The Politics of Nihilism at the Denver Art Museum

 Driving through downtown Denver the other day I spotted a number of Denver Art Museum banners like the one above. I recognized this style of art. It appeared to be a major effort by the Museum and I wondered from which angle they were approaching the subject. The banners prompted me to recall my own experiences of the late 60’s and 1970’s.

In the fall of 68, I entered Grade Six back in my small-town school in Alberta. There was a new children’s rhyme circulating on the playground. It went “Marijuana Marijuana, LSD LSD, teachers make it, Trudeau takes it, why can’t we, why can’t we”. This meant very little to me until a couple of years later when my family moved to Toronto. My new suburban junior high school was something of a psychedelic drugs supermarket. LSD, peyote, mescaline, MDA and hashish available in the hallways. The hippies, the speed freaks and the boozing drug thugs, gravitated to separate cliques.

The small hippy group passed around copies of Dr. Timothy Leary’s book The Politics of Ecstasy. Many regarded it as their Bible.  

I read the book slowly as it was difficult to grasp the odd mix of new ideas from India and Tibet and Harvard. It prompted me to study far eastern religions. I quickly found that Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism would specifically condemn hedonism and drug taking as promoted by Leary. 

Some of my friends took it much too seriously. They shaved their heads, (3 boys 2 girls) dropped out of school. They joined the downtown Hare Krishna temple. I tried to reason with them. I thought we were so lucky to be Canadians living in a democracy with complete freedom. How could they throw it all away because of some crazy American professor ? 

They wanted total liberation of their souls and the death the “self “. LSD was not enough, it was only the key that opened their minds. Only a complete break from the material world would do. Timothy Leary’s philosophy caused them to break all contact with their families and friends. Their “Psychedelic Experience” was everyone else’s loss.

 Concerned by what I feared was promotion of those same bad ideas, I decided to investigate online. I followed up by visiting the Denver Art Museum Psychedelic Experience exhibit.  Here is what I found.

” TAKE A TRIP “

“Exhibition tours are one hour long. Tours are free for teachers and adult chaperones. 

Up to 60 students per hour

Explore the vibrant and energetic rock poster designs from the 1960s and ’70s. Consider how the social and political upheaval during this period set the stage for a new wave of expression resulting in a lively music and dance scene and an innovative psychedelic style. On you tour, soak up the pulsating colors, swirling forms, and out of this world lettering while having fun identifying some of the most famous rock concerts of all time.” - DAM website text

” just take a pinch of psychedelic”
Continue reading Selling Drugs and Revolution to Children in America

Did you come to Boulder, Colorado for a good education or a good party?  Have your folks paid the University of Colorado $38,000 a year for out of state tuition or $19,000 a year for in-state or illegal alien tuition?  Did your parents hope to give their little angel the opportunity to improve themselves for a happy successful future? Here’s a story about some of the extracurricular activities that can torch their dream and blow their little darling’s mind. 

Annually, on 4/20, at 4:20 p.m. there is a “Smoke Out” on CU Boulder campus. This year’s crowd was certainly over 10,000. This was the scene at 3:30 PM. Most attendees were already well on their way to a parallel universe, but the big bang was still 50 minutes in the future. 

 420 is a term for meeting to smoke marijuana. It started with a small clique in California who met after school to get stoned. Then as the legend goes, the dog ate their homework.  

Although the 420 marijuana protest at CU Boulder limits its advocacy to the legalization of cannabis, when asked the question, almost everyone I spoke to said they were in favor of legalizing all drugs. Ecstasy, LSD, Coke, Mushrooms, Mescaline, have been an integral part of campus drug culture for years and are inseparable from any conversation about marijuana legalization. The drugs listed are generally used in combination with Marijuana and obtained from the same sources. Meth, crack, heroin and a host of specialty concoctions are also available.

When I posed questions about drug use above and beyond pot smoking I got answers like an enthusiastic “Hell Ya” or “the works!!” from surprisingly innocent looking kids. The guy in the photo below surprised me by responding “anything I can get my hands on!!” when I asked him if his shirt referred to alcohol. 

“There is a progression in the minds of men: first the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then it becomes an orthodoxy whose truth seems so obvious that no one remembers that anyone ever thought differently. This is just what is happening with the idea of legalizing drugs: it has reached the stage when millions of thinking men are agreed that allowing people to take whatever they like is the obvious, indeed only, solution to the social problems that arise from the consumption of drugs.”  Theodore Dalrymple

Look like Barbie smoke like Marley is a reference to Bob Marley the international drug culture icon from Jamaica. Believe El Marco Barbie, you will never “smoke like Marley”.

I had the opportunity to photograph Mr. Marley before his early death from lung cancer which spread to his brain. I am well versed in the belief system, or lack thereof, of the Rastas of Jamaica. At age 16 I hitch-hiked  from Toronto to Miami and caught a cheap roundtrip ($65) to Montego Bay. I was on the verge of becoming an early anarcho-primitivist at the time. My misadventures traveling alone in Jamaica helped turn me around in the long run. But not soon enough to prevent me from dropping out of grade 10. I met many characters like Marley and learned a lot about them.

The main lesson was that some people will believe almost anything and that massive pot smoking doesn’t help the situation. Incoherent messianic mythology doesn’t begin to describe the Rastafarian worldview. Thats something the Rastas have in common with leftists worldwide.  The real tragedy of Bob Marley is not that he died so young. It’s that his “legend” has influenced so many young people from Bali to Boulder to abandon school and learning and descend into a world of countercultural nihilism.

Bob Marley in Concert by El Marco

Some of Marley’s stump-toothed followers from a previous generation were on hand to impart their universal wisdom to a new crop of “rebels.”

“Marijuana users themselves report poor outcomes on a variety of measures of life satisfaction and achievement.A recent study compared current and former long-term heavy users of marijuana with a control group who reported smoking cannabis at least once in their lives, but not more than 50 times. Despite similar education and incomes in their families of origin, significant differences were found on educational attainment and income between heavy users and the control group: fewer of the cannabis users completed college and more had household incomes of less than $30,000.

When asked how marijuana affected their cognitive abilities, career achievements, social lives, and physical and mental health, the overwhelming majority of heavy cannabis users reported the drug’s deleterious effect on all of these measures.”   NIDA

A recent study of over 300 fraternal and identical twin pairs, who differed on whether or not they used marijuana before the age of 17, found that those who had used marijuana early had elevated rates of other drug use and drug problems later on, compared with their twins, who did not use marijuana before age 17. This study re-emphasizes the importance of primary prevention by showing that early drug initiation is associated with increased risk of later drug problems, and it provides more evidence for why preventing marijuana experimentation during adolescence could have an impact on preventing addiction. NIDA
Continue reading It’s 4:20. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

Today – Tax Day – many…ordinary, decent, Obama-fearing folk have gathered at Tea Party events in 500 locations across the US to protest against rising taxes and the ever increasing role of Big Government in their lives.       - Telegraph, U.K. 

How has the Obama machine responded? Well, funnily enough, in a manner which would surely meet the approval of its Socialist counterparts on this side of the pond: by smearing the the opposition.

This smear takes the form of a nine-page memorandum recently released to police and sheriff departments across America called “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”. It was produced by the US’s Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and Analysis office, to help police spot the tell-tale signs indicating potentially dangerous right wing extremism. They include:

1. Being unimpressed by America’s first “African-American” president.
2. Objecting to tax hikes.
3. Disliking big government.
4. Talking concernedly about the state of the economy and job loss, especially in the manufacturing and construction sectors.
5. Opposition to abortion, gay marriage and gun control.
   Continue reading • Evil Right Wing Extremists Who Would Destroy America Gather in Denver

WARD CHURCHILL, HITLER, AL-HUSSEINI, ARAFAT and the Terrorists of September 11 

As Ward Churchill’s lawsuit against the University of Colorado ends its second week, followers of Churchill gear up for a rally of support. El Marco takes a look at Churchill’s supporters, and at the followers of Adolf Eichmann who attacked America on 9/11. Yes, there is a huge, unreported, Adolf Eichmann connection to Islamic terror groups. 

“You don’t send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action.
You don’t send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action. Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker’s suit.

And why by the way did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago? ”        - Ward Churchill   

Ward Churchill and his lawyer David Lane in July, 2007. Here he is on campus carrying plastic water pipes which he claimed represented an ancient American Indian tradition to do with parleys with enemies. Shortly after this photo was taken he was fired from his job as Professor and Department Head of Ethnic Studies at CU Boulder, University of Colorado. 

Since 9/11 Prof. Ward Churchill became the darling of the American left with comments like this:

“As for those in the World Trade Center … Well, really, let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire — the ‘mighty engine of profit’ to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved — and they did so both willingly and knowingly… If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it.”

Churchill’s supporters in Denver created these posters (below) and published them on their website. Despite Churchill’s denials and backpedaling that he was referring only to capitalist pigs as ” Little Eichmanns”, his comrades/worshipers have not a single doubt about their hero’s intended meaning. These posters depict average Americans drinking coffee, reading the paper, and shopping as “Eichmanns”.

Continue reading • Americans Are Not “Little Eichmanns”

“Professor” Ward Churchill is suing The University of Colorado, accusing the school of violating his free speech rights. The jury trial began today in Denver. His argument is that he is being persecuted for his political beliefs. In 2007 the University of Colorado’s Governing Board found that he plagiarized, lied, falsified historical data and generally abused history, period.

Lonely Churchill supporter at 9:30 AM as the jury selection begins on the first day of trial in Denver. This ACLU board member from Colorado Springs asked “Where are the other supporters?” Well there were no others but this guy is a good specimen none the less.            Note ACLU T-shirt.

Churchill’s assertion that politics motivated their decision to fire him is like a man who is convicted of bludgeoning his mother, and comes back on appeal and says he’s being persecuted for hating her. In Wards case his Academic Misconduct is published on paper in black and white instead of black and blue.  

To understand a man’s actions or crimes, the law considers motives, but the University of Colorado (CU Boulder) did not look at his motives as a criminal court does. Ward is the one bringing up his politics as his defense, but he is only highlighting his motive for committing the academic “crimes” he was found guilty of. This is a good development, as it will clarify to the public what is in this man’s heart and what inspires him and other Marxist pseudo-academics.

 The irony of a man calling for the total destruction of the nation, appealing to it’s powerful courts to protect him from his academic peers is not lost on the average citizen.

 Ward was found guilty of fabricating and distorting the history of a smallpox epidemic that decimated Mandan Indian villages on the Missouri River prior to the arrival of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Why would a professor do that? Because he is not really a professor. Like Karl Marx, he is not interested in the truth, only in proclaiming it. He is an ideologue. 

Genocide is the “blood libel” against America, essential to anti-American Marxist ideology. The genocide myth is just that: a myth. The spread of smallpox was a natural occurrence and zero evidence exists of any governmental or other policy to spread it intentionally to Native American populations. The vast majority of smallpox victims had died before the arrival of the first immigrants from England. 

So, Ward lied and twisted the truth to bolster the “blood libel” and incite his students to revolutionary action. His “crimes” are academic. He was found guilty of  Falsification, Plagiarism, Research Misconduct, Fabrication, Academic Misconduct, Disrespect of Indian oral traditions and Fraud. Polemic disguised as scholarship. He was motivated by ideology and hate. 

Ward is not unique, only emblematic of a widespread problem in the American educational system. Unrepentant terrorist Professor Bill Ayers came to Ward’s defense last week on campus in Boulder. “There’s no doubt in my mind he was persecuted because of his politics,” Ayers said before appearing with Churchill at a student rally on academic freedom at the University of Colorado. Billy  Ayers, is a leader of the growing educational “reform” movement. Ayers was recently elected vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation’s largest organization of education school professors and researchers.

  Bill Ayers’ presence gives this case a national focus that extends right into Obama’s Oval Office.

 Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. – Coloradans love their western heritage. Every summer during Goldens Buffulo Bill Days pretend Indians and Indigeous Americans alike take over the main street to comemerate the history of this idilyc foothills town. Out west playing oldtime cowboys and Indians is a big deal. Unfortunately, over at the University of Colorado in Boulder, some thirty miles away, there is an adult who has taken playing Indian to a bizarre extreme. 

 Unlike those who celebrate Native American history, Ward Churchill masquerades as an Indigenous American in a shoot from the lip, Marxist hate campaign to destroy the U.S.A. He has drawn a firestorm of criticism from real American Indians for exploiting his fraudulent claims of Indian ancestry. This letter (below) posted on the American Indian Movement website sums it up.   

“Ward Churchill has been masquerading as an Indian for years behind his dark glasses and beaded headband. He waves around an honorary membership card that at one time was issued to anyone by the Keetoowah Tribe of Oklahoma. Former President Bill Clinton and many others received these cards, but these cards do not qualify the holder a member of any tribe. He has deceitfully and treacherously fooled innocent and naïve Indian community members in Denver, Colorado, as well as many other people worldwide.”

Nee Gon Nway Wee Dung, aka, Clyde H. Bellecourt, Ojibwa Nation
National Executive Director
American Indian Movement

Dennis J. Banks, Ojibwa Nation
Chairman of the Board
American Indian Movement

 Yes, they are very, very, angry at this pale face impostor. So angry that they created this cartoon and posted it on the American Indian Movement web site.

                                                              LITTLE BIG MOUTH  

Note the A.I.M. T-shirt is included in the kit. 70’s RADICAL MODEL… scare your folks (on side of box)

In 2005 the Rocky Mountain News published a genealogy of Churchill, and reported “no evidence” that he had even “a single Indian ancestor.” A Denver Post genealogical investigation drew the same conclusion.

 Ward has made some people of european ancestry in Colorado angry also. In 1978 he went over to University of Colorado at Boulder and told them his fake Indian story. They gave him a job as an affirmative action officer. The worm was inside the apple now and with a ravenous appetite.

Continue reading • Ward Churchill Trial in Denver – Education is the Motor Force of Revolution

As Obama arrived at Denver International Airport, hundreds of citizens gathered on the steps of the Colorado State Capital to let their disagreement with Obama’s economic policies be known.

“FDR’s Treasury secretary and close friend, Henry Morganthau, conceded this fact to Congressional Democrats in May 1939: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an enormous debt to boot!”     – Thanks to Patrick 

Last week President Obama stated that ”economists from across the political spectrum agree” on the need for massive government spending to stimulate the economy. In fact, many economists disagree. Hundreds of them, including Nobel laureates and other prominent scholars, signed a statement that the Cato Institute placed in major newspapers across the United States. 

The grassroots crowd showed up as a result of hearing about it on talk radio and emails from friends. One group that organized the rally is Americans for Prosperity.

Continue reading • Colorado Says No To Obama’s Package of Pork

EL MARCO takes his camera on a tour of the new blue state of Colorado.
Psychedelic cops, One World Cafe, Obamamania, Stoners for Obama, and Radical Colorado  

Continue reading • Red State Gone Blue. Colorado

Recently I returned to Indonesia to visit Balinese friends, with whom I worked for much of the 1990’s. I found a land and a people painfully changed in the aftermath of the 2002 and 2005 terrorist bombings.

Jimbaran Beach, Bali, one of the targets of the second Bali bombings on October 1, 2005.  Twenty people were killed, and 129 were injured. The murderers were al Qaeda’s  Jemaah Islamiah terrorists. Three were executed in Java today. The executions sparked joy and trepidation in Australia.

Above, a Balinese Hindu man and son walk together at sunset. Just over the horizon, to the west, is Java. The Hindu land of Bali is small and has a population of 3 million. Ruled from the island of Java, two miles away, the Balinese face increasing Muslim migration. Java has a mainly Muslim population of 125 million squeezed into an area half the size of California.
Continue reading • Islam Clouds Bali’s Horizon

I met longtime Bill Clinton advisor Dick Morris in Denver. He is doing political consulting work in the Ukraine and other countries that are struggling to build democracy. He understands what tyranny is, and was more than happy to hold a sign produced by thePeoplesCube.com.

Before you vote, read Morris’ book Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It.

My buddy Red, from The Peoples Cube, staged a one man protest in Denver. Being a refugee from the Soviet Union, he understands fascism when he sees it. Being a Joe the Plumber type guy, he is wary of reprisals from liberals in the new America Obama is creating. Obama does not let dissent go unpunished. 

Continue reading • Dissent Against Radical Leftist Obama is Patriotic

Nine days before the 2008 Presidential election, the Obama campaign held a rally in Denver, a “blue” city in the important swing state of Colorado. Behind me, looking east towards the State Capitol, there were tens of thousands of people.

Civic Center Park: facing west, towards the stage.

Not only were there a lot more people than at the McCain rally two days earlier, but there were a lot more displays of veneration for the candidate.
Continue reading • Festival of Obama, October 26, 2008