Reactionary? Never.

Have you heard about the Kirstin Blaise Lobato trial yet? I found out about it years ago, and it has troubled me ever since. An 18-year old girl defended herself against a rapist. Because she had apparently struck him in the "groin area," a Detective named Thomas Thowsen arrested her for the murder, mutilation, and sexual assault of a homeless man she had never met who had suffered a "groin injury" post-mortem.

Today, in testimony you can see on Court TV Extra, this detective could not even defend the reasons for why he had arrested her at all. We are attempting to rally both national and international support to ensure that she gets a fair trial this time around. Articles, websites, and wrongful conviction sites from Canada have not been enough to convince the world to give this young woman a fair trial. From previous blogs, to current ones - from international support to radio and national justice conferences, Kirstin has still not received the support, encouragement, and the justice that she deserves. Your voice *can* make a difference in her fight for justice.

New progressive message board. It's called The Progressive Voice.

Check it out. I'll be there. The current discussion on there focuses mainly on racism in America, specifically current racism. Future topics will include sexism, modern liberalism, and how we can all get together to create a new America, free of the Bush regime.

Join in!

http://reactorcharge.com/smf/index…

-Knowyrrights

FOR PUBLIC RELEASE: HUSTLING THE LEFT WEBSITE OPENING
7/15/2005

http://www.hustlingtheleft.com/

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Larry Flynt's corporate-pimp speech is spoken with a
patriarchal accent, somehow through a vagina.
Exactly how is it that a woman's open vulva
became his mouthpiece?
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For decades Larry Flynt, "free speech hero," has been wooing and using
the Left to lend legitimacy to his corrupt, dehumanizing, and expanding
empire. We reject this knowing or unknowing alliance.

At this site you will see who on the Left has been used by Larry Flynt:
some unwillingly, some willingly, and some enthusiastically like Greg
Palast.

You can read their own explanations of how some, like Noam Chomsky,
were misled to be in Hustler magazine, you will be alerted to which groups
Flynt routinely targets for abuse, and you will find analysis of
Flynt’s speech relative to the speech of those he participates in oppressing.

If you are concerned about corrupt corporate limitations on human
freedoms, civil rights, speech rights, and animal rights, we invite you to
visit Hustling The Left. This site was created for responsible speech to
exist and be dispersed freely by you about the harm done by corporate
pimp Larry Flynt and his pornography empire, including his
collaborators, apologists, and his financially well-endowed bevy of lawyers.
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Hey everybody.

It's late. I'm delerious. Have a donut.

Add up all of the minutes in yr life and go crazy because you'll never know the true count.

Please only yourself because that's the only person you can really please anyway.

Eat frosting in lieu of cake.

Be a nine year old boy whose dearest wish for Xmas is the album "Back in Black."

Make snow angels.

Adieu.

Once again, I am putting off this paper. It is about 1am. I have no good excuse, but I am thinking about things again and my mind wanders... Everything in the entire world sounds better to me than this paper does right now. I might even update some websites, check some email and message boards, cruise google for new political knowledge. Tonight was mock trial. It was not all that bad, remarkably. We were in the courthouse downtown and I was wearing my D.A.R.E. t-shirt. It had snowed in the morning, and so the roads were slick and wet.

I have changed a lot in the past few months--I've become a lot more open-minded, a better listener, more self-confident, all kinds of things. Having never really had a livejournal for that long, I don't know why, but I just feel strange talking about my friends on here, like my really good real life friends. Maybe because this is the internet and it is *eeevil*. ;) Someday I will probably get with the program too and talk about life here or something. For now, I'm still too shy (wrong word?) to do that.

I saw the Laramie Project tonight. It was so sad. I thought the acting was really great, but then, I hadn't seen it before.

Matthew Shepard, I wonder if you know what a legacy you left this world. Your spirit touches people. I just wish you were here to see. :(

Do you like drama? Cats, A Chorus Line, Girl, Interrupted? How about some REAL LIFE DRAMA. It's a total pain. I don't want any more of it.

I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. Why can't life be like that? Clue me in to why not.

Looking ahead into my future, I've been realizing a lot about the justice system of America that deeply concerns me. The shirt I'm wearing right now says, "American Justice?" and it has a picture of an American flag on it. Wrongful convictions, prosecutorial misconduct, and the death penalty itself are foremost on my mind. There have been 112 exonerations from the row. 112 innocents waiting to die for someone else's crimes. How many of the people there now are? How many of them spend every minute hoping? It scares me down to the depths of my soul.

I wanted a day for me today, so I could just relax and get back with the program, but I guess that is not possible. I should unplug my computer. I love my friends, for sure. I just need quiet. I want to work on my projects, and I can't fucking do that with constant, constant questions & conversation. There are so many people I should call that I haven't. I don't know what to do about it though. I think I ate too much at dinner, and now things will just be how they are.

I am totally into goth. I have been listening to Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, and Switchblade Symphony all night long. I used to go to clubs out in LA and dance the night away. It's crazy out there, because you can't smoke and drink at once in any bar at all. It really sucks. In Vegas, you can smoke wherever you want. You can smoke in the lobby of a hotel, you can even smoke in the airport in certain sections. I don't miss LA at all.

Last night was kind of weird. I was thinking about all of the people I have met, and what I have gotten from each of them. It's amazing how people in your life come and go. There are some I wish I could grasp for in passing moments who just slip away. I can't even find their phone numbers anymore. The old are replaced by the new, and it's just over. That girl scout song was a big fat lie.

"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other's gold."

I wish I could keep the old, but they're so far away now, they're like the pot at the end of the rainbow.