Protect Guatemala from the Tyrany of Freedom!

Poor Guatemala.
20 years ago, the Ever Wise USA Government saw it necessary to protect it's aristocracy who publicly denounced the concept of "human rights" as "communist". When it was discovered that members of the country's indiginous population who became literate were more likely to object to the ruling dictatorship, death squads were funded to kill Indians who knew how to read.

Well, times change.
Now, it seems, a new menace faces poor Guatemala: The insideous threat of a Free Market Ideology!
Fortunately, the USA Government is once again ready and willing to help stamp out this danger.

Article on LewRockwell.com

Guatemala's Universidad Francisco Marroqu�n Debate (in English)
"Either the officials at the U.S. embassy are ignorant of the principles on which their country was founded or-even scarier-they disagree with those principles."

Bear Memorial Parade Pix

A friend just pointed me to a website with pix of some friends of mine and I on 30 Sept, when we had our Memorial Tumble Parade for our departed trumpet playing comrade "Bear" Lemonie (see 12 Sept Journal), late king of the Carnival Krewes of MOMs, Dreiux, & Kosmic Debris.

It's the "Birdsong Photography" site. The front page has a picture of the wreath traditionally cast into the river along with pix of the band roving through the French Quarter giving Bear his musical send off. More photos of this procession at Farewell To Bear, "The Tumble Continues" and "More Tumble". Includes several views of Froggy playing his silver trombone and wearing his characteristic pink shirt with a pattern of green frogs. The object seen sticking out of my band cap in some pictures is a local tourist postcard depicting Bear playing on the "Moonwalk" riverfront park-- where we threw the wreath and other memorial objects.

At one of Ms. J's Kiddie-Pool Parties I recall having a long talk with Bear where he talked about how he was a fellow pacifist, and how war experiences had messed up his father for the rest of his life. In honor of those beliefs, the march included a detour to the front of the Catherdral on Jackson Square, where a Vietnam Vet Against Another Vietnam War was on a pro-Peace hunger strike. There we played and sang "Down By the River Side... Ain't Gonna Study War No More".

Thought for the Day

"The world is divided into people who think they are right."

(Actually, this was the Thought for the Day for October 10th, but I just got around to reading it now.)

10 Golden Froggy Points to wyld_west.