Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco on March 26, 2005
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 2:33 am
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ah florabelle the talking anchorcowThis time around, Churchill went straight to the heart of the matter right off the bat and -- in no uncertain terms -- compared Americans to Nazis (QuickTime mpeg video, 1.6mb):
(Clicking on this link -- and all the similar links below -- will open a QuickTime video [or mp3] file of Churchill speaking. Each of the files will open in a new window. Below each link is an exact transcription of Churchill's words. Phrases [in brackets] indicate portions that are not clearly audible.)
"And I've got an answer for you and that answer is Eichmann! Eichmann! That is the mentality of Eichmann. Big Eichmann and little Eichmann. The good Germans that made that process possible are synonymous with the good Americans who voted for George Bush or thought that John Kerry was an alternative. [Audience applause.] And that explains the blind eye turned to a half-million Iraqi children. That's an entire coming generation because for every dead there's three more who are never gonna grow up other than in a twisted and physically deformed manner as a result of what's been done to them in order to impose the United States' will, and that's genocide. When you talk about it being imposed on a country of barely 20 million people, a half-million children is the future. The future was denied in the interest of American domination of the rest of the planet in order to support a material way of life and a mentality which is absolutely on its face indefensible to anyone with a scintilla of moral integrity. "
[As usual, Churchill's making up his own facts as he goes along: there's no evidence -- not even the hint of any evidence -- that 1.5 million Iraqi children are physically deformed because of the actions of the United States.]
This piece began in 1920’s Santa Cruz, when the Wobblies were as active here as they were in 1994, then struggling against the timber barons in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Tom Scribner, whose bronze statue perches on the Pacific Avenue sidewalk facing the St. George Hotel and whose portrait graces the wall of the Poet & Patriot, was a Wobbly during those times. He devoted most of his life to organizing with the unemployed and downtrodden against the financial system that kept them down. He was later known for his skill in playing the musical saw, which he often did in public spaces. If only our eclectic street musicians were treated with such respect nowadays.
i'm interzoning streamz now.anyhow after a few months of that, leveraged by the last freaking acid trip (mickey mouse windowpane) i wound up driving a yellow cab taxi great little gig living at the old pacific hotel wow and one afternoon i gets a call downtown and there dressed in suit with bow tie and bowler hat and a cane waiting was this sweet old gent, famous in those parts, there is a bronze statue of him there in santa cruz, playing his musical saw, utah phillips knew him, he was an old wobblie oh Wobblies workerz of the werlde unificight!
and he getz into the cab, smiling, we cruize on up to the old pacific hotel, i tell him i am staying there too, he gives me a small red book, it's the wobblies little red book! then i tell him the ride is on me and he gets out smiles and tips his bowler hat!!! yes!
so what was his name! he was an old man at that time, back in 1980.
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