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personally, i dont care about the flag issue at all.
it means almost nothing to me, and i find the fetishism of it to be bizarre.
but i understand where it comes from and generally do not find myself motivated to comment too much about the opinions of others on this simply because i dont see anything constructive coming of it.
it hardly seems worth the trouble.
people get all pissy. that's nice. go for it.
i really dont care.
that said, i think that comrade brossert's action was idiotic---because i have no sympathy at all with the jingo-politics that apparently lay behind it. of course, he is free to engage in this action and following my own arguments in other threads about the right to political protest, i dont think he should be prosecuted for it. but as i find nationalism to be a form of collective mental disorder, i have no sympathy for the politics he espouses.
but who knows, maybe this cat decided that staging a little agitprop might be a good career move. maybe he wants to get a conservative talkradio gig and figured this kind of thing worked for ollie north...
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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