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TABLE OF CONTENTS Japan’s Fascist Future - Josh Craft & Ian Adams
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Back to the Beginning - Dana Sami
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Twenty Years or Two Months - Hugo Ace
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Your Complimentary Dwarven Government - Aaron Rosenberg
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Homo the Documentary - Aaron Rosenberg & Ian Adams
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Poetry - Katie Lee McNeil
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Poetry - Hugo Ace
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JAPAN’S FASCIST FUTURE Josh Craft & Ian Adams
For decades, Japan has stood at the forefront of cultural progression in many respects. With its advancements in personal technologies, industrial infrastructure, automotive safety, and much more, the isle is arguably leaps and bounds beyond the rest of the globe. In one of its most commonly underwritten but vitally impressive and admirable regards, Japan has lived a 70-year stint without entering into a single war, and retained no standing army, following the disarmament treaty in the Second World War’s aftermath. It should be said that this was not due to the Japanese people as a whole realizing that war was atrocious after the twin atomic attacks by the United States, but rather as a punishment by that victorious nation once the dust cleared. The United States government, led by President Harry S. Truman and Five Star General and Field Marshal of the Philippian Army Douglas MacArthur, drafted a new constitution for the nation after the unconditional surrender. In this constitution, Article 9 states: 第九条 日本国民は、正義と秩序を基調とする国際平和を誠実に希求し、国 権の発動たる戦争と、武力による威嚇又は武力の行使は、国際紛争を解決 する手段としては、永久にこれを放棄する。 二 前項の目的を達するため、陸海空軍その他の戦力は、これを保持しな い。国の交戦権は、これを認めない。 Meaning that the nation of Japan was legally forbidden from having armed forces of any sort or resolving any dispute by way of warfare. In the event of invasion or attack by hostile forces, Japan did have its psuedo-army; the Japan Self-Defense
Forces, which while dormant, currently holds the seventh largest military expenditure in the world. As could be expected, the nation was adamantly resistant to the massive shift in the organization of Japanese power at the time of the disarmament, but public and official opinion came to accept it as a viable, agreeable way of the country functioning, without armed conflicts. The article widely grew to be seen as a sort of moral and practical badge of honor, setting a precedence for international relations and global peace efforts, garnishing extensive domestic support over the years. The country could defend itself if necessary, but would remain absolved from and above involving itself in violence between nations. And so in 2013, things became politically complex in the nation of Japan when the Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—who was originally elected in 2007, then eventually forced to resign after a series of scandals oriented around members of his cabinet (and his officially cited ‘poor health’) before being re-elected in late 2012—began taking adamant steps to assert an aggressive nationalist agenda, something Abe called “proactive pacifism,” a campaign that coincided with the LDP taking a supermajority in the Parliament. The most historically significant advent of Abe’s new approach was a massive revision of Article 9 this past July, one which empowers Japan to once again have rightful claim to “collective self-defense,” or the defense of national allies against so-deemed opposing threats. National and global condemnation at this simple notion was immediate and immense, but the detail at the heart of the troublesome amendment is that Abe passed the measure without engaging any aspect of the legal constitutional amendment process. There was no vote, no recorded intergovernmental discourse, no parliamentary hearing—no democratic consensus of any kind, rendering the revision quite plainly as an act of textbook despotism within an officially democratic constitutional monarchy. Yet the disturbing narrative of Abe’s administration does not at all cease here. In fact, this brazen proclamation of legally untrammeled state power is only made doubly malicious and foreboding when it is contextualized within the alarming developments of last year, surrounding the formation of Abe’s National Security Council, and the state’s subsequent implantation of new secrecy laws, which serve primarily to reduce state obligation toward transparency or due process, while also simply dismantling any semblance of democratic discourse through its targeting of the media (and thereby free speech), and it follows quite logically then, as a very viable means of imprisoning dissenters. Local and foreign protests over this development were sustained and complex to the extent that they merely integrated to include, rather than separately precede, the protests over the dictatorial amendment of Arti-
cle 9. But to grasp at the initial fervent reaction toward the secrecy law by the Japanese public, it is necessary to return to the fall of 2013. Previously disgraced prime minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party (which should not be compared to the American Democratic Party, as the LDP is a rather conservative party holding political values such as; small government, playing to capitalist interest, and holding ‘traditionalist values’ that included opposing the same-sex marriage bills put to vote) had just been reelected after his aforementioned shameful leave of office in 2007, when members of his administration were implicated in fraudulent use of federal funds for ‘private matters.’ One such cabinet member committed suicide rather than face the courts. In an unrelated instance, Abe’s Defense Minister, Fumio Kyuma—a native of Nagasaki, and its representative in lower parliament—resigned after defending America’s actions in WWII, during a public address where he said “I now have come to accept in my mind that in order to end the war, it could not be helped that an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and that countless numbers of people suffered great tragedy.” Abe merely remarked, without any sign of condemnation, that Kyuma’s statement had unfortunately “caused misunderstandings.” So this is what the Japanese people were dealing with prior to Abe’s storied, strange return to office (the first of its kind in Japanese history), and the power grabs which followed. Upon Abe’s return, less than a year into his time in office, with a cabinet made of several members from his previous, he proposed the National Security Council. Headed by Abe and other appointees, the council was intended to analyze and distill the flow of information to the public and other nation. The content and specific aims of the council were unspecified beyond this, and it was widely seen as a step toward obfuscatory and authoritarian secrecy. A public outcry led to Abe assuring that records would be kept of all council meetings, and thereby be accessible to inquiring minds. But then something changed. The NSC records would be kept, but would be no longer accessible after Abe’s passing of the draconian Act on Protection of Specified Secrets—or what is commonly called the Special Secrecy Law—wherein the Japanese government can declare any action regarding the newly ambulatory military, foreign policy, or an intelligence operation a “Special Secret,” with those who would dare reveal any such secret facing a decade in prison or more. In the same problematically narrow and forceful way that the alteration to Article 9 of the Japanese constitution was altered a year later, the Special Secret Bill became law on October the 25th of 2013, and will officially be enforced in October of this year. During the introduction
of the legislation—which would affect not only all members of government but any civilians (i.e. journalists, whistleblowers, dissenters) who revealed a (newly redefined) state secret—the supermajority-holding LDP silenced the debate and went straight on to passing Abe’s bill. Opposition party leader Hirokazu Shiba ran to the house speaker, throwing papers wildly about the floor and cried out “This is the way the reign of terror begins!” As he was physically held back from any further action by fellow lawmakers.
Afterward, an opposition MP, Mizuho Fukushima described how “there are few specifics in the law, which means it can be used to hide whatever the government wishes to keep away from public scrutiny,” and that “in its current form, the prime minister can decide by himself what constitutes a secret;” meaning that the law is, in effect, a technical context for classical fascist quashing of not only of conscious dissent but of any activity which the state deems detrimental to the reach and efficiency of its own power. The Justice Minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, has already stated that police raids of newspapers suspected of violating the edict are an eventual possibility. Causing even more ire is the relevant of the law in relation to the ongoing, daily dread and hardship that occurs as a result of 2012’s Fukushima disaster— an issue about which the state has already been notably deceptive and dishonest. An immense effort nationally and abroad has been undertaken not only to uncover accurate and complete information about the ongoing nuclear contamination in the Pacific Ocean and on land, but to push officials to make tangible efforts toward the
fallout to an extent which would only be possible upon complete acknowledgement and disclosure. Sure enough, however, Japan’s state minister, Masako Mori—who is overseeing the processing and status of the bill, has already admitted that the new bill could be applied to secrets regarding the nuclear power industry, being that plants are terrorist-targets, and as Abe has asserted time and again, the law is meant to service national security, particularly to keep intelligence out of terrorist hands. And to that end, the bill contains a curious, revisionist definition of terrorism; any action which aims to impose “political and other principles or opinions on the state or other people,” not merely violence, as it is otherwise historically defined. This majorly jeopardizes freedom of press and assembly. The bill also notes that journalists may be indicted for “improperly accessing” and/or “conspiring” to release classified intelligence—and the mere request for classified intelligence is now defined as an act of conspiracy. That would land one five years in prison, while facilitating the actual release of sensitive documents sees a minimum of ten years. Perhaps one of the most outrageous details that critics have noted is that the freedom the bill’s prose allots the state means that since anything documented can be classified under the law—any mere scandal, say, any criminal activity by a cabinet member, or perhaps even a simple archetypal extramarital affair—be it have a presence in official documents—is something that a journalist could face a decade in prison for exposing. And let us not disregard the law’s same applicability to public servants, whom as Keiichi Kiriyama of the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper points out, “could become wary” about giving information to journalists, equaling a sizable “threat to democracy.” The reaction of the Japanese public was no less enflamed over the last year Abe has returned to politics. With opinion polls showing both of these legal alterations to the shape of Japan to be at between 81% and 91% disapproval, it is unsurprising that there would be such a rancorous outcry, even from a nation who culturally tends to not openly articulate disapproval in such ways. Protests and public demonstrations have been held on public streets for weeks in opposition to the government’s latest actions. The public’s disapproval has been encapsulated in the general fear that Japan
will return to building empire. Before the fall of the Emperor (though there is still a royal-blooded family in a seat in the nation) the Japanese concerned and colonized great swaths of the south Pacific islands, China and portions of Russia. Now, the common men and women and variations thereupon fear, now with a sizable amount of justification that the secrecy law—coming months before the alterations to Article 9 mean Japan—with Prime Minister Abe at the helm, intends to set out ‘liberating’ neighboring nations by implanting their own rulers who would answer to Abe.
Relatedly, Japan has an under-addressed issue with its race relations. Few Japanese could be said to be racist (or at least overt racists) though there is still friction in a country whose population is hardly over 1% non-Japanese. Some unpleasant though not immediate harmful, referring to disposable film cameras as “bakachon camera” (literally stupid Korean Camera i.e. so easy a dumb Korean can do it) and some is overtly and harrowing. Neo-Conservative group Zaitokukai stands as a ‘pure race party’. It is in favor of removing the 1% of non-natives from the nation on the grounds that they claim all non-Japanese races to be inferior, (with particular vitriol for Koreans and the Chinese). During these upsets in political policy the racist Zaitokukai group have made louder protests in public squares, such as the ones in downtown Tokyo where nationalists protested the immigrants and the current state of immigration, which some consider rather restrictive already. Those racist protesters were themselves met by more progressive counter-protestors who, against their
flags of the rising sun, held up signs in support of non-natives and LGBT citizens (who are also disliked by the Zaitokukai organizers). The significance of this is that the minority who hold radically nationalist views support the Liberal Democratic Party’s choices in reinvigorating the military forces after nearly seven decades of passivity. And that though greatly improved, there are institutionalized disparities between those from Japanese descent and those from ethnicities outside the island. This underlying attitude of some Japanese lead the international community to suspect that there would be less than national backlash to imperial expansion into once-claimed areas. To the contrary however. the overwhelming reaction of the Japanese public has been to push back against Shinzo Abe, the LDP and other conservative factions with counter-protests. Thousands of people turned out at a massive rally held on the streets of Tokyo in a demonstration called ‘Tokyo Against Fascism’ where the young and elderly alike echoed rally cries, held signs, and marched into the night to repeat the sentiment that the new interpretation of the Japanese constitution was not only wrong, but an attempt to reassert a fascist government who will squelch dissidents. Printed and painted poster boards displayed crumbling swastikas, Abe’s face with a Hitler mustache, and expletive-laced banners expressing a shared disgust with the consorted conservative party’s move to a warring nation. The protests gained national attention from the NHK News when people from not only the major metropolitan areas or Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, but the more rural areas have seen movements to gather with the larger protests held nearer to the capital city. One of the most extreme and thusly notable acts of protest to the Liberal Democratic Party and PM Abe’s actions occurred at 1:23 pm on June 29th, in the weeks after the
initial controversy around the amendment had begun. An unnamed man sat, legs crossed, atop a foot bridge along the southern end of the Shinjuku Station for those exiting the bullet train. He yelled at passersby on the sidewalk below through a bullhorn about his disdain for his government’s motions toward a fascist state where information is suppressed and the liberty of its people are second to its officials wants. In between his exclamations the man was seen drinking a dark liquid from a jar, heavily implied to not be alcohol. Dressed in a fine dark suit the man struck a match and said that he would kill himself by immolation to fully convey to the government that there should not be any further pursuit to involve Japan in war. In the sight of hundreds of pedestrians commuting home at the time, he burned alive in a form of protest deliberately similar to that of the Vietnamese during the time of the American involvement in the war against a communist faction—although, stunningly, reports indicate the man survived his aggrieved exhibition. This is the situation thus far. One might deduce that things are quite dire in Japan in various regards, and the international community seems to agree, one country that is not concerned—and whose relevance to the situation may be the key to understanding why exactly all of this is happening, and happening right now— is the Unites States. Weeks of mass protest by the Japanese population and international inquiry into the upsets aside, the US has expressed immense approval over its close ally’s legally- challenged conceits, and has been apparently waiting for something more or less along the lines of Abe’s new agenda to take shape. When Caroline Kennedy was recently appointed as an ambassador to Japan, she noted that one of her focuses would be “military ties,” as well as supporting a secrecy law. The US has yet to comment on the disputed legality (or morality) of the amendment. When one assesses the interpretive sig-
nificance of the US’s good spirits on the matter, it is important to note that the US has maintained a sizable political interest and presence in Japanese affairs, ranging from continued American defense aid, to the still-active US military bases throughout Japan. The US is generally seen as holding its greatest role in the region of the Pacific through Japan, (not unlike our relationship to Great Britain). Experts have pointed out that the nature of the secrecy law is not only designed similar to previous and current American policy (though in some regards surpasses their tyrannical nuances), but that it directly benefits the United States immensely. In Kennedy’s words, heightened national security in Japan would allow for “seamless sharing of information” between allies. Despite the intrinsic tyranny of the new law, it is also worth noting that Japan has suspiciously not had a history of whistleblowers like the US, and its freedom of information has been weak compared to the US as well over the years. Certainly in the age of Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea Manning, there is a national precedence amongst authoritarian states for advances measures to be taken, but this has not been a major concern for the Japanese government. Michael Cucek, a research associate based in Tokyo for MIT’s Center for International Studies, has been quoted as saying that the law “is really only for the U.S., only for U.S. consumption,” intended to reassure and serve American power, reaffirm the bond between the two nations now that Japan has the capability to offer America military support, all of this presumably in regards to America’s antagonism with Japan’s neighboring North Korea and China. The thrust and depth of American empire is enough that the Japanese population will now suffer and face a more strangling tyranny in order to benefit our government. All of this, the protests, the eventual arrests, imprisonments, further suffering related to shadowy Fukushima, points back to US involvement. This is the ecology of dominance and force. One authoritarian superpower foresees eventual conflict and bittering conditions with regard to another authoritarian superpower, so the ally of the first opts to agreeably harshen its own oppressiveness given that it is able to gain more power by doing so. Because then both allies gain more power, and advance their chances at seizing the power of the enemy—a process which, of course, continues, until only allies are left, whom then become enemies. A process which continues until there is nothing, nor anyone left. Power erases itself. A government exists to hold power. The essential subject of a government’s power, its primary enemy, is its own population. It must offend against its own people in order to enact its power, and it also, at times such as these, defend itself against its own people in order to maintain its power. Governments need to lie to their populations as an expression of power—and as a practical defense against
the population taken the offensive against the state—so that the population does not know what the government is doing to them (or, allowing to happen to them, in the case of Fukushima), and to other people around the world. Like any other authoritarian state, the Japanese secrecy bill has been explained as a security measure. Protection from information, for security, even though secrecy is insecurity—assuring the population they are not safe from a state that isolates itself from its population, affirms the dominant and submissive roles at play, and feels it has much to gain from not being transparent with its population. The state offends its own people to hide its offenses against its own people and then tells them it is doing so in order to protect them. One might ask Chelsea Manning if this makes sense. Thanks in great part to his captors, one can now soon ask the Japanese if this makes sense. This evening, Tokyo is going to illuminate itself and vibrate with all of its wondrous neon glut, robotic intuition, its woeful and bombastic capitalistic furor, its pop-art enthusiasm radiating through the worrisomely toxic non-night air. Wonder and terror hand in hand, the city embodies the ambiguous state of Japan’s future—a future half-prescribed by the West, and toward which the West throttles daily with each new Apple product, gentrification project, and biotechnological advancement. In regards far more admirably than these though, Japan has rested at the cusp of the future. Yet for now, this same night, Japan marches forward—holding itself by the throat, with its eyes fixed adoringly at the past. (photos from revolution-news.com)
BACK TO THE BEGINNING Dana Sami
Goddamn it! Godnamn, motherfucking- cock in pussy spunking, damn it all to hell! So, I’m sort of the arts correspondent for the Modern Corsair. I cover the big artistic things you should invest in seeing while you can. But the arts have been a bit dry this month so I asked to do something on not the arts. And so what I was going to talk about was this really cool, fun story out of Huston, Texas about a UFO that appeared through the aftermath of a major electrical storm. And I was going to link a video and show a lot of pictures paranoid conspiracy nut jobs took of these lights in the epic looking darkened sky. But no. I can’t. I do not get to talk about wacky southerner’s drawling along about alien visitors, and lights, and saucers, and probing (all on my list of favorite things) because I must now speak on something serious. I didn’t want to. My hand has been forced. And now with the UFO story put on the shelf for the time being, I’ll get to the heart of the matter. So, there have been three times that President Obama has moved me on an intimate level with a speech. In the talented orator’s life’s body of work they are ranked number one: When Osama Bin Ladin was announced to have been killed by a strategic operation by Seal Team Six in his compound in Islamabad. Three, (this is how I’m ordering things because this is my essay) was at the death of Robin Williams, and what a generous, kind, king of a man the world had lost. I’d have written about Robin’s life but it happened a bit too late in my writing process. And two, also related to a death, was the murder of Floridian child Trayvon Martin by shooter George Zimmerman when the president made a rather open address in the White House’s press room. In his speech Barack Obama revealed personal instances of discrimination he faced in his own life; being followed in shops, the clicking of car locks as one walks the street, and seeing white folk tension up in the presence of a young black man. He reminded the American people that this is the way the system of Law works in the Land of the Free-ish. Some people, dependent on their skin color will be presumed guilty, before the facts
have come, even though the law would say we should all be assumed innocent until proven otherwise. That speech hit me. It hit me, because I’ve had the benefit of growing up in a time, and a part of the nation that could be mistaken as “post-racial.” I lived in Orange County, which has been confirmed to be the most integrated among ethnic diversity in the entire fifty states. Meaning I lived in a town that had a population who actually looked like the poster in the dentist’s office, people from every background lived in a near even mathematical percentile in this one aria. What that means is I sometimes forget that people like Zimmerman, or Cliven Bundy (who threatened a shoot off to the FBI’s face) or the Timothy McVeigh’s (or any of those asshole Sovereign citizen people) exist. And that’s not a great thing. Because forgetting they exist is nice for the time but it helps no one. Thinking it is nice, but we aren’t in a “post-racial” nation. People exist who criticize the president not on the just grounds they should or can but pick scrapes because they don’t like that a black man is president. Actor and singer Donald Glover was at the center of a barrage of hate online (many calling him by the N-word) to him even suggesting he would like to play Spiderman before the film had been cast. And this inequality for the Black community in America is clear in the events still unfolding a stone’s throw from St Louis, in Ferguson, Missouri. On August the 9th a young man walking home with a childhood friend was stopped by an erratically driving police officer. The officer stopped them by maneuvering his squad car head of them. After that the official story was that the officer in question found on of these young men had shoplifted a candy bar from a local shop and resisted the officer (in some way unspecified at first) then later revealed that the youth reached for the officer’s firearm. One warning shot was sent. The officer then opened fire whereupon one of the youths was killed. As time passed more information came to light, as nonviolent demonstrations against what had happened were organized by his family and loved ones. The young man who was shot dead in the streets of Ferguson, MO was named Michael Brown only just 18 years old. His best friend Dorian Johnson reported to CNN affiliates that he and others in the neighborhood were eye witness to Brown’s murder. He stated that there was no theft beforehand (a statement the store corroborate and the po-
lice changed in the official report later). Both were in casual conversation when the officer appeared in his squad car and demanded they both “Get the fuck on the sidewalk, now!” over the speaker system. They in some short way communicated they were both blocks from home where they had been headed when the officer left. The cop then reappeared swerving to block the road. Both Michael and Dorian were shaken at how close the car came to hitting them when the officer gripped Michael by the throat and ‘warned’ he would shoot should they resist him as he shot Michael at close range. The two boys ran from the police officer as he struggled to emerge from his vehicle. Dorian saw his friend shot twice more as he was running. After ducking behind a parked car Dorian ran for home as the officer came near to the most likely already dead Brown and unloaded what the coroner said had to have been seven more rounds. As the police department in Ferguson continued to change their story the media came upon the protesters chanting “Hands up, Don’t shoot,” and what the news and bloggers found was Johnson’s story of what the real events leading to his friend’s demise matched that of others with haunting similarity. So the stink of corruption rising from the law officers like body odor on a post-show Henry Rollins the media demanded more of the police including the officer in the wrongs name. The department refused to comply on the grounds that ‘it may endanger his life’ saying nothing of Michael Brown’s life. Moving on to the 11th, two days after Brown was gunned down by a rouge policeman and left in the open street for four hours, the protests of the police actions came under fire. Literally. Swat teams roved the streets as though in a hostile territory and opened fire on the nonviolent protesters chanting against the brutality shown and holding signs demanding punishment be served to the man who killed an in-
nocent. Firing teargas at thus on the front lines and then riddling the gas cloud with rubber bullets the police repeated to their chanting via loudspeaker, like a mantra, meditatively calm over the screams for mercy, and guns firing and banks of white chemicals shrouding the residential streets “YOUR RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE IS NOT BEING INFRINGED!� On the 12th a number of reporters, national and local, were arrested while on the job for undisclosed reasons. Several others were arrested as well. Hours later some were released, but by this point the police had accessed ex-military vehicles to barricade the roads going into Ferguson. The news and other forms of media are not being aloud past the police barricade around the town. Over Ferguson there has been a no fly zone declared by local officers. Reports coming out of Ferguson for the time are on social media websites like Twitter and Youtube. One video uploaded by an amateur reporter showed the police in tank-like vehicles, in protective armor firing on the unarmed, and passive protesters. Though the images are disturbing it is a highly illuminating example of what standard practice is in the area. Some mistaken reports who wished to cast the protestors in a negative light claimed that those people protesting police brutality were lobbing Molotov cocktails at officers, when in fact the images shown were of protesters re-volleying tear gas canisters. A large collection of African American teens were assaulted and arrested for wrongful loitering, when they attempted to clean up after the chaos of the police night raids on the black neighborhoods. In some images there was confuting as some smoke walls rising from this Missouri suburb were not caused by police tear gas canisters. In video released on the 14th it was learned that police had set fires on citizen’s privet property. For the nights that this went on the officers who did these cruel, and more importantly illegal acts did so under anonymity. Even when those brave enough to film the events as they transpired found all officers involved had removed their tags and badges. This means it is most likely that those in the swat gear will never answer for
what they did to terrify American citizens in their homes, on the basis of their skin color. Washington Post contributor Wesley Lowery quoted the president in a tweet as he continued to cover the unfolding events among the protesting masses in town “Here in the United States police should not be arresting journalists who are trying to do their jobs.” Governor Jay Nixon declined to make an appearance at the county fair on the 13th so that he might make a personal appearance to Ferguson. Once all press had been released from police custody the line of questioning continued to Chief of Police Tom Jackson and his officers. After reiterating the claims of how no action further than a paid suspension of the officer who shot Michael Brown would be taken do to it being in their minds a justified act of self-defense the press found very little in the way of open cooperation form the police. Brown’s body was then returned to his morning family along with the news that their son’s shooter would be investigated. The Justice Department has filed for the Michael Brown shooting to have a Federal civil rights investigation. This news breaking came to a warm welcome among the protesters of the murder and a paradigm shift in the police public response, sort of. On that night police continued their volley of tear gas, rubber bullets and armored vehicles patrolling the streets. It is claimed that the aim here is to curb vandalism and looting, however only two instances of looting related to Michael Brown have come to light. Violence and disruption continue into the early hours of the 14th in Ferguson,
Missouri. In a publicized appearance the governor of the state clears the blocked roads and holds an open press speech. In tandem president Obama sends his condolences to the Brown family and impresses upon local authorities to be open and transparent as a federal inquiry over the force used in the killing of young Mr. Brown and the days following. Governor Jay Nixon relieved most local officers as he installed state officials to handle the fragmented and chaotic state of affairs in this bombarded town. The temporary suspension of authority to the police in Ferguson came just after the involvement of internet hacker and activist group Anonyms. They first posted a series of screen grabs of racist tirades claiming they were from Ferguson Police Chief ’s wife that read: “They are feral and violent. They murder each other. They murder their unborn babies. They murder white people. They hate police officers and murder some of them, even black ones. They destroy neighbors and entire cities … They live their lives off the hard-earned tax dollars of other Americans. Yet somehow they are victims. What insanity is that?” Though these quotes and numerous others brought about by Anonyms latter turned up to be false. The internet group also claimed to reveal the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown to be released after a hack into privet police files. This name has neither been confirmed or denied so I’ll not put any half-truths in this report. But individuals in the vicinity have been shunned by the suspended police force. In a series of tweets sent out by women living near where Brown was killed reporters learned what those still at their desks are saying to non-Journalists or politicians.
One Twitter user named Katelin D. said:
I just got off the phone with Ferguson PD. [1:32pm] They are laughing at us!!! She was actually giggling hysterically when she picked up!!! [1:34pm] Bitch just told me “When you’ve got your law degree, call back, sweetheart.” And hung up!!! [1:33pm] An African American girl from near St Louis called the police in Ferguson as well and her conversation with those officers on the line were nothing short of revolting. The operator latterly I quote said “I can’t release that information but you black monkeys need to stop calling your people have been blowing up our line all night.” And she hung up. [1:08am] (Shaking my damn head). Feel like crying. So fucking shocked at what that operator said, never had anybody say some foul shit like that to me before. [1:14am] On the 14th, late in the day, the federally appointed officer who will be the interim sheriff heading the affairs of policing in Ferguson entered. He came from the town of Ferguson originally and claimed he wished to see peaceful resolution between those protesting and the police of the city. People marching faced off with him declaring “No respect, no peace!” The response Captain Johnson had was ‘Agreed’. He then went on to lead along with those close to the victim in their march in the streets. As the media gathers a more cogent view of events the regular police recede from view or else have become far more passive, and less obtrusive. So that is the state of affairs in Ferguson, Missouri. A black teen ager was killed by a cop and it is unlikely that per the president’s request the police will be open and transparent enough to willingly reveal the identity of Brown’s killer. His family and friends like Dorian Johnson will stand their ground against a corrupted police department until true justice is brought down on those who have committed so many barbarous acts against American citizens or protect those who would. So why did I start this article off with Trayvon Martin? One, I as ether a realist or cynic feel that it is unlikely that even after the Justice Department intervenes we will see the man who
did this to Michael Brown put away or really punished in any meaningful way. And Barack Obama is write in saying the system works that way. It works with the hand full of fervent racists who wish to bring about the downfall and turmoil of all nonwhite races. As long as a majority of people will sit idly by and say “That’s bad, but it’s not my business so I’ll stay out,” the legal and social institutions cannot improve. It will take a consorted effort by all Americans of all sorts to ever hope of undoing this revolting state of America where in African Americans are second to their white counterparts. As I watched the night vision footage of violence and oppressed wrights and as I was dogs released on open crowds having not done wrong and as the press was suppressed from covering the increasingly shabby excuses the police department had for the wickedness with which they carried themselves I felt that America had regressed. We found ourselves, not on television and radio reports but on blogs and Twitter feeds seeing the same horrors of bigotry are grandparents and parents faced in the 1950’s to 1960’s. The KKK chapters from around the nation are demanding the identity of Brown’s shooter so that they can “…reward the one who took out the Jew controlled Black thug…” Again avenge black people in working class suburbs faced an authority structure not only against them, but brazenly against them. There is no hint of subtlety, nor attempt to pretend that this is anything but institutionalized hate. So what now will be the course of
action? In many ways US politics has not so much stagnated as reversed to an earlier era. Yes, we have achieved some pot legalization, gay marriage, and finally federal health reform, all in the last eight years. But we have the Tea Party with congressional candidates farther to the right than the 00’s Republican Party, who get cheers when a campaign promise is to repeal the 14th amendment. When psychotics like Cliven Bundy clime their true freedom, the oft quoted founding fathers sought out for him is to deny there even being a Federal government (or power higher than the county sheriff) and steal from the government by not paying when his cattle graze on national land are propped up by Rupert Murdoch, until he innocently wonders if all African peoples were better off as slaves rather than ‘on the welfare, aborting their babies, in jail’ ad violent nauseam. What I hope? I earnestly hope that no more people must die for there to be recognition by the general public that things are seriously not kosher. I hope that those who have done wrong, not just legally, but ethically, will face some judgment (and not a hosesshit afterlife judgment ether). But there we are. No post-racial harmony yet even with the black president. One thing that would be a step in the right direction: when movies and shows with black and white interracial couples are not the story line any more. When “Look Who’s Coming to Dinner” is as old and done as laughing at buckteeth Asians or Homosexual characters being only comedy or some sort of magic we will have made a step in a good direction. We can now conform that the anonymous information was correct and the officer who shot 17 year old Michael Brown is named Brian P. Willman who may be under the alias Scooby Willman on Facebook.
TWENTY YEARS OR TWO MONTHS Hugo Ace
What is the secret to recovering from drugs and alcohol? I should know this one. “I should know I was an addict.” Some guy in a commercial for passages Malibu says. I hate that actor. When I was in jail with a confidence of 97 percent most inmates said the same thing, “I hate that guy!” and we all wanted to punch his face. As individuals we believe no one knows what we are going through. You cannot possibly know but you do sympathize. I still want to punch that guy in the face and the commercial is so lame. Most likely the treatment recovery at that center is expensive. But it’s never about the money. Robin Williams just died of asphyxiation. He hung himself. I read it in an online article August 11, 2014. I was surprised shocked by the news. I only read the headline. Today its August 12, 2014 I read a 3 page article online. Describing his drug and alcohol experience. I never would have guessed he had such experiences. Even more for him to have hung himself. Drugs will do that to you. I have been there myself. The article mentioned Cocaine and Jack Daniels. I quirk a smile. In the face of irony them dam drugs afforded us some dumass good times. At least, for us lucky ones that still keep trekking in the shadow of the substances that may kill us one day. For I am clean and sober from many things now. I’ll even throw the pussy in that pool too. One thing a man does not want to be without. That one comes with AIDS sometimes or herpes or just as bad, kids. For the not so ready couple. So yea Cocaine and Jack Daniels, let’s see I could write books, sagas on the adventures, troubles, and problems on each substance. But, that’s not the point of this stream. The point is, Drugs. Robin Williams’s suicide and life. A clean life at that. Yesterday in auto class the professor brought up the headline news Robin Williams is dead. I had read it, so I concurred and added he died of asphyxiation, then others also contributed to the conversation. We didn’t know why. But we questioned it. He had what most of us will never have. That was till yesterday. Now, we all will have more life than he. Also, no one in class men-
tioned he had a drug problem. I walk around clean and no one could really tell I had a drug problem. To more accurately say I still do because it has only been two strong months of freedom and I feel great. I do not have a millions of dollars or a girl or a car. I do not have many of things. For I lost many things to drugs and alcohol. I do have my freedom. Freedom from everything; people, ideas substances and things. A freedom that gives me the highest prize, peace. A serenity that I believe is what everybody looks for. Looking for peace through all possible mediums possible. Especially drugs. Yes, I went down that route most of my teenage and young adult life trying to find some peace or elevation, along with a bunch of other adventures. Robin Williams mentioned he was clean for 20 years I have two months. He was clean for a very long time. That also explains why I would not have known he had a drug and alcohol issue. Because, that was a problem he had in the late 80’s. His movies that I know of are in the early 90’s. The genie in Aladdin, excellent character and voice. Mrs. Doubt fire hilarious and Jumanji a lot of fun and innocent stuff. Movies you could show your kids. He was a good man. Like everyone else that dies to drugs and alcohol. Inside that tormented soul is the innocence lost. Buried by the demons that now control the body and mind. Whitney Houston was another fine young woman coming from a legendary family lineage. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and the thousands maybe even millions of children, fathers and mothers that have become victim of some drug and alcohol. Its heavy metal. Heavier than an elephant. If it gets the rich and the white it will get the poor and the black and all the in between the color spectrum so it’s not a black and white issue. It’s deeper than that. For one thing in the end, he was clean for twenty years and sooner than later it came back to him like a boomerang and killed him. I have two months of sobriety. I use to wonder about that, am I free forever, now? Or as long as the puppet master pulls the string. That goes for everyone in these circumstances. In recovery they tell you, you never know? You could have left the drugs but the side effects the damages will take their toll on your body, on your life. Those damages are not limited to physical. No sir. It’s deeper than that. So deep you cannot even see it in the Desmoterion (“place of chains”) of your consciousness and soul. As I was reading the article on Robin Williams he stated, “Sobriety lasted 20 years. Then the taunts became overwhelming again,” that’s his soul and his consciousness and he is the only one that knows how that feels and what it’s like. I know exactly what he is talking about. For I read once when I was looking for answers. I was looking for the truth to my own problem. I read that in a user’s life we are our own enemy. We are our own trigger. That’s
where it gets hard we are the gunman pulling the trigger on the gun at ourselves. As all suicides from these problems turn out to be. I been there too. I been fortunate. Extremely blessed. For I can only thank the higher power. NA and AA one of their recovery steps mentions God or a higher power as he expresses himself to us, can help us. I called him a loser when I read he had committed suicide I was hoping that later investigations would reveal that he was murdered. Today I read he had drug problems and that’s the reason behind his hanging. So it’s not fair to label his death so negatively. More of a victim helpless. In my writings I have a three rule concept. To help those in need. Help those who can’t help themselves and help those who ask for help. His death should be looked at as something that happens all around us. All the time to all people. Your neighbors, friends, family and children. It trickles down like a raindrop to you. For you can be a bystander letting the flow of drugs take the lives of all those around you. Washing the blood from your hands in the rain. I can honestly say I have nothing negative to say about this man. For I can associate laughing, smiling, singing and a good feeling from Robin Williams. I can also say that for twenty long years he worked harder to stay clean than to make films. He worked harder to fight the rooted demons that overtook him. Sometimes in the end we may decide that taking our own life is the better choice because we can save society from our individual selves. Those thoughts have crossed my mind too. Drugs and alcohol change you to an extreme level of evil waiting to devour the un-expecting. “The suspect also told a friend that he attacked his parents, Mary Jo and Blake Hadley, after taking a large dose of the drug ecstasy.” This was a murder that took place in Florida in July 12, 2011. A twelve year old described as a great kid. By his best friends mom. Drugs and alcohol change you. Specially the user. Until he regains consciousness back to reality he’ll be aware of the madness created at his hands. If he’s lucky. Drugs are a slow suicide and in some forms a modern suffocation of hanging by METHods. We never know the secrets that lurk but we see the signs.
YOUR COMPLEMENTARY DWARVEN GOVERNMENT Aaron Rosenberg
Most of the strategy game genre is a practice in godhood- every command you assign is followed to a T, and every small mistake is your fault. For the last few years, I’ve been following a game called Dwarf Fortress. I had pushed it to the back of my mind until last July, when it was updated for the first time in two years. For the record, I am not a Dwarf Fortress veteran - I’ve hardly “played” the main game - and I’ve only learned the basics of it. Nonetheless, while learning how to play the game, I’ve succumbed to multiple deaths at the hands of unfortunate flooding, malicious goblin raiders, and particularly angry vampires. This game is one that gifts you with a particular type of godhood, one in which you are respected as the all-knowing, morally questionable god we’ve all come to love (that just happens to be calling the shots from behind the keyboard), but unfortunately it is also one that forces you to clash with the fact that your group of dwarves have their own personal brand of free will. You may issue commands, and your dwarves may take heed of your suggestions; or they may partake in any stupidity that they decide is more important. Not only is each dwarf imbued with their own personality, each universe is created with unique traits. When beginning DF, you generate a completely original world- from the history of each beast to its entire lifetime to the domino effect of every character’s actions. Every human, dwarf, and elf is documented with a name, personality, and personal aspirations, weaving an intricate history. An average world generation lasts for 250 years and creates your own personal universe for you to explore and micro-manage (In-depth to the degree in which the head coder, Toady, created an entirely different game mode in which a player lives a single life of an adventurer where you take on quests and interact with the hundreds of unique characters randomly generated in this world, thus influencing an infinite future within this virtual universe). You begin by surveying the world and finding a place to settle in with your troop of seven dwarves. Each dwarf is gifted with their own set of skills, and your objective is to make a civilization by commanding these seven. Eventually you create a fortress (the only acceptable home for dwarves) and attempt to survive for as long as possible. The Dwarf Fortress community has a particular term for the failure that
a would-be dwarven god goes through: fun. Fun is being sieged by a large group of goblins; fun is being ruined by a wandering parade of elephants; fun is digging deep into the ground, only to discover an angry yeti more than happy to slaughter your family of untrained dwarves. You’re doomed from the moment you begin your fortress due to constant, neverending waves of problems, yet many players derive enjoyment from the pleasure of surviving up to that moment and the privilege of watching their forts crumble at the hands of the unfair force that is called the world. Hopefully, up until this moment you’ve imagined beautiful landscapes and rugged dwarves fighting for their lives, and stick to your mental image, for that is almost all you get. In order to develop the most complicated game in the world, you must make sacrifices - in Toady’s case: the entirety of graphics. Dwarf Fortress works within ASCII, meaning that basic letters and symbols make up the imagery of the game. You could easily make the argument that Dwarf Fortress is just a step above old text based games, or if you’re so inclined, a step below them. The game is by default a little ugly to look at, but its players don’t seem to mind. The lack of graphics allows the coders to work efficiently and easily add to the game. The gameplay is so intricate that most are willing to accept the subpar aesthetic. Modders interpret and create their own texture packs for Dwarf Fortress, but nothing trumps the imagination of having the letter “E” represent the elephant trampling your legendary bookkeeper dwarf (signified by the symbol ☺) and watching the organization of your in-game economy fall into chaos. To say that Dwarf Fortress is a complicated game would be a vast understatement; Dwarf Fortress is the most complicated game that has ever existed, and as long as it continues to be developed, it will probably remain so. Toady has been working on this game since 2002 and plans to work on it for another twenty, calling it his life’s work.
HOMO THE DOCUMENTARY Aaron Rosenberg & Ian Adams Q- For the recored, what are your names? MM- Michael McClure RH- Riley Hayes Q- What is your role in this documentary? MM- I’m the producer. RH- Creator, but I like to call [Michael ] the creator because he stated the whole thing. Q- So tell us what your film is about. MM- This is what you’d call an investigative documentary; we set out at July 28th from L.A. and returned to L.A. August 28th. We were out on the road for 30 days over 10,000 miles, we were in pretty much every region of the country- 20 different states. We set out to try to get a feel for the perception of the LGBT community in different states, primarily states that don’t allow same sex-marriage. We get the feeling that the majority of the American people aren’t really tuned into this debate on a large scale- that’s what
we started with, so we went out to talk to people. RH- We wanted to go out and meet people and try to find out why they thought the things they do. At first I had the thought that there had to be a way for us to all get along in this country, but after talking to them it became clear why it’s not that simple. In a way we explored on a psychological level learning how people are and how we are clashing on the topic of equality. Q- What sparked the idea of creating this documentary? MM- I’m originally from a pretty small town in Oregon and I
moved to L.A. two years ago. The first roommate I roomed with was gay; he turned out to be the first openly gay person that I had met in my life. After living with Jeff for a year it became so real to me- the struggles he had to deal with- even in Los Angeles, the barriers he had to get over, especially with his family and school. It just dawned on me that this is happening all over the country and that if I was blind to it at first there had to be others blind to it as well. I wanted to expose that there was this problem still going on in America and then wanted to do something about it. I got together with Riley, decided on the documentary, he got the crew together and the rest is history.
Utah. If you know anything about Salt Lake City, it’s extremely conservative, but when talking to the people in the bar, they all seem really comfortable being out is Salt Lake City, but no matter what state you’re in there will be pockets of community somewhere. Other people didn’t feel safe going out. Another example is in Kansas; we interviewed Brian Davis, who’s running for the state house and then Jim Sherow who’s running for first district in congress and they both gave us about the same answer: “Yes, we both support same sex marriage, but we don’t want to run on it because it’s an issue our opponents can attack us on, and something we’d be really venerable to. RH- After hearing that we went out and talked to local youths and talked to them about what they thought. A lot of them weren’t worried about it at all they wanted to let gay people do what they want to do.
Q- Does the documentary tackle the difference between the people that live there and their political representation and if you do, how so? MM- It does, for example, we went to a gay bar in Salt Lake City,
Q- One part of LGBT that I feel is under-represented is the T. What can you tell us about transgendered people that you’ve sought out in your travels? MM- We had an interview with equality Kansas and they got us into contact with Sandra Bean, who is transgendered. We went to Overland Park, a small city outside of Kansas City and they had a town council meeting voting on whether to include gender identity in their anti-discrimination ordinate. She was our liaison
throughout the whole thing- we did an interview with her before and an interview after. The room was packed and most of the townspeople were in opposition of the ordinance so she was the butt of most of the attacks.
documentary? RH- Our documentary exposes the underground battle that encompasses LGBT freedom. By listening to our fellow citizens from different walks of life and from all different regions of the country, we can start to understand what it really means to be free in America Q- How will people be able to watch it one it’s released? RH- Look for Homo the Documentary screening at film festivals across the country in 2015.
Q- What separates your documentary from other documentaries tackling the issue? RH- We’re trying to do a different approach with our documentarynot per se follow all the struggles this community has to go through, but instead: what do people think of the issues right now on both sides of the issue. Q- Why should people watch your
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Rivers of Blood Flowed and Filled the Basins Hugo Ace
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Letters to Modern Corsair: Victoria Quintanillia Hey guys, I wonder, if you guys will do more with the California Student Union? That story was so strong. Students in this state need to know about the opportunity that’s been stripped from them by the monetization of the education system. But I was writing to the author of the White Tiger peace. The deconstruction of how religion and social class are connected is tremendous. I wanted to ask the author, If he has read “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo witch looks at the Indian caste order and it’s complex relation to education and charity. And another great book with overlapping ideas is Paul Bowles “The Sheltering Sky” witch is about the sheltered nature of just living in the western world and how different and striped a lot of life is across the world. I wanted to say all that in the comments but Scribd only gives 400 characters to respond. So here I am. Responding. Thank you Victoria for the interest and thought you have given to my text. I have not read the books you have mentioned; but I did attempt to write on a structure that would be able to touch the roots or problems of many texts, in general. There were a couple decisions in the process that I hope will connect with the books you have mentioned: 1.) Leveling out the systems of belief to belief with non-meaning, or what belief would mean when it’s stripped of its religious thought. Perhaps, then, a non-hierarchal interpretation
of truth-systems from the (favorited contexts) of the hegemonic ‘west’. 2.) And, the magnification of the forces that produce culture as such: creating bodies and virtual bodies, within the question: “what is meant by generation(s)”. So with and then with-out the self existing...but with reproduction still at work within nature: in the question: “what is the difference between human production and creation, and to that of nature?” I will try to read the books to find the connections. -Oscar Valle _______________________ Alma Hi, I love when you have shirt stories. They are well thought and all that. I was wondering though, as I read some to my little sisters, do you have any translation to Spanish? I bet there are bunches of Spanish speakers who’d read. That’s all. Alma, Thank you for writing in. I do hate disappointing you but we currently have no plans for a Spanish translation of Modern Corsair. We would love to do that, but we presently do not have the time or resources to have translations of the work. But if you are really all that interested in helping put up a translation and working with the editing department on the magazine then send in an e-mail to us.
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CREDITS The Modern Corsair for August - Issue Number 11 This issue was: Government No amount of voting will change that. The next issue will be: Dream Remember falling off that waterfall into a cow infested part of space that challenged your sexuality and adequacy as an active, important part of society? No? Wait. A little bit? It’s coming back now? Well, have fun almost remembering the details of that dream every morning for the next twenty years. Check out our subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/themoderncorsair Send all entries, comments, or suggestions to themoderncorsair@gmail.com. We’d be happy to hear from our readers. Special thanks to: The Stay Gallery Karen Tsai And the biggest thanks of all to: You. Not you as the reader of this magazine, specifically you as the human reading this text in this moment. Keep on reading, beautiful person.