“Earlier in the morning, and the reason why an officer was in McDonald’s in the first place, was that there had been a robbery. One officer responded to the robbery call. On the other hand, there were at least three police cruisers on the scene and six or seven officers involved to sort out the alleged crime of a homeless woman needing to use the bathroom. What is wrong with this picture?”–Mike Rhodes

“Our future includes such things as, kidnapping for extortion (since only the living body of the truly rich is worth anything now), giving rise to the power of the ‘gated community’; meaning that we should expect to see more almost medaeval walled areas within our cities, leaving behind the similarly medaeval ghettos.”–Murdock

“In a world without walls or fences, what need have we for windows and gates”–cht

“In order to create a revolution that can put an end to all domination, it is necessary to put an end to the tendency we all have to submit.”–Venomous Butterfly

“…if we insist on remaining affluent we will need to remain heavily armed.”–Ted Trainer

“For many people it no longer makes sense to organize around their work situation. Our work is constantly changing, it is never really defined.”–Jacobito

“I always thought the rolodex factor was something strongly implied, but never discussed. … Now people are explicit about and even screaming about their rolodexes. I guess that’s the market economy in action.”–Elisa

Still more quotations with links

“…the fundamental structure of a market economy–reliable information.”–David Mulholland

“…you do not win ARGUMENTS against Fascists, you must win WARS against them.”–Woody

“You either want a single-payer system in this country [Canada] or you want an American-style system. And don’t kid yourself that there’s anything in between.”–Shirley Douglas

“To all the precarious workers, both natives and migrants, men and women. To the contortionists of flexibility and the acrobats of everyday life. To the temporary workers and contractors, …”–Mayday Milan Call

“It’s a very uniting thing to see different people from the same generation working their 9-to-5 placeholder gigs, waiting for their real lives to begin.” ~ Joe Reid

“Among other things, the Terms and Conditions forbid the practice of science (e.g. trying to understand how a program works, its underlying operational principles, etc.).”–Steve Mann

“The worker who takes home the paycheck and typically buys “toys” and has a commute is contributing to global ecocide and corporate domination. It’s almost counter-intuitive that a non-worker or welfare recipient is living as the better planetary citizen, even if by happenstance.”–Jan Lundberg

“When we complain about the targeted market junk mail we receive because someone has discovered personal information about us, it is like complaining about the bad smell from our gas stove, rather than complaining about the fact that our stove is leaking.”–Steve Mann

“Ecological economics pioneer Robert Costanza likens conventional economics to a bucket full of water that’s ready to tip. All it needs is one sharp jolt. So, let’s kick it over”–adbusters

“If Oliver Twist has no money to buy a crust of bread, his zero allotment is ‘efficient.’”–Max Sawicky

“If capitalists are not happy with things, they make it clear that it
is their ball and unless you follow their rules they are
taking their ball home and then no one can play.”–Eric Nilsson

“We need to go beyond market freedom into human freedom.”–Anarcho

“It’s hard to be functional when you have to spend all your time and energy focusing on making eye contact and not tapping your feet…”–Jennifer McIlwee Myers

“…the problem with pounding a square peg in a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It’s that you are destroying the peg.”–Paul Collins

“All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.”–Aristotle

“Where the Danes provide their unemployed with up to 80 percent of their previous salary and the Germans provide them with 60 percent, America has deregulated the rich while throwing a growing portion of its working class in jail.”–Daniel Lazare

“Whereas the common modern word for labour, work and worker in the Latin based languages like French, Spanish, Italian, etc. is trabajo and travail (from the Latin tripalium, or ‘instrument of torture’)”–Michael Seidman

“information wants to be free and the resolution wants to be high.”–Ryan Singel

Meme

Via Le Colonel Chabert by way of love and terrorism.

– Grab the nearest book.

– Open the book to page 123.

– Find the fifth sentence.

– Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

– Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

‘The details of the following script are implementation-dependent.’ (from ‘Common LISP: The Reference’, Franz Inc., 1988, Addison-Wesley’)