page 12 Well, the first thing | want to say is; Mandate my ass. Because it seems as though we’ve been convinced that 26 percent of the registered voters- not even 26 percent of the people, but 26 percent of the registered voters form a mandate, or a landslide. 21 percent voted for Skippy, and 3 or 4 percent voted for somebody else who might ’ have been running. But oh yea. | remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan- | remember what | said about Reagan- meant it- acted like an actor, Hollyweird. Acted like a Liberal, acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of Cali- fornia, then he acted like a Republican, then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for President, and now we act like 26 percent of the registered voters, and there’s actually a mandate. We’re all actors in this, | suppose. What has happen- ed, is that, in the last 20 years, America has changed from a producer to a consumer. — And all consumers know that when a producer names a tune, the consumer has got to dance. That’s the way it is. We used to be a producer very inflexible at that, and now we are consumers, and finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and minerals will change their world. The Arabs used to be in the Third World, they have bought the Second World, and put a firm down payment on the First one. Controlling your resources will control, your world. This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now. They don’t know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan -they don’t know if they want to be diplomats — or continue the same policy of Nuclear Nightmare Diplomacy. John Foster Dallas isn’t anything but the name of an airport, now. The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And _ yesterday was the day of our cinema heros riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. * “Psychosomatic The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse, or the man who always came to save America at the last moment- someone always came _ to save America at the last moment- especially in ‘B’ movies- and when America found itself having a hard time facing the future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no_ longer available, they settled for Ronald Raygun. And it has placed us in a situation that THEOTHER PRESS Right Angles by Doug “Parsons From Reflections by Gil Scott Heron RAD PEEL RIAL, Thursday, February 16, 1984. Deaths... ot, Believe it or Not! selling wars door to door. We’re looking for the closest thing we can find to John Wayne. Cliches abound like kangaroos, courtesy of some spaced-out Marlin Perkins, a Raygun contemporary. Cliches like Itchy trigger finger and Tall in the sad- dle, and Riding off [or on] into the sunset. Cliches like, Get off my land by Sun- .down. More ‘so than cliches like, He died with his boots on, Marine Tough, the man is Bogart Tough, the man is Cagney Tough, the man is (THE SEQUEL) + & STARRING x xx RERUN AS THE GIPPER AMERICA AND MORE!!! * CARTOON BY KRIEGER@ISS4ATHE PROVINCE & eR WARNING: VIOLENCE. NOT SUITABLE UNG raat ee PINKO PEACENIKC OR FACS. we can only look at like a ‘B’ movie. Come with us back to those inglorious‘ days when heros weren’t zeros. Before fair was square. When the Cavalry came straight away and All-American men were like Hemmingway, to the days of the wonderous ’B’ movie. The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary will be cast for the defensive, Weinburger. No more — animated choice is available. The director will be Attila the Haig, running around frantically declaring himself in control and in charge. - The ultimate realization of ‘the inmates taking over the asylum. The screenplay will be adapted from the book called ‘Voodoo Economics’ by George ‘’Pompadock’ || Bush. Music by the Village People, the very military, Macho man. A theme song for sibling rivalry, and Hollywood Tough, the man is Cheap Steak Tough, and finds his substantial. The ultimate in synthetic selling, a Madison Avenue Master- piece, a miracle of cotton- candy politicians, Presto-Macho. Put your orders in, Ameri- ca, and quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate with the accent being on ‘dupe’, be- cause all of a sudden, we have fallen prey to selective ‘amnesia. Remembering what we want to remember, and forgetting what we choose to forget. All of a sudden, a man who called for a blood-bath on our College campuses is supposed to be a Dudley ‘god-damn’ Do-right? You go give them Liberals hell, Ronny. That was the man- date to the new Captain Blye on the new ship of fools, what was doubtlessly based on his chameleon per- formance of past, as Liberal democrat, as the head of the Studio Actor’s Guild, when other celluloid Saviors were cringing in terror from Mc- carthey, Ron stood tall. It goes all the way back from Hollywood to Hillbilly, from Liberal to livery, from Bonzo to Buchido, born again, Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Gay Rights, it’s all wrong. It’s all in the Cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild. God damn it. The first one wants freedom, then the whole damn world wants freedom. No sound. That’s what we want. The good old days. When we. gave..’em hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it, to a time when movies were in black and white, and so was everything else. Even if we go back to the campaign trail before ‘B-gun Mire’ shot. off. his face and de- veloped Hoof and Mouth, before the Free press went down before Full-court press and were reluctant to view the menu, because they knew the only thing availa- ble was crow. Lian-Chaine, our man of a thousand faces. No match for Ron. Doug Henning does the special effects. Make-up by Grecian Formula-16 and Crazy Glue. Transportation furnished by David Rocker- feller, a remote-control com- pany. Their slogan is, ‘‘Why wait for 19842 You can panic now, and avoid the rush.’’ So much for the good news. As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation, and his liberty in deploring numbers. Racism is up, human rights are down, peace is ‘shaky, war items are hot, the house claims all the time, jobs are down, money is scarce, and common sense is at an all time low in heavy trading. Movies were looking better than ever and now no one is_ looking, because we’re starring in a ‘B’ movie, and we would have _ rather had John Wayne.