A Freebie from Freemont

There’s been much discussion over the use of vulgarity within the world of Freemont over the last few weeks. And, quite frankly, I’m getting fucking sick of it. If you tuned into Roger Nicholson’s show this past Sunday you saw this discussion first hand as we tried to hash it out with the Executive Director of CCTV, Susan Fleischmann. Susan was a good sport to come on air with us and I think it provided for some interesting real life content for the show. But, I also feel that it is necessary for me to further clarify here the purpose behind my use of vulgarity on this blog. Because it will become quite important as I move forward with the creation of my own program, The Freemont Show, which will air on Somerville Community Access Television in the weeks ahead and will be a cleaned-up version of what you may have caught on CCTV and read on this blog.

Let me start by saying that every revolutionary like myself knows that vulgarity is an important part of the revolution. That is because the human experience can be brought down to its most basic level when we completely free ourselves from such societal constraints such as the ambiguous obscenity standards that exist within the United States of America. As a radical, I believe in a revolution in which the middleclass must embrace the vulgarity and the abrasiveness that exists on the streets among the poor and downtrodden folks of our community. By doing this, they will be able to more freely open themselves up to joining with the lower classes in the revolutionary fight of restoring the power back to the people—a power that has been politically highjacked by the wealthiest people of this nation for decades. For me, vulgarity is the focal point at which we radicals must make a connection with the middleclass because it is the everyday willingness of the middleclass to adhere to the cultural norms of the rich and powerful that prevents the progress of a revolution. And, until the middleclass realizes this, the revolution will not be able to achieve its fullest potential for success.

The opposite of a revolution is the maintenance of the status quo by the rich and powerful. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the rich to preserve a middleclass that is both obedient and apathetic. Only when the middleclass becomes willing to embrace the culture of the struggle (by shedding their loyalty to the social standards that are dictated by the rich) will they be ready to join our revolution. I believe that the easiest way to crack the middleclass’s shell of social apathy is through the use of vulgar and sexual politics. That is why I embrace the use of vulgarity with open arms and that is why, within this blog, I aim to create political satire through the use of vulgar words and images. I am not simply trying to shock. My goal is not to pollute the minds of America’s youth. Instead, I am working to change the way that people think about the world around them and how they confront the political challenges that continue to prevent a more rich state of social equality within the United States of America. So, despite possessing a dirty mouth that could use a good soap washing, I also lay claim to a mind that is deeply concerned with the advancement of equality and firmly founded in the intellectualism of social thought. 

That is my philosophy on vulgarity. And, as I move ahead with The Freemont Show, I will adhere to the rules of Somerville Public Access Television in order to spread the Good News of Freemont Barrington over their local airwaves. But know that the true nature of my revolution will remain here on this blog and on the tongues of the people that make up the Friends of Freemont across this battered nation.

Power to the Friends of Free,

Mr. Freemont Barrington   

Prop 8 was overturned this week by a California judge. Personally, I think my man kiss at the Tea Party rally in April did its small part in upsetting the rightly shifted balance of the universe. As you know I am a deep pessimist who believes the United States of America is a corrupt landfill of mindless political waste. But, Prop 8 being taken down for the disgraceful unconstitutional piece of monkey shit it was, is certainly a brief glimpse of light in this very long and dark sinkhole of human excrement that has been this past year in U.S. politics.

I will be spending the weekend up north touching up on my gorilla survival skills. But I hope that I can return home in time for another CCTV appearance on Sunday night. I’m sure Roger Nicholson will have a thing or two to say about this ruling.

Maybe I’ll even wear some lipstick.

News about my own show on Somerville Public Access shall be forthcoming. I have already sent out a wire to the local press. And Mr. Backcorner and I have begun our creative meetings. So, if you live in the Somerville area, tighten your fucking safety belts.

- Freemont Barrington    

On my recent CCTV appearance, which I shall have up on the blog and Youtube in the upcoming days, I was unable to go toe to toe with Todd Feinburg (a local conservative talk show host for WRKO) with the idea that conservatives are copping out just as much as liberals when they call Obama a socialist.  I could not get my point out because I co-host the show with a fellow vulgarian, Roger Nicolson, who unfortunately remains uninterested in the same type of political arguments that I am. As such, I am in the process of starting my own show on Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT) where I believe it will be easier for me to get my ideas out into the world. I will keep all of you posted on when the new show will air. At the moment, I am in negotiations with the access television team about the content and nature of the program.

Until then, let me make it clear on my blog that I believe the reactionary use of the word socialist on behalf of the right is as equally unproductive as the use of the word racist by those on the left. And for any of you reactionary assholes on either side of this fucking argument, here is why:

1.)   Both words today are commonly used as generalizations: there is no clear way to define a racist just as there is no clear way to define a socialist. Am I a socialist just because I favor the creation of a third political party in America that incorporates the socialist concept of equalizing the political voice of those in the lower classes of society with those of the upper? Am I a racist just because I feel that the word nigger can be used effectively in satire and that using the word is actually a good way of opening up the discussion about race? I have a feeling I know how both sides would respond to both of these questions.

2.)   Both words today can be used as a smear tactic: in this day in age of government bailouts and the United States’ increasing deficit, the word socialist has been used as a smear tactic against the liberals of the world in the same way that racist is used as a smear upon those of the right. I see no difference between the fear-mongering tactic of trying to label someone as a socialist (which creates fear and confusion among those who wish to avoid such a categorization) and the same method of disparaging someone as a racist. Either way, one is working to use fear as a way of preventing an honest political discussion.

3.)   Both words today are used as blasphemy through a larger historical context of the United States America: the significance of categorizing someone as a racist or socialist is based upon a deep and long history. Let’s just acknowledge here the fact that a group of individuals who have since been categorized as close-minded, nativists known as the Klu Klux Klan formed in the southern United States years ago to strike fear in the hearts of white, Anglo Americans by making them suspicious of a dangerous minority group—a group they saw as threatening the power structure of the country. This same phenomenon has occurred throughout history and surfaced in the1920’s and 50’s during the Great Red Scare, where a minority group of harmless Americans (deemed as ‘Socialists’) were made to appear as a threat to wellbeing of the United States of America. It would seem to me that liberals today are more interested in using the word racist as part of a ‘reverse witch-hunt’ to dismantle the integrity of the right rather than they are in seeking to challenge the racist and classist mechanisms that still exist within the systemic power structure of the United States. While they are doing this, the right is committing the same fallacy by recreating a modern-day Red Scare, in which anyone favoring government regulation over a laissez-faire free market is seen as a socialist.

What I am simply saying is that words can frame an ideal, but ultimately it is action that changes the status quo. And weakness lies in the time wasted in an argument over semantics when mass movement is needed. As a radical, you only lose if there is an unwillingness to move forward. Clearly, both liberals and conservatives seem quite content with this current standstill.

As for me—I’m always in motion, Friends of Freemont. I’m about to get my own fucking TV show.

Power to the mother fucking people of the Free Movement,

Freemont Barrington    

I hope after last night’s appearance on CCTV that my identity is no longer called into question.   I have shown my face.  I have answered a few questions about my past and my beliefs.  I’ll leave it up to you to speculation where the truth exists and where it does not. I will also post the video here, for those of you who missed it, as soon as it is available to me.

I think the most important thing that I’d like to convey is that the answers will be revealed to us slowly through a process of recognizing the symbols, through deciphering the metaphors, and, most importantly, by burrowing ourselves into the deep muck of society to see what we emerge with, wiggling in our teeth.  That’s where the solutions will begin, my friends.  

- Freemont Barrington