Christmas Coke Bombs

Heh. Not what you’re thinking, and I’m pretty sure, not what they’re thinking either.

POW!

Let the marketing begin!

Thanks Laughing Squid

Jello Biafra Writes An Open Letter To Barack Obama

Jello Biafra

It’s quite something when one of your heroes reminds you why you respected them in the first place….

“I did not vote for him because of his record in Congress voting for the PATRIOT Act, the anti-immigrant wall, numerous corporate breaks and subsidies, the FISA bill legalizing all the NSA’s illegal wiretapping, etc. Nevertheless I, too, felt moved by his speech in the park that night in Chicago, seeing Jesse Jackson cry and wondering how Martin Luther King, Jr would have felt. I can only imagine how much this would have meant to Wesley Willis.

And, yes, I am glad that the adult version of the Eraserhead baby and his pitbull pal were not handed the keys to the White House.” (Firedoglake.com, 12/16/08)

KopBusters show sets up sting to catch law enforcement illegally searching for drugs

Revolutionary…

FLIR (Forward Looking Ifrared)

“Don’t hate the media, become the media.” – Jello Biafra

Barry Cooper, a former Texas police officer with eight years of specialty in drug interdiction, first made waves when he released the film “Never Get Busted Again,” a how-to guide for evading police drug seizures.

Austin, Texas-based Cooper’s latest project is not nearly so benign, and will likely generate for the former drug warrior an army of enemies in law enforcement.

‘KopBusters’ is a reality TV program that aims to sink crooked officers.

“KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana,” claims a release from NeverGetBusted.com “When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause to raid the house. Instead of conducting a proper investigation which usually leads to no probable cause, the Kops lie on the affidavit claiming a confidential informant saw the plants and/or the police could smell marijuana coming from the suspected house.” (Raw Story)

Limits On Thermal Imaging Technology In The War on Drugs

CHAINSAW MAID!

Chainsaw Maid, Chainsaw Maid, Chainsaw Maid!!!

That’s what I want from xians for xmas: A CHAINSAW MAID!

Give Thanks – Texas DA reveals evidence against Cheney

Not that I want to get all Discipline and Punish with y’all but I can’t help celebrating!

Penal Industry - Image by Eric Drooker

You know that guy who’s been performing satanic rituals in the basement of the Naval Observatory?

I could not help but ponder my previous post about Death Row Inmates in Texas as I read about Cheney’s indictments for “Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity” relating to The Vanguard Group’s holdings and relationships with private prison companies.

Raw Story reports:

Cheney’s stake in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies that run the detention centers, was cited in the indictment. Cheney is accused of a conflict of interest and “at least misdemeanor assaults” on detainees through his ownership interest.

KRGV Texas reports:

District Attorney Juan Guerra says he went through Cheney’s financial records and the prison companies’ financial records and found the connection. The three top prison companies Guerra researched were Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group and Cornell. Those three have the Vanguard Group in common, which is an investment company that puts money into all three prison companies.

“We knew Vanguard was the key,” said Guerra.

Guerra showed us the Vice President’s financial disclosure from last year and it shows he owned shares in the Vanguard Group. Guerra estimates Cheney has $85 million invested in Vanguard and in turn, into the prison companies.

Need more mandatory sentencing for drug crimes?

Just give Dick some of your first born’s blood and he’ll take good care of you.

I’m sure that the private prison lobby has delivered a few extra virgins to the observatory over the years.

Let’s do it, man. Lock and load. Ain’t life a [expletive deleted]?

The Executioners Last Songs: Vol. 1

Ah, a bully pulpit! A rabble to rouse!

So I get to be the first non-lawyer Satyriconista? w00t!

Marc’s got me dead to rights… I spend a lot of time thinking about technology, privacy, the law, and bizzare things that keep normal, middle of the road food tubes awake at night.

Out in the meat world I make ROBOTS that migrate the content locked in antique magnetic media (videotapes,) into lossless digital files for large cultural archives, networks and libraries.

When I’m not working in the electromechanical/digital salt mines for my corporate masters I make theater: Charlie Victor Romeo.

Let’s kick it off with a bang…

The title of my introductory post is a quote taken from one of my favorite implementations of that Web 2.0 blog thing, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Executed Offenders page. I figure that G.W. Green looked toward his merge with the infinite with exactly the same enthusiasm as I have for scattering thought-provoking info-bombs and subsequent collateral damage.

If thinking about the death penalty seems like a bummer then I’d recommend singing along with the death penalty, or at least humming a few bars with The Pine Valley Cosmonauts’ great album The Executioner’s Last Songs: Volume 1. It’s a wonderful compilation of Bloodshot Records artists renewing classic American country death songs by The Louvin Brothers, Hank Williams, Charley Pride, Johnny Paycheck, Cole Porter, Merle Haggard, Stanley Brothers, Johnny Cash, and Bill Monroe all to support the Illinois Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty.