-Caveat Lector-
From: "Students for an Undemocratic Society"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: January 10, 2001
Subject: Join Students for an Undemocratic Society!
WHO ARE STUDENTS FOR AN UNDEMOCRATIC SOCIETY?
We are the children of the political, military, and business elites of
America. We have worked for years to undermine democracy worldwide, and
seek to celebrate the fact that-with the installation of presidents Cheney
and Bush-even the pretense of American democracy has at last been cast
aside. We march in support of the property-owning, white heterosexual male
who rules by violence.
THE SUDS STATEMENT:
Feel free to use, abuse, or alter:
KNEEL BEFORE BUSH! KNEEL BEFORE CHENEY!
Mobutu. Suharto. Fujimori.
For decades, the United States has propped up tin-plated despots not only in
Zaire, Indonesia, and Peru, but all over the world. Yet we are the largest
imperial power on earth. Shouldn't we have a strongman of our very own?
PRESIDENT BUSH? TRY, "EMPEROR BUSH!"
It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? We all know that America has never
really been a true democracy. But in this election, when we bought Dick and
George to the tune of $191,617,196 (and, just to hedge our bets, Gore for
$132,624,544); disenfranchised black voters in Florida (and all over the
country!); and, finally, had a corrupt, nepotistic right-wing Supreme Court
install our boys, in the tradition of such great decisions as Dred Scott and
Plessy v. Ferguson: well, we did away with even the pretense of American
democracy. And for that we're proud.
WHOSE STREETS? NOT YOURS!
Let's face it-our idiot boy-king and his retainer are in charge now whether
you like it or not. And you had better like it if you don't want to end up
in a Mississippi work camp after the 2003 purges! Here's a simple guide
that will help you stop thinking and relinquish control to us, your rightful
masters.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS-KNOW YOUR PLACE!
Give up that pesky identity and join us! It feels good to sublimate your
individuality to the machine. Feeling a little "warm in the pants" for
someone of the same gender, or of a different race? Or someone you're not
married to? Or yourself? In fact, are you feeling "warm in the pants" at
all? Take a cold shower, hoss. Once Attorney General Ashcroft (soon to be
"Minister of Death Ashcroft") is sworn in, sex is for procreation only.
Under penalty of castration!
Feeling "strange," or "angry?" Like you might need to "express yourself"
through artwork, or even worse, by speaking or assembling freely? Or maybe
you've got a gripe against your boss, your landlord, your bank? Well, shut
up and get back to work. "What about the first amendment?," you ask. Shut
up and get back to work, we say again, more loudly, this time brandishing
our horsewhip.
Maybe you were born "different." Maybe you're strange-looking, or unable to
walk, or have "non-white" skin. Well, we property-owning heterosexual white
Christian males know that's not your fault. Stay out of trouble, keep your
head down, and do everything we say, and maybe we'll find a nice job for
you. Just like Clarence Thomas!
MORE PRISONS-MORE PROFIT!
We SUDS are proud of the fact that, with 690 prisoners for every 100,000
people, the US is the world leader in rates of incarceration! That's a
six-fold increase since 1970! One in three black males between the ages of
20-29 are under some type of correctional control (1 in 15 white and 1 in 8
Hispanic). And with Presidents Cheney and Bush in office-George presided
over a whopping 152 executions in the state of Texas!-it's only going to get
better (for us. For you, it's going to get worse). And with Minister of
Death Ashcroft, who has praised Confederate slave-holders, is cuddly with
Bob Jones University, and has called addicts seeking treatment "the lowest
and the least," we're looking at death-camp, USA! With our new "Vassalage
21" initiative, we're hoping to have 87% of the male population behind bars
by 2004. Think of the possibilities: no tipping, your waiter's on a
work-release program! Your caddy gives you sass? Give HIM a lethal
injection! Since 1995, the US has spent $5.1 Billion in new prison
construction alone! That translates into LOTS of cheap labor: future Health
Human Services Secretary (soon to be "Minister of Pestilence") Tommy
Thompson passed a budget as Governor of Wisconsin allowing commercial
entities to use prison facilities and labor for manufacturing purposes, just
like they do in California, Tennessee, Kansas, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Nevada,
and Iowa! The Correctional Industries Association estimates that in 2000,
30 percent of America's inmate population labored to create nearly $9
billion in sales for private business interests like McDonald's, Kmart, JC
Penney, Eddie Bauer, Honda, and TWA! And that lily-livered Clinton may have
made a whole bunch of offenses now punishable by death, but you ain't seen
nothin' yet! Coming soon: sodomy, dissent, and failure to kneel before the
