Your Heroes? Random Top 5.

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On Paul Sanford

Postby Seventhsonjr » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:00 pm

theeKultleeder wrote:
Seventhsonjr wrote:and my friend Atty Paul Sanford, murdered just a year ago (christmas eve 2006) after asserting at a white house press conference that Karl Rove's outing of Valerie Plame was treason.


That's fucked. Someone should write a story about it. You should submit info (with family's permission) to a journalist we trust around here.

Reminds me of I worked with a lady who says her friend in college was a major Gulf "War" One protester who was harassed and went crazy - like hospitalized crazy - who remains disturbed and medicated to this day. But she refused to give me any more info or go on the record. She was scared.


If you google Attorney Paul Sanford you will get the story.

I have posted about him before when a mutual friend told me about the suspicious circumstances of his death and the months leading up to it. He also represented the man in the case objecting to "under God" in the pledge of allegiance.

He was a very good man and in no way do I believe his death was a suicide. No one close to him believes that it was.
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:38 pm

Cos they haven't been posted (in no particular order, there's probably more and I dunno if heroes is the right word for all them):

Ned Kelly

Joe Hill

Randolph Bourne

Glen Archer (tho I think hes actually younger than me.)

Datu Efren Mandipensa (who else could give a John Denver song meaning and call him a prophet and get away with it.)

Pemulwuy

Archie Roach

Edwin Moses

The magic pudding

Terrence McKenna

RAW

And of course

My parents and grandparents
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Postby theeKultleeder » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:37 pm

Also this one (for real!):

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Postby compared2what? » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:00 pm

Amen to Joe Hill.

I'd also like to add:

Leonard Peltier
Vivienne Westwood
Jeff Wells

The hero's narrative makes strange bedfellows.
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Postby 8bitagent » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:48 am

theeKultleeder wrote:Also this one (for real!):

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Oh hellll yeah!

Bill Hicks for the win. Some of Patton Oswalt's stuff comes close to being pretty edgy, but Bill Hicks...man. I could JUST imagine what he'd have to say in a post 9/11 world if he was still alive. (Alex Jones was spose to play him in a film incidentally...and now Jack Black is spose to play Alex Jones in "Them")
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Postby judasdisney » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:01 am

So many great examples here that had escaped my own list. Time to make a real "masterlist" and keep it handy to remind me why I should keep going.

Thanks for all the great reminders.
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Postby §ê¢rꆧ » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:53 am

Terrence Mckenna
Phoolan Devi
Sibel Edmonds
William Rodriguez
Robert Anton Wilson
Stephen Hawking
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Alan Turing
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Lots of 'outgrown' heroes, like Hakim Bey, Aleister Crowley, Tim Leary, Nivek Ogre, Pancho Villa. The list changes constantly, but the ones at top are the most recent. An interesting exercise.
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Postby Jeff » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:56 am

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Postby King_Mob » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:55 pm

Robert Anton Wilson
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Grant Morrison
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Cynthia Mckinney
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Neil Young
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Gottfried Leibniz
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Postby jingofever » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:24 pm

Elvis
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Jim Morrison
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Moses
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Doc Holliday
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Lieutenant Iceman Kazanksy
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Postby Seamus OBlimey » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:57 pm

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Postby bringcosby » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:17 pm

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Postby chlamor » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:31 pm

Eugene Debs

Lou Brock

Sojourner Truth

Mr. Norskog

Vandana Shiva

Wendell Berry

Michael Parenti

Cesar Chavez

Steve Prefontaine

Muhammad Ali

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr.

Peter Norman
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