Friday, January 13, 2012
Revolt of the Plebs
January 6, 2011
by Keith Johnson
On December 14, 2010, 56-year-old Clay Duke attended a board meeting of the Bay School District in Panama City, Florida. After a few minutes of deliberation, the meeting was opened up to the local citizenry. That’s when
Duke rose from his seat, walked to a nearby wall, and spray-painted the letter “V” inside a red circle. The scrawl was a direct reference to the film V for Vendetta, whose hero—a masked vigilante named “V”—uses the same symbol as his signature trademark. Duke then pulled a gun, and ordered the room to be cleared of all but six board members.
“I’m going to die today,” said Duke, as he paced around the podium.
Duke had fallen on hard times. Like so many Americans, he was broke and unemployed. His wife, Rebecca, had been laid off from her job—with the
same school district—and was about to receive her last unemployment check. To make matters worse, Duke suffered from a bi-polar disorder and was off his meds. He’d reached his breaking point, and decided to take his own life as a way out of his desperate situation. Unfortunately, he also planned to take a few people with him.
Two of the board members tried to reason with Duke, but to no avail. After a few minutes, he raised his firearm and began shooting. Luckily, none of the bullets made contact with his intended victims. Duke, however, was not so lucky. A security guard returned fire from behind and shot him in the leg. He fell to the ground and turned his gun on himself. That was the end of Clay Duke.
The incident received nationwide coverage, with the mainstream media placing heavy emphasis on Duke’s mental instability and past run-ins with the law. They were also very deliberate in their efforts to characterize him as a delusional paranoid. Several of the articles contained a statement from one of Duke’s previous defense attorneys, Ben Bollinger, who said, “He was one of these Y2K people. He was one of those believers that the world was going to [make a] turn for [the] worst and he was stockpiling weapons—assault weapons.”
Bollinger apparently got this impression from Duke when he represented him on a case back in 2000.
Think about what’s happened since then? Has the world turned for the worst? You tell me. Maybe Duke wasn’t as paranoid or delusional as the press would have you believe.
Prior to his action, Duke posted this statement on his Facebook page:
“My Testament: Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the
population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…”
Again, this doesn’t sound like a man who is completely ‘off his rocker.’ You have to admit that he was quite prophetic in his prediction that the “government sponsored media” would say that he was “evil” and “a monster.” They have, in fact, done just that. But what do you make of the rest of his observations? Do any of you, in this so-called ‘patriot movement’ of ours, see anything in there that you’d disagree with?
For the most part, the patriot movement has been careful to avoid applauding Duke for his actions. But that doesn’t mean they’ve been un-sympathetic. Unlike the mainstream press, the citizen’s media has been correct in pointing out that Duke, himself, was a victim of this tragic event. He was the victim of an economy that has been deliberately engineered to collapse, of a pharmaceutical industry that prescribes dangerous psychotropic drugs, and of a Zionist controlled Hollywood that produces films like V for Vendetta.
Oh, Boy! I just heard a thousand jaws hit the floor as they read the end of that last paragraph. You were all with me about the “economy,” the “pharmaceutical industry,” and maybe even about “Zionist controlled Hollywood.” But many of you were certainly ready to part ways with me for suggesting that there may be something insidious behind one of the patriot movement’s most cherished films...[Full Article]
Labels: Keith Johnson, Revolt of the Plebs, V for Vendetta, Zionism
Monday, March 15, 2010
Freedom arrived earlier than expected for smoking ban martyr Nick Hogan yesterday... courtesy of a briefcase full of cash carried by a man in a green Guy Fawkes mask.
Former pub landlord Mr Hogan became the first person to be jailed in connection with the smoking ban when he was sentenced to six months for refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
His plight inspired a campaign on the internet to raise funds to pay off his outstanding fines.
It reached its climax yesterday (national no-smoking day, no less) when a mysterious blogger called Old Holborn delivered the money to Forest Bank prison in Salford - 11 days into Mr Hogan's sentence.The arrival of the self-styled ' libertarian vigilante' at the Category B prison in his mask, full black costume and hat left other visitors amused or bewildered.
In the prison car park, Old Holborn, who wore his costume to hide his identity, flipped open the metal case to reveal enough bundles of used fivers and tenners to pay the £8,445.15 needed to secure 43-year-old Mr Hogan's release.
Old Holborn - who says he is named after his mother's birthplace in London rather than the well-known tobacco, told reporters: 'I'm here to free a man in prison under an unjust law.
'I represent the blogospshere and these funds have been donated by more than a thousand people from all over the world.'...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257023/Pub-landlord-thanks-donors-helping-early-prison-release-flouting-smoking-ban.html#ixzz0iHrKm7in
Labels: Britain, Guy Fawkes, Nick Hogan, smoking ban, V for Vendetta
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