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Speeches You Would Like to Make: Barbelith in the House

 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
15:13 / 18.03.03
Rhetoric, fury, points and principles, arguments about consequences and moralities. Let's have it all. I've been walking around all day ranting at the various MPs and their good or bad points. Let's see if we can't put our positions into political words.

I'll be posting mine as and when I can - but feel free to steal the march on me.
 
 
Baz Auckland
17:44 / 18.03.03
At the peremtory request of a large majority of the citizens of Canada, I, Andrew Shedden, formerly of Dundas, Ontario, and now for the past nine months of Toronto, Ontario declare and proclaim myself Emperor of Canada and in virtue of the authority thereby in me vested, do hereby order and direct the representatives of the different provinces of the Dominion to assemble in the Musical Hall of this city on the 1st day of April next, then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring, and thereby cause confidence to exist, both at home and abroad, in our stability and integrity.


(I actually made this proclamation in September of 1994, collected a couple hundred signatures and posted the declaration around town, but I have yet to actually enjoy the status of my position)
 
 
grant
13:29 / 20.03.03
A friend of mine made the following sort-of unprecedented entry on his livejournal (which is mostly dedicated to indie pop, web design, bacon & beer):

fuckers

I'm so goddamned tired of being regarded as a traitor for not sharing this administration's medieval blood lust.

It's just unbelievable to me that the same ghouls who have put thousands of Americans in harm's way have the temerity to expect lockstep public support--or at least complicit silence--once the fucking bombs start dropping.

Talk about human shields.

What better way to innoculate yourself against criticism than to stand behind a 19-year-old kid, waving your little flag?


It seems to distill a lot of my reservations into a single coherent idea.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:10 / 20.03.03
Should you not be known as Baz Ontario for patriotic reasons, my liege?
 
  
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