The Great Game

Replay: Just in time for the Soccer World Cup, Da Dood Blog brings a repost of «The Great Game» from the heyday of Euro 2004.

Some of the links in this post have gone dead -- which is a shame -- please inform me of any new locations that you know of or find.

With the euro 2004 finals just over yesterday, the time is ripe for some Green Grass metaphors. Those of us who are playing for the team called Resistance, either consciously or unconsciously, need to be sure that we know what we're doing, and where we do it. The other team, Arrogance, wants us to fight them on the Grass, at the stadium, at *their* stadium. But that's their home ground, and they control everything from the referee to the audience, the media, guards and police. And we all know Arrogance has killed before, at their stadiums.

So the question is if we should follow these scary types into their stadiums again, only to play another game we are certain to lose. Sure, they want us to play them, so the audience can be amused and thrilled by the just struggle and so-called fair play. But the Grass may be Greener on other fields, on Grasslands with less poison. What if we cheated, and said we'd play one more match, but sabotaged their stadium instead? After all, we are the Resistance, and there is a war on, and what's at stake is everything we hold dear, plus everything our descendants will ever hold dear.

Indeed, there *is* more to Life than football. War, for instance. Through a Thunder of cannons sounded to hail the great führer nation, the gauleiter of civilization, I checked my calendar and it said 4th of July. That means the new emperors-au-naturelle were celebrating independence day. Independence from europe, where they belonged. Independence from natives, who they witch-hunted. But most important, independence from Mother Earth, as there were no bounds to this huge and gigantic newfoundland.

Back in oldleftland, or old europe, as the vaterland is now called, the Tribes were already wiped out through centuries, even millennia, through slaughter by imperialist soldiers, inquisitive priests, witchhunters and the like. We'll have no more of that closeness to Nature, harmony hippy crap, thank you very much! Amen and halleluya.

The attack on New York City in 2001 sure is seen by some, even by members of the Resistance, as some sort of sabotage act. Yet it seems pretty clear it was a staged event, aimed at preparing the ground for the final expansion of eternal europe, or more precisely, expanding the lebensraum of american civilization. Having spread to all parts of the once newfoundland and used nearly all of its resources, it was time to move on.

This means Arrogance is now a lot more unified and one-directional, all over the Earth, yet Resistance needs to be infinitely more diverse and pluralistic, using any means and taking the struggle to all Grasslands and all Terrains.

Under the pavement, the beach!