According to my favorite anti-monoculture lunatic, Reverend Billy, 2008 will be a year of living dangerously:

The 1st Amendment is 45 words that guarantee 5 freedoms: Religion, Speech, Press, Peaceful Gatherings and Redress of Grievances. This year we sing the amendment and preach the amendment in public space like parks, sidewalks and streets, to EXPULGE the Demon Monoculture. We’ll go onto private property too, if it was created by false eminent domain or plain old corruption, like most chain stores and big boxes. We sew the amendment into flags, our underwear, and we sky-write it, too. The 1st Amendment will become an erotic pop hero for Peace, because war deprives us of all five freedoms at once. So, the bombs can’t drop, the Patriot Act can’t surveill and torture, and speaking locally “Local-lujah!” we let the amendment loose on those illegal “permits” demanded by the police to parade and dance and shout out in Union Square.

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