I love him like the brother he shares a name with... Can't reveal him as the big honcho he is (got a tv show he is in for you when he says okay...).

HONG KONG IS FUCKING AWAKE!!!!


He starts the letter with the title:





AWAKE??? Hell, yes.


Scott,








Sounds good. I'm sick of Americans accepting complacency and EXTREME corruption



as an acceptable norm. When we're wasting trillions on fucked up wars that put money



in already wealthy people's pockets.








This shit should be feeding the planet and saving the world. A real revolution, where



we don't accept blind obedience and where the government doesn't have the nerve to



EVEN SUGGEST going into Iran after their incompetent foray into the neighboring country.








The Dem response is weak at best, with meaningless, non-binding resolutions and



empty rhetoric. Neil Young, 'Living With War.' My dad emailed me about the brave



Americans. I vomited as I read blogs from Iraq, from good people who really feel



the anguish from dead brothers and cousins, brutally murdered for empty sectarian



reasons. And money. This needs to stop. Now. Not next year. Now.








'We can't cut off funding. We can't even use the word impeachment.' Come on.



How much support do they need before they act? Who is really for the war?








I'm like dad, why aren't you on the streets? Why do you drive a big pickup truck?



So easy to proclaim moral high ground when the gun is a million miles from the



target. And you don't meet the victims.








Who stole the soul? The world knows the government is corrupt, but where are



the people? Do they think this will just fade away at the ballot box? Are they really



so naive and hopeless to forget that the only good part of America came from



those on the streets who laid it down? YES. Whores for the shopping mall.



Empty convenience in comfortable suburban homes.








Come on Hillary. You voted for the war. Bottom line. Step the fuck down. I knew



what was going on and I didn't have the access you had. Wah, we were tricked.



Give me a break. Accept responsibility and get out of the way. I've had enough



of the phony 'liberal' Dem party who can't pull the trigger, even when the country



hands them firepower. To gun these evil neo-cons down.








Don't worry George. I know you're listening. But I got the hell out of your fascist



way. This is moving too close to armageddon. Regional conflict in the oil rich,



middle east. Americans think it's just terrorists. What happens when the whole



region is engulfed in war? Say goodbye to your consumer lala land. Doh.








Dude, go for it. Make it hard. It's the artist's responsibility, and the American



artists are all asleep. Do it smart like The Daily Show. Because that makes



even O'Reilly nervous. Propaganda cannot defeat intelligent humor.



Because they aren't that clever. Smart, evil, loud. But not clever.








And not funny. Subversion is heroic, and right now, it's patriotic.








You don't need my words. You're there already.


All writings by John Scott Ridgway are protected by the law... but I encourage you to spread my poems by whatever means necessary. One day you will understand.