Post by jonnygemini on Feb 6, 2006 17:06:11 GMT -5
"A few years ago, genetic engineering became a huge stock market issue. It was suddenly possible to mutate bacteria and produce super-specific germs which would only affect certain ethnic groups. You then have a really cheap, cost-effective way of putting your enemies' lights out without damaging the real-estate."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), early subscriber to the "HIV as WMD" theory of AIDS, the arrival of which just so happened to coincide with the rise of the reactionary evangelical far-right in American Power Politics.
"The single most important lesson of the 60's is that LSD was a scam promoted by the CIA and that the people of Haight-Ashbury, who were idols of people across the world as examples of revolution and outrge and progress, were mere dupes of the CIA."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), drugs abstainer and accute para-political observer.
"Watergate wasn't just about breaking into the Democratic headquarters. What they were trying to cover up is the fact that Nixon had decided to create a secret police. There was no legal authority to spy on US citizens. He felt he had enemies everywhere, so he created a program called CoIntelPro."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), who knew that most political lessons are forgotten before they're even learned.
"In the 80's it was not fashionable to stand up for anything. It was a decade when bending over was the thing you did to get ahead. The way up the ladder was with your mouth attached to the anal orifice of the creature -- whatever its denomination -- in front of you. It was pushing upward and sucking at the same time as you went up the rungs, with the junk bonds spilling out of your pockets, and your mind reeling from the LSD experience that you had in the 60's. The Yuppie lived in a special type of aquarium created for him by the Reagan administration. People wish the good old days of the 80's would come back -- when there was still something to steal."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), who would have made a great President if James Baker the Turd hadn't had The Boys in the White House Basement shoot him with their cancer-gun, for personal reasons.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), who had the eyes to see it.
"America is a dangerous place, and to find community demands as much as any of us can give. But if America is dangerous, its little utopias, asking nothing, promising safety, are usually worse."
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), a real American hero.