picture this: pinko is back, and cey what you will, but i find his pictures artestic

last night, i was watching something that goes by the name of the news. there was a segment on how "crime" is up at the boston public library. it turns out the "crime" is basically the homeless hanging out there because they have no other place to go. this is supposedly a crime. funny, but i thought the crime was that one of the richest cities in the world has thousands of homeless. i thought the crime was that people have no where else to go during the day than to sit in the library. for those of you who don't know, it is getting cold in boston. don't the homeless have the right to keep warm? don't the homeless have the right to use the public buildings of our city? is it now a crime to sit down in a chair of the local library and read. if a man had on a nice suit and a cell phone, and decided to spend the day sitting in the library, would this be a "crime?"
i visualize a different kind of news channel, one that emphasizes the crime of the high cost of living, the criminally high rents, the outrageous oil prices, the increasing cost of public transit, the lack of quality health care, foreclosures, failing public schools, illiteracy, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-immigrant bigotry, and alienating labor. one that exposes the lies of our imperial aggressions, the corruption of corporations, and the plethora of preventable diseases.
in this day and age, what constitutes a crime? what is the crime, the homeless, or the system that produces homelessness? i suppose it is asking a lot of a media owned by disney, or ge, to get to the root causes of oppression, but even the average american should be able to see that the crime has been committed against those who have become homeless, and not the other way around.
or am i giving him too much credit? for the last time i checked, the "average american" is still waiving the flag and saying the pledge and buying yellow ribbons and watching nascar and forming militias and watching mel gibson movies and blaming affirmative action and immigrants and some faceless enemy called "liberals" for all their troubles. many a crime has been committed against them as well, but through my anger, i often forget this. it seems that the world is one big rapist that is taking our innocence and creativity and identities from us, one by one. we need to fight off this attack, this "crime" against us all.
put that on your news, you corporate capitalist ball sucks.