Showing posts with label pious fixation w/ symbol of thing in place of respect for thing itself. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pious fixation w/ symbol of thing in place of respect for thing itself. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

HIDDEN CAM: Clinton Staffer Says I Could “Grab [Her] Ass” and Not Get Fired



Published on Oct 12, 2016
In this video released by Project Veritas Action, James O’Keefe exposes the “misogynistic” nature of the Hillary Clinton campaign and its organizers, who joke about sexually harassing women and committing voter fraud on the campaign.

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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel Project Veritas Action.

Thursday, January 28, 2016

"Grow some T-Rex scrote": Ted Nugent and James O'Keefe on Periscope



Published on Jan 28, 2016
The Motor City Madman and James O'Keefe hijack Shemane Nugent's Periscope to talk about the Constitution, the heroes who serve our country in the military, political corruption and the recent Project Veritas Common Core videos.

WARNING: If you feel "micro-aggressed" or "triggered" when hearing conversation about certain masculine body parts, go find yourself some "safe space" instead of watching this video.

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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Assault on 1st Amendment: Yale Joins Missouri and Cornell in Removing Journalists from Campus



Published on Nov 11, 2015
Two Project Veritas journalists detained by police at Yale University and told they are not allowed back on campus.

James O’Keefe was removed from campus after attempting to question Yale University President and Yale College Dean about the Yale official captured on hidden camera by Project Veritas ripping up a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Monday, November 09, 2015

NC State Bans U.S. Constitution in Dormitory



Published on 9 Nov 2015
Officials at N.C. State Plan to Ensure “that there is no longer any Constitutions in the entry way of Berry Hall.”

Unlike Other Colleges, Officials at Duke and UNC Refuse to Destroy U.S. Constitution.

UNC Official Not Only Refuses to Ban Constitution, but Suggests that Project Veritas Journalist Needs “Professional” Help


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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Thursday, November 05, 2015

Hid Cam: Officials at Cornell & Yale Shredding/Ripping the Constitution as it "Triggers" Students



Published on Nov 5, 2015
Officials at Cornell, Syracuse, and Yale destroy U.S. Constitution. Cornell's Elizabeth McGrath shreds the constitution, Syracuse's Sheila Johnson-Willis, cuts it up with a pair of scissors, and Yale's Jason Killheffer actually uses his bare hands to rip the constitution to shreds.




Also, Elizabeth McGrath is captured on hidden camera saying “Like I said before, it is a very flawed document and it is written by flawed individuals."

And Jason Killheffer is caught on hidden camera saying: “I am happy to take it and shred it [the constitution] in my office.” and when asked on hidden camera about banning the constitution, his response: “I hope so, I mean, that’s - that would be like I said, my expectation is if someone were distributing or, you know, posting offensive materials, that the dean would – would listen to that and take some sort of action as appropriate, you know.”




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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Hidden Cam Captures Officials Shredding Constitution at Vassar College as it "Triggers" Students



Published on Nov 3, 2015
Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity at Vassar College caught on hidden camera shredding constitution and “The Constitution is an oppressive document” says Carol Lasser, Professor of History-Oberlin College.

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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Hidden Camera Captures Officials Shredding Constitution at Vassar College as it "Triggers" Students



Published on Nov 3, 2015
CORRECTION: We incorrectly identified Colleen Cohen as being affiliated with Oberlin College. In fact, she is the Faculty Director of Affirmative Action and a Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. An updated version of this video is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nerR...

Assistant Director of Equal Opportunity at Vassar College caught on hidden camera shredding constitution and “The Constitution is an oppressive document” says Carol Lasser, Professor of History-Oberlin College.

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NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.

Friday, August 22, 2008

The Gospel According to O'Keefe

 

NJO: The following post was originally blogged at insurgentvisuals.blogspot.com on August 22, 2008.

(James sent me a note he wrote to a friend. I was so touched by its words that I felt compelled to post it here. It captures so much of what I've felt and thought lately, that I was shocked to read it from him. His words inflate, they command, they inspire, they move. I hope you feel the same way. As usual, I did this without permission, so I tried to remove things that would identify the intended recipient. -Ben)



Hey,

How are you doing? I got your message about the LGBT and the Lavender at <your college="">. Can you tell me me about that? I've specialized in dealing with these types of issues on college campuses. Recently I've asked God to use me in whatever capacity He sees fit, and I've been reading through the Bible, especially proverbs, as well as many other books about career choices and decisions.</your>

One thing that struck me in your email below was what you said :

"I fault people for focusing on this so much that it puts other issues (usually of greater importance) on the backburner. Politicians love the issue of abortion as it causes a deadlock. I believe this to be deception on the part of satan for his other agendas. This is just my opinion on the matter."

<friend>, Politicians may love the issue of abortion for their own selfish reasons, but abortion is THE priority of our time. As you know, If we can not all agree on the sanctity of innocent life, then there is nothing worth agreeing about. If it isn't wrong to kill innocent babies, then what could possibly be wrong. As my friend Dave pointed out to me last night, this is a holy war; a war between all the religions of the world and none. Between the sacredness of life, and the systematic destruction of life. If Satan is doing anything, he is preventing the Good people of the world from taking action to support the least of his fellow man. Many Christians I have met have shied away from this issue because it is a difficult, uncomfortable issue, but to me this is the issue of our time; and I believe Christ looks to our action on this abortion issue, and our courage in confronting it, yes, even at the sacrifice of other issues, at the sacrifice of our jobs, of our lives.</friend>

Keep in the mind the passage in Matthew:::

"For I was hungry and gave you Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me." Then they will answer, "Lord, When did we see Thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to Thee?" Then He will answer them, "Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of my brethren, you did it not to me."

Christ's words here in Matthew are radical— more radical than anything written in all the political books I've ever read. And they are more loving, infinitely more loving than the secular or perverted love presented to me by the masses – that says philanthropy or love of our fellow man is a thing to be distinguished from Christ. We must "Give." "Do." "Clothe." "Welcome." "Visit" for the Christ present in the least of our brethren neighbors. This will take more than chastity, it will take charity; it will take more than temperance, it will take action, practice, proactive struggle and the sacrifice of fame and status. It will take immediacy and prioritization. It will require us to make essential distinctions about what is important. In some cases loving will entail forfeiture of our life, liberty, or property for people that have none of the above. We must come to know and love God in all people and things, but especially in "the least of our brethren." Not just to those we have wronged, or to whom we were unkind, but on behalf of people we have neglected through lack of action; People we see and ignore; the miserable, the sorrowful, the defenseless, the diseased; the helpless, the physically weak, the spiritually devoid. We are tempted to call them rich or say they are undeserving of our love. But this doesn't change the fact we see they are poor. We know Christ has already given us this power to determine what is essential. When we neglect or ignore these starving, these sick, these naked, these imprisoned, we neglect or ignore Christ himself. Christ stands amongst his voiceless children in the Kingdom of heaven asking when we arrive "how much do you love me?" He will look to our faith. He will look to how we demonstrate that faith. Wherever there is suffering in humanity, Christ is calling. He is asking us to show Him how much we are willing to love. He is asking us to demonstrate our love by curing the people made in his image; after all, all of this is made in God's image. He tells us our eternity is at stake. Thus we must act, and we must act now because our judgment could come later today, and many of us will be left immediately begging for mercy and more time – to do the things that must be done.

I can imagine an infinite number of callings in which you all can practice your love for humanity. Perhaps philanthropy, perhaps missionary, civil rights, teaching, innovation, etc. Maybe all of the above. We (Myself and anyone else who comes forward) have found out calling, so God help us

But for me, applied love has seemed to be a resistance; I find myself wanting to show my love by being in radical opposition to the powerful institutions of today. First it was colleges which perverted truth. Then courts which have perverted law. And most recently a Planned Parenthood organization which has convinced arguably the most powerless black American class of human beings that killing their children will help that class' cause. God has opened my eyes to a holocaust; colleges that sponsor it, newspapers and magazines that willingly ignore proof of it , court justices making up laws to uphold it. And yet as I read Matthew, and thought about "what's wrong with the world" and asked earnestly what Christ meant, tears streamed down from my eyes because powerful forces within me reinforced what I already knew to be true. . Our world doubts its own capacity for love, distorts love, the most awful perversion. As evidence by calling a ban on killing "authoritarianism," – as evidenced by, for example, a pastor emailing the Advocate stating we are acting immorally in our investigation. The pastor, and millions of Christians who agree with him, might want to reread the book of Matthew, Christ's request, and what love means to them, in the deepest of places. Thousands of a deaths a day, and he chooses to attack us.

We, in our specific calling, refuse to apologize.

We, in our specific calling, make it our responsibility to change their spiritual leanings before judgment day. Abortion, birth control, premature legislation and a deceptive media have created a paradigm where most are convinced Planned Parenthood seeks to foster a supportive environment for black people when it destroys black children for the sake of a "better environment." In the womb, lay the strangers Christ spoke of, Margaret Sangers' "unwanted," "unloved," who will grow up "POOR" and therefore must be eliminated, for the sake of a better society and a better world. It was once possible, then it became inevitable. Now the question is how many lives can we save.

We, in our specific calling, have also learned that civil discourse accomplishes nothing; logic is no weapon against them, with discourse there is no freeing, no results, no clothing, no visiting, there is only killing. We can not "forgive" the perversion of love, the perversion of meaning, when we are all be subject to judgment and considered the purveyors of death. This truth will not disappear simply by Christians refusing to confront and stop injustice, or hide from it.

Nor will we allow someone who isn't Christian to prevent us from speaking to a non-Christian from our hearts. We may talk past them, but it is precisely when we do share the truth and talk past them, standing our ground we are on the path to helping our brethren, and setting others free. We will talk using our language until the death, so at least we can go to Christ, knowing we did not back down.

We, in our specific calling, can only get access to the abortionists' chambers and record the remark that will further harm their organization by deceiving them about my purpose, my age, her age, my intent.

We, in our specific calling, can only infiltrate the newsprint propaganda through alternative video. A thousand Christians trumpet how immoral or illwilled or inartistic or unstylized the video is. Some of the Christians praise the video style at length, and the media spotlights earned for its own sake, only to move onto another story, another day, another topic that is more stylized. A handful tally the 200,000 people and counting learning for the first time that Planned Parenthood was founded on Eugenics purposes. And of those how many see this the core motive and twisted ideology that abortion is even based on?

A pro-life Christian friend of mine, in our specific calling, will drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes, while lying and pretending to be pregnant. Potentially, this psychological trick will permit us to make a Youtube video admist A group of Christians fresh from their bible study lessons on truth, eternity, and faith, will lament that we violated a campus policy of drinking

The question is not whether "the ends justify the means" The question is Saving lives (and thus God's image) justifies deceiving the very evil that is destroying those lives (and God's image).

Christ gives us the answer. And in the pit of my soul I must take a leap of faith and love my brethren.


- James



NJO: The above post was originally blogged at insurgentvisuals.blogspot.com on August 22, 2008. If you follow that link, you'll see that there are three names listed as contributors to that defunct blogspot: James O'Keefe, Bruce Bronson and ".", with the posts made by ".", as can be further attested in this article at Crooks and Liars. Here the person posting identifies himself as "Ben". The note from "James" that he presents is filled with telltale signs of sloppy editing, e.g. incomplete sentences, lack of correct punctuation etc. As Ben says, he "tried to remove things that would identify the intended recipient".

Okay, firstly... why do I think Insurgent Visuals James O'Keefe and Feathers of Steel James O'Keefe are the same person?

A number of reasons.

One, Insurgent Visuals James is ardently anti- a woman's right to choose abortion and so is Feathers of Steel James.

Two, Insurgent Visuals James talks about his "radical opposition to the powerful institutions of today", which he lists chronologically as colleges, courts, and then Planned Parenthood. This is consistent with Feathers of Steel James' trajectory through college to law school, and then while at law school, helping to form the anti-Planned Parenthood organization Live Action.

Three, Insurgent Visuals James is party to something called "the Advocate". Feathers of Steel James' history with Live Action and its publication The Advocate is well documented; also, the date of the post is concurrent with this chapter of his life.

Four, Insurgent Visuals James talks about making videos with the goal of harming organizations that provide abortions, just like what Feathers of Steel James has a history of doing.

Five, Insurgent Visuals James is happy enough to tell lies in furtherance of his goals and so is Feathers of Steel James.

Next, I think there's good reason to believe that the two other guys involved in this short-lived blog, identified as
"Ben" and "Bruce Bronson", are James O'Keefe's associates Benjamin R. Wetmore and Jonathon Christian Burns respectively. Ben Wetmore was a staffer and field rep for Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute circa 2002 to 2006. James (who attended some Leadership Institute courses in 2005 and was one of its field reps in 2007) would later refer to him as "a mentor of mine; a genius". Another reason to think "Ben" is Ben Wetmore is his fannish mention of artists John "Borf" Tsombikos and Banksy in another post on the Insurgent Visuals blog. This photo from Ben Wetmore's Picasa Web Albums account, in an album titled "My Place", has these two listed on a note as "Artists I like":


Jonathon Burns (a.k.a. John Burns) attended some Leadership Institute courses circa 2004 and would later be a founding member of the St Louis Tea Party. According to this blog post by Wetmore (mirrored here), his friend Jon Christian Burns is "soaked in the moral clarity of numerous Mr. Bruce Willis and Mr. Charles Bronson movies". This, along with Burns' resemblance to the grinning stencilized visage in the Insurgent Visuals logo and the Leadership Institute background he shares with Wetmore and O'Keefe, is what leads me to think that "Bruce Bronson" is he.

Both have collaborated with James O'Keefe on several projects; I've made use of tags on this blog to denote exactly which ones. Two examples of projects that involved all three of them are the CNN Caper (2010) and the Bailout Prize Patrol video (2009).

Now, all this fuss I'm making about the fascinating matter of who exactly was involved in making this one half-assed little blog in 2008 does actually have a conclusion that it's warming up to, so bear with me. See, some time later, in 2011, a journalistic group calling itself Insurgent Visuals would get its name mentioned in the Missouri press as the mysterious (ie. sketchy, fake, not a real journalistic group at all) purveyor and promoter of a series of videos culled from 30 hours of lecture footage from the University of Missouri St Louis downloaded by student Phil Christofanelli, as part of an Andrew Breitbart-backed smear campaign against the lecturers of a Labor Studies course. This incarnation of Insurgent Visuals had a short-lived website at insurgentvisuals.com (plus a new and similarly short-lived Blogger account, and a Facebook account, a YouTube account, a Vimeo account, and a Twitter), which listed staffers by the names of "Jim O." and "Bruce B.", featured some mock-Soviet-style graphics similar to what Ben Wetmore has a history of creating and posting on his websites, and which was registered, according to Whois Lookup, on April 26, 2011 by one Jonathon Burns. Furthermore, Jon Burns is from St Louis and James O'Keefe had spent some time in St Louis in late 2009, being involved in some Tea Party events along with Burns. So could it have been one or more of these three guys behind the 2011 smear? I would call that a distinct possibility.

(Updated 30th September 2015 to include the fake HTML tags that appear in the source code of the original page.)

Thursday, August 31, 2006

The American Flag at Rutgers: The Shame of Old Glory

THE SHAME OF OLD GLORY

By: David J. Maxham III

Last week, along with some fellow students[*], I went to Old Queens to ask if the Rutgers administration would consider putting American flags in classrooms. While I’m still not sure if we were surprised or if we expected the response that we got, it was saddening nonetheless.

 On our way to Old Queens, we interviewed students on the street at random. Without exception, each agreed that the American flag should have a place in the classrooms of Rutgers’ hallowed halls. And really, why not? As one girl put it, “Well, it is the State University...”

 Our first visit was to Assistant Dean Julie A. Traxler, who told us that she felt putting up the flag was “a bad idea” and that our time would be better spent on “other things.” Dean Traxler was quick to change the subject once we told her that we knew individuals that were ready and willing to pay for the flags. Incredibly, she expressed her dismay that there were people out there willing to fund flag in classrooms, but not our Rutgers sports programs. Horrors!

 Next we spoke to Brian T. Rose, Assistant to Gregory Blimling, Vice President of Student Affairs at Rutgers. When I asked if we could hang American flags in classrooms, Mr. Rose didn’t miss a beat. “I don’t think so... but I’m willing to check into it for you.” Mr. Rose’s immediate logic was such: if one student group – for example, students who love America – put up an American flag, then that opens the floodgate to any other group – like the terrorism apologists at NJ Solidarity – to display a “message” of their choice. Or, as Mr. Rose put it, “Do we make our classrooms available for people to put up whatever message they want?” That’s an interesting question, albeit rhetorical.

 Apparently Mr. Rose hasn’t been in a lot of classrooms recently, because many lecture halls and rooms are littered with posters and flyers, some of questionable and possibly offensive content, many of which have nothing to do with the subject taught in those rooms. Never mind the fact that courts have already ruled on the issue, finding that the American flag in and of itself does not constitute a distinct message belonging exclusively to one or another group or entity. It’s too bad people like Mr. Rose live in a world called Academia, a world that lives by its own rules, infringed upon by no external authority, least of all an authority that might disagree with Academia’s radical – and often anti-American – worldview.

 We also paid a visit to Dean Michael Stillwagon, whose response included the brilliant deduction that with the American flag, “there’s an issue of propagandaing [sic].” Bad grammar aside, the notion that the American flag, minus any additional text or images, comprises “propaganda” is so mind-numbingly stupid that it hardly deserves a response. However, considering that this mindset seems to permeate the Rutgers faculty, my response is forthcoming.

 For two hundred and thirty years, Americans have fought and died under the American flag. It was a symbol against British colonial oppression, and for the more than two centuries that followed, it was a unifying symbol for the millions upon millions of immigrants that came to this country – my own ancestors included. Our soldiers are buried with the flag, and the flag adorns every institution that makes our great Republic function. The flag doesn’t belong to any political party, any race or class, any sectarian ideology, any private club.

 In short, the American flag belongs to all of us; according to the Supreme Court, even desecrating the flag is protected by the ideals of liberty the flag represents. For any official, either in the government or at our beloved alma mater, to eschew display of the one thing that all Americans have in common ought to be a matter of scandal and shame. Let’s end the politically correct garbage, and return Old Glory to a place of honor in our classrooms and in our consciousness.

NJO: Originally published in the September 2006 issue of The Centurion.

* Also James O'Keefe, who by this point was no longer a student, at Rutgers anyway.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006


Tolerate This

By James O’Keefe

Note: This is an authentic “slam” poem written in the Winter of 2003 in my passionate, reactionary response to Annie DiFranco.

It is to be performed in the spoken-word/hip-hop format.

Very few people at Rutgers are about to agree with what I have to say
But because you believe in acceptance and diversity
I’m ‘bout to say it anyway
You think you’re all Peace?
You think I’m all war?
You don’t know what it is we’re fighting for
It’s kill or be killed and we’ve been killed before
You don’t seem to understand the fundamentals of war
Like anxious butterflies behind closed doors
You imply utopia, logic you ignore
You disagree with dieing hard likes its
Some choice to make
You defy society like it’s some claim to stake
Hurry up and bitch because tolerance won’t wait
But we can’t let impatient hippies determine our fate
You blame this nation
For what madmen have done
On the Eleventh of September, 2001
You Support Palestine
But ignore about their laughter
Emanating from their celebrating the hating of Jews and destruction of America
On the day after
You use shady language and class dividers
You label suicide bombers as “freedom-fighters.”
You’re pro-harmony but never stop causing noise
Still
Against Capital
Against Capital punishment
Against Capitalism
On the Steps of Capitol
Hill
Sometimes it seems from your unpatriotic screams
You’d rather be in chains
In a Communist nation where a dictator reigns
Your ignorance just thrives when you describe
Bush as a Texas cowboy running astray
You stereotype him so I can stereotype you
Smoking weed and drinking your double cappuccino latte
How does it feel?
Just deal
No blood for oil but gas prices to high for sale
No tax cuts but stash the cashed check in the mail
You won’t make sacrifice for homeland protection
You often question but never offer suggestions
You’re in constant defense of criminals somehow
You persecute people for not being politically correct
Who’s hypocritical now!
You make up slogans and accusations
Believe anecdotes without a single citation
Brand me a racist with an agenda to gain
Hand me your bluff but I’m tough not insane
You spit on our honor cause division and pain
When you say the victims died in vain
Sitting on your pedestal of judgment
So-called “tolerance,” progressive, cosmopolitan, comfortably, cool, seriously doubting
Whining and pouting
Shouting against Inequality for the disunited States
And rising crime rates
You don’t care about the cause, just want the effect
You Dine in the paradigm the military you hate is trying to protect
You think I wouldn’t die for this country you’re wrong
I realize America’s where I belong
So you can stab me with your words
Protest me to the ground
Call me a fascist, racist, selfish clown
But I wont’ let hypocrites put me down
I’m American and I realize how fortunate you are
Why your teacher made you salute those stripes and stars
It’s ok to criticize but think before you speak
Think about the rights you have
What happens when the shuttle crashes?
Instant gratification
No more space exploration
We put a man on the moon 40 years ago
But now it’s too soon to send
A man into space?
A slap in the face
Of our imperialist plot to conquer a lot
Don’t rebuild the WTC higher
Simply build a tiny spire
It’s time to abandon all structural endeavors
Hide under our beds and cover our heads
Like the sissies you are
Don’t salute those stripes and stars
Fire Bill Maher
Because he told us we’re cowards
And we’re afraid that we are
We all care about our civil liberties being taken away
But only some parts of the constitution are ok
Not the electoral college part?
It works both ways doesn’t it?
The FBI, CIA should have done its job then
Its got all the evidence now
But you don’t care
You want infinite proof there
You wouldn’t sacrifice one fraction
To Save Millions of lives and when
Those lives are lost you blame those who didn’t take action!
The least I can do is ask you
TO not use sugar coated language and abuse our sensitivity
Our communication
Please do not call killing babies equipping young women with a choice
Don’t defy those who protect us
You’re making the enemy rejoice
It’s easy to hate
To accuse me that I discriminate
But to those who raise their fists
Answer me this
When the bomb is dropped by Iran (rhyme with bomb)
You look up and see the mushroom cloud
In the Sky
With forgotten rebelliousness and futile messages at your side
The day, when perfect hindsight is suddenly all around
And a billion tear drops fall to the ground
The day when you look into your child’s eyes and have to explain
More innocents have died
And your pedestal, your ability to be free is taken away
Then you’ll see something other than a President’s blue blood royalty
Tell me THEN your opposed to war
And the reasons for which we’re fighting for
Tell me THEN we’re imperialist clowns
Who operate on fallacious grounds
So if it’s true, your division’s still tall
Then perhaps the most powerful truth of all
Is you’d look the families in the face
Tell them one-by-shun
You helped cause another 9/11,
2001.

NJO: Originally posted on the blog Feathers of Steel at liberabit.blogspot.com.

Illiteracy Count: 9

  1. Annie DiFranco
  2. dieing hard
  3. like its Some choice (apostrophe?)
  4. gas prices to high for sale
  5. Who's hypocritical now! (question mark?)
  6. our honor cause division (comma?)
  7. die for this country you're wrong (comma?)
  8. wont’
  9. Its got (apostrophe?)

Sunday, January 05, 2003


Tolerate This

By James O’Keefe

Very few people at Rutgers are about to agree with what I have to say
But because you believe in acceptance and diversity
I’m ‘bout to say it anyway
You think you’re all Peace?
You think I’m all war?
You don’t know what it is we’re fighting for
It’s kill or be killed and we’ve been killed before
You don’t seem to understand the fundamentals of war
Like anxious butterflies behind closed doors
You imply utopia, logic you ignore
You disagree with dieing hard likes its
Some choice to make
You defy society like it’s some claim to stake
Hurry up and bitch because tolerance won’t wait
But we can’t let impatient hippies determine our fate
You blame this nation
For what madmen have done
On the Eleventh of September, 2001
You Support Palestine
But ignore about their laughter
Emanating from their celebrating the hating of Jews and destruction of America
On the day after
You use shady language and class dividers
You label suicide bombers as “freedom-fighters.”
You’re pro-harmony but never stop causing noise
Still
Against Capital
Against Capital punishment
Against Capitalism
On the Steps of Capitol
Hill
Sometimes it seems from your unpatriotic screams
You’d rather be in chains
In a Communist nation where a dictator reigns
Your ignorance just thrives when you describe
Bush as a Texas cowboy running astray
You stereotype him so I can stereotype you
Smoking weed and drinking your double cappuccino latte
How does it feel?
Just deal
No blood for oil but gas prices to high for sale
No tax cuts but stash the cashed check in the mail
You won’t make sacrifice for homeland protection
You often question but never offer suggestions
You’re in constant defense of criminals somehow
You persecute people for not being politically correct
Who’s hypocritical now!
You make up slogans and accusations
Believe anecdotes without a single citation
Brand me a racist with an agenda to gain
Hand me your bluff but I’m tough not insane
You spit on our honor cause division and pain
When you say the victims died in vain
Sitting on your pedestal of judgment
So-called “tolerance,” progressive, cosmopolitan, comfortably, cool, seriously doubting
Whining and pouting
Shouting against Inequality for the disunited States
And rising crime rates
You don’t care about the cause, just want the effect
You Dine in the paradigm the military you hate is trying to protect
You think I wouldn’t die for this country you’re wrong
I realize America’s where I belong
So you can stab me with your words
Protest me to the ground
Call me a fascist, racist, selfish clown
But I wont’ let hypocrites put me down
I’m American and I realize how fortunate you are
Why your teacher made you salute those stripes and stars
It’s ok to criticize but think before you speak
Think about the rights you have
What happens when the shuttle crashes?
Instant gratification
No more space exploration
We put a man on the moon 40 years ago
But now it’s too soon to send
A man into space?
A slap in the face
Of our imperialist plot to conquer a lot
Don’t rebuild the WTC higher
Simply build a tiny spire
It’s time to abandon all structural endeavors
Hide under our beds and cover our heads
Like the sissies you are
Don’t salute those stripes and stars
Fire Bill Maher
Because he told us we’re cowards
And we’re afraid that we are
We all care about our civil liberties being taken away
But only some parts of the constitution are ok
Not the electoral college part?
It works both ways doesn’t it?
The FBI, CIA should have done its job then
Its got all the evidence now
But you don’t care
You want infinite proof there
You wouldn’t sacrifice one fraction
To Save Millions of lives and when
Those lives are lost you blame those who didn’t take action!
The least I can do is ask you
TO not use sugar coated language and abuse our sensitivity
Our communication
Please do not call killing babies equipping young women with a choice
Don’t defy those who protect us
You’re making the enemy rejoice
It’s easy to hate
To accuse me that I discriminate
But to those who raise their fists
Answer me this
When the bomb is dropped by Iran (rhyme with bomb)
You look up and see the mushroom cloud
In the Sky
With forgotten rebelliousness and futile messages at your side
The day, when perfect hindsight is suddenly all around
And a billion tear drops fall to the ground
The day when you look into your child’s eyes and have to explain
More innocents have died
And your pedestal, your ability to be free is taken away
Then you’ll see something other than a President’s blue blood royalty
Tell me THEN your opposed to war
And the reasons for which we’re fighting for
Tell me THEN we’re imperialist clowns
Who operate on fallacious grounds
So if it’s true, your division’s still tall
Then perhaps the most powerful truth of all
Is you’d look the families in the face
Tell them one-by-shun
You helped cause another 9/11,
2001.

NJO: James wrote this in "the Winter of 2003". The exact date is conjecture.

Illiteracy Count: 9

  1. Annie DiFranco
  2. dieing hard
  3. like its Some choice (apostrophe?)
  4. gas prices to high for sale
  5. Who's hypocritical now! (question mark?)
  6. our honor cause division (comma?)
  7. die for this country you're wrong (comma?)
  8. wont’
  9. Its got (apostrophe?)