Joeyess and The Dirty F@$#ing Hippies Ride Again!!

Hello DUer's!! joeyess, here. I am the author and musician that wrote and edited the video that QC and DU put on the map: DFH. Thank you all so much for the kudos and the very busy week that unfolded. 11,000+ hits from DUers alone!! I wanted to post DFH one more, unfortunately I can't post the video because it's already been embedded here once. Anywhooo...... I do have the transcript for all who are interested, and a link to the vid for those of you that didn't get a chance to see it. So. Here we go!!!


Here's the Rant:

There's a black granite wall in Washington D.C. that bears 58,260 names on it. All of those whose names are carved on that wall are dead. For what? Freedom?
If this country had listened when kids were screaming to stop that slaughter, that wall would have been one hell of a lot shorter. Yet we as a nation still wage wars of choice. War encouraged by pluotcrats. Peace is never discussed. Peace has somehow become a pejorative. Peace is no perjoritive. Peace is essential to the survival of the human race. Those who advocate for war are a dangerous and fearful group who should be marginalized and disavowed. War is always the last choice.

The dirty fucking hippies were right.

Now the oceans have been rising and warming. The polar ice is melting at alarming rates. The climate is changing in irreversible ways. Our survival as a species is on a precipice. The science on this is clear: Humans are now in trouble..... because of our reckless stewardship of what we dominate. We have polluted this fragile jewel that hangs in space. Our only home. The food we buy is contaminated. The toys we give our children as presents for christmas are tainted with poison. The water we drink is rife with carcinogens. The fish in our seas, lakes and rivers are so full of mercury that it is only recommended we eat them once per week. We have now come face to face with our own extinction. I hate to say we told you so, but...

the dirty fucking hippies........ were right.

We've elected sociopath after sociopath for the last 30 years, to every level of government. Many of them slaves to corporate parasites that gorge themselves at the public trough while the most vulnerable people in our society: the sick, the young, and the elderly go wanting. Billions of dollars in profits are being snitched up at the expense and suffering of our neighbors by the jackals that comprise our pharrmacutical companies and insurance companies.

Both of which pipe their diagnostic wisdom and their faux concern right into our homes via teevee and radio commercials. These legal drug dealers now sell their wares with impunity and the insurance gamblers perform a slick game of 3 card monty right in our living rooms. Most of these drugs have a list of caveats that would make even the most dishonest used car salesman blush. And the insurance hustlers change the rules of the game when it's time for them to pay up.

Profiting from the suffering and pain of others. Profiting from human frailty. Universal Healthcare? Too expensive, we were told. Gasbag talking heads on teevee and radio have been complicit in this deception while being handsomely compensated for their assistance.

I'll say it again:

The dirty fucking hippies.............. were right.

Big Box discount stores descend upon small towns in America like alien ships filled with cheap products, bought at low prices, from countries that pay their workers slave wages. Plutocrats love this business model. Mom and Pop shops can't compete with the prices set by these huge corporate parasites. and to no one's surprise many small businesses in these tiny hamlets fail. Leaving small towns filled with empty store fronts and even in some cases forcing these former small business operators to go to work for the very people that ruined their livelyhoods. Small town America is subsequently decimated by this invasion. Often helpless in stopping it.

Wall Street has cannibalized itself. Still hungry, feeling the pangs of their greed, they've now come to the government for their daily meal. And still, without a hint of irony, a spokesman for this ravenous tribe, mounts a soapbox and has the temerity to rail against the evils of socialism. Turns out, the socialism is for them, the capitalism is for us. Abbie Hoffman once baited these bansters by throwing cash onto the floor of the NYSE.

To no one's astonishment, they demonstrated their insatiable greed. The gluttons couldn't help themselves, they stopped trading and got on their knees to sweep up the free loot. Wall Street should have been reigned in long ago.

The dirty fucking hippies were right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKEZoY-TMG4">HERE'S THE VID!!!


Once again, my most heartfelt thanks to everyone that viewed the piece. If you want to revisit the original post by QC, (thank you QC) by all means do so. Here a link http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=285487&mesg_id=285487">to that thread

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other day, I posted it on my favorite newsgroup and on my Facebook page.

Over at the Great Orange Satan, they're a little cool to bombastic stuff like this. Maybe DU is my crowd after all.
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Great work. great and thanks a lot.

From a dirty fucking hippie.

I was born in '60. Not old enough to worry about the war, I was cogent enough to distinctly remember, let's seee.... was it Walter Cronkite or Roger Mudd ?..... who had a body count, 3 nights per week....... "tonight in Vietnam, we can report that 11 hundred and 49 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers were killed
by American and ARVN soldiers. While U.S. and ARVN troops suffer 538 losses. The number of injuries on both sides is expected to be triple those numbers".....

Even as a child I asked myself, after doing the math, I said: How many people do the Vietcong have?? Are we really killing that many people.

If it was fishy to a 9 year old? Who were these people that supported it and still defend it? (and coincidently enough, defend the same kind of nonsense tha we're currently find ourselves embroiled) Were they stupid, vengeful, fearful, profiting, all of the above?

It never seems to stop or amaze me.

My government, my nation, my country, for my entire life, has been dropping bombs on people that are never a direct military threat to our safety.

Work for justice. Peace will follow.

it was enjoyed by a bunch of my friends.

And just too true!!!

I remember in the late 60's and early 70's being called one of those dirty hippie peace freak mother-f---ers and my answer was Thank You. Thank God I was one of the first of the WWII baby boomers and now retired.

Passed it along to a of my mates....

I've seen other postings on smaller blogs. I have to admit, I'm enjoying this a smidge.

Thanks viewing.

J.

One person said (I know artists hate to hear comparisons) "a bit like Lou Reed."

He was the original rapper.

Both times. :)

Took an hour or so but it was worth it...good work Joseph

who was a dirty fucking hippie and has felt of late more than a little ignored.

That is just a fabulous video. Thank you for sharing it!

I've been spreading it around like peanut butter on warm toast...and people love it.

excellent. I wish there was more of it. Liked the music, narrator's voice and the dialogue. Well Done! Oh and the ideas in this are Right On Man!

Kicked and too late to recommend.:thumbsup: