Mangled Thoughts

When Latham wheezes on about commodities so precious, `so important to da nation’, what occurs immediately is food. Applying Latham’s national socialist rot to food, it follows, all production of all foods must be taken over by central govt. Consider it, no nation can survive without food. To use the Dick and Dora approach to explaining things, masterfully demonstrated by Bracks and Carr, it follows, unless central govt. controls and runs production of food , otherwise, we are dooomed to starvation and death. Not a pleasant prospect, if all Aussies have died of starvation, there is no nation for the Leadah to boss.

Food production illuminates why `Medicare’ and so forth are nothing but sapping scams.

To eat, it is essential to exchange something for something, food. Thus, all are consumers [ readers will note, I am continuing in Dick and Dora vein so that the even the commie village idiots in Spring St. can grasp the point], perforce, true even if the greeny Pol Potian nightmare were to be fully realised and all reduced to hunting and gathering and, consequently reduced to warfare to keep others off turf with more game in it.

When British soldiers went off to the trenches of WWI, many did with a tiny teddy bear clutching the chest inside a breast pocket. The teddy bears, bless them, weren’t produced ex nihilo, families purchased them for husbands, sons , fathers. Consumerism, yes, in that case.

That last comment seems callous, but reader will overlook the sin in view of:

Snap pay for barely Barbie
By Nicholas Wapshott in New York
June 30, 2004

AN artist who photographs undressed Barbie dolls with kitchen equipment as a comment on the subservient role of women has been awarded legal fees of $US1.8 million ($2.5 million) after toymaker Mattel lost a five-year legal attempt to stop him.

Artist’s eye … Forsythe believes the dolls instil “gender-oppressive values” in girls.

Utah artist Tom Forsythe photographed 78 mostly naked Barbie dolls in kitchen ovens, under food-mixers and bathing in Martini glasses in a series of amusing yet disturbing images he calls “Barbie’s power as a beauty myth”.

Forsythe, 46, believes the dolls instil “gender-oppressive values” in girls.

“Some of these images I made overtly sexual to take Barbie completely out of the context Mattel intends,” he said. “I thought the pictures needed something that really said crass consumerism, and to me that’s Barbie.”

In 1997, he put the pictures on display at art shows in Utah and Kansas City and sold the prints for several thousand dollars.

Two years later, Mattel lawyers from warned Forsythe he was using the company’s toys without permission and ordered him to stop.

He refused, and in August 1999 received a writ claiming copyright and trademark infringement, and demanding he stop selling the pictures and destroy all the negatives.

“This is about an individual who is using our brand to sell or promote his products without our permission,” Mattel spokeswoman Lisa Marie Bongiovanni claimed. “There’s over 40 years of brand equity in that brand.”

But Federal District Court judge Ronald Lew last week ruled Mattel’s action was “groundless and unreasonable” and awarded Forsythe legal costs. The judge said the case should act as a warning to companies who tried to intimidate individuals over minor infringements of copyright.

Contrary to the judge, it is not a matter of spoofery which is offensive, what is offensive is some savage bit of shit attacking Mattel, just like they do McDonalds and for the same bit of vulgar crap, `consumerism’. Parents by Barbie Dolls and others, for the joy of their tiny tot girls. Some viscious leftoid shit offends the decency, a leftoid shit who is, in any case a consumer himself. Mattel, contrary to that leftoid crapper called Judge Lew has a case: Mattels equity is established on a doll living young dolls enjoy, a shit like Tom dildo head Forsythe can ruin and, along with it, shock children as well as their parents. It would be nice to meet up with Tom behind a bicycle shed and beat the bludger into a pulp.