Monday, December 20, 2004

Zappa on Fascist Theocracy

I ran across this little transcript of an interview with the late Frank Zappa that was conducted on the CNN show Crossfire way back in 1986. Frank was prophetic as ever…

Q: I mean you’re not really serious if you saying we’re going toward a fascist theocracy!

ZAPPA: That’s right we ARE!

Q: Wait a minute, give me one example of a fascist theocracy.

ZAPPA: When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion, and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun…

Q: Well then you are an anarchist. Every form of civil government is based on some kind of morality, Frank.

ZAPPA: Morality in terms of behavior, not in terms of theology! 

Sunday, December 12, 2004

A little too close to home...

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything”.
- Joseph Stalin