Actually, I don't know what the 88 means. I only know that I keep seeing it associated w/ useful idiots who identify w/ white power (though most of them would fall into some "mud ppl" categorie if you asked a real Nazi).
But you'd be damned surprised what kind of people
do know an awful lot about the WP propaganda and the culture affiliated w/ it. I used to deliver mail in Lighthouse Point in So. Florida. Nice digs, there! Deep water dockage at the back, yacht club, tennis club, doctors, lawyers and a lot of what passes for "old money" in a transient, nascent culture like So. FL. Out of about 1000 residential stops, I guess I delivered about 5 or 10 copies of Spotlight every month. (I was a casual, I filled in for any of about 10 regular carriers on their days off)
I can't say whether these people were reading out of solidarity or for research purposes. I only know that I delivered that material.
But I do know this much about Nazi history and culture. Raceism is not really the root of it. Any convenient scapegoat will do. Just lately, primarily since the Nixon Admin, Fascists in this country have sidestepped the race issue to a large degree by going heavy on teenagers and users of certain unpatentable substances as their primary scapegoats.
In modern times, I think H.L. Mencken said it best:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins; all of them imaginary."
But the drug war is losing steam, and so the new hobgolbins will be the old hobgoblins; "terrorists". As you watch the media beat the war drums in coming years and as this image of what a terrorist is is molded like a clay figure in your mind, remember that "terrorist" was the term used by King George III to describe the likes of Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Galatin and Washington.
This game is as old as the hills and just as dusty.
The drug war places Leo in a round room and instructs him to piss in a corner.
--Antigen
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
Seed sibling `71 - `80
Straight South (Sarasota, FL)
10/80 - 10/82
Anonymity AnonymousSome days, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.