Re: [microsound] completely OT yet so on-topic

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

> perhaps the attachment will assist you in your quest for what THIS list is
> for.

well.  the exaggerated military repression against near-unanimously
peaceful protesters in quebec city may not have anything to do with
microsound per se, but i think neil is right in complaining about
artists generally accepting the statu quo nowadays & refusing to learn
about the issues.  regardless, there is more to my original post than
just "whining".

this weekend i have personally been witness to acts of military
repression which i had never thought i would ever see in a democratic,
so-called civilized country.    i would have probably kept quiet if i
hadn't been personally a witness, & if i hadn't thus constated the
immense gap between actual, witnessed fact & "the news". many reporters
have seen, & disapproved of, such events, but have majoritarily
preffered to copy the military & police's version, discrediting
protesters as violent, disorganized & inarticulate, whereas i was
personally stunned with their calm, intelligence, genuine worry & lack
of trust towards arbitrary authority.  not to mention that both junior &
chretien have recently shown that they are unable to deal with urgent
environmental & social issues, all the while promoting something they
call "democracy" which shows no signs of actual democracy, & something
they call "free trade" which is more akin to a make-money-quick scheme
than any serious economic theory.  isn't that reason enough to worry &
ask for dialogue?

this information is so seldom heard that it must reach people from the
underground.  i'm not asking to start a discussion on the subject as
this is (as i warned in the topic, & as you are right in pointing out)
not related to microsound.  but i'm expecting that microsounders, who
know what it is to be relegated to the back as "unprofitable", would
understand, even if silently.  the "democracy clause" adopted during the
summit is dangerously hypocritical doublespeak, illustrated with
military excesses & the systematic discrediting of all criticism,
whether they be independent press, peaceful anarchist factions or even
concerned citizens.  chretien & junior continue to refuse dialogue, & we
now see that they really have nothing intelligent to say to begin with.

~ david