In the early 90’s, for some unknown reason,
President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno had diverted massive
national resources away from foreign threats and inward toward any and
all pro-freedom, pro-religion organizations and citizens. The two most
well-known of the thousands of fatal incidents were RUBY RIDGE and Waco.
Randy
Weaver was a typical American dad. He had a loving family, including
his wife Vicky, one son named Sam and three daughters including a
ten-month old baby. Like millions of other Americans, they were simple
people who just wanted to be left alone. The family lived in a beautiful
rural Idaho area called Ruby Ridge. For 18 months, various federal
police agencies repeatedly intimidated Randy in an attempt to get him to
work as an infiltrator for them to spy on the slew of religious, racial
or separatist organizations popping up all over the American northwest.
Weaver
repeatedly declined. When Weaver continued to refuse, the agents
suddenly turned their fury on him and his family. Randy Weaver had a
history of being a law-abiding citizen but the government was watching
his every move and he knew it.
After claiming Weaver owned a
sawed-off shotgun was too short by a quarter-inch, federal agents sent
Randy Weaver a summons to court. But his notice, either on purpose or by
accident, included the wrong court date. When Weaver didn’t show up,
federal authorities went to his home to arrest him. Dozens of federal
paramilitary agents, camouflaged and heavily armed, crept through the
bushes and trees surrounding the Weaver home.
The Weaver’s dog
sensed the agents and sounded the alarm. 14-year-old Sammy Weaver and
the dog went running ahead through the brush, the dog came upon a US
Marshal who shot the dog dead and a terrified 14-year-old Sammy Weaver was fatally shot in the back while running back to his parents.
Federal
agents publicly mutilated the family’s dog to vent their anger and
terrorize the Weavers. FBI snipers Lon Horiuchi and Dale Monroe also
took every opportunity to shoot members of the Weaver family. Randy’s
friend Kevin Harris just happened to be visiting on that fateful day and
both he and Randy had each been shot at least once by the snipers. In
fact, all males present including 14-year-old Sammy had been shot. The
only ones not shot yet were the mother, two young daughters and the
newborn baby.
Agents admittedly devised a plan to eliminate the
person they believed was responsible for the family not surrendering –
mom Vicky Weaver. As Vicky stood in the doorway of the cabin, unarmed
and holding her newborn baby in her arms, Monroe and Horiuchi carried
out their assignment and murdered her, covering the baby and one daughter in their mother’s blood.
Lon
Horiuchi would go on to drive one of the chemical-weapons-spewing tanks
that murdered the dozens of children at Waco, Texas shortly after. Dale Monroe, as we all just learned, has gone to work for a firearms corporation. Both men have spent the last 20 years standing by their actions and insisting they would do it again.
Two years in the making, Ben John Smith's second hard cover collection of poetry, and predecessor to Air a Boire, is finally here, and ready to be flogged! Featuring the extremely brilliant composition work and inlay design of German trash artist THS (www.ths.nu).
My horrible typos and silly word slinging has been painstakingly edited by my good friend and fellow writer for HST, Ian Shearer; with special thanks to Mike Daily for being such a dude. This is not the collection of artists featured in HST over the past few months, this is a book i started long before the HST was even thought about.
108 pages; 6" x 9", jacket-hardcover binding, cream interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink. Jacket Wrap and gold embossing on cloth spine.
While i have tried to keep the price as absolutely low as possible (I'm making about 1 dollar from each book) i know it's still scrapped in a little steep but with out pissing in my pocket - it really is worth the money spent, not only for my poetry but for the entire feel and complete package only a hard cover like this can embody.
Obviously for adults only, i am very pleased to send this sucker out into the world and hope for a wide reception of feedback in any form, from any one! Please DO NOT buy this book if you are easily offended, have any shred of respect for me at all, don't want to hear stories about my penis, fear you may be exposed in one of these poems, are a family member of mine of D'Arnes,if you drink soy latte's or enjoy poetry about flowers and rivers. Any one else, please check it out with a grain of salt and a giggle and i thank you in advance for your support and on going communication.
Lets all get pissed and say silly things!
Double Peneteration
Double Penetration is Horror Sleaze And Trash's first publication; featuring the poetry of Ryan Quinn Flanagan and Ben Smith. A collection of 70 off-beat and low brow poems you imagine the pair to come up with in this mix of madness. 10 Aussie bucks will get this sucker to your door. A5 in size, about 80 pages, soft card cover with black and white insides. Buy it now, or don't, and wish you hadda, 25 limited copies. Great gift idea for your Grandmothers!
Drunk at the matinee
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
(ill put a better review up as soon as some one reads the fucking thing; and then lets me know that its a steaming heap of shit)
Sold out until further notice
I fucking love you, Bitch.
"I fucking love you, Bitch" is my new
card cover chap book, 25 pages, color cover
and b/w insides. Poetry based on the duality
of the sexes - but mainly filth and stories
that made my girl laugh.
Five bucks which will pay for shipping
and printing costs. Or free if ya send me a
cool letter.
"Mate, your off your tits." is my weekly spot on alternative reel. featuring dumb shit by a dumb cunt, doing dumb shit, you feel that?
Check the motherfucker out . com
GIANT.
Date: 2009
Details: Gluebook, 21 x 25,5 x 2 cm, mixed media (adhesive tape, spray paint, oil/color sticks, acrylic, paper, color and black&white prints on kid’s book), 24 pages, handmade, signed, unique piece
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