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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Japans Fascist Future - Josh Craft & Ian Adams

Back to the Beginning - Dana Sami

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Twenty Years or Two Months - Hugo Ace

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Your Complimentary Dwarven Government - Aaron Rosenberg

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Homo the Documentary - Aaron Rosenberg & Ian Adams

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Poetry - Katie Lee McNeil

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Poetry - Hugo Ace

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JAPANS FASCIST FUTURE

Josh Craft
&
Ian Adams

For decades, Japan has stood at the forefront of
cultural progression in many respects. With its advancements in personal technologies, industrial infrastructure,
automotive safety, and much more, the isle is arguably
leaps and bounds beyond the rest of the globe. In one of
its most commonly underwritten but vitally impressive
and admirable regards, Japan has lived a 70-year stint
without entering into a single war, and retained no standing army, following the disarmament treaty in the Second
World Wars aftermath. It should be said that this was not
due to the Japanese people as a whole realizing that war
was atrocious after the twin atomic attacks by the United
States, but rather as a punishment by that victorious nation once the dust cleared. The United States government,
led by President Harry S. Truman and Five Star General and Field Marshal of the
Philippian Army Douglas MacArthur, drafted a new constitution for the nation after
the unconditional surrender.

In this constitution, Article 9 states:

Meaning that the nation of Japan was legally forbidden from having armed
forces of any sort or resolving any dispute by way of warfare. In the event of invasion
or attack by hostile forces, Japan did have its psuedo-army; the Japan Self-Defense

Forces, which while dormant, currently holds the seventh largest military expenditure in the world. As could be expected, the nation was adamantly resistant to the
massive shift in the organization of Japanese power at the time of the disarmament,
but public and official opinion came to accept it as a viable, agreeable way of the
country functioning, without armed conflicts. The article widely grew to be seen as
a sort of moral and practical badge of honor, setting a precedence for international
relations and global peace efforts, garnishing extensive domestic support over the
years. The country could defend itself if necessary, but would remain absolved from
and above involving itself in violence between nations.

And so in 2013, things became politically complex in the nation of Japan when
the Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister Shinzo Abewho was originally elected in 2007, then eventually forced to resign after a series of scandals oriented around
members of his cabinet (and his officially cited poor health) before being re-elected
in late 2012began taking adamant steps to assert an aggressive nationalist agenda,
something Abe called proactive pacifism, a campaign that coincided with the LDP
taking a supermajority in the Parliament. The most historically significant advent
of Abes new approach was a massive revision of Article 9 this past July, one which
empowers Japan to once again have rightful claim to collective self-defense, or the
defense of national allies against so-deemed opposing threats. National and global
condemnation at this simple notion was immediate and immense, but the detail at
the heart of the troublesome amendment is that Abe passed the measure without engaging any aspect of the legal constitutional amendment process. There was no vote,
no recorded intergovernmental discourse, no parliamentary hearingno democratic consensus of any kind, rendering the revision quite plainly as an act of textbook
despotism within an officially democratic constitutional monarchy.

Yet the disturbing narrative of Abes administration does not at all cease here.
In fact, this brazen proclamation of legally untrammeled state power is only made
doubly malicious and foreboding when it is contextualized within the alarming developments of last year, surrounding the formation of Abes National Security Council, and the states subsequent implantation of new secrecy laws, which serve primarily to reduce state obligation toward transparency or due process, while also simply
dismantling any semblance of democratic discourse through its targeting of the
media (and thereby free speech), and it follows quite logically then, as a very viable
means of imprisoning dissenters. Local and foreign protests over this development
were sustained and complex to the extent that they merely integrated to include,
rather than separately precede, the protests over the dictatorial amendment of Arti-

cle 9.

But to grasp at the initial fervent reaction toward the secrecy law by the Japanese public, it is necessary to return to the fall of 2013. Previously disgraced prime
minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party (which should not be compared to the American Democratic Party, as the LDP is a rather conservative party
holding political values such as; small government, playing to capitalist interest, and
holding traditionalist values that included opposing the same-sex marriage bills put
to vote) had just been reelected after his aforementioned shameful leave of office in
2007, when members of his administration were implicated in fraudulent use of federal funds for private matters. One such cabinet member committed suicide rather
than face the courts. In an unrelated instance, Abes Defense Minister, Fumio Kyumaa native of Nagasaki, and its representative in lower parliamentresigned after
defending Americas actions in WWII, during a public address where he said I now
have come to accept in my mind that in order to end the war, it could not be helped
that an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and that countless numbers of people suffered great tragedy. Abe merely remarked, without any sign of condemnation,
that Kyumas statement had unfortunately caused misunderstandings. So this is
what the Japanese people were dealing with prior to Abes storied, strange return to
office (the first of its kind in Japanese history), and the power grabs which followed.

Upon Abes return, less than a year into his time in office, with a cabinet made
of several members from his previous, he proposed the National Security Council.
Headed by Abe and other appointees, the council was intended to analyze and distill
the flow of information to the public and other nation. The content and specific aims
of the council were unspecified beyond this, and it was widely seen as a step toward
obfuscatory and authoritarian secrecy. A public outcry led to Abe assuring that records would be kept of all council meetings, and thereby be accessible to inquiring
minds.

But then something changed. The NSC records would be kept, but would be no
longer accessible after Abes passing of the draconian Act on Protection of Specified
Secretsor what is commonly called the Special Secrecy Lawwherein the Japanese
government can declare any action regarding the newly ambulatory military, foreign
policy, or an intelligence operation a Special Secret, with those who would dare
reveal any such secret facing a decade in prison or more. In the same problematically
narrow and forceful way that the alteration to Article 9 of the Japanese constitution
was altered a year later, the Special Secret Bill became law on October the 25th of
2013, and will officially be enforced in October of this year. During the introduction

of the legislationwhich would affect not only all members of government but any
civilians (i.e. journalists, whistleblowers, dissenters) who revealed a (newly redefined) state secretthe supermajority-holding LDP silenced the debate and went
straight on to passing Abes bill. Opposition party leader Hirokazu Shiba ran to the
house speaker, throwing papers wildly about the floor and cried out This is the way
the reign of terror begins! As he was physically held back from any further action
by fellow lawmakers.

Afterward, an opposition MP, Mizuho Fukushima described how there are
few specifics in the law, which means it can be used to hide whatever the government wishes to keep away from public scrutiny, and that in its current form, the
prime minister can decide by himself what constitutes a secret; meaning that the
law is, in effect, a technical context for classical fascist quashing of not only of conscious dissent but of any activity which the state deems detrimental to the reach and
efficiency of its own power. The Justice Minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, has already
stated that police raids of newspapers suspected of violating the edict are an eventual
possibility. Causing even more ire is the relevant of the law in relation to the ongoing, daily dread and hardship that occurs as a result of 2012s Fukushima disaster
an issue about which the state has already been notably deceptive and dishonest.
An immense effort nationally and abroad has been undertaken not only to uncover
accurate and complete information about the ongoing nuclear contamination in the
Pacific Ocean and on land, but to push officials to make tangible efforts toward the

fallout to an extent which would

only be possible upon complete
acknowledgement and disclosure.
Sure enough, however, Japans state
minister, Masako Moriwho is
overseeing the processing and status of the bill, has already admitted
that the new bill could be applied to
secrets regarding the nuclear power
industry, being that plants are terrorist-targets, and as Abe has asserted time and again, the law is meant
to service national security, particularly to keep intelligence out of terrorist hands.

And to that end, the bill contains a curious, revisionist definition of terrorism;
any action which aims to impose political and other principles or opinions on the
state or other people, not merely violence, as it is otherwise historically defined.
This majorly jeopardizes freedom of press and assembly. The bill also notes that
journalists may be indicted for improperly accessing and/or conspiring to release
classified intelligenceand the mere request for classified intelligence is now defined
as an act of conspiracy. That would land one five years in prison, while facilitating
the actual release of sensitive documents sees a minimum of ten years. Perhaps one
of the most outrageous details that critics have noted is that the freedom the bills
prose allots the state means that since anything documented can be classified under
the lawany mere scandal, say, any criminal activity by a cabinet member, or perhaps even a simple archetypal extramarital affairbe it have a presence in official
documentsis something that a journalist could face a decade in prison for exposing. And let us not disregard the laws same applicability to public servants, whom as
Keiichi Kiriyama of the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper points out, could become wary
about giving information to journalists, equaling a sizable threat to democracy.

The reaction of the Japanese public was no less enflamed over the last year Abe
has returned to politics. With opinion polls showing both of these legal alterations to
the shape of Japan to be at between 81% and 91% disapproval, it is unsurprising that
there would be such a rancorous outcry, even from a nation who culturally tends to
not openly articulate disapproval in such ways. Protests and public demonstrations
have been held on public streets for weeks in opposition to the governments latest
actions. The publics disapproval has been encapsulated in the general fear that Japan

will return to building empire. Before the fall of the Emperor (though there is still a
royal-blooded family in a seat in the nation) the Japanese concerned and colonized
great swaths of the south Pacific islands, China and portions of Russia. Now, the
common men and women and variations thereupon fear, now with a sizable amount
of justification that the secrecy lawcoming months before the alterations to Article
9 mean Japanwith Prime Minister Abe at the helm, intends to set out liberating
neighboring nations by implanting their own rulers who would answer to Abe.

Relatedly, Japan has an under-addressed issue with its race relations. Few Japanese could be said to be racist (or at least overt racists) though there is still friction
in a country whose population is hardly over 1% non-Japanese. Some unpleasant
though not immediate harmful, referring to disposable film cameras as bakachon
camera (literally stupid Korean Camera i.e. so easy a dumb Korean can do it) and
some is overtly and harrowing. Neo-Conservative group Zaitokukai stands as a pure
race party. It is in favor of removing the 1% of non-natives from the nation on the
grounds that they claim all non-Japanese races to be inferior, (with particular vitriol for Koreans and the Chinese). During these upsets in political policy the racist
Zaitokukai group have made louder protests in public squares, such as the ones in
downtown Tokyo where nationalists protested the immigrants and the current state
of immigration, which some consider rather restrictive already. Those racist protesters were themselves met by more progressive counter-protestors who, against their

flags of the rising sun, held up signs in support of non-natives and LGBT citizens
(who are also disliked by the Zaitokukai organizers).

The significance of this is that the minority who hold radically nationalist
views support the Liberal Democratic Partys choices in reinvigorating the military
forces after nearly seven decades of passivity. And that though greatly improved,
there are institutionalized disparities between those from Japanese descent and those
from ethnicities outside the island. This underlying attitude of some Japanese lead
the international community to suspect that there would be less than national backlash to imperial expansion into once-claimed areas.

To the contrary however. the overwhelming reaction of the Japanese public
has been to push back against Shinzo Abe, the LDP and other conservative factions
with counter-protests. Thousands of people turned out at a massive rally held on the
streets of Tokyo in a demonstration called Tokyo Against Fascism where the young
and elderly alike echoed rally cries, held signs, and marched into the night to repeat
the sentiment that the new interpretation of the Japanese constitution was not only
wrong, but an attempt to reassert a fascist government who will squelch dissidents.

Printed and painted poster
boards displayed crumbling swastikas, Abes face with a Hitler mustache, and expletive-laced banners
expressing a shared disgust with the
consorted conservative partys move
to a warring nation. The protests
gained national attention from the
NHK News when people from not
only the major metropolitan areas
or Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, but the more rural areas have
seen movements to gather with the
larger protests held nearer to the
capital city.

One of the most extreme and
thusly notable acts of protest to the
Liberal Democratic Party and PM
Abes actions occurred at 1:23 pm
on June 29th, in the weeks after the

initial controversy around the amendment had begun. An unnamed man sat, legs
crossed, atop a foot bridge along the southern end of the Shinjuku Station for those
exiting the bullet train. He yelled at passersby on the sidewalk below through a bullhorn about his disdain for his governments motions toward a fascist state where information is suppressed and the liberty of its people are second to its officials wants.
In between his exclamations the man was seen drinking a dark liquid from a jar,
heavily implied to not be alcohol. Dressed in a fine dark suit the man struck a match
and said that he would kill himself by immolation to fully convey to the government
that there should not be any further
pursuit to involve Japan in war. In
the sight of hundreds of pedestrians
commuting home at the time, he
burned alive in a form of protest deliberately similar to that of the Vietnamese during the time of the American involvement in the war against
a communist factionalthough,
stunningly, reports indicate the man
survived his aggrieved exhibition.
This is the situation thus far. One
might deduce that things are quite
dire in Japan in various regards, and
the international community seems
to agree, one country that is not
concernedand whose relevance to
the situation may be the key to understanding why exactly all of this
is happening, and happening right
now is the Unites States. Weeks of
mass protest by the Japanese population and international inquiry into the upsets
aside, the US has expressed immense approval over its close allys legally- challenged
conceits, and has been apparently waiting for something more or less along the lines
of Abes new agenda to take shape. When Caroline Kennedy was recently appointed as an ambassador to Japan, she noted that one of her focuses would be military
ties, as well as supporting a secrecy law. The US has yet to comment on the disputed
legality (or morality) of the amendment. When one assesses the interpretive sig-

nificance of the USs good spirits on the matter, it is important to note that the US
has maintained a sizable political interest and presence in Japanese affairs, ranging
from continued American defense aid, to the still-active US military bases throughout Japan. The US is generally seen as holding its greatest role in the region of the
Pacific through Japan, (not unlike our relationship to Great Britain). Experts have
pointed out that the nature of the secrecy law is not only designed similar to previous and current American policy (though in some regards surpasses their tyrannical nuances), but that it directly benefits the United States immensely. In Kennedys
words, heightened national security in Japan would allow for seamless sharing of
information between allies. Despite the intrinsic tyranny of the new law, it is also
worth noting that Japan has suspiciously not had a history of whistleblowers like
the US, and its freedom of information has been weak compared to the US as well
over the years. Certainly in the age of Wikileaks, Edward Snowden, and Chelsea
Manning, there is a national precedence amongst authoritarian states for advances
measures to be taken, but this has not been a major concern for the Japanese government. Michael Cucek, a research associate based in Tokyo for MITs Center for
International Studies, has been quoted as saying that the law is really only for the
U.S., only for U.S. consumption, intended to reassure and serve American power,
reaffirm the bond between the two nations now that Japan has the capability to offer
America military support, all of this presumably in regards to Americas antagonism
with Japans neighboring North Korea and China. The thrust and depth of American
empire is enough that the Japanese population will now suffer and face a more strangling tyranny in order to benefit our government. All of this, the protests, the eventual arrests, imprisonments, further suffering related to shadowy Fukushima, points
back to US involvement. This is the ecology of dominance and force. One authoritarian superpower foresees eventual conflict and bittering conditions with regard to
another authoritarian superpower, so the ally of the first opts to agreeably harshen
its own oppressiveness given that it is able to gain more power by doing so. Because
then both allies gain more power, and advance their chances at seizing the power of
the enemya process which, of course, continues, until only allies are left, whom
then become enemies. A process which continues until there is nothing, nor anyone
left. Power erases itself. A government exists to hold power. The essential subject of a
governments power, its primary enemy, is its own population. It must offend against
its own people in order to enact its power, and it also, at times such as these, defend
itself against its own people in order to maintain its power. Governments need to lie
to their populations as an expression of powerand as a practical defense against

the population taken the offensive against the stateso that the population does not
know what the government is doing to them (or, allowing to happen to them, in the
case of Fukushima), and to other people around the world. Like any other authoritarian state, the Japanese secrecy bill has been explained as a security measure. Protection from information, for security, even though secrecy is insecurityassuring
the population they are not safe from a state that isolates itself from its population,
affirms the dominant and submissive roles at play, and feels it has much to gain from
not being transparent with its population. The state offends its own people to hide its
offenses against its own people and then tells them it is doing so in order to protect
them.

One might ask Chelsea Manning if this makes
sense. Thanks in great part
to his captors, one can now
soon ask the Japanese if this
makes sense. This evening,
Tokyo is going to illuminate
itself and vibrate with all
of its wondrous neon glut,
robotic intuition, its woeful
and bombastic capitalistic
furor, its pop-art enthusiasm radiating through the worrisomely toxic non-night air.
Wonder and terror hand in hand, the city embodies the ambiguous state of Japans
futurea future half-prescribed by the West, and toward which the West throttles
daily with each new Apple product, gentrification project, and biotechnological
advancement. In regards far more admirably than these though, Japan has rested at
the cusp of the future. Yet for now, this same night, Japan marches forwardholding
itself by the throat, with its eyes fixed adoringly at the past.
(photos from revolution-news.com)

BACK TO THE BEGINNING

Dana Sami

Goddamn it! Godnamn, motherfucking- cock in pussy spunking, damn it all
to hell!

So, Im sort of the arts correspondent for the Modern Corsair. I cover the big
artistic things you should invest in seeing while you can. But the arts have been a bit
dry this month so I asked to do something on not the arts. And so what I was going
to talk about was this really cool, fun story out of Huston, Texas about a UFO that
appeared through the aftermath of a major electrical storm. And I was going to link
a video and show a lot of pictures paranoid conspiracy nut jobs took of these lights
in the epic looking darkened sky. But no. I cant. I do not get to talk about wacky
southerners drawling along about alien visitors, and lights, and saucers, and probing
(all on my list of favorite things) because I must now speak on something serious. I
didnt want to. My hand has been forced. And now with the UFO story put on the
shelf for the time being, Ill get to the heart of the matter.

So, there have been three times that President Obama has moved me on an
intimate level with a speech. In the talented orators lifes body of work they are
ranked number one: When Osama Bin Ladin
was announced to have been killed by a strategic operation by Seal Team Six in his compound
in Islamabad. Three, (this is how Im ordering
things because this is my essay) was at the death
of Robin Williams, and what a generous, kind,
king of a man the world had lost.
Id have written about Robins life but it happened a bit too late in my writing process. And
two, also related to a death, was the murder of
Floridian child Trayvon Martin by shooter George Zimmerman when the president
made a rather open address in the White Houses press room. In his speech Barack
Obama revealed personal instances of discrimination he faced in his own life; being
followed in shops, the clicking of car locks as one walks the street, and seeing white
folk tension up in the presence of a young black man. He reminded the American
people that this is the way the system of Law works in the Land of the Free-ish.
Some people, dependent on their skin color will be presumed guilty, before the facts

have come, even though the law would

say we should all be assumed innocent
until proven otherwise. That speech hit
me. It hit me, because Ive had the benefit of growing up in a time, and a part
of the nation that could be mistaken as
post-racial. I lived in Orange County, which has been confirmed to be the
most integrated among ethnic diversity in the entire fifty states. Meaning I
lived in a town that had a population
who actually looked like the poster in
the dentists office, people from every background lived in a near even mathematical percentile in this one aria. What that means is I sometimes forget that people
like Zimmerman, or Cliven Bundy (who threatened a shoot off to the FBIs face) or
the Timothy McVeighs (or any of those asshole Sovereign citizen people) exist. And
thats not a great thing. Because forgetting they exist is nice for the time but it helps
no one. Thinking it is nice, but we arent in a post-racial nation. People exist who
criticize the president not on the just grounds they should or can but pick scrapes
because they dont like that a black man is president. Actor and singer Donald Glover was at the center of a barrage of hate online (many calling him by the N-word) to
him even suggesting he would like to play Spiderman before the film had been cast.
And this inequality for the Black community in America is clear in the events still
unfolding a stones throw from St Louis, in Ferguson, Missouri.

On August the 9th a young man walking home with a childhood friend was
stopped by an erratically driving police officer. The officer stopped them by maneuvering his squad car head of them. After that the official story was that the officer in
question found on of these young men had shoplifted a candy bar from a local shop
and resisted the officer (in some way unspecified at first) then later revealed that the
youth reached for the officers firearm. One warning shot was sent. The officer then
opened fire whereupon one of the youths was killed.

As time passed more information came to light, as nonviolent demonstrations
against what had happened were organized by his family and loved ones. The young
man who was shot dead in the streets of Ferguson, MO was named Michael Brown
only just 18 years old. His best friend Dorian Johnson reported to CNN affiliates that
he and others in the neighborhood were eye witness to Browns murder. He stated
that there was no theft beforehand (a statement the store corroborate and the po-

lice changed in the official report

later). Both were in casual conversation when the officer appeared
in his squad car and demanded
they both Get the fuck on the
sidewalk, now! over the speaker
system. They in some short way
communicated they were both
blocks from home where they had
been headed when the officer left.
The cop then reappeared swerving
to block the road. Both Michael
and Dorian were shaken at how
close the car came to hitting them
when the officer gripped Michael
by the throat and warned he
would shoot should they resist
him as he shot Michael at close
range. The two boys ran from the
police officer as he struggled to
emerge from his vehicle. Dorian saw his friend shot twice more as he was running.
After ducking behind a parked car Dorian ran for home as the officer came near to
the most likely already dead Brown and unloaded what the coroner said had to have
been seven more rounds.

As the police department in Ferguson continued to change their story the media came upon the protesters chanting Hands up, Dont shoot, and what the news
and bloggers found was Johnsons story of what the real events leading to his friends
demise matched that of others with haunting similarity. So the stink of corruption
rising from the law officers like body odor on a post-show Henry Rollins the media
demanded more of the police including the officer in the wrongs name. The department refused to comply on the grounds that it may endanger his life saying nothing
of Michael Browns life.

Moving on to the 11th, two days after Brown was gunned down by a rouge
policeman and left in the open street for four hours, the protests of the police actions
came under fire. Literally. Swat teams roved the streets as though in a hostile territory and opened fire on the nonviolent protesters chanting against the brutality shown
and holding signs demanding punishment be served to the man who killed an in-

nocent. Firing teargas at thus on the front lines and then riddling the gas cloud with
rubber bullets the police repeated to their chanting via loudspeaker, like a mantra,
meditatively calm over the screams for mercy, and guns firing and banks of white
chemicals shrouding the residential streets YOUR RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE IS NOT
BEING INFRINGED!

On the 12th a number of reporters, national and local, were arrested while
on the job for undisclosed reasons. Several others were arrested as well. Hours later
some were released, but by this point the police had accessed ex-military vehicles to
barricade the roads going into Ferguson. The news and other forms of
media are not being aloud past the
police barricade around the town.
Over Ferguson there has been a no fly
zone declared by local officers.

Reports coming out of Ferguson
for the time are on social media websites like Twitter and Youtube. One
video uploaded by an amateur reporter showed the police in tank-like
vehicles, in protective armor firing on
the unarmed, and passive protesters.
Though the images are disturbing it is
a highly illuminating example of what
standard practice is in the area. Some
mistaken reports who wished to cast the protestors in a negative light claimed that
those people protesting police brutality were lobbing Molotov cocktails at officers,
when in fact the images shown were of protesters re-volleying tear gas canisters.

A large collection of African American teens were assaulted and arrested for
wrongful loitering, when they attempted to clean up after the chaos of the police
night raids on the black neighborhoods. In some images there was confuting as
some smoke walls rising from this Missouri suburb were not caused by police tear
gas canisters. In video released on the 14th it was learned that police had set fires on
citizens privet property. For the nights that this went on the officers who did these
cruel, and more importantly illegal acts did so under anonymity. Even when those
brave enough to film the events as they transpired found all officers involved had
removed their tags and badges.

This means it is most likely that those in the swat gear will never answer for

what they did to terrify

American citizens in their
homes, on the basis of their
skin color. Washington Post
contributor Wesley Lowery quoted the president in
a tweet as he continued to
cover the unfolding events
among the protesting masses in town Here in the
United States police should
not be arresting journalists who are trying to do their jobs.

Governor Jay Nixon declined to make an appearance at the county fair on the
13th so that he might make a personal appearance to Ferguson. Once all press had
been released from police custody the line of questioning continued to Chief of Police Tom Jackson and his officers. After reiterating the claims of how no action further than a paid suspension of the officer who shot Michael Brown would be taken
do to it being in their minds a justified act of self-defense the press found very little
in the way of open cooperation form the police. Browns body was then returned to
his morning family along with the news that their sons shooter would be investigated. The Justice Department has filed for the Michael Brown shooting to have a Federal civil rights investigation. This news breaking came to a warm welcome among
the protesters of the murder and a paradigm shift in the police public response, sort
of. On that night police continued their volley of tear gas, rubber bullets and armored vehicles patrolling the streets. It is claimed that the aim here is to curb vandalism and looting, however only two instances of looting related to Michael Brown
have come to light.

Violence and disruption continue into the early hours of the 14th in Ferguson,

Missouri. In a publicized appearance the governor of the state clears the blocked
roads and holds an open press speech. In tandem president Obama sends his condolences to the Brown family and impresses upon local authorities to be open and
transparent as a federal inquiry over the force used in the killing of young Mr.
Brown and the days following. Governor Jay Nixon relieved most local officers as he
installed state officials to handle the fragmented and chaotic state of affairs in this
bombarded town. The temporary suspension of authority to the police in Ferguson
came just after the involvement of internet hacker and activist group Anonyms. They
first posted a series of screen grabs of racist tirades claiming they were from Ferguson Police Chief s wife
that read:
They are feral and violent. They murder each
other. They murder their
unborn babies. They
murder white people.
They hate police officers
and murder some of
them, even black ones.
They destroy neighbors
and entire cities They
live their lives off the
hard-earned tax dollars
of other Americans. Yet
somehow they are victims. What insanity is
that?

Though these quotes and numerous others brought about by Anonyms latter
turned up to be false. The internet group also claimed to reveal the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown to be released after a hack into privet police files. This
name has neither been confirmed or denied so Ill not put any half-truths in this
report. But individuals in the vicinity have been shunned by the suspended police
force. In a series of tweets sent out by women living near where Brown was killed
reporters learned what those still at their desks are saying to non-Journalists or politicians.

One Twitter user named Katelin D. said:

I just got off the phone with Ferguson PD. [1:32pm]

They are laughing at us!!! She was actually giggling hysterically when she picked
up!!! [1:34pm]
Bitch just told me When youve got your law degree, call back, sweetheart. And
hung up!!! [1:33pm]

An African American girl from near St Louis called the police in Ferguson as
well and her conversation with those officers on the line were nothing short of revolting.

The operator latterly I quote said I cant release that information but you black
monkeys need to stop calling your people have been blowing up our line all night.
And she hung up. [1:08am]
(Shaking my damn head). Feel like crying. So fucking shocked at what that operator
said, never had anybody say some foul shit like that to me before. [1:14am]
On the 14th, late in the day, the federally appointed officer who will be the interim
sheriff heading the affairs of policing in Ferguson entered. He came from the town of
Ferguson originally and claimed he wished to see peaceful resolution between those
protesting and the police of the city. People marching faced off with him declaring
No respect, no peace! The response Captain Johnson had was Agreed. He then
went on to lead along with those close to the victim in their march in the streets. As
the media gathers a more cogent view of events the regular police recede from view
or else have become far more passive, and less obtrusive.
So that is the state of affairs in Ferguson, Missouri. A black teen ager was killed by
a cop and it is unlikely that per the presidents request the police will be open and
transparent enough to willingly reveal the identity of Browns killer. His family and
friends like Dorian Johnson will stand their ground against a corrupted police department until true justice is brought down on those who have committed so many
barbarous acts against American citizens or protect those who would. So why did I
start this article off with Trayvon Martin? One, I as ether a realist or cynic feel that it
is unlikely that even after the Justice Department intervenes we will see the man who

did this to Michael Brown put away or really punished in any meaningful way. And
Barack Obama is write in saying the system works that way. It works with the hand
full of fervent racists who wish to bring about the downfall and turmoil of all nonwhite races. As long as a majority of people will sit idly by and say Thats bad, but
its not my business so Ill stay out, the legal and social institutions cannot improve.
It will take a consorted effort by all Americans of all sorts to ever hope of undoing
this revolting state of America where in African Americans are second to their white
counterparts.
As I watched the night vision
footage of violence and oppressed
wrights and as I was dogs released on open crowds having
not done wrong and as the press
was suppressed from covering
the increasingly shabby excuses
the police department had for the
wickedness with which they carried themselves I felt that America
had regressed. We found ourselves, not on television and radio
reports but on blogs and Twitter
feeds seeing the same horrors of
bigotry are grandparents and parents faced in the 1950s to 1960s.
The KKK chapters from around
the nation are demanding the
identity of Browns shooter so that
they can reward the one who
took out the Jew controlled Black
thug Again avenge black people in working class suburbs faced
an authority structure not only
against them, but brazenly against
them. There is no hint of subtlety,
nor attempt to pretend that this is
anything but institutionalized hate.
So what now will be the course of

action? In many ways US politics has not so much stagnated as reversed to an earlier
era. Yes, we have achieved some pot legalization, gay marriage, and finally federal
health reform, all in the last eight years. But we have the Tea Party with congressional candidates farther to the right than the 00s Republican Party, who get cheers
when a campaign promise is to repeal the 14th amendment.

When psychotics like Cliven Bundy clime their true freedom, the oft quoted
founding fathers sought out for him is to deny there even being a Federal government (or power higher than the county sheriff) and steal from the government by
not paying when his cattle graze on national land are propped up by Rupert Murdoch, until he innocently wonders if all African peoples were better off as slaves
rather than on the welfare, aborting their babies, in jail ad violent nauseam.

What I hope? I earnestly hope that no more people must die for there to be
recognition by the general public that things are seriously not kosher. I hope that
those who have done wrong, not just legally, but
ethically, will face some judgment (and not a hosesshit afterlife judgment ether). But there we are.
No post-racial harmony yet even with the black
president. One thing that would be a step in the
right direction: when movies and shows with black
and white interracial couples are not the story line
any more. When Look Whos Coming to Dinner
is as old and done as laughing at buckteeth Asians
or Homosexual characters being only comedy or
some sort of magic we will have made a step in a
good direction.

We can now conform that the anonymous information was correct and the officer who shot 17 year old Michael Brown is named
Brian P. Willman who may be under the alias Scooby Willman on Facebook.

TWENTY YEARS OR TWO

MONTHS
Hugo Ace

What is the secret to recovering from drugs

and alcohol? I should know this one. I
should know I was an addict. Some guy
in a commercial for passages Malibu says.
I hate that actor. When I was in jail with a
confidence of 97 percent most inmates said
the same thing, I hate that guy! and we
all wanted to punch his face. As individuals
we believe no one knows what we are going
through. You cannot possibly know but you do sympathize. I still want to punch that
guy in the face and the commercial is so lame. Most likely the treatment recovery at
that center is expensive. But its never about the money. Robin Williams just died of
asphyxiation. He hung himself. I read it in an online article August 11, 2014. I was
surprised shocked by the news. I only read the headline. Today its August 12, 2014
I read a 3 page article online. Describing his drug and alcohol experience. I never
would have guessed he had such experiences. Even more for him to have hung himself. Drugs will do that to you. I have been there myself. The article mentioned Cocaine and Jack Daniels. I quirk a smile. In the face of irony them dam drugs afforded
us some dumass good times. At least, for us lucky ones that still keep trekking in the
shadow of the substances that may kill us one day. For I am clean and sober from
many things now. Ill even throw the pussy in that pool too. One thing a man does
not want to be without. That one comes with AIDS sometimes or herpes or just as
bad, kids. For the not so ready couple. So yea Cocaine and Jack Daniels, lets see I
could write books, sagas on the adventures, troubles, and problems on each substance. But, thats not the point of this stream. The point is, Drugs. Robin Williamss
suicide and life. A clean life at that. Yesterday in auto class the professor brought up
the headline news Robin Williams is dead. I had read it, so I concurred and added
he died of asphyxiation, then others also contributed to the conversation. We didnt
know why. But we questioned it. He had what most of us will never have. That was
till yesterday. Now, we all will have more life than he. Also, no one in class men-

tioned he had a drug problem.

I walk around clean and no one could really tell I had a drug problem. To more
accurately say I still do because it has only been two strong months of freedom and I
feel great. I do not have a millions of dollars or a girl or a car. I do not have many of
things. For I lost many things to drugs and alcohol. I do have my freedom.

Freedom from everything; people, ideas substances and things. A freedom that
gives me the highest prize, peace. A serenity that I believe is what everybody looks
for. Looking for peace through all possible mediums possible. Especially drugs. Yes,
I went down that route most of my teenage and young adult life trying to find some
peace or elevation, along with a bunch of other adventures.

Robin Williams mentioned he was clean for 20 years I have two months. He
was clean for a very long time. That also explains why I would not have known he
had a drug and alcohol issue. Because, that was a problem he had in the late 80s. His
movies that I know of are in the early 90s. The genie in Aladdin, excellent character and voice. Mrs. Doubt fire hilarious and Jumanji a lot of fun and innocent stuff.
Movies you could show your kids. He was a good man. Like everyone else that dies
to drugs and alcohol. Inside that tormented soul is the innocence lost. Buried by the
demons that now control the body and mind. Whitney Houston was another fine
young woman coming from a legendary family lineage. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix
and the thousands maybe even millions of children, fathers and mothers that have
become victim of some drug and alcohol. Its heavy metal. Heavier than an elephant.
If it gets the rich and the white it will get the poor and the black and all the in between the color spectrum so its not a black and white issue. Its deeper than that.
For one thing in the end, he was clean for twenty years and sooner than later it came
back to him like a boomerang and killed him. I have two months of sobriety. I use to
wonder about that, am I free forever, now? Or as long as the puppet master pulls the
string.

That goes for everyone in these circumstances. In recovery they tell you, you
never know? You could have left the drugs but the side effects the damages will take
their toll on your body, on your life. Those damages are not limited to physical. No
sir. Its deeper than that. So deep you cannot even see it in the Desmoterion (place
of chains) of your consciousness and soul. As I was reading the article on Robin
Williams he stated, Sobriety lasted 20 years. Then the taunts became overwhelming again, thats his soul and his consciousness and he is the only one that knows
how that feels and what its like. I know exactly what he is talking about. For I read
once when I was looking for answers. I was looking for the truth to my own problem. I read that in a users life we are our own enemy. We are our own trigger. Thats

where it gets hard we are the gunman pulling the trigger on the gun at ourselves. As
all suicides from these problems turn out to be. I been there too. I been fortunate.
Extremely blessed. For I can only thank the higher power. NA and AA one of their
recovery steps mentions God or a higher power as he expresses himself to us, can
help us. I called him a loser when I read he had committed suicide I was hoping that
later investigations would reveal that he was murdered. Today I read he had drug
problems and thats the reason behind his hanging. So its not fair to label his death
so negatively. More of a victim helpless. In my writings I have a three rule concept.
To help those in need. Help those who cant help themselves and help those who ask
for help. His death should be looked at as something that happens all around us. All
the time to all people. Your neighbors, friends, family and children. It trickles down
like a raindrop to you. For you can be a bystander letting the flow of drugs take the
lives of all those around you. Washing the blood from your hands in the rain. I can
honestly say I have nothing negative to say about this man. For I can associate laughing, smiling, singing and a good feeling from Robin Williams. I can also say that for
twenty long years he worked harder to stay clean than to make films. He worked
harder to fight the rooted demons that overtook him. Sometimes in the end we may
decide that taking our own life is the better choice because we can save society from
our individual selves. Those thoughts have crossed my mind too. Drugs and alcohol
change you to an extreme level of evil waiting to devour the un-expecting.

The suspect also told a friend that he attacked his parents, Mary Jo and Blake
Hadley, after taking a large dose of the drug ecstasy. This was a murder that took
place in Florida in July 12, 2011. A twelve year old described as a great kid. By his
best friends mom. Drugs and alcohol change you. Specially the user. Until he regains consciousness back to reality hell be aware of the madness created at his
hands. If hes lucky. Drugs are a slow suicide and in some forms a modern suffocation of hanging by METHods. We never know the secrets that lurk but we see the
signs.

YOUR COMPLEMENTARY
DWARVEN GOVERNMENT
Aaron Rosenberg

Most of the strategy game genre is a practice in godhood- every command you assign is followed to a T, and every small mistake is your fault. For the last few years,
Ive been following a game called Dwarf Fortress. I had pushed it to the back of my
mind until last July, when it was updated for the first time in two years. For the record, I am not a Dwarf Fortress veteran - Ive hardly played the main game - and
Ive only learned the basics of it. Nonetheless, while learning how to play the game,
Ive succumbed to multiple deaths at the hands of unfortunate flooding, malicious
goblin raiders, and particularly angry vampires.
This game is one that gifts you with a particular type of godhood, one in which you
are respected as the all-knowing, morally questionable god weve all come to love
(that just happens to be calling the shots from behind the keyboard), but unfortunately it is also one that forces you to clash with the fact that your group of dwarves
have their own personal brand of free will. You may issue commands, and your
dwarves may take heed of your suggestions; or they may partake in any stupidity
that they decide is more important. Not only is each dwarf imbued with their own
personality, each universe is created with unique traits. When beginning DF, you
generate a completely original world- from the history of each beast to its entire
lifetime to the domino effect of every characters actions. Every human, dwarf, and
elf is documented with a name, personality, and personal aspirations, weaving an
intricate history. An average world generation lasts for 250 years and creates your
own personal universe for you to explore and micro-manage (In-depth to the degree
in which the head coder, Toady, created an entirely different game mode in which a
player lives a single life of an adventurer where you take on quests and interact with
the hundreds of unique characters randomly generated in this world, thus influencing an infinite future within this virtual universe).
You begin by surveying the world and finding a place to settle in with your troop of
seven dwarves. Each dwarf is gifted with their own set of skills, and your objective
is to make a civilization by commanding these seven. Eventually you create a fortress (the only acceptable home for dwarves) and attempt to survive for as long as
possible. The Dwarf Fortress community has a particular term for the failure that

a would-be dwarven god goes through: fun. Fun is being sieged by a large group of
goblins; fun is being ruined by a wandering parade of elephants; fun is digging deep
into the ground, only to discover an angry yeti more than happy to slaughter your
family of untrained dwarves. Youre doomed from the moment you begin your fortress due to constant, neverending waves of problems, yet many players derive enjoyment from the pleasure of surviving up to that moment and the privilege of watching their forts crumble at the hands of the unfair force that is called the world.
Hopefully, up until this moment youve imagined beautiful landscapes and rugged
dwarves fighting for their lives, and stick to your mental image, for that is almost
all you get. In order to develop the most complicated game in the world, you must
make sacrifices - in Toadys case: the entirety of graphics. Dwarf Fortress works
within ASCII, meaning that basic letters and symbols make up the imagery of the
game. You could easily make the argument that Dwarf Fortress is just a step above
old text based games, or if youre so inclined, a step below them. The game is by
default a little ugly to look at, but its players dont seem to mind. The lack of graphics
allows the coders to work efficiently and easily add to the game. The gameplay is so
intricate that most are willing to accept the subpar aesthetic. Modders interpret and
create their own texture packs for Dwarf Fortress, but nothing trumps the imagination of having the letter E represent the elephant trampling your legendary bookkeeper dwarf (signified by the symbol ) and watching the organization of your
in-game economy fall into chaos.
To say that Dwarf Fortress is a complicated game would be a vast understatement;
Dwarf Fortress is the most complicated game that has ever existed, and as long as it
continues to be developed, it will probably remain so. Toady has been
working on this game
since 2002 and plans to
work on it for another
twenty, calling it his lifes
work.

HOMO THE
DOCUMENTARY
Aaron Rosenberg
&
Ian Adams
Q- For the recored, what are your
names?
MM- Michael McClure
RH- Riley Hayes
Q- What is your role in this documentary?
MM- Im the producer.
RH- Creator, but I like to call [Michael ] the creator because he stated the whole thing.
Q- So tell us what your film is
about.
MM- This is what youd call an
investigative documentary; we
set out at July 28th from L.A. and
returned to L.A. August 28th. We
were out on the road for 30 days
over 10,000 miles, we were in
pretty much every region of the
country- 20 different states. We
set out to try to get a feel for the
perception of the LGBT community in different states, primarily states that dont allow same
sex-marriage. We get the feeling
that the majority of the American
people arent really tuned into this
debate on a large scale- thats what

we started with, so we went out to

talk to people.
RH- We wanted to go out and
meet people and try to find out
why they thought the things they
do. At first I had the thought that
there had to be a way for us to all
get along in this country, but after talking to them it became clear
why its not that simple. In a way
we explored on a psychological
level learning how people are and
how we are clashing on the topic
of equality.
Q- What sparked the idea of creating this documentary?
MM- Im originally from a pretty small town in Oregon and I

moved to L.A. two years ago. The

first roommate I roomed with was
gay; he turned out to be the first
openly gay person that I had met
in my life. After living with Jeff for
a year it became so real to me- the
struggles he had to deal with- even
in Los Angeles, the barriers he
had to get over, especially with his
family and school. It just dawned
on me that this is happening all
over the country and that if I was
blind to it at first there had to be
others blind to it as well. I wanted to expose that there was this
problem still going on in America
and then wanted to do something
about it. I got together with Riley,
decided on the documentary, he
got the crew together and the rest
is history.

Utah. If you know anything about

Salt Lake City, its extremely conservative, but when talking to the
people in the bar, they all seem
really comfortable being out is
Salt Lake City, but no matter what
state youre in there will be pockets of community somewhere.
Other people didnt feel safe going
out. Another example is in Kansas; we interviewed Brian Davis,
whos running for the state house
and then Jim Sherow whos running for first district in congress
and they both gave us about the
same answer: Yes, we both support same sex marriage, but we
dont want to run on it because its
an issue our opponents can attack
us on, and something wed be really venerable to.
RH- After hearing that we went
out and talked to local youths and
talked to them about what they
thought. A lot of them werent
worried about it at all they wanted to let gay people do what they
want to do.

Q- Does the documentary tackle

the difference between the people
that live there and their political
representation and if you do, how
so?
MM- It does, for example, we
went to a gay bar in Salt Lake City,

Q- One part of LGBT that I feel is

under-represented is the T. What
can you tell us about transgendered people that youve sought
out in your travels?
MM- We had an interview with
equality Kansas and they got us
into contact with Sandra Bean,
who is transgendered. We went
to Overland Park, a small city
outside of Kansas City and they
had a town council meeting voting on whether to include gender
identity in their anti-discrimination ordinate. She was our liaison

throughout the whole thing- we

did an interview with her before
and an interview after. The room
was packed and most of the townspeople were in opposition of the
ordinance so she was the butt of
most of the attacks.

documentary?
RH- Our documentary exposes
the underground battle that encompasses LGBT freedom. By listening to our fellow citizens from
different walks of life and from all
different regions of the country,
we can start to understand what it
really means to be free in America
Q- How will people be able to
watch it one its released?
RH- Look for Homo the Documentary screening at film festivals
across the country in 2015.

Q- What separates your documentary from other documentaries tackling the issue?
RH- Were trying to do a different
approach with our documentarynot per se follow all the struggles
this community has to go through,
but instead: what do people think
of the issues right now on both
sides of the issue.
Q- Why should people watch your

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Money
Katie Lee McNeil

Paper. Clinging droplets.

Over rule all thought, sense.
Its ugly, covered in dirt,
The germs of many can get me sick-physically.
Metallic hardness taints my fingers. We all
Yearn for that lusty soft, gentleness.
Theres never enough- I can count my liberties
On one invisible hand. My wishes,
On a trillion cracked callous stricken fingers,
Having no deficit. Spirits go down, shamed, regretted,
Strong.
But can we blame them?

Rivers of Blood Flowed and Filled the Basins

Hugo Ace

Rivers of blood flowed and filled the basins

Souls deposit into banks
Streams washed away the ranks
No weapons of ass destruction no tanks
Just the evil in the mind thanks
Reasons in the past
Cause obstacles in the future
Proud to be brown I stood
head in crown
infecting the races
Raised the competition
Infamy atrocity mediocrity
Battle of the hymm republic
Created no honor no code
Slowly (slothily) detiorated
Infuriated the contra
Inception delivered
inherited kingdom
Dark ages middle pages
Present tense ignorant stages
Future meets past
Matrix crossed planes
Exit portals closed

This! is! the! now!

Now! is! the! future!
Idle minds turtle stepping
Leperds of the soul revin
Stress the press
Break through
Crack the walls
Stack the halls
Your lifes not true
Infinitum grew
Took form
Embrace for the
Apocalyptic storm
Trace the pattern
Scatter no matter
Youll reap what you sow
Enjoy the show
Carnival of madness
instilled sadness
Replaced ideals
Lost virtues
Morals corrupted
In blindness you walk
Delivering yourself s
Feeding the pits
Your skins stripped
Reality is but a fiction

Created in your diction

No description
Empty hollow black souls
Death tolls in life and ...warm...blood...slow
Existence consistency
Erradicated
Bowls of the great beast pleased
Bowels produced to society they return
Indulgent in your cup of tea pleased
Satisfies the tease
Peoples in captivity sealed
Flawless system solid slavery
Updated current
collective torrent
Labyrinth of rats
Endless mazes traveled
Fetching achieving
the promised cheese
Pigeons crumbs they seek
that is
Life is for the living
and youre not living
Body of dead souls
Fulfill the prophecies universe of scrolls scribed
peace is free, free yourselfs body soul mind achieve existence
Make love not war and peace will follow

Letters to Modern Corsair:

Victoria Quintanillia
Hey guys, I wonder, if you guys will
do more with the California Student
Union? That story was so strong. Students in this state need to know about
the opportunity thats been stripped
from them by the monetization of the
education system. But I was writing to
the author of the White Tiger peace.
The deconstruction of how religion and
social class are connected is tremendous.
I wanted to ask the author, If he
has read Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo witch looks at
the Indian caste order and its complex
relation to education and charity. And
another great book with overlapping
ideas is Paul Bowles The Sheltering
Sky witch is about the sheltered nature of just living in the western world
and how different and striped a lot of
life is across the world.
I wanted to say all that in the
comments but Scribd only gives 400
characters to respond. So here I am.
Responding.
Thank you Victoria for the interest and
thought you have given to my text. I
have not read the books you have mentioned; but I did attempt to write on a
structure that would be able to touch
the roots or problems of many texts, in
general. There were a couple decisions
in the process that I hope will connect
with the books you have mentioned:
1.) Leveling out the systems of belief
to belief with non-meaning, or what
belief would mean when its stripped
of its religious thought. Perhaps,
then, a non-hierarchal interpretation

of truth-systems from the (favorited

contexts) of the hegemonic west. 2.)
And, the magnification of the forces
that produce culture as such: creating
bodies and virtual bodies, within the
question: what is meant by generation(s). So with and then with-out the
self existing...but with reproduction
still at work within nature: in the question: what is the difference between
human production and creation, and
to that of nature? I will try to read the
books to find the connections.
-Oscar Valle
_______________________
Alma
Hi,
I love when you have shirt stories. They
are well thought and all that. I was
wondering though, as I read some to
my little sisters, do you have any translation to Spanish?
I bet there are bunches of Spanish
speakers whod read.
Thats all.
Alma,
Thank you for writing in. I do hate disappointing you but we currently have
no plans for a Spanish translation of
Modern Corsair. We would love to do
that, but we presently do not have the
time or resources to have translations
of the work.
But if you are really all that interested
in helping put up a translation and
working with the editing department
on the magazine then send in an e-mail
to us.

-Ian Adams

CREDITS
The Modern Corsair for August - Issue Number 11
This issue was: Government
No amount of voting will change that.
The next issue will be: Dream
Remember falling off that waterfall into a cow infested part of space that challenged your sexuality
and adequacy as an active, important part of society? No? Wait. A little bit? Its coming back now?
Well, have fun almost remembering the details of that dream every morning for the next twenty
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