Line Out - Comments on The Ultimate Clash http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash It all comes down to this: When they kick out your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun Your entire political position must be built on the answer... Copyright 2008 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:10:17 -0800 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:28:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dougsf So, like, you're either a Libertarian or a Socialist?

]]> Dougsf http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860212 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860212 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:21:50 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo I think he's saying you're either a survivalist or a pussy. Or something.

]]> flamingbanjo http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860215 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860215 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:26:52 -0800 Comment by Ryan Red I lived in an apartment that we named Brixton, after that song.

]]> Ryan Red http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860219 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860219 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:30:27 -0800 Comment by rk Actually, I think one's political 'position' correlates better with your response to The Call Up.

]]> rk http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860234 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860234 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:41:58 -0800 Comment by anna Or The Clampdown or Career Opportunities.

]]> anna http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860641 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860641 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:49:05 -0800 Comment by Fnarf So your entire political position comes down to how you react to cod radicalism spouted by a multimillionaire upper-class pop star? That's great news! And illustrated by a picture that shows, not the radical opposition to The Man, but the force of The Man used to legitimately rescue a child being used as a puppet by right-wing loons?

]]> Fnarf http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860643 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860643 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:50:19 -0800 Comment by paul The Clash were certainly not multi-millionaire or upper class when that song was written. I dont think they ever became either of those things, either. Still, a bullshit stupid question that is completely irrelevant.

]]> paul http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860646 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860646 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:55:46 -0800 Comment by wbrproductions 7 - all of slog is irrelevant. Except for your posts, of course.

Answer: Gun. Or Shovel.

]]> wbrproductions http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860688 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860688 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:30:56 -0800 Comment by Angeleno What the fuck do The Clash know about guns or armed standoffs with LE?

Romantic bullshit.

Electing to own a gun is a potential self fulfilling prophecy.If you own a gun and the police are knocking down your door, the fact that you're a gun owner lends alot to determining your response.

In our country armed standoffs are seldom romantic and almost never political.

]]> Angeleno http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860690 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860690 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:32:36 -0800 Comment by rk "In our country armed standoffs are ... almost never political."

Not yet, they're not. Most Americans (including myself) are too pacified by consumer goods and distracted by media entertainment to actually do anything serious about consistently worsening injustice and inequity. For most of the rest of the world, though, armed confrontation is often political. Even here, things could get bad enough that all hell breaks loose. Maybe not tomorrow or next year, but sometimes all it takes is a spark.

]]> rk http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860772 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860772 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:48:17 -0800 Comment by Cdub yeayuh elias gonzalez! seized like its 1999!

]]> Cdub http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860783 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860783 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:33:31 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave I bet it would be easy to rob any member of the clash.

lets be honest though, i'd rather watch peanuts christmas than get tazed, bro.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860784 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860784 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:33:50 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave I bet it would be easy to rob any member of the clash.

lets be honest though, i'd rather watch peanuts christmas than get tazed, bro.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860785 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860785 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:34:01 -0800 Comment by OR Matt That's not that funny, and it's rather insulting ... and anyone who has ever spent ANY time in Vermont knows differently.

]]> OR Matt http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860801 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860801 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:36:25 -0800 Comment by Angeleno RK, sho ya right. The rest of the world and all that yadda yadda.

But let's face it. These are the words of some wannabe yardie from a place where guns are as scarce as cowboys. It's highpowered revolutionary fantasy shit from a well fed citizen of America-lite.

We're quoting song lyrics? How about:

"What kind of revolution's gonna come from the blunted?"

-Boots Riley of The Coup

Spare me the Wal Mart "Che" T-shirt theatrics.

]]> Angeleno http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860818 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860818 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:59:32 -0800 Comment by Filip I tell you this: Mick Jones certainly ain't working no day job! But those lyrics were actually written by Paul Simonon...

]]> Filip http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860828 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860828 Classic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:45:18 -0800 Comment by jz angeleno ftw w the coup quote.

]]> jz http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860846 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860846 Classic Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:52:17 -0800 Comment by mwand used to go to brixton a lot when I lived in London...great place for cheap food,shops spilling out on the streets everywhere,reggae,dub,hash,thrift clothes..even got pulled over by the cops after playing a gig there and they were rough with the psychological warfare.they arrested the driver and impounded the car
in a pretty sketchy district.I had to sit outside next to the car all night to protect gear or someone would have broken in for sure..anyway I love the Clash but English police don't use guns
but they make up for it with harsh questioning.

]]> mwand http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860877 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/12/the_ultimate_clash#c860877 Classic Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:28:11 -0800