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The emails below were written in response to Dr. Susan Block's BLUE VALUES in her Terror Journals and in Counterpunch
From: "Helmut Braun" <Sallow__@web.de>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: Your blue values
Dear Dr. Susan Block, every time it is a great relief for me to read a
new article from you. It insures me, that big bad asscraft and his merry
men, did not come around, catch you up and lock you away in some Gitmo
or St.Diego Garcia dungeon (wipeing forehead). Secondly I love the way
you write. It is so radical, focused, provocating and passionate. And
nevertheless, your kind of speech, is one beacon, that directs not only
to the american dream, but the dream all people, all over, are longing
for. Not the ultimate, only their personal, free of any superior, telling
them what to do, and what not. Or forcing them to things, they would never
do, if left alone. Sadly in reality, the people all over the world are
told, what to do and what not and forced to horrible things, they never
dreamed in their wildest nightmares. Even worse, not forgetting the victims
of such acts. Those who live with us, having corporate media sitting on
their face, forced to lick up any of their shit and slime, druging them
away from picking up the reality. Not that they do not have to face the
bitter reality of making a daily living. Their consciousness, dumbed down,
awed by religion, alien cultur, aggression and threatened by violence.So
now, that the vote is done, it does not matter, whether there was a fraud
or not, nearly the half of those who voted, voted red (which does not
mean that the half of americans voted for the great pretzel). But we must
not forget, it is not a matter of red states vs. blue states. As much
as I understand your vote system, a state may obtain one color, even if
the majority of the voters happend to choose the other one. This might
be supported by a sly meandering of voting districts, as in Texas for
example. So even Texas could be doubted of being a red state. Only trouble
is, that it might be much cushier being a hardnosed Dickhead in a blue
state, then being a goddammed, unamerican, unpatriotic, communist blue
in a red state (sigh). But from what I said before, I should not pick
the word state, but replace it with environment. Because this is where
we all live in the first place. The government or better the political
system, we are embedded, comes to us, by ' .. the slime boozing out from
your tee vee set ..(F. Zappa)', as long as you are lucky. Other encounters
are the police stopping and sniffing at you on the highways, or agents,
spooks kicking your frontdoor or by the bills for what ever. But be carefull,
if you ever insist on wanting something from your government, they might
get attentive, keeping an eye on you. So don't let us be fooled. There
is no such a thing as democracy, people's rights, justice, all equal under
the law. There never was. This is just as absurd as talking about war
crime, as if war could ever be anything else but a crime. At least if
you consider mass murder for the enrichment of a few as a crime. It is
the game, that is played since history is written and even before. And
now that the jackpot (say the resources) that is to win, runs out off
value, the game is entering the stage, that is called WAR BY TERROR. Only
the media slime turns 'by' into 'on'. The game allways was named 'world
domination', it is played by a few, empowered beyond our imagination.
We, the rest of the people, are the toys, the pewter figures, the slaves.
For their amusement or strategic planning, we are flogged against each
other. So I do not want to waste your time by explaining, what you allready
know very well. And after all, my intent was not to paint a dark picture
into total black. So you know, I know. We both know for instance Willhelm
Reich 'Psychology of Mass Fascism (I just translated as I know it from
the german title)'. We can not argue. One can not argue against a fear,
that is deeply implanted. All we can do is gaining trust. So coming back
to the environment, where we live in. There is our work bench. Being respectfull
and respected, even when disagreeing. Not joining the howling. Often stay
quiet, sometimes frown and when the occasion appears, hunting for the
demons of fear, implanted in your opposite, gently suggesting treatments
for emancipation. Your daily work, as I suppose. So if you have followed
me so far, I give you two examples where I failed yet, but what triggered
me to write to you. We were visited by friends from Texas. Beautifull,
lovely people, who realy have my heart, but red as a mexican chilly and
completely conformed to your 10 A's. Those friends were guests at different
parts of my family and spend their last night at our flat, because we
live next to the airport. That part with the most conservative and nazilike
attitude from all the others, our friends told us, questioned them to
my suprise, if they would not think, that the 911 was an inside job. It
confused them pretty much, so when then spend their last night with us,
they asked us, if we would think alike (as you might know, a poll showed
that in germany about 60% suspect the US administration for that). I just
could figure out, that I see a world wide threat for democracy.'Maybe'
they said 'but Bush just sticks to what he says, the other is just wishywashy'.
And what about Ashcroft? 'Well he sayed what he wanted and it was accepted
and passed, so what'. It would have been unpolite, undiplomatic and offending
to tell them ladies my real thoughts. So I only asked how they would feel,
if 'the other' would win.They pointed out, that during the Clinton administration,
there was no morality and they would be very disappointed, in that case.I
could nearly see the beasts, monsters and demons of fear, uncertainty
and doubt creeping around them, I just could not but pity them. Arguments
must wait, trust and familiarity must grow. Second was as the following.
We had a kidnapping a few time ago. The boy of a rich and honored family
was taken by a young man even known to that family. So that young man
came very quickly under suspicion by the police, was arrested and interrogated.
The perpetrator confessed quite quickly, but refused to tell the place,
where he kept the boy. It was the fourth day after the kidnapping, time
was running out and the police was pretty much under pressure, since they
had a lot of publicity.So the vice president of the police threatened
the perpetrator with torture. He explained him carefully, what he was
about to do to him, which means the very tools were presented by the officer.Guess
what, it worked immediatly. Sadly the boy was found dead, because he suffocated
by the use of rubber tape directly after his kidnapping.A real dramatic,
sad and nasty storry and the extent of indignation in harmony with the
media was accordingly.Now this officer has to stand his trial, because
against all public will our constitution does not allow torture, not even
the threat of, by no means (tsk, tsk). Even if you imagine the unthinkable,that
our nation is threated by a terrorist's primitiv hate, impending he would
pee upon our national flag.All the discussions started all over again,
if we could find a sweet place in our democratic society for a lawfull
torture, just in case we are in need of. Excuse me a minute, I have to
seclude a bit venom, before I vomit.So I had a phone call with my mother.
If you still have a mother you might know those dialogs where your part
is to choose between the two phrases: 'yes, mom' and 'no, mom' between
rolling avalanches of coporate hate speech, starting with those nuts,
who dare to question the reputation of such a noble officer by sending
him to trial, reaching over to a description in full detail, what she
would be doing to such a 'Dreckschwein' that is doing such things to an
innocent child. I spare you from that.I from my side felt pretty sick.
And I still have no answere to that, except the sad realization, that
this girl is aged 81 and if she didn't learn it by now, I won't be able
to change a bit.But still it hurts to tears, when someone so near to you
takes a view that is so far away, only be measured in astronomical dimensions.So
what about is all that fuss?You are not alone. Your problem is not an
american problem and there is no reason, to be ashamed about.The problem
is all around us all over the world.We must save our love and pity even
for those next to us, who attac us, to whom we appear as enemies, because
they are terrified to their deepest inside. I know very well how easyly
this is said but believe me this does not come by religious sentiments
or divine inspiration, this is all cold blood logical.As well we have
to find those who are like us and we have to organize our resistance,
no braveness is needed but sageness as well as trickery.So please keep
on tearing down the pants of hypocrisy and demonstrate what puny balls
their broken sexuality has left for them. At least it allways warms my
heart. But let us not scoff at those prisoned by their own fears.And let
me remind as well, a joyfull and satisfying masturbation how skillfull
ever does not lead to the pleasures of lovewith love helmut braun, frankfurt(main),
germany PS: and when ever you are back en France give her a big wet kiss
je l'adore aussi
From: Anthony Kennerson
To: liberties@blockbooks.com ; rox@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: Your "Blue Values" Essay : Just What The (Horny) Doctor
Ordered
Doc Suzy: Once again, you come through in a time of need with an uplifting
essay that tells it like it is and shows where it's at...and gives us just
the spirit
we need to get through these upcoming rough times. Although
I consider myself more of an old-school Red (that is, when that color represented
revolt and revolution of the liberating
variety before
it got somehow stolen by the fascists), I can totally concur with all of
those "Blue Values" you mentioned...especially the "blue" as
in X-rated kind. Especially now, when it seems that the crazies on the fundie
side are dusting off all the old antisex, antiwoman, and racist mantras and
calling in their political chips to roll back all the protections and gains
that we as progressives fought hard (and in some cases died ) for. I have
seen so much of liberal and Democratic folk simply cave in to the Right's
agenda for so long; it is actually refreshing and liberating to hear a voice
for actually standing up and resisting them for a change. And
it's truly liberating especially to hear someone tell the truth as to how
our new "conservative" ("fascist" is more like it)
elite uses opposition to women's reproductive choice (or sexual choice in
all varieties, for that matter) to keep women and working class/poor people
down and exploitable for the economic elite's personal profits and as cannon
fodder for the "permanent war" follies. Well done and done well,
Doc Suzy....may you continue to burn the flame of righteousness and truth
as strongly as your love of sex and pleasure burns
so strong and long, Anthony Kennerson
http://redgarterclub.bravehost.com P.S.
May I have your kind permission to reprint your essay over at my groups??
I will give the usual credits due, of course.
From: Lisle, Michael
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 6:22 AM
Subject: President George
I like to think of our fearless leader as the Pro-life President but only
if they haven’t been born yet. After they come out of the womb, then it’s
how fast can we put them in their grave President. M. Lisle
From: "ajit hegde" <ajitrkhegde@yahoo.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:39 AM
Subject: Hi Ds. Block, Your Admirer From India
Hello Dr. Susan Block, This mail is from India, south Asia. I am a 25 year
old young man from India. I have been a great a fan of your stunning writing
which appear on Counterpunch, Counterpunch being my favourite website.
I have more than 50 articles by you on my PC. They are all so beautifully
written with a combination of righteous anger and a keen sense of humour.
My favourites are the one on Ashcroft, america in the hood, the one on the
great pretzel swallower and the recent one Blue> Values. You have a
great sense of humour. I wish you write more and more for> Counterpunch.
I have one suggestion for you. I have visited your Website to download
some of your articles. I think your website contains too
many graphics. It eats up so much space if I have to save some interesting article.
It also takes very much time to save one single article. Why don't you provide
an easily downloadable version of Your articles ( only with necessary graphics)
? That would really be good idea. But not on Javascript, please. We can't save
it. I read some of the Letters you
> published from Christian Dittoheads under the
title " saddam's sex therapist and rape of free
speech". I thought they are downright Funny, they are so Bizarre.
One can't but feel amazement at these absolute Morons. Yours Sincerely,
Ajit Hegde Bangalore India
From:
Dave Longtin
To: drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: CounterPunch
Dear Susan: I
finally got a chance to read your article in CounterPunch. It's very well done,
but I do take issue with a couple of your points.
You write: "In
both Nazi Germany and Bush's America, a militant, political Protestantism
was and is used to try to destroy 'evil' and dominate the world." Yet
America's current adventure in Iraq most closely resembles Britain's disastrous
occupation of that country during the 1920s. There is no need to evoke the
Nazis, because English imperialism was evil enough. Hitler also espoused
a kind of neo-paganism, which he believed would replace Christianity. In
his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer writes about
the Nazis' persecution of Protestant pastors who refused to embrace the new
faith. The Nazis actually had quite mixed attitudes toward sex. While they
sent prostitutes to the concentration camps in a display of twisted Puritanism,
they encouraged thousands of Hitler Youth maidens to give birth out of
wedlock to advance the Master Race, a policy that today's Christian conservatives
could never tolerate. Very
sincerely, Dave Longtin
From: "Laurel Henderson" <loveday09@hotmail.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: You cheered me up:)
Dr Suzy, Let
me say I was so glad to see your column on Counterpunch. Boy, I
couldn't take much more of the "reverent" discussion of values
being vomited( ie. red state values triumphed) around the net and on
the networks. And by people who look like toilet training was really
a bad experience for them. Yuck! I just returned to NY after a frightening
9 year exile to Dixie and I had the opportunity to observe the reds
up close. Again Yuck!
Those "folks" are really frightening with their inability to see
what's happening in their own beds, their own backyards, to their own
kids, in their own cities.Some examples that particularly stand out
from my time in the bible belt include: arriving in our new town to
pick up the newspaper and see on the front page a report that the KKK
was staging ( yes the white sheets over the
head KKK) a demonstration in downtown! I screamed to my husband " Oh
my god
we really are in the south!" :0 ! Upon moving into each of the 2 houses
we
lived in the south the first thing my neighbors asked was "What church
do
you go to?" I was particularly shocked because where I grew up we never
talked about religion, that was a private matter, not in a sick way , but
just in a really offhand way. Not a lot of thought was put into things like
where your neighbors went to church or even if they did. I am what is
jocularly called a C & E christian, that is a christmas and easter christian,
and even then not always. Spirituality is private.
As far as your particular field, sex was concerned, well those "folks" have
their blinders on good and tight. Yes, I have seen the latest stats on marriage,
with Massachussetts having the lowest divorce rate and states
in the south having the highest rates of divorce and teen pregnancy. Hypocrisy
reigns.
I had the opportunity to work in a lcounty hospital in a large metropolitan
area as a registered nurse and in a public health office and as a student
nurse practitioner in the south. And so got to see first hand what is happening
to the young, to women, to the elderly, to the poor and to
> the minorities in those areas ( see the closure of TennCare, where you had
to
be spectacularly poor even to qualify for very miserly benefits). It
is not a pretty picture. So let me say this about the reds, I feel they
should
clean up their own "little" messes and then just forget about telling
the
rest of us how to manage our own "degenerate" life and lifestyle.
Hell I'm sure they really don't want to clutter up their heaven with
a bunch of lovin', liberal, limp wristed, people who tolerate gays,
lesbians, adulterers, wife swappers, and pretty much anyone who lives
and lets others live. I really would rather just live unmolested by
the morality police.
And stay "unsaved". So really :) thanks so much for your open
and frank and fun sex talk. It cheered me up and made me see that blue
values are alive and well. And if not Canada is always just a drive
away. Love, lick and rock on Suzy! Lola :)
From: "scott denny" <sdenny42@yahoo.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:17 AM
Subject: Blue Article
"I've got a Blue hotel room with a blue bedspread I've got the Blues
inside and outside my head" Joni Mitchell.... Your article so sweet
that my blues are becoming more purple. We blues, we'll march on to the
sexy
beat of a Senegalese drum. Oh, and check out our Majorette, Dr.. Block
I mean, like, Yum! Sincerely, Scott
From: "wbfree" <wbfree@bendcable.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: values blue
Susan; Viva
freedom, complete freedom, viva life, let us not let these fools rain on
our parade. They are wound so tight and so repressed they can't
help but self destruct. Frank Zappa, explaining how sexually repressed these
people
are said; their raincoats, or maybe their Sears poncho's keep popping open
at inappropriate moments-don't get a visual of that-the little pindicked
motherfuckers aren't exactly swinging dicks. Moral values=propaganda Compasionate
conservatism=tax breaks for wealth-tax burden for the rest No child left
behind=unfunded dumbing down of our children Plan=? WTO, Nafta, IMF, Gatt=hooray
for us and fuck you Business=get it any way you can, and damn any and all
consequences God= is better than your god, you got that mohammed
and fuck-em all Burnie MetzenBend, Oregon
From: Novajoe
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:53 PM
Subject: Blue Value
Dear
Dr. Block, Once
again you knocked my socks off with your neo-beat bop prosody holding forth
on the revolting development of Bush's reelection.
I was as depressed
as most Blues, but I must say I wasn't surprised. Back in '92 during the
Democratic primaries I had a sudden illumination upon seeing Bob Kerrey
on TV announcing his departure from the race. Something in his face, infinite
disgust bordering on cynicism, told me clearly: a Vietnam veteran will
never
be president of the United States. Why this is so is probably too much
for me to get my mind around. I remembered the days when I first came home
from
Nam and was stationed at the Philly Induction Center ('68), having to step
through groups of hippie demonstrators sitting in circles on the sidewalk. "Take
off that uniform, man, and join us. We love you. We'll protect you." And
such. And upstairs in the Induction Center I'd confront the Young Republicans,
that group I think Bill Buckley started around this time, seemingly innocuous
preppies who were "just (there) to show our support for your service
to our country," and so forth. Of course they all, like their hero
Dick Cheney, had other priorities (read options) that conveniently did
not include
fighting for their country. Your piece covered a lot of ground in a short
burst of fire. Perhaps the rant is the only form that can get to the raw
nub of our predicament, since
we are dealing with some very squirrely characters here. Boy, did they
miss the self-awareness train or what? What hole were these people hiding
in all
this time? Gore Vidal said it's always the sissies who start wars. And
now I'm afraid we have finally come face to face with the revenge of the
vile
Confederacy that the rednecks never tired of talking about. This crew in
power reminds me, perversely, of the Bolsheviks, only not as well-read.
According to Falwell, the Third Reich was a secular movement, Godless to
its core. Superficially he's correct. Real Nazis didn't give two shits
about the Jewish God of the Old Testament, but as usual the portly Pillsbury
doe-boy
reverend was unable or unwilling to see the deeper, evangelical strain
of Hitler's ministry. People say the thousand year Reich only lasted 12
years,
but that's four times the duration of Christ's ministry. My mother, who
was what I call a primitive Catholic, used to scoff at the notion of the
Virgin Birth. That was the one thing she could never buy into
as a Catholic. She was insulted that the Church expected her to accept
such nonsense. God bless her. Hers was the user-friendly Catholicism of
personalized
saints, of whom her favorite (and mine) was Teresa of Avila, who scared
the bishops sent by Rome to chastise her by willing tables and chairs to
fly
across the room, and who slapped the papal nuncio across the face when
he dismissed her testimony with a sneer. My kinda gal, and saint. Anyway,
keep that prose poppin', doc. Words may be all we have left by the
time these cretins are done with their dirty work. Love, Joe La Rosa
From: Fabian Adami
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Counterpunch article....don't worry, its praise!
Dear Dr. Block,
I'm a fairly regular reader of Counterpunch. In response to the request at
the end of your article...I am responding....I have been in this country--on
and off--since August 2000. (I'm a grad student--first Masters, now Phd).
My parents are both German, but I was born
and raised in Britain. (yes Tony Blair stinks too). My father grew up for
the first 5 years of his life in Nazi Germany. Members of his family
were arrested by the Gestapo. Members of my mother's family
(dissidents) died in the camps. All their lives, my parents have seen the
US as their great saviour. They both quite literally believe that the US/UK
saved their families lives in 1945. When
I came to this country, as a result of my parents' "preaching" i
semi-idolised the US, and everything American. I veiwed Clinton (mostly)
with sympathetic eyes.....Then came the election of 2000, September 2001,
and Iraq, the Patriot Act....Ashcroft et al. Two
months ago, my Dad, aged 65, came to visit me in Boston. His attitude to
the US has TOTALLY changed. To be exact,
he told me that in his view,
the US under Bush is "beginning to look like Germany in 1933." I
don't agree fully (yet) with that sentiment....but it might go there yet.
I know, that personally, once I am done with my Phd, if, God forbid, the
Republicans win in 2008, i will not stay in this country. I'll emigrate to
NZ or Canada...or to the country of "freedom fries." I think
many progressive Americans might think of the same idea! Most
interesting to me, is this: my sister who lives in the UK is a "born
again Christian". But in Europe, that means something VERY different
than here. She has said to me "the people in the deep south are fundamentalists".
It saddens me deeply that this country has taken this path. That's because,
as a European, i think this country has a HUGE amount of potential. Its
thanks to reading articles by people such as yourself, that us liberal
foreigners (who wish the US would attain its promise) retain some small
vestige
of hope! Great piece...agreed with every word....Keep up the good work!!
Sincerely, Fabian Adami.
From: Jo570912@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:11 AM
Subject: Blue Values
Why
don't you come clean? Instead of "blue" values, why not "Jew" values? Your values aren't our values. And how dare you defend abortion? I was spayed like a cat at age 20 (a septic
abortion) and never able to conceive again. You show your contempt for women
by allowing us to be savagely mutilated in those slaughterhouses. By YOUR
doctors.
From: WH@aol.com
To: drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: Blue Values
Dear DR Block:
I read your article you are very talented when it comes to pointing out the
glaring hypocrisy of the religious right. It is a shame you were not invited
to speak on CNN or Good Morning America but I guess fox would be out of the
question since they disallow anyone who has less than some howling reactionary/conservative
medieval values.
Sincerely yours,
WPH
From: Ann
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:23 PM
Subject: Blue Values
Dear Dr Sue, Regarding your article in Counterpunch online: I wish to
thank you most profoundly for organizing my thoughts and publishing them
for me. I can't begin to tell you how rare that experience was. Sadly,
and to my deep regret I was unaware of your existence until this evening.
You are wonderful! Thank You again! Ann Harris, Another
blue Blue Stater with blue, blue values
From: "Robert S." <ozymandious@650dialup.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:50 PM
Subject: Hot Love, Not Perma War
You
(and Maureen Dowd) every now and then reach way up beyond the clouds to
grasp black lightning rapiers and caste them back down to singe us mere
mortals with their searing truths. RS (Yale '62)
From:
Joe Rosenstiel
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 6:32 PM
Subject: Blue Values
Dr Susan, Amen,
Awomen, and Bravo! Since Black Tuesday, in an effort to make sense of recent
events, I've been spending all my
spare time and then some reading
books, magazines, newspapers, and websites, and talking with everyone I
can pin down, but your article has done me more good than anything else
I've
seen so far! I was appalled when I heard Kerry call for "healing" on
Nov 3 - WTF! Let's give 'em hell with verve and passion, as you have done,
without letup, until they shrivel back up into the hole they came from! And
I'm normally about as mild-mannered as Clark Kent! In the last few days I've
become obsessed with looking at sorryeverybody.com - there's something about
it that occasionally moves me to tears - I suppose
the recognition that there are so many people out there who share my values
is a part of it - I'm not alone, I'm not a freak - just think, wouldn't it
be an amazing country if we blue staters and like-minded people from the
red states could be unter uns - if we could form our own country and be rid
of all those horrid red staters! Why, we could have a European-style social
democracy, with a social contract, universal health care, honest elections,
frank discussions, the pursuit of happiness, not money. Confirming one of
your theses, the most touching pictures on the sorryeverbody site are those
of couples - all kinds of couples, young, old, fat, thin, straight, gay,
lesbian - holding each other, being close to one another, looking supremely
happy together - this is what it all boils down to, isn't it? Needless to
say, during the spate of gay marriages earlier this year, I just couldn't
get enough of the pictures of the happy couples - what a joy to find a mate!
Thank you and keep up the good work, Joe
Rosenstiel
Rochester NY
From: Osborne
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Cc: InfiniteGood@msn.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:03 AM
Subject: The First Church of Infinite Good
Dear Doctor
Susan Block, Blue Values came to me as my depression was nearing its base
mark - "Fuck
it! I'm going Home. God, get out of the way." Then came your epistle
as the sun rose over the Carolinas' into frost cold, clear blue skies.
Those of us who object to and even abhor purposeful ignorance, even stupidity
in places of high responsibility have
been much too kind and forgiving of
our President Bushmaster (see "pit viper"). In Blue Values, your
pragmatic rendering of the factual truths that underlie the PNAC agenda
exposes President Bushmaster's scripted duplicity in everything he and
his fellow
bastards say and do. On November third of two-thousand four I founded The
First Church of Infinite Good and have been preparing a statement of its
mission and the principles
that I pray will guide it. This began as a private joke several weeks ago.
Now I am possessed of a belief that an organized struggle must begin to
overcome the evils inherent in fascistic governance.This can only be accomplished
through a resurgent belief in the basics of democracy. I see the current
government forcing right-side, blind-side christian theocracy down our
throats
using the same tactics now in place in Iraq and in the U.S., albeit much
better hidden here than there. For all practical purposes (meaning life
itself), democracy simply no longer exists as a guiding force in the United
States
government. Fascism is firmly in place, firmly and forcibly entrenched,
but it took approximately eighty years to accomplish their treason. Dick
Chainy
and Karl Rove (gotta wonder what this miscreant's sex life is like - spare
us the humorous details - cut off his hands and he'd be friendless.) are
its master executioners, both of whom should take their places in history
alongside Il Duce and his mistress in Dante's Hall of Flame. As for the
Bushmaster, Charley McCarty, put the sock back over his head and put him
back in the
box with Edgar Reagan,oops, Bergen, Edgar Bergen. (Lovely daughter!) The
First Church of Infinite Good Membership requires nothing more than an
oath of allegiance to The Infinite Good. And then to do it, every day,
for the rest of our lives on this earth. Keep
up the Good Work, and Godspeed, Gerald
Osborne,
Reader/Writer
The First Church of Infinite Good,
PO Box 284,
Little River South Carolina 29566
910 287 3907 P.S.
A web site is in the making. I feel better already! Stay tuned. GO
From: Jon Koppenhoefer
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 12:05 AM
Subject: Blue values
Dear
Dr. Block: Having read your article in CounterPunch, all I can say is 'thank
you.' To better times, Jon
R. Koppenhoefer, Springfield, Ohio
From: "Jamal Al-Tahir" <jjaqn@hotmail.com>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:32 PM
Subject: Your article in Counterpunch
Dear
Dr. Block, Thank you for your article of the 13/11/04 in Counterpunch.
Hypocrisy,
bigotry,racism and a host of other evils can not endure humor, common sense
and a good laugh. Keep on the good work. Respectfully, Jamal, A 63 year old Iraqi
From: Shwing! Art+Culture+Life
To: rox@blockbooks.com
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:09 PM
Subject: Permission to reprint Hot Love, Not Perma War
Dear Dr. Block, I'd
like permission to reprint "Hot Love, Not Perma War - Blue Values" on
my website www.shwing.com
If you do grant permission, I'd like a bio as well as a link to your site
if you have one. Best Regards, Ofunne (oh-foo-nay)
Date
2004-11-12 22:54:33.0
Subject: In response to: Blue Values
Message Well said. We are a society that sanctions violence while prohibiting
or demonizing sex and sensuality. It is a sad state of affairs, yet someone
like you is a true inspiration to fighting this insane state of affairs.
Thanks Doc!
From: Duwangue@aol.com
To: liberties@blockbooks.com
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:20 PM
Subject: Hot Love, Not Perma War
Dear Dr. Block, I
read your essay on the CounterPunch website. I enjoyed it very much. It is
the most positive and hopeful response I have encountered
regarding the "Electile
Dysfunction" of Red Tuesday. I look forward to hearing from you in
the future and I will be checking out your website so I can learn how to
get
my swerve on as a blue state woman in a red state nation. Much
respect, Dawn
From: <pergnordstrom@netscape.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 5:06 PM
Subject: ur Counterpunch article
one of the very best comments on the US elections i´ve seen so far
:-) please keep it up !
From: <quayle@sjcdc.org>
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" <drsuzyb@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: blue values
i
love blue values and just emailed the links to the Bookburners and friends.
your ideas are so much better than war:) . if only the dems could grow a
spine and genitals...
From: "Eudaemonian" <fratliff@gra.midco.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: Blues Hues Blew
There's
no reason to have the "blues" over the recent election
... we know that a orser thing couldn't happen to a worser fellow than
to have his worsening war and worsening position be left for him to
wallow in, not unlike he who went out to the outhouse to believe hisself
and found that the Waning Moon Domicile (WMD) weren't there after l
... and now he's floundering in a pit of ... scheise.
You almost lost me with the exhortation to the Horseless Rider to hop
on his horse until you whistled to me about his being afraid of horsies.
This must be another one of those forward-looking egressions to early
life when, like the bicycles and pretzels and SegWays, he couldn't manage
to stay on for the whole quarter, on the urban version of the QuarterHorse,
that is. Red states ... these might be the states that are the most
ardent war supporters and paint their states red with the blood of
the fallen, the abstemious painting the Iraqis' towns red, blood red.
Then again, it may
be a case of the "Cold War" having come back to haunt them, Karma-like,
in
which case their new mantra is "better red than dead!" Or they
just could be embarrassed (having forgotten to button their trap doors)
and frustrated and just red in the face.
"Values" themselves are neither good nor bad unless they are qualified
as one or the other. I find it interesting -- even more so as time goes
by
-- that these "values" folks always seem to tie their sense of "value" to
their religion, one that does not work, have never worked, and will never
(unless one set of circumstances prevails). Who, after all, would go out
and buy a car that needed to be serviced at least once a week, if not
more, who but the so-called "religious?" Now, that might tell us
something about "value." These are the folks who want to impose
all of their rules and faith biased initiatives on everyone else while
denying anyone else's perspective on how things have come this far.
The "religious right" want everyone to accept and adhere to (their
interpretation of) the values of Jesus and be good little "Christians." Yet,
as you pointed out, they can't have no Merrie Marys ... bloody or otherwise
... and be accepting adherents. Yet, the one major thing that they tend
to forget is that Jesus was a liberal and would be resisting their very
sense of religious selves in order to bring about a more progressive
sort of spirituality. This confused me for a while until I realised
that when the Jesus millennium began, it only did so as a result of
too much compression by that era's
version of the "religious right." This is like Superman squeezing
coal to
get a diamond. The harder the "religious right" squeezes, the more
likely -- in their World skew -- that there will be this magical transformation
and the Second Coming will be at hand. The only way to accomplish this is
to reenact the ways of the Pharisees and wait for another martyr to be sacrificed.
And the so-called "religous right" is deep into sacrifice. This
is the one set of circumstances that must prevail in order to allow
their ends
to be achieved. We all know that there was the sublime setting at the Last
Supping at which Jesus explained the "bread and wine" body
and blood" correlation, ushering in a new era of spirtual cannibalism,
or theophagy > (to dress it up), one that has endured up until this time.
In fact, the Catholicks have been exposed for their peculiar communion
rites, the one
that involves a "staff of life" (other than bread) combined with
another life-giving substance, practiced by the priest and his young
waif-er. This is, of course, the gift that keeps on giving, from the
first until the infinite communion. Besides the Catholicks, the rest
of the so-called
"Christians" are urged to participate in their weekly form of symbolic
cannibalism by accepting a little wafer to be followed by that other life-giving
substance (and who hasn't been the life of the party after having too
much) wine. Now, we have the pro-lifers who fall like vultures on those
who will go
on
to die for their (the "religious right's") sins ... er ... crusades
... er ... causes. Of course, without the efforts of the religiously
consumed, procreation would come to a halt, leaving the country in peril
of not having enough people to fill out the ranks of the armies to fulfill
the needs of the so-called Christians for war-kill, fulfillment coming
in the form of warm flesh and fresh blood, offerings to their deity
in not-so-subtle supplications for deliverance and guidance in their
daily lives. Not THEIR warm flesh nor their fresh blood, mind you, just
those of the chosen. As we have seen, the little wafers (or waif-ers,
if you must) and the life-giving substances have proven to have been
-- and be
-- unsatisfactory substitutes for the real thing. But, while they be searchin'
vein, we are similarly searching -- in vain -- for other means to end the
pro-lifers' pro-death and -destruction mania. But we must refuse sex outside
of bondage while endeavoring to replenish the
sacrificial pool. Is this the "reason" for marriage? That of having
only
worthy candidates being "properly" presented to their deity for
consumption? Are they who don't have the "proper" characteristics
("Christian," born in wedlock, heterosexual, et cetera) unworthy?
We note that Jesus never had much to say about the military and politics
... in fact, the resurgence of the "born'd agains" might have
been during
the Vietnam era when people were referring contantly to the "Prince
of
Peace" and extolling the virtues of being "like" Jesus rather
than ignoring his teachings, none of which advocated Earthly Kingdoms
and all of the wars and politics that accompany those pursuits. What
a mere thirty years can do to change things around, eh, what? What has
happened has been nothing short of unmiraculous, considering those who
believe in others' beliefs tend to be the most pliable ... we only need
to see Jim Jones, Jim Bakker, Jim Swaggert, Jim Dobson, and the rest
to understand the progression of regression in the realm of the "religious
right." As
the Horseless Rider might put it, "We're moving forward!" Retracing
steps
is always "moving forward;" do not confuse this with exploring
ideas new
options, which is what most people consider "moving forward." But
the
Horseless Rider may not stop "moving forward" until he reaches
the point
where Mussolini left off, where Il Duce used his "religious right's" compliance
to achieve his Fascist state, just before he ventured off into misadventures
among the Arabian grains of sand. Now, all we have to do is get him to
stand tall in the saddle like Benito could ...-
From: "Francis Drake" <sirfr@earthlink.net>
To: <liberties@blockbooks.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: Blue Values
Greetings Dr. Susan -- First,
a belated thank-you for turning me on in an earlier piece to Betty Dodson,
thanks to which (Sex for One) I, a hetero male 60-year-old, know I> suspect
far more about female sexual anatomy, function and what probably turns
on my women friends (or would were they aware) than they do. Sad. Fine
screed, this of yours; just a thought on the red state/blue state
mindset you & so many others -- me too, yesterday -- think and write
from. Then this morning I somehow linked/stumbled onto this zinger
of an essay <http://www.thestranger.com/2004-11-11/feature.html>
> the main premise of which is Forget states; it's the big _cities_ (and
some not-so-big, see below) that run bright blue and the boonies/hick
towns comprise most of the red scare: "... John Kerry won every city with
a population above 500,000. He took half the cities with populations between
50,000 and 500,000..." & goes on to propose political strategy based
on this. Anyway, never hurts
to know the likeliest places to find friends & kindred spirits, eh?
Long life and good effing, Francis Drake Tampa, FL
From: gartel
To: Dr. Susan Block Institute
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: BLUE VALUES
Suzy,
Just read your BLUE VALUES. I would immediately send it into the NEW
YORK TIMES, LA TIMES,
CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MOSCOW TIMES and every other major paper of every city. You
just wrote something very impactful. (And the time to heal line of Kerry,
made me gag.) What
an asshole as well. Secret Society Club Members.......yuk. Give
us real democracy. I only wish you find a serious patron to sponsor your
writing so you can
do your political works. - May I be so forth right as to tell you your calling
really isnt sex but the
grandeur of FREE SPEECH. Maybe you should hook up with Larry Flynt or someone
who can bankroll
your mantra and platform. YES.
Ill confess the photo of Annie Body eating your pussy is delightfully exciting
to any normal
hetrosexual male. But your bigger picture is "BLUE VALUES" which
resonates with far more POWER.
I understand they will never accept a girl who gets her pussy eaten for all
the world to see be it
by a girl or otherwise. But the symbol of FREEDOM as in: "I can do what
I want under the banner of
the Constitution" is an issue that needs to be upheld. Sadly
it takes money to launch a real campaign. It should go like this: " Dear Mr. Kerry......while you WASTED multiples of MILLIONS of dollars
on lost issues, perhaps doing
so, so that Mr. Bush could hedge his way back into office, ....why dont you
be a real man and donate
$25 million dollars to my cause which indeed protects our FIRST AMENDMENT
RIGHTS of Freedom of
Speech. Throwing the election makes you look like a very impotent man whose
motives were perhaps
to be the next spokesperson for the happy drug company promoting Viagra.Impotency
is not very
machismo, and once again, it takes a woman to show a man who has BALLS!" -
Dr. Susan Block. xo LG
From: "Alexander Cockburn"
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: blue
values
Thanks. This'll rally the faint-hearts.
From: "Ellis Martin" <ellmartin@yahoo.com>
To: "Dr. Susan Block Institute" drsuzyb@blockbooks.com
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TheDrSusanBlockShow] BLUE VALUES
i love dr. suzy
Read Dr. Suzy's BLUE VALUES
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