Where do ya draw the line? - THE DEAD KENNEDYS

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"Bomb explosion rocks cruise missile factory."
This was the headline on the front page of The Toronto Star, way back on Friday 15 October 1982. Above the headline were the words "Canada's first terrorist attack, Etobicoke mayor says." It isn't that surprising the mayor would assume the first terrorist attack in Toronto must then also be the first in all of Canada, but it wasn't even the first attack in 1982. Nor would it be the last.
The attacks ended on 20 January 1983, when five people were arrested by the RCMP cunningly masquerading as a construction crew on the highway near Squamish, British Columbia. Julie Belmas, Gerald Hannah, Ann Lansen, Doug Stewart, and Brent Taylor were charged with numerous crimes, including blowing up a BC Hydro substation, firebombing several pornographic video stores in Vancouver, and setting off explosives at the Litton Systems weapon plant in Toronto.
Calling themselves Direct Action, and dubbed "the Squamish Five" by the mainstream media and "the Vancouver Five" by the underground press, the members of Direct Action would, after a series of highly charged trials, be given prison terms ranging from several years to a life sentence. While the length of the sentences reflected the level of individual involvement in Direct Action, all five members were committed to igniting social change through violent action against property.
The campaign mounted by Direct Action was organized against mainstream institutions the group felt were infringing on human rights, threatening people's safety, and a detriment to society. Environmentalism, the Cold War, and women's rights were three prevalent issues of engagement for the 1980s' counterculture in general, and Direct Action in particular. The group was on the extreme end of a larger community that felt strongly about these issues -- issues that would be points of political, cultural, and social contention throughout the decade.
While these three dominant issues mentioned above were also issues of engagement for the 1960s' counterculture -- when Jimi Hendrix finished playing at Woodstock that was by no means an end to these issues and their importance in society. In fact, many within the 1980s' counterculture saw the baby-boomers as an utter failure; that the spoiled brats had ample opportunity to self-actualize, but instead of making a real difference had squandered their potential on free love and acid trips. The legacy of the 1960s had burnt out with Charles Manson, the Weathermen, at Altamont and Kent State -- while the threat of nuclear war still remained, the environment continued to be ravaged for its resources, and debate over a woman's right to choose still raged long after Roe v. Wade. Not only did those in the 1980s' counterculture still see these issues as dominant and important, but they fought them while under less than the ideal circumstances the baby boom generation had experienced. Given less economic opportunity, having a better chance of coming from a broken family, having both the escalation of the Cold War and the new threat of AIDS looming over them while at the same time living in the shadow of their parents -- the sons, daughters, and younger siblings of the baby-boomers attempted to carve out their own voice and succeed where the baby-boom generation had failed. (This is not to say that there was a completely cut and dry division between the baby-boomers and generation X; while there was conflict and tension there was also connection.)
For Direct Action, the main thrust of their attempt to rectify their contention with the institutions they perceived as being on the wrong side of the Cold War, women's rights, and environmental protection was to carry out a series of violent attacks, or actions, against the property of those institutions. They felt that if enough was done to get the attention of the public and raise awareness of exactly what these institutions were doing, society would galvanize against them and put an end to their unjust practices.
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[deadkennedys555]

@StoneAgeAbortion "You fight each other the police state wins ..." - DKs

[deadkennedys555]

Jello culls his information from a wealth of news events he collects. You can be sure this happened although I personally cannot give details. However, Cruise Missile technology was initially conventional in nature and he was writing in the time of the early 80s. Therefore the warheads could have been conventional. But then again, the US ran MK-ULTRA in Canada and killed two people with LSD experiments there with the govt. approval...

[deadkennedys555]

@ChristiansTheory Just a footnote to this: the Nazis did hundreds of lethal experiments upon living victims in concentration camps involving LSD along with other bizarre and pointless brain surgeries ...

[deadkennedys555]

@ChristiansTheory In these experiments by the Americans, while LSD is normally non-lethal, the circumstances that they were used under were hardly 'medicinal'. Check out the fiendish work of Dr. Stanley Gottlieb of the US government. Also, check out chem weapons such as BZ which work using LSD and induce suicidal and maniacal behaviour on the battlefield ...

[ChristiansTheory]

@deadkennedys555

How the hell did they kill two people with LSD??? That's fairly difficult to do. Plus the US Gov did LSD testing in the late 60's in attempt to create a Manchurian solider back then, why would it resume to kill 2 people in the early 80's in Canada? I'm not calling bullshit on you, or rather: "I'm not telling you; I'm asking you." lol ;)

[deadkennedys555]

@WaltDisneyisracist Will get back to you on your band vid soon, man - been flat out protesting. Stand-by :) Thanks for the contibution of the music :)

[WaltDisneyisracist]

@deadkennedys555 "you fight eachother the police state wins."

funny, i told the gangs at my school the same thing.

[bristolart103]

hmm fucking great song

[WaltDisneyisracist]

@deadkennedys555 well, lets take steps. vote ron paul.

NO MANDATES!

end the fed

drugs and prostituion are legal

no foreign bases.

thats true freedom.

[deadkennedys555]

@WaltDisneyisracist Countries are the flaw - give new Improved Anarchy a try! (One per customers) ...

[WaltDisneyisracist]

@deadkennedys555 every country has flaws. they're simply an example. it seems quite obvious, that they have right wings. all countries do.

[deadkennedys555]

@WaltDisneyisracist Denmark contributed thousands of troops willingly to SS Foreign Legion units. Denmark has many many right wing fascists. Denmark's population is anti-Islamic. Denmark produces masses of illegal child pornography. Denmark's right wing is in the ascendancy. Socialism means National Socialism...