luddite badass

[Otto]

Alexander Cockburn on José Bove (<http://www.counterpunch.org/>
(if a new story has taken its place, find it under "New Stories" on the
left):

> It's because of concern for the future, and because
> of a will to have a say in future developments.
> I'm not opposed to fundamental research. I think it
> would be illusory and detrimental to want to curb it.
> On the other hand, I don't think that every application
> of research is necessarily desirable, at the human, social
> or environmental level. And the only regret that I have
> now is that I wasn't able to destroy more of it."
--

Purveyors of la malbouffe

In times when our meals become toxic waste this Monsieur Bove is a brave
man, fighting against the "Factory System" in agriculture and the American
Imperialism of today which is not only cultural (see our TV) but mostly
economic Imperialism that has turned even against it's own homeland:
"The United States is home turf to the world's mightiest corporate
agribusiness, as family farmers know all too well, having seen their average
income decline by 62 per cent since 1978, and have seen themselves become
little more than share croppers for the four or five companies that now
dominate US agriculture. Hence the support of Bove by the National Family
Farm Coalition."
(from: http://www.counterpunch.org/)

Eric, there's a lot of luddism going on right now at this moment here in
Germany against the CASTOR-transports, means atomic waste which we had
brought to France now comes back has rolled through my home department Lower
Saxony.
And we have no poper place to keep it for the next 20.000 years.
Thousands of people are having harmless "walks" on the railroad tracks,
repeatedly carried away and beaten by the cops, who, of course, only do
their jobs and if you tell them that this is an argument every executioner
uses you really get it ...
But the train is blocked actually, five people have tied themselves with
concreted pipes to the tracks. Before they aren't freed with pneumatic
hammers the train can't go on.

There's a difference between law and justice, and breaking the law can be
justified.

Otto