bicyclemark88: Reaction to the Williams Execution and Dissecting Jersey Media

I react to Tookie’s Death, play his final interview and other observations from outside San Quentin. Also New Jersey’s number one newspaper is in my crosshair.

AudioCommunique #88(mp3)
28min+, 80kbps, 16Mb+

Discussed:

Tookie’s final interview on WakeUpCall
The execution and an actor-turned-governor’s decision to kill
Reviewing the useless content of NJ’s most important newspaper
Had Dinner with MsThingk and Jamie (read his account of the meal)
Jamie’s book Envy the Rain, will be discussed once Ive read it
The Listener/reader meetup, Thursday starting at 4pm, St. Mark’s Ale House on St. Mark’s place

Music:
The Stars – Celebration Guns
Rush – Closer to the Heart (yes Rush!)
Coralie Clement – ça valait la peine
Vinicius Cantuaria – Pena de mim
Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body
Simon and Garfunkle – America

California Murders Proudly

Stare at this photo. Picture it… think about it… the lethal injection.. the solution so many Americans (and lots of people in other countries too!) see to the issue of crime. Stare at it – it is done in your name. In our name. Doesn’t matter what your nationality, you’re human, and these are follow humans who carry out this practice.


Did you stare at it? I have. I keep looking at it. The last phonecall they make will be to rich Austrian-American who a few years ago decided he should be governor and make such decisions about whether people should live or die. Apparently he can be trusted to make the right decisions. He spent a few days reading the case, and he’s now qualified to decide if the case of a prisoner on death row was fair or not. Even though everywhere there is evidence that the cases are anything but fair and properly carried out. Case after case have appeared where lawyers and judges and trials were botched and flawed, and yet they keep killing people anyway, believing they’ve carried out justice.

In a few hours.. this room will once again be occupied. Humans will strap another human to the chair. They will insert poison into that humans body and end his life. They do this because we have accepted this practice, we allow it to go on. We go out for coffee tonight and laugh at television programs, while a man is injected with poison, and people watch from behind the glass. The whole world watches this, and they think – “I don’t understand that country.” Of course, we don’t understand this country either. Yet another murder is being carried out in my name, and I hate it and I will carry the blood of Tookie Williams on my hands forever.

bicyclemark87: Driving in New Jersey and Condeming Air Travel

Not even 8 hours after arriving, I’m driving around New Jersey and recapping how terrible air travel has become thanks to paranoia and irrational policies.

AudioCommunique #87(mp3)
30min+, 80kbps, 17Mb+

Discussed:

I’m driving
Listening to WBAI New York member supported radio which I was raised on
My terrible flight with KLM
Irrational drama queen passengers
Apparently Air marshalls kill people for behaving strangely or being mentally sick
Disgusting cars on the highway
My brother’s blog
I mixed in Utah Phillips talking about the military draft
ended unexpectedly.. thats how it goes sometimes

Music:

“Im from New Jersey” theme that Tim sent me
Utah Phillips – Tom Stribner Story (Fellow Workers album)
Death Cab for Cutie – Brothers on a Hotel Bed (Plans)

The Horror in Harbin

Hello I’m in New Jersey… and actually i did not have a pleasant flight and it seems the entire airline industry is one big ball of nerves and Im seriously going to save some loot so I can take a container ship from Rotterdam next time. Flying is a torturous ordeal these days, it is as if air-travel has taken 100 steps backwards since the dawn of this fake-ass war on terrorism. But I’ll address that in my first US recorded podcast tomorrow.

fortunately I grabbed a Guardian on my way onto the plane, and poured over the stories coming out of China. Besides the fact that militia opened fire on demonstrators who didn’t want the government to put a polluting coal power plant in their town, I read alot more on Harbin, a city that has been poisoned by the Chinese government and the petrol industry there.

It’s incredibly sad to watch china grow at this crippling pace that leaves so many people cast aside, forgotten, killed, and poisoned. The push to be this supercapitalist, consumer state, seems like one big ball of destruction. and if you live in Harbin, all you know is you can’t drink the water because the tap has been turned off and even if it weren’t your water supply is toxic and your government knew this could happen, but doesn’t care, like so many governments out there.

The Smell of Travel in the Morn

KL 6 something something to Newark, leaving in 3 hours…. I love the smell of travel in the morning.

Its time for one last bowl of Special-K with Soymilk. A quick banana. Load up the i-river with enough podcasts to educate and entertain the world, including a certain travelling fat-bian.

My final thoughts from these last few days in the Amsterdam: I may not have family in this land, but I have some of the most wonderful friends I could ever want. That that’s nothing to shake a stick-at. Who shakes a stick at things anyway, that’s rude.

Oh and lastly, I don’t care what the red-cross-crescent-crystal changes its name to, I’ll be calling them the red-cross for the rest of my brief life… so feck their silly marketing powermove.

No links, Gotta fly.