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October 30, 1991
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would worth taking a look at CBS aid see
ing how many people, especially heroes
and rent-a-bimbos in your love-scenes
smoke as well as in those made for TV
movies where they have the most time to do
this how often the camera pans very slowly
in establishing shots such as kitchen scenes,
even if the person living there is about to get
murdered or something, you're going to
know what brand of bread they eat, what
brand of microwave they use and what
brand of soda pop they drink.
FP: If you got to meet face to face with Bush
tomorrow, what would be the first thing
you'd say to him?
JB: Oh God, that's a good question. —
“How's life in the drug dealing business?"
FP: Before they slap the cuffs on you...
JB: Right.
FP: When they first started that drug propa
ganda spiel a few years ago we had a huge
conflict in our political science class about
what it was — / was trying to explain to
everybody what a public relations cam
paign it was.
JB: Oh it's more than that. A person in New
Hampshire was shot to death in his bed in
front of his family after a S.W.A.T. team
stormed his house based on a tip that was
a year and a half old and found a grand total
of one joint. That's the drug war. Or the mom
and pop grocery store in a ghetto in Detroit
that was seized by the authorities after drug
sniffing dogs found traces of cocaine on
three one dollar bills in the cash register.
You know, this is the kind of stuff that goes
on in dictatorships. The drug war is the
front-line by the feds to see how much the
dictatorshipped people will put up with in
their daily lives as long as it’s presented to
them on TV, this sort of thing only happens
to black people and Willie Horton types the
more people put up with it. They’re also
testing the waters in other areas such as
blowing up the car that Judi Bari and Darryl
Cherney of Earth First were in in Oakland —
it was an assassination attempt that brought
home El Salvadore and Pinochet's Chil6.
But thankfully, there was enough public
outcry that even the logging companies
admit that Darryl and Judi planted the bomb
themselves. Of course the F B I. is now in
charge of investigating a bomb thing that
it’s reasonable to assume they were re
sponsible for in the first place, but we haven’t
had anything else happen like that since.
Unless, of course, you account for that
reporter in Virginia who was investigating
the October surprise and was found dead
in a hotel room of multiple wrist wounds.
FP? What about the tendency for... the Zero
Tolerance law...
JB: That's what I was talking about in
Detroit.
FP: They can go in and just confiscate
everything...
JB: Everything you own and then just sell it
with the local cops keeping the money for
themselves before trial or anything. They’re
also doing that to suspected pornogra-
phers now too. The Zero Tolerance Bill was
passed with Lee Atwater breathing down
everybody’s neck before the '88 election,
Jesse Helms attached the Child Protection
and Obscenity Enforcement Act to that law
Ollie North and
George Bush were
involved in running
cocaine through the
Contra network
so that now the Zero Tolerance principal
also applies to Jesse Helms’ definition of
pornography. The PMRC has been lobby
ing the Attorney General’s office to go after
rock musicians under this law. There was
already a couple in Los Angeles, husband
and wife, that ran a small time adult video
production firm and there was one particu
lar video that took the feds 10 years to get
a conviction on only in a Mormonoid town in
Utah, no other town in the country in over 10
years thought this video was obscene, but
once that one town convicted it they then
used the Child Protection Act to say, “OK,
this is the federal precedent and it is now
the law of the land" and seized the video
company, the couple's house, their life
savings, and then fined them $800,000 a
piece. Far more than they'll fine any of the
savings and loan crooks. It's also interest
ing to note that one of the mam backers of
Phyllis Shaefly’s Eagle Forum, which is one
of the right wing censorship groups with
Charles Keating, that’s where some of that
money went, was putting it into right wing
Christian supremacists.
FP: Any last words on what people can do
locally to stir things up?
JB: I've already mentioned that to a de
gree, just one on one. Keeping alive the
information such as the allegations that
Ollie North and George Bush were involved
in running cocaine through the Contra net
work in this country and all the suppressed
information needs to be spread word of
mouth as it’s getting pulled out of the paper
such as the October Surprise, such as the
alleged politically correct thought police
which should actually be another Trojan
Horse for the far right wanting to run a lot of
instructors out of their jobs of colleges if
they have a different view of racial relations
and historical perspectives on the Vietnam
War that the New World Order would like.
FP: Speaking of which they just voted that
tenured professors could be fired at the
University of Georgia.
JB: Ahh...
FP: They claimed it was for a budget cut,
but you know what's going to happen.
JB: Last time this many progressive minded
professors were on the verge of getting
tenure in American Universities was right
when the Joe McCarthy purge happened.
Surprise, surprise... It’s interesting with these
anti-PC people that it's OK for somebody to
scrawl "nigger" across an African-Ameri
can kids’ dorm door or to hold up rating
cards for women walking across campus or
even goose their ass. that's freedom of
speech, but it’s not freedom of speech to try
and have sensitivity classes and black
studies classes to get rid of these kinds of
attitudes.
Jello Biafra will appear in the flesh on
Tuesday. November 5th., 1991 at the Tate
Theater in The William Tate Student Center.
Presented by The Ideas & Issues Division of
The University Union, tickets are $1.00 for
students and $3.00 for non-students, a
bargain it is at any price, and certainly at
this one. Go get 'em at the Tate Center's
Cashier's window. For further information,
you may try first 54-UNION (548-6466,
probably) or second 542-6396 Thanks.
Steve Crawford
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Well, for those that didn't know, a
few hundred people showed up at
the UAB Arena to witness the “Bring
the Noise" tour featuring Anthrax,
Public Enemy. Primus and Young
Black Teenagers. The line-up prom
ised an evening of social conscience,
bordering controversial, wrapped in
an electrifying package of rap +
thrash, which people said could not
mix, pius the quirk-funk of almost
legendary Primus.
The crowd, which was extremely
lame, was predominantly white
thrash metal kids waiting to mix it up
in the pit. YBT came on first and looked like a Levi's jeans commer
cial gone awry Ultimately, they rapped about their pemses, made
a big deal about the Donnie Wahlburg look-alike lead rapper who
had dreadlocks, who also had all of his teeth capped in stiver so he
looked like Jaws of James Bond fame. Basically, a pretty scary
hardcore, street N K.O.T B.
Next come Primus which funked the crowd into an extremely
violent frenzy Something was missing, though; it was highly evident
that most of those present had only seen Primus on MTV Not that
Primus was bad, it just seemed like they were going through the
motions — even down to the 60-second “Thieves’ cover, which the
crowd ate up hungrily.
The anticipation mounted as Terminator X’s turntables were
uncovered and the enormous PE moniker was unveiled behind the
mixer riser. Well., what to say.
Chuck preached the evils of ra
cism, Flavor spewed about the
war and grabbed his crotch, the
SlWs marched and Terminator
scratched They, or what sounded
like a tape, played all of Fear of a
Black Planet, Channel Zero, and
the new single “Can’t Truss It"
And that was it. No tension —
nothing Totally selling their mes
sage and product They have be
come such a household name that
they have desensitized them
selves. No incessant buzz, noth
ing revolutionary — in retrospect, I found them boring
Anthrax, the headliners and thrash band everyone can identify
with thanks to MTV and PE, hit the stage loudly. There really was
no spark, it was basically the Clash of the Titans show played over
again. The crowd, which was matter-of-factly lame, began to
bubble with intensity, but died down as Anthrax's hyper-speed
riffs simply began to outrun them. “Bring the Noise’ was the
obvious encore and like everything else it has...
In ail honesty, this was one of the few shows I have ever had
to labor through. The only real surprise was Anthrax's intense
cover of Kiss' “Parasite" which was a straight kicked-m-the-teeth
rocker multiplied to immense proportions. Ironically, it kind of fit
the mood that the cover tunes got the loudest applause
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Discusses
Tate Center Theater
Nov. 5, 1991
at 8 pm
$1 Students
$3 Non-students
Advance tickets available at
Tate Cashier window