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Mon Jun-23-08 07:29 AM
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Jesus, they arrested him in 1972? |
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In a Jully 22, 1972 file photo Milwaukee Police officers lead comedian George Carlin off the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee, Wis. He was arrested after using allegedly profane language during his act at Summerfest.
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:31 AM
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:33 AM
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2. Those Seven Dirty Words Did It Again... |
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He also broke through radio censorship when he beat the FCC when it tried to revoke a station's license for playing those words.
The man pushed barriers of free speech...bringing it into the 20th century. I've been a big Carlin fan since those days of the 70's (and before) and no words can express both my sorrow this morning and the contribution this man made to so many lives. No matter how shitty life got, you could always find something Carlin said that made life a little more tollerable.
Rest well, Wally Londo...
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:36 AM
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3. I liked how he became even more anti-establishment as he got older. Interview |
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Edited on Mon Jun-23-08 07:37 AM by Echo In Light
This: George Carlin also talks about how we as individuals have abrogated our responsibility to the Earth by turning it over to 'those in control'. "I think we've turned everything over -- mankind in general, not just our culture -- to the high priests and the traders. Everything was turned over to those who wanted to control us through mysterious beliefs... They twisted and distorted that into these narrow, superstitious belief systems, where you have this invisible man in the sky who's judging you.. And then the traders, the businesspeople, the commercial, the merchant class, they turned everything into acquisition and ownership, to having the latest thing... We're given many choices to distract us from the fact that our real choices have been diminished in number. 35 flavors of popcorn."
Carlin is a cynic about our current situation. "There's no real enlightened self-interest", he says. "I don't think recent wars have anything to do with spreading democracy and giving people free choice, because there are no free choices... There is an ownership class in America... People say, What about the antiwar movement and Vietnam? Yeah, how long did it take? And it didn't happen until the ownership class decided it was no longer in their interest. Same thing with the civil rights movement... People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing... These are privileges, temporarily granted to the people to keep them placated so that the market economies can function."
And people say, Oh, your conspiracy thing. Listen, don't be making fun of the word "conspiracy". It has meaning. Powerful people have convergent interests. They don't always need a meeting to decide on something. They inhabit the same clubs. They sit on the same boards. They have all this common ownership and they are very few in number. They control everything, and they do whatever they want. two-party system keeps the people at bay. They give them microwaves, fanny packs, sneakers with lights in the heels, dustbusters, to keep them distracted, keep them just calm enough that they're not going to try something.
You know, of course, that he doesn't think it's that hopeless. "Scratch a cynic, you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me. Within me there is this flame of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature. So this thing that sometimes reads as anger to people is largely a discontent, a disappointment in what we have allowed to happen to us as a species and as a culture."
Carlin's prognosis for the future reflects this ambivalence -- cynicism tinged with idealism:
Some sort of cataclysm will alter this thing. There are too many people... I'm a little bored with the almost Christian fervor of . I do like vandalism, by the way -- spiking the trees and vandalizing the SUVs, that's fun. But the idealistic sitting around kind of bores me. But I also understand that Earth is an organism and that life is completely interdependent, everything upon everything... We will always overstep. We will always use our brains to our self-disadvantage, ultimately. And there'll be a tipping point. Either it'll be environmental, or one of these lovely germs will get loose... And then the systems will be compromised enough, and the numbers reduced, so that there will be -- not a fresh start, because it won't be that -- but a regearing. Maybe there'll be 100 thousand people left. Maybe there'll be 10 million... I have no idea. But let it be violent, and let it be funny. That's all I ask.
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/08/25.html
George Carlin comments on 9/11 Truth and the NWO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pow5_UYKaJ8
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:41 AM
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4. And I thought you meant Jesus was arrested in 1972 |
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:44 AM
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Mon Jun-23-08 08:07 AM
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9. Yeah...well he does sort of fit the description |
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sandals and all
:-)
That IS what I was implying with my subject line
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:55 AM
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6. A true American pioneer and patriot |
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He was courageous and truthful. I want to see a 5-day marathon of tributes to THIS man.
I was just watching "Baseball and Football," one of my favorites.
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Mon Jun-23-08 07:56 AM
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7. George Carlin comments on 9/11 Truth and the NWO |
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Mon Jun-23-08 08:06 AM
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8. A great voice for the truth has been lost. |
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and he made me laugh so hard!!!
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Mon Jun-23-08 08:38 AM
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10. Much like Lenny Bruce, and Bill Hicks, his voice will carry on |
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Mon Jun-23-08 09:14 AM
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11. Yeha, I didn't know that until this morning. Fucking crazy. |
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Mon Jun-23-08 09:14 AM
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12. Can't use bad words. State backed killing and discrimination are ok though. |
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Mon Jun-23-08 09:17 AM
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13. The whole Dirty Words routine actually led to a pretty major SC case: |
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Mon Jun-23-08 01:29 PM
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14. I've beenTV-free for over 10 years, and am generally "unplugged" from the MSM. |
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Edited on Mon Jun-23-08 01:32 PM by pnorman
I literally knew NOTHING about George Carlin, other than occasional references to him on the internet (sorta like second-hand smoke). But reading all his stuff, mainly here on DU, I've become an AVID fan of him! The complete set of his available DVDs run to 14, and is priced at $180. No thanks; not so much because of the price, but for what it would probably do to me! I'd not be able to rest until I had played them all. It would suck all the air out of a 3 day period. But his "Best Stuff" looks a lot more practical, so I just put it on order at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/George-Carlin-Georges-Best-Stuff/dp/B00007G1WV/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214244842&sr=8-7pnorman
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