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"After four turbulent years serving the President, I took back the Department and made it my own." – Secretary-at-Large, Randall M. Packer

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January 15, 2005

A Season in Hell

A Season in Hell

Once, if I remember well, I held Utopian Aspirations for the role of the artist on the world stage, I saw America transformed through revolutionary artistic thought, inspired by the avant-garde, Government revised, through techniques of media and virtualization... my life was a feast in which True Freedom was found through the power of imagination, where all was opened beyond what is, to what can be... I transcended Bureaucracies, I dissolved the distinction between what is real and what is not, I declared myself ein Berliner Kunstler, I created new worlds, and I indulged in collective toasts.

One evening, I found myself crushed by reality. The Bureaucracy I conceived turned against me, it caved in on itself, it gave in to the pressures of Authority... it conjured Ed Ruscha, high on the throne of Beauty, master of the Word, the Everyday: to replace me.

And I found this bitter. I became disillusioned. I plunged into despair and self-pity. I raged. In my darkest hour, the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations left me empty, drained, and I cursed them all.

I then armed myself against justice, and declared, "Where Art can contribute to the Perpetual Fight against Authoritarianism, I shall confront the Powers that be." I announced I would "see the artistic process through... whatever its outcome."

I hacked the Website and made it my own. I dissolved all Control. Politicians! Your Deceit, Your Tyranny, Your Hate, to you had the Department been entrusted! You, who glorify those anachronisms that would bring us to the End, to emptiness: as we brace ourselves for the Ceremonial Inauguration of Fear... I bid Adieu... welcome, to A Season in Hell.

Posted by the Secretary-at-Large at January 15, 2005 05:37 PM

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Responses

I am an artist, and I'm not the first claim this. Technology will inevitably be a useful tool for artists to communicate to a growing population. In times when people are disposable and restricted by their social and political environments, an artist is driven to speak out and redefine the importance of the individual. It is the artist's job to utilize resources for the benefit of all.

Posted by Michael at January 16, 2005 08:46 PM

Russia went into Mexico and started shipping weapons and ammo to that land in Billings, Montana and shipped stuff to that land in the state of Alabama. They brought a bunch of German and French in on us on one of our own bases. The Russian and Chineese started hitting our bases with plutonium, we're hit all over this planet and the U.N. knows it. Russia and China stold everything we own here. Our president is not guilty. It is the mother harlot abominations of man, Russia, and the anti-christ Vladmir Putin, elected in 1999, after Gorbachev that is the beast. He is siding with the Gog, China and the Magog, North Korea. They keep trying to keep it secret, that man you have a picture of is a Nazi agent, German. They are trying to make Bush look bad. I know personally because I have your black helicopters all over me. They have been in on me since 2001. And I don't care one bit, my privacy is non-existent anyway. When they first came here Bill Clinton was touring this nation with Gorbachev. I have had nothing but spies all over me anyway, and the church can't protect me either. If you knew what was good for you, you would be gunning for those North Koreans and Chineese troops that invaded our military bases. There are Russians on our southern bases and Chineese on some bases also. That is a Nazi pig you have in the picture, he is German. Bush is being held hostage by a bunch of Communist pigs, the U.N. is held hostage by Russia, China, and the North. That German is even upset with that. We tried to be nice to everyone while they hold out their hands for food and scream I hate you America. We have donated money to Russia, China, North, Germany, and everyone else on God's green earth while they start their Soviet gulags, torture chambers, mass murders, and abominations all over this planet. Don't feel bad the whole world is held hostage by those Chineese, Soviet, North Korean Red bastards. It has nothing to do with Bush, their holding our own bases on us here trying to make everyone think things are normal. They killed this whole planet and that anti-christ Putin knows what he did, Bush is trying to hold back tears, if you can't tell, Kerry would be too in this situation. Those U.N. troops are nothing but Gog and Magog they are receiving orders from China and the North and Putin. Putin seized everything we had and turned it over to China and the North. Their trying to evacuate this whole planet so that is what those spies keep telling me. They seem to think everyone would be better off dead as to listen to China, North Korea and Russia. Those stupid Russians their all over Huntsville, AL trying to hold us down in the state of AL too. They just keep having our troops escorted around by a bunch of stupid Russian idiots, if you see a Russian or Chineese, or North Korean, or German in a U.N. suit you might be better off if you shoot him. Our people can't help it their held hostage all over us. They set us real good with plutonium poisoning. You should know what hit Indonesia, that was China. China sure is dumb they made an illegal bomb. Eveyone seems to be having trouble but those stupid Chineese. Don't buy China made goods or eat Chineese food. They ate every man woman and child on this planet. We're all dead anyway, I just wish some one would go right on and shoot me now. Our cops are even scared, their getting shoved around by those Red Pigs, that march like a buzzard, while we all want to soar like an eagle. If you have any questions just contact me, I will be sure to tell you how Chandra Levy got abducted right at a mosque at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. I have been drugged by their patches so much, it doesn't seem real anyway. Any one that speaks, is just getting set up anyway by those Red Dragon Devils, I hate Putin the most for letting Hu Juntoa seize everything. It seems those Russians and Chineese did not make such good bed fellas after all, they just keep shooting at each over. Both of them are so stupid. Even that Iran keeps marching like a buzzard, while everyone else just wants our constitution restored. I guess in marshal law, we will never have that. When I look at Bush I can see the fear and intimidation in his face, he hates the U.N. too for what they did here. Everyone all over this world hates the U.N. because its just Red China, North Korea, thanks to that stupid Putin. He is supposed to be a Catholic, but the anti-christ has no religion. He certainly has been all smiles, and so has Hu. They won't smile for long, their contaminated also. Have you ever had some one inflict unbearable pain, then try to make you smile. I have. I feel sorry for Bush, he's being held by China and the North and Russia. How sick? HOW SICK? OUR TROOPS ARE ALL MAD AT THOSE THREE, THE WHOLE WORLD IS BECAUSE THEY CAME IN AND GOT ON OUR BASES, THEY EVEN SET UP BOMBS TO EXPLODE ALL OVER US ANYWAY. IF YOU LOOK UP CHINEESE BASES YOU WOULD KNOW. THEIR EVEN IN CANADA, SO DON'T LET THOSE CANADIANS LIE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE. EVERY COUNTRY IS BEING HELD BY RUSSIA, CHINA, AND THE NORTH. LOOK UP BALLISTIC BOMBS AND YOU WILL KNOW. PUTIN ARMED ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE. WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM THAT ANTI'CHRIST. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE SURE TO MENTION HOW JOHN ABIZAID HAS SCREWED US OVER ALSO. WE SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH TOMMY FRANKS, FRANKS IS MUCH SMARTER OF A MAN, AT LEAST HE DON'T SET OFF UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIVES, THAT APPEAR TO BE EARTHQUAKES ALL OVER US IN THE YEAR 2002. WRITE THE U.N. AND DEMAND OUR CONSTITUTION BE RESTORED. EXPLAIN TO THEM ABOUT THE ANTI-CHRIST PUTIN AND THAT DEVIL DRAGON HU. BE SURE TO MENTION MAGOG, KIM JONG11. Everyone all over this planet is being evacuated by those three, their trying to cover up their deeds, they thought no one would know where all those pictures are coming from. Americans have so many frame jobs on us and so do the British. But if you knew those mass graves are all over the U.S. It is also all over South America also. Look up laser gun and tell me why a Communist pig would do that to society, I wouldn't believe all those pictures they keep posting about those Iraqi civilians one bit. Those Russians have us framed so good and they thought they would be happy. A lot of the pictures are our troops being framed, I thought the world should know by now. If you look at that picture of Bush you will see what a frown he has on his face. I would have one too being held hostage by those three. Those spies will be here soon, said they were American, but they keep having an escort with them, that I don't like. Demand that those three withdraw their forces from the U.S., Canada, South America, and while your at it don't forget to mention how those three poisoned this whole planet with plutonium and uranium. ProtestProtest. It is not America. You might want to mention Australia also, but I think every spy in this world knows who did this to this planet, they just can't speak up without getting hit. Australians have also been hit, we all have, I am so sick I don't know what to do.

ON BEHALF OF THE CHILDREN OF THIS PLANET WE DEMAND THAT RUSSIA, CHINA, AND THE NORTH COMPENSATE THE WORLD FOR THEIR ATROCITIES AND WAR CRIMES. WE DEMAND THAT THOSE MONKEYS PAY THE WORLD'S POPULATION ALL THEIR ASSETS FOR POISONING HUMANITY, DEMAND THAT IN YOUR LETTER, MAYBE YOU WON'T HAVE A BUNCH OF TROOPS ALL OVER YOU LIKE I DO. I DON'T CARE ONE BIT. I DEMAND THAT THE U.N. ABOLISH THAT CHARTER AND WITHDRAW THOSE FOREIGN RED TROOPS OUT OF EVERY COUNTRY. I DEMAND THAT MY BASES AND ASSETS BE RETURNED TO THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER AND RE-INSTATE MY RIGHT AS A HUMAN BEING. MOTHER HARLOT GO HOME, AND THE SAME WITH THAT DRAGON DEVIL BEAST, AND THE SAME WITH THOSE NAZI GERMANS AND FRENCH. OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT IF A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN YOUR U.N. RED COMMUNISTS EVER THOUGHT ABOUT BEING. OUR COPS DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS BE REINSTATED ALSO.

Posted by Ivey at February 12, 2005 08:29 AM