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Court tosses CU gun ban

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

About a year ago I played security for Ward Churchill, Bill Ayers, and Derrick Jensen at CU. There were a lot of death threats, all of which turned out to be the usual chickenshit internet chatter, but I remember thinking that it’d be real nice to be able to carry.

Wish granted, from the Denver Post:

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the University of Colorado has no authority to bar students or visitors from lawfully carrying guns on campus.

The appeals court said an El Paso County district judge was wrong to dismiss a challenge filed by a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and three students from the University of Colorado.

The rest.

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Forget shorter showers

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Derrick Jensen writing for Orion Magazine:

Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions”?

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Bill Ayers, Derrick Jensen, and Ward Churchill

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

A couple of months back, CU students sponsored an evening with Bill Ayers, Derrick Jensen, and Ward Churchill in support of Churchill’s reinstatement lawsuit against CU. You can find video of the Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill portions here.

The savvier of you will note some so-called security dipshit standing around behind Churchill with his hands in his pockets, not looking real tough. It’s me. They let me show up to these things like you’d throw a dog a bone, but the legitimate badasses on stage were Brad and Alicia Gumm. There were death threats galore leading up the event, but thanks to those two, Messrs Ayers, Churchill, and Jensen couldn’t have been safer in an AIM bunker.

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Those backroom boys at Dow

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

A United States pilot from the Vietnam War praising napalm, from Derrick Jensen’s Songs of the Dead.

We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn’t so hot–if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene–now it stuck like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter so’s to make it burn better. It’ll burn under water now. And just one drop is enough, it’ll keep burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosphorus poisoning.

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