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14 Responses to “Graffiti Friday: Speak And Make Yourself Heard”  

1. 1 Lex Sep 22nd, 2006 at 10:18 am

   Especially after yesterday’s “compromise” on torture.

   Say, who would Jesus torture?

2. 2 katjabak Dec 26th, 2006 at 5:21 am

   right on.

3. 3 bruce Dec 31st, 2006 at 1:24 am

   hold yourself to the high standard you expect from your government. Imagine if you were under the scrutiny of the folks you agree with.

4. 4 sean coon Dec 31st, 2006 at 1:29 am

   i do just that every waking moment of my existence, bruce. believe me. but i’d have to disagree with you that this administration or the leadership of the 109th congress agrees with most of my thinking… or rational, empathetic, humane americans in general.

5. 5 W00t Dec 31st, 2006 at 8:36 pm

   Nations are false constructs set up to divide us. It is utterly meaningless to say ‘The Most American Thing You Can Do’ when 90% Americans, just like the rest of the world are barely scraping by to survive.

   Class is all that matters, and the working class have no nation!

6. 6 sean coon Dec 31st, 2006 at 8:39 pm

   well, in the reality of our society, i’d have to say that the message speaks to the heart of the argument over keeping our mouths shut during a time of war or being labled traitor or unpatriotic.

   in this world, we do have nations, so we need to speak up and participate — no matter the class we belong to. obviously that gets more difficult the farther down the class system, but if an effort isn’t made, no change will ever occur.

7. 7 Zarkonnen Jan 1st, 2007 at 5:44 pm

   Woot: While I agree that nations are rather insane and artificial subdivisions of humanity, fact is that nations are *ideas*, and so they are real in a way. Perhaps nations are even ways of thinking. And as the graffiti points out very nicely, once upon a time it was the Americans who were the oppressed. Even if this is now conveniently forgotten or twisted into another excuse for jingoism.

8. 8 John Bristol Jan 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 pm

   Well …welcome to the United States the west’s only communist country besides cuba and just think that fucking half wit Bush and his cronnies still have 2 more years!!!!

9. 9 Joe Philipson Jan 12th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

   For the most part I hate graffiti. But graffiti that expresses an opinion and doesn’t look so bad I can deal with.

10. 10 Freedom for Tooting Jan 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Wishful thinking.

11. 11 Mitch Mar 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    Exactly

12. 12 Ant-i May 22nd, 2007 at 3:50 pm

    You say America is the West’s only communist country. Wrong. America is the West’s only Fascist country.
    Truthfully if America were a communist country then there wouldn’t be many of the problems America faces today.

13. 13 Nathan Sheets Sep 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm

    How is questioning the government the most American thing someone can do? What a bizarre statement. Do Brits who question their government become American?

14. 14 sean coon Sep 10th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

    where does it say anything about becoming american by questioning your government?