VLVL PR3 and "the Movement"
jbor
jbor at bigpond.com
Mon Feb 9 01:51:44 CST 2004
on 9/2/04 12:16 PM, Terrance wrote:
> Don't any of you kiddies understand, we either have 100%
> no-foolin'-around solidarity or it just doesn't work. Weed
> betrayed that, and it was cowardly because it was easy, 'cause he
> knew we can't shut anybody out, down the end of that road is
> fuckin' fascism, so we take 'em all, the hypocrites and double
> agents and summertime outlaws and all that fringe residue nobody else'll
> touch. That what PR3 started out as--so did we for that matter,
> remember? The All-Nite Shelter. The lighted doorway out in the
> Amerikan dark where nobody gets refused? Weed remembers.
>
> VL.235.228-37
>
> Of course she is lying through her teeth here, but she's not lying about
> what she once to believed and what PR3 and 24fps started out believing
> in, 100% solidarity and taking in everyone.
>
> This idea isn't stained in her genes but it sure runs in the family.
> VL.76-77
Where is this same idea expressed on 76-77?
The way Frenesi scolds Howie about "100% ... solidarity" to cover up her own
betrayal reveals her as a total hypocrite (235), just like what she says to
the local news team back in the San Joaquin is a piece of bravado. She's
trying to prevent her camera "close-up" from being another "mugshot of the
bought and sold" (195).
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