Smash Wednesday
Wednesday was a big and happy notable day for me. As my computer was chugging away at producing a hi-def copy of one of my short films from last semester, I decided to head off to SFState a little earlier today. I was hoping to run into the College Republicans at SFSU just to see what the group was like. They said on their site that they have a table set up nearly every day around noon or so, so I tried getting there early.
Today couldn’t have been a better day. Upon arriving at State, once I got past the Doomsday Prophet of Religion whom I’ll get to in another blog subsequently, the campus was having some kind of club day. Every club there had a table set up at the Cesar Chavez Student Center, but the stage was given to the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who were putting on a show about how evil the United States is for supporting Israel because Israelis murder Palestinian babies. Two kids were there supposedly from the Palestinian location (I’m not sure you can really it a state) who had some things to say about the conditions in their homeland… in AMERICAN accents.
My 2 cents: I saw a video months ago on Youtube that was a bootleg of a 60 minutes documentary on what they called “Pallywood.” Basically, it was an exposition on Palestinians faking graphic war scenes for the news in the United States. That and anyone who’s seen the video that I just posted knows that the Palestinians are more fond of killing their own people and causing their own misery. What I saw yesterday was not a group that should be pitied. What I saw was a bunch of Socialists who were taking advantage of young children in an effort to bash United States foreign policies. And if their ages of eight and ten (I think they were) doesn’t suggest any gullibility to you, the reader, then this will: One of the kids made sure to include in their speech that the United States was created to end slavery among other things. Last time I checked, slavery wasn’t ended until long after the United States was institutionalized thanks to the Democratic Party.
That being said, the College Republicans had their own nice little table setup as well as a little theme called “Club Gitmo.” Three of the students in the club were pretending to be detainees at Guantanamo Bay, sipping drinks and relaxing in the sun under fake palm trees and complaining about the conditions they were in. According to a handout from the club, this is what they had to say about Gitmo:
- Detainiees get 3 “culturally sensitive” meals a day.
- Muslim detainees are given prayer rugs and allowed to pray 5 times a day.
- On Fridays, detainees are given Klondike bars and Dr. Pepper for good behavior.
- Even though non-uniformed enemy combatants are not protected by the Geneva Conventions, they have subsequently been given those protections.
- Over 70 detainees are currently on trail for participating in terrorist activitiy. With the remaining 250 detainees still under investigation.
- There is ZERO audio, video or photographic evidence to substantiate claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay.
- Claiming any alleged miscarriage of justice rationalizes closing Guantanamo is to say that someone being wrongfully convicted of a crime in the US criminal court is reason to shut down our prison system.
Disclaimer: the author of this post welcomes any concrete evidence to debunk any of these statements. However, I have heard from Senator Brownback and others who have actually been to Gitmo that the prisoners are being given the best treatment and actually eating better than most American families. They were having glazed chicken there, for cryin’ out loud. I wouldn’t be surprised if everything said here was absolutely true, and then some. Did you know that detainees who have had their charges dropped have been released? You know, like the way it goes here in the United States if they can’t prove you’ve done a crime? Yeah, like that.
All that being said, the club was selling Klondike Bars and Dr. Pepper to anyone else passing by, as well as fliers. Not having anything better to do, I thought I’d stick around and support these guys for once. They went around with camcorders, mostly taping the GUPS for their statements. Leigh Wolf, the club president, filmed a guy from the GUPS rapping about how bad the United States was for supporting the evil Jews. As soon as he was done, the camera went down and the GUPS guy brought the crowd’s attention to Leigh, saying that he worked for Front Page Magazine, and that his club makes videos that portray a very negative view of SFState by filming events such as this one and getting police in there and whatnot.
My 2 cents: Wrong again, Pally. A quick search of Front Page Magazine for the name Leigh Wolf yields no results. Perhaps he’s mistaken Leigh for Lee Kaplan, one of their many columnists. That and if I understand what he says correctly, he’s complaining that Leigh filming him complaining about the United States is giving the campus a bad image. If he’s worried that anti-American rapping will make SFState look bad, he shouldn’t get up on stage there and start performing anti-American rap.
On the other hand, the one thing about the club’s demeanor that I wasn’t too proud of was their language. Often, I noticed some of the club members making some off-color remarks about the socialist groups on campus (there’s about four of them under different names.) Leigh Wolf heckling our rapping friend subsequently to his little blame throwing mantra there didn’t exactly make a positive image either. Mainly, it’s the policies that will ultimately keep me connected to these guys.
When the group decided that the crowd had thinned out enough, they decided to start packing up. The only problem was no one wanted to bring home an untouched package of half melted Klondike bars. So when someone suggested using it to make a peace offering to the GUPS, I made the move since they didn’t know me at all. This is a basic transcript of what happened when I went over to their table:
White girl working at table: Would you like one of our handouts?
Me: Actually, I’ve come to make a peace offering from Club Gitmo. The detainees have moved on to eating Kit Kats and don’t need these anymore (Holds up the Klondike bars. White girl gives me an angry scowl.)
GUPS Rapper: You know what, you guys are really sick with what you’re doing there. You’re making a complete mockery of the misery that’s going on at Guantanamo Bay. You ought to be ashamed.
Me: I take it then you don’t want the Klondike Bars?
Them: No, go away.
As I turned around, I noticed the Republicans filming me from a distance and starting to shout “Come on, you don’t want any Klondike Bars?” I officially feel like a white Borat, except without the whole running the idea into the ground thing. After that, I walked back to the group, told them what happened and we all got a big laugh out of it saying that, they should have just gone up there with a camera to get the whole thing with audio.
In a week or so, they’ll have finished editing and uploading the video to Youtube, and you can guarantee that I’ll post it here when they do. I really can’t wait.
The rest of the day went on pretty much the same as usual. Went to class, took the bus back, went to prayer group, went home. The only other thing really worth mentioning is that on the bus ride home, some guy on the bus got into a heated conversation over whether or not there should be more buses. My position: taxes will rise if we add six more buses on the one route we’re taking and traffic congestion will increase, making our problem of being packed into the bus like sardines look like a kankersore. His position: Six more buses will somehow decrease congestion and that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I don’t take the bus 6 times a week back and forth like he does, so come back and talk to him when I’ve done so.
Riiiight. After the guy got off, the girl on the bus next to me tapped me on the shoulder and laughed with me about it. A guy who’s agitated about taking the bus so often that he can’t think about the bigger picture isn’t the most intelligent person to be arguing these issues with.
Today couldn’t have been a better day. Upon arriving at State, once I got past the Doomsday Prophet of Religion whom I’ll get to in another blog subsequently, the campus was having some kind of club day. Every club there had a table set up at the Cesar Chavez Student Center, but the stage was given to the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) who were putting on a show about how evil the United States is for supporting Israel because Israelis murder Palestinian babies. Two kids were there supposedly from the Palestinian location (I’m not sure you can really it a state) who had some things to say about the conditions in their homeland… in AMERICAN accents.
My 2 cents: I saw a video months ago on Youtube that was a bootleg of a 60 minutes documentary on what they called “Pallywood.” Basically, it was an exposition on Palestinians faking graphic war scenes for the news in the United States. That and anyone who’s seen the video that I just posted knows that the Palestinians are more fond of killing their own people and causing their own misery. What I saw yesterday was not a group that should be pitied. What I saw was a bunch of Socialists who were taking advantage of young children in an effort to bash United States foreign policies. And if their ages of eight and ten (I think they were) doesn’t suggest any gullibility to you, the reader, then this will: One of the kids made sure to include in their speech that the United States was created to end slavery among other things. Last time I checked, slavery wasn’t ended until long after the United States was institutionalized thanks to the Democratic Party.
That being said, the College Republicans had their own nice little table setup as well as a little theme called “Club Gitmo.” Three of the students in the club were pretending to be detainees at Guantanamo Bay, sipping drinks and relaxing in the sun under fake palm trees and complaining about the conditions they were in. According to a handout from the club, this is what they had to say about Gitmo:
- Detainiees get 3 “culturally sensitive” meals a day.
- Muslim detainees are given prayer rugs and allowed to pray 5 times a day.
- On Fridays, detainees are given Klondike bars and Dr. Pepper for good behavior.
- Even though non-uniformed enemy combatants are not protected by the Geneva Conventions, they have subsequently been given those protections.
- Over 70 detainees are currently on trail for participating in terrorist activitiy. With the remaining 250 detainees still under investigation.
- There is ZERO audio, video or photographic evidence to substantiate claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay.
- Claiming any alleged miscarriage of justice rationalizes closing Guantanamo is to say that someone being wrongfully convicted of a crime in the US criminal court is reason to shut down our prison system.
Disclaimer: the author of this post welcomes any concrete evidence to debunk any of these statements. However, I have heard from Senator Brownback and others who have actually been to Gitmo that the prisoners are being given the best treatment and actually eating better than most American families. They were having glazed chicken there, for cryin’ out loud. I wouldn’t be surprised if everything said here was absolutely true, and then some. Did you know that detainees who have had their charges dropped have been released? You know, like the way it goes here in the United States if they can’t prove you’ve done a crime? Yeah, like that.
All that being said, the club was selling Klondike Bars and Dr. Pepper to anyone else passing by, as well as fliers. Not having anything better to do, I thought I’d stick around and support these guys for once. They went around with camcorders, mostly taping the GUPS for their statements. Leigh Wolf, the club president, filmed a guy from the GUPS rapping about how bad the United States was for supporting the evil Jews. As soon as he was done, the camera went down and the GUPS guy brought the crowd’s attention to Leigh, saying that he worked for Front Page Magazine, and that his club makes videos that portray a very negative view of SFState by filming events such as this one and getting police in there and whatnot.
My 2 cents: Wrong again, Pally. A quick search of Front Page Magazine for the name Leigh Wolf yields no results. Perhaps he’s mistaken Leigh for Lee Kaplan, one of their many columnists. That and if I understand what he says correctly, he’s complaining that Leigh filming him complaining about the United States is giving the campus a bad image. If he’s worried that anti-American rapping will make SFState look bad, he shouldn’t get up on stage there and start performing anti-American rap.
On the other hand, the one thing about the club’s demeanor that I wasn’t too proud of was their language. Often, I noticed some of the club members making some off-color remarks about the socialist groups on campus (there’s about four of them under different names.) Leigh Wolf heckling our rapping friend subsequently to his little blame throwing mantra there didn’t exactly make a positive image either. Mainly, it’s the policies that will ultimately keep me connected to these guys.
When the group decided that the crowd had thinned out enough, they decided to start packing up. The only problem was no one wanted to bring home an untouched package of half melted Klondike bars. So when someone suggested using it to make a peace offering to the GUPS, I made the move since they didn’t know me at all. This is a basic transcript of what happened when I went over to their table:
White girl working at table: Would you like one of our handouts?
Me: Actually, I’ve come to make a peace offering from Club Gitmo. The detainees have moved on to eating Kit Kats and don’t need these anymore (Holds up the Klondike bars. White girl gives me an angry scowl.)
GUPS Rapper: You know what, you guys are really sick with what you’re doing there. You’re making a complete mockery of the misery that’s going on at Guantanamo Bay. You ought to be ashamed.
Me: I take it then you don’t want the Klondike Bars?
Them: No, go away.
As I turned around, I noticed the Republicans filming me from a distance and starting to shout “Come on, you don’t want any Klondike Bars?” I officially feel like a white Borat, except without the whole running the idea into the ground thing. After that, I walked back to the group, told them what happened and we all got a big laugh out of it saying that, they should have just gone up there with a camera to get the whole thing with audio.
In a week or so, they’ll have finished editing and uploading the video to Youtube, and you can guarantee that I’ll post it here when they do. I really can’t wait.
The rest of the day went on pretty much the same as usual. Went to class, took the bus back, went to prayer group, went home. The only other thing really worth mentioning is that on the bus ride home, some guy on the bus got into a heated conversation over whether or not there should be more buses. My position: taxes will rise if we add six more buses on the one route we’re taking and traffic congestion will increase, making our problem of being packed into the bus like sardines look like a kankersore. His position: Six more buses will somehow decrease congestion and that I don’t know what I’m talking about because I don’t take the bus 6 times a week back and forth like he does, so come back and talk to him when I’ve done so.
Riiiight. After the guy got off, the girl on the bus next to me tapped me on the shoulder and laughed with me about it. A guy who’s agitated about taking the bus so often that he can’t think about the bigger picture isn’t the most intelligent person to be arguing these issues with.
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