Not In Our Name: "Not in our name, please"
Spurious flyer threatens terrorism on behalf of antiwar organization

lies, lies, lies, lies
books, books, books, books
burn, burn, burn, burn
fire, fire, fire

judge, judge, judge, judge
gold, gold, gold, gold
guns, guns, guns, guns
fire, fire, fire

muscle and hate
muscle and hate
muscle, muscle, muscle, muscle

force is machine
force is machine
join in the chant
force is machine
join in the chant
join in the chant
join in the chant
join in the chant (muscle)
muscle, muscle, muscle

fire, fire, fire

join in the chant

Nitzer Ebb (http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=122599)

Amy Jenninges writes for the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger (http://www.thestranger.com/2005-01-13/feature.html) of local preparations undertaken in response to President George W. Bush's forthcoming inauguration. From that January 13, 2005 article comes a curious tale not yet making the rounds in the local mainstream press:

Fliers declaring "No Business as Usual" dot telephone poles from Madison Park to Ballard, urging Seattleites to join the antiwar group Not in Our Name at Westlake Park for a 2:00 p.m. rally.° After a NION planning meeting last Sunday night, activists divvied up even more posters. "We started the meeting with thousands of posters and told people to take what they could get out and up," says NION's Margo Heights. "As we were packing up [after the meeting], we noticed that we had NONE left. People are determined to get the word out." ....

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° An earlier version of this story incorrectly implied that a pink flier with the phrase, "Start a fire, blow up a bank, block a street... converge at Westlake Park," was affiliated with NION. Though the poster in question uses the national NION organization's web address and rally slogan, and directs people to NION-Seattle's rally at Westlake Park on Thursday, NION-Seattle alerted The Stranger after publication that NION-Seattle did not sanction the poster. In a statement released today, NION-Seattle said, "We call on anyone posting these flyers in NION's name to cease immediately." To read the full text of NION-Seattle's statement, click here (http://www.thestranger.com/specials/NION_statement.html).

TheStranger.com (http://www.thestranger.com/current/feature.html)

That's right: flyers calling for terrorist action have been posted in Seattle, falsely attributed to the antiwar group Not In Our Name.

NION-Seattle released a statement on Friday:

We believe the flyer quoted by Amy Jenniges ("Start a fire, blow up a bank...") to be the work of an individual or government agency with the intent to sabotage the protests and set up Not In Our Name for political attack.

We call on anyone posting these flyers in NION's name to cease immediately. We call on all journalists to think more critically and double-check their facts in this climate of government lies and suppression of dissent.

TheStranger.com (http://www.thestranger.com/specials/NION_statement.html)

I actually think it would be interesting to investigate this issue; I'm curious about who's so desperate to undermine an antiwar organization as to attempt to frame it as a bunch of terrorists.

Of course, nor am I surprised. I'm betting on someone within the war party, since the idea of Anarchists hoping to legitimize their cause in such a manner is beyond laughable.
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Notes:

Jenninges, Amy. "Counter-Inaugural". TheStranger.com, January 13, 2005. See http://www.thestranger.com/2005-01-13/feature.html

Not In Our Name (Seattle). "Not Our Poster, Not Our Politics!" TheStranger.com, January 14, 2005. See http://www.thestranger.com/specials/NION_statement.html

Nitzer Ebb. "Join In The Chant". See http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=122599

This reminds me of the Bush/special olympics flyer anonymously distributed in Tenessese:

http://simonandthelefties.blogharbor.com/BushOlympics.jpg
http://simonandthelefties.blogharbor.com/BushOlympics.jpg
There are two choices:
- idiots within
- scoundrels without

My first inclination is always idiots.

That's evil. That's cruel. That's rather quite hilarious. Thank ye.

it could just be a type of "psychological warfare", if to use a fancy term.
it's what many terrorist / resistance organizations do.
PLO and Chechens are an example

they train and unleash their fighters to do "operations", but smile to the press and say "we condemn all violence" and "we're trying to do our best to stop it"

in the same fashion, NION could have sent out their call-to-arms, and kept itself clean by issuing a pre-emptive condemnation

or, of course, it could be an attempt to frame -- but you never know. the point is, that just by issuing the condemnation statement they're not off the hook

This is obviously another republican attempt to slander the organizations which stand opposed to tyranny. The Nazi's did the same thing vis-a-vis the left, stereotypes are such a powerful force within our society that idiots will easily believe that a left wing group would call for "terrorist" attacks. I remember on the Daily show there were Republicans dressed up as pro-pot party getting ppl's signatures at a campus, unknowingly signing up for the GOP. The right in the US is desperate, and its proto-fascistic in its tactics already on its attempts to marginalize the left in the US. Its not exactly a tolerant society...but the US never really was in the first place.

*sigh*
Voodoo Child: Odd that people still have to resort to making fun of President Bush's looks. Couldn't you just stick to policy, prefferably without foaming at the mouth, and even perhaps his background and personality. I am sure it was people like the makers of that poster who broke my rather large nose four times in highschool just because it looked funny.

But Clockwood, the joke works without the picture: "It's funny because it's true". Bush's appearance is merely a coincidence convenient for the exploitative. The only truly offensive thing about that poster is that it insults the retarded folks by comparing them to George W. Bush.

re: that pic,
let's say Bush is retarded
what does that make Kerry?

To judge by the GOP's rhetoric before the election, Kerry is too smart; he's elitist and contemptuous of the retards, or something like that.

Remember that in "middle America", Bush's inability to speak properly is an endearing trait.

Additionally, bear in mind that American conservatism is essentially superstition made political: it's not nearly as challenging as liberalism, and thus more appealing to the challenged.

Bush writes his memoir;

http://www.internetweekly.org/images/bush_profiles_in_stupidity.jpg

:D
G.

Voodoo Child: Odd that people still have to resort to making fun of President Bush's looks. Couldn't you just stick to policy, prefferably without foaming at the mouth, and even perhaps his background and personality.

Nah, since that's what most people care about these days. He outta get botox like Kerry did. :p

- N