On Friday, May 12, just one week
after Pinko de Mayo, the outraged warnings started pouring through the
Radicalendar. After weeks of continued publicity stunts by
criminaliens, homosexuals, and communist anarchists, the Christians
have finally decided to get some of the action. It takes a little
repetition, a little ceremony, and a little dumbing down, but
inevitably any mass action is replicated by the Jesus Freaks.
So, first we had Revolutionary Worker, the Zapatistas, and NEFAC.
They spawned Zack De La Chocha, Serg Tankian, and Axis of
Justice. Now we have
The Battlecry!
Battlecry is a clone of anarcho-communist career protest groups and has
protesters' tits in a tingle. Their website: http://www.battlecry.com
is like Partnership For a Drug Free America or those "Truth"
anti-smoking websites that capitalize on Fight Club, or those Mountain
Dew / Salem Cigarettes ads pimping Gen X Matrix wannabe crap.
The beauty of the whole thing is that the Jesus Freaks have the whole
protest movement pegged. This is justice or irony writ large for
the scurvy college and high school scum who have been running to the
Unitarian Universalists and to the Jesuit Theologians for social gospel
rhetoric and meeting space. Schadenfreude.
But more about the wingnuts who have cloned the radical left. The
Battecry website offers articles such as: Cultural Christianity and the
Coming Revolution, the Rise of
Revolutionary Christians. Christian Revolution includes
such time tested mainstays as aggressive proselytism, joining,
sublimation of
violent feelings, and making a fool of yourself in public.
Get a load of this logo:
That is some funny shit. They hoisted the red flag of Communism,
and moreover paired it with the red-black of Anarchy and even the
white-black-red of German Imperialism. And so do they harvest the
flock
of angry, idealistic hayseeds that tend to become straight edges
(mormons in disguise) and anarchists (denatured christians). Diet
Revolutionary Anarchy has
arrived! The targets: MTV, The Da Vinci Codes, and The
Prom. They fill that need to act upTM, to join the
coalitionTM, to be prepared TM, to raise the bannerTM, rise upTM, and all those other things that
bring you to the front of City Hall to get your picture taken.
And the organization is not without merchandising.
Dig the Anarchrist book cover:
HAHAHAHAHA! The Anarchrists. Ingenious! Timely! Ridiculous!
Conceived of by Teen Mania Ministries. Founded by
>>OOPS<< Ron Luce, the same guy hawking his books.
Teenmania. A Corporation Christi. That's brilliant. I smell
another Zondervan! Another Megiddo Films! Can I have the
film rights to make "V for Venite?" When are we booking the
theaters? Anarchristian Pizza party? Is Anarchist Black
Cross invited?
Take the bio of Ron Luce:
Raised in a
broken home, Ron ran away from home at the age of 15 and became
involved in drug and alcohol abuse before finding Jesus at the age of
16. The life-transforming impact of Christ inspired Ron to dedicate his
life to reaching young people.
Replace
a few words and you have the people he is mimicking:
Raised in a Wellesley/Cambridge/Brookline
home, Eric/Matt/Mark ran away from home at the age of 15-18 and became
involved in prep school, and drug and alcohol abuse before finding
Anarchist Social Gospel at the age of 19. The life-transforming impact
of Marx and Bakunin inspired him to dedicate his life to banging
Tupperware.
A little too close for comfort? I think
so. The organization even has its aid and development program for
hard Anarchristian musicians. Anarchristian Paintball.
Anarchristian Extreme Camp. Biggest of all: Anarchristian
march on the Massachusetts State House. Watch out, Anarchist
counter-protesters. You might get sucked in.
*** Disclaimer***
Raised in a Haverhill
home, Flipside moved out at the age of 17 and became
involved in college, and protester abuse before founding Haters
Magazine at the age of 30. The life-transforming impact
of Hip Hop and egoism inspired him to dedicate his life to making money
and jokes at other peoples' expense.
