Late Night Transmissions: La Villette to Dollville

Posted by Matthew Crouch at 14:27

The following is an excerpt from an e-mail written on Saturday, March 3rd to my pal Bill back home in Dollville - from la Villette to Dollville: Trans Atlantic transmissions…. (Remember Joy Division’s fab album Transmission?) In the e-mail I went off ranting about Guiliana Sgrena the Italian hostage now globally famous (except in the states) who managed to escape the current carnage in Iraq by the American forces there even though Nicola Calipari tragically did not.

….Oh and I can’t believe the US in Iraq now firing on the Italian woman fleeing her captors. More evidence as if we needed any that the states has been in on all those extremist hostage situations in their pandering fear to the media. I could see her telling her get-away driver don’t fucking stop for the checkpoints – the Americans were in on my kidnapping – those masked Arabic looking gunmen all spoke with Midwestern accents! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure the checkpoint soldiers were being ordered to shoot to kill to not let Sgrena escape or the Americans secret propaganda game of pandering FEAR to the world to justify its foreign policies might be thwarted by a pesky and meddlesome woman reporter. But she did escape! As if she will be safe in Berlusconi’s American war in Iraq supporting Italia. She should have come to Belgium or to Spain with its current Scandinavian sensibilities.

(Like the Chemical Brothers sing: “My finger is on the button”
Except in my case it’s this dirty gray once white QWERTY keyboard in an AZERTY land)
Your pal and fellow dissident alone,

Patriot Ex-pat anarchical,

Matt

PS: Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio... hearing that song now on Studio Brussel feels like the rest of those lyrics weren’t written a couple decades ago but were written for this recent sad history.