it still hurts

this time, hopefully

stan grant and the police state

last night, in the apartment of french girls, after eating crepes. i'm in the lounge room and hear an australian accent coming out of their tv. eventually, after a couple of minutes, i see the face. it's stan fucking grant. the fallen angel of australian journalism. working for whatever that cnn channel is that gets to some spanish tv sets. he was doing some general, unfocused report from china. about reform, repression, democracy, all those things that can let you say that you understand a country like china in ten minutes. he talked about how the government permits dissent when it suits their purpose, like the anti-japanese protests recently. but there is always a heavy police presence, ready to move protestors on when they've served their purpose. he spoke about their fear of the people, how dangerous they felt they were if they let them gather for too long. he talked about the pathetic over-abundance of police at a particular protest where police, get this, outnumbered protestors by what must have been a ratio of three to one. the only protest i have ever been to in australia where cops didn't outnumber protestors by a similar ratio, was the anti-war rally in the february before the iraq was invaded. and that was because they didn't have to. the organisers provided their own.

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#1  18 May 2005 - 20:24

 

your stuff is great. keep it coming.

Malinov

Malinov

#2  20 May 2005 - 10:45

 

marshals with megaphones. fuck.

stay inside the line, please.

pat a.

Mo'nonymous

#3  29 May 2005 - 15:46

 

joel i love you. i found your zine the other day. I love you. I'll be in europe by july. I love you. no one in this country eats saos any more. i love you.

pat

Mo'nonymous

#4  30 May 2005 - 09:10

 

oh pat, i love you too. you know that.
i'll be in europe in july too. though some of it will be in mother russia.

joelistix

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