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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:01:30 +0800
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Free Speech TV,
Hello, I am traveling now on a magical journey. I don't plan my
destinations. I just follow signs and let things happen. Tuesday,
August 3 I was just sitting on the sidewalk in the mall in Denver. I
was bored and taking a break from telling people my story. All of a
sudden, I see a bus pass by that said "Be Boulder Bound" on
it. Bam, that was my sign. The next morning I went to the bus
station and asked the guy how much a bus ticket to Boulder was. He
told me $3.75. I proceeded to tell him about my mission through the
little speaker thing on the glass. Without having to ask him he
hands me a free bus ticket to Boulder. I was meant to come here. On
the bus to Boulder I hit some kid up for my story and when I finish
he tells me about Free Speech TV. That is why I am writing you
today. I must follow my signs.
I discovered the Pearl Street Mall and immediately started
saturating people with my legend. I go up to random strangers and
ask them, "Can I tell you a really interesting story? I'm not
asking for anything. I just want you to listen. It's a free
story." I've been doing this for about 3 years now. I am just
watering my seed. Anyway, on the second night I was wondering where
I could squat and I ask these street kids if they knew of a place.
They invited me to this awesome camp in Nederland.
The Nederland camp was amazing. These kids had a kitchen with a
stove they built and everything. They call it the Anti-Aggro Youth
Cafe, I think. On the second day these guys from Food not Bombs
showed up. I was telling them I needed a haircut and they invited me
over to the FNB house in Boulder. The Circle A Ranch on Arapahoe. I
was totally meant to come here too. Not only do they have a computer
upstairs that I've been busy assembling my webpage on, but they also
have a stage in the backyard and open-mic night on Thursdays.
Perfection.
I have been at Circle A since then. I agreed to do work-trade
and they are letting me stay here for two weeks. I have until next
Sunday.
So, I am in Boulder now. When I am not working at the house I
ride the bus down to Pearl to tell people my story and collect email
addresses. I have over 6,000 right now. I have been hard at work
for years now. There are so many people out there waiting for me to
follow-through and contact them.
On that note, let me tell you my story.
Victor the Liberator
Hello, my name is Victor Antonio. I am 26 years old. I am from
San Antonio, TX. I am a long-distance walker/journalist. Or at least
that's what I like to call myself. With the Internet I have
discovered a way to fight the world's greatest problem. What would
you say that is? I say it's ignorance. The root of all problems, if
you ask me. Nobody listens. We're not learning. We're not
evolving. We are stuck. The technology is here. We already know
better...but we are still killing the world and nobody cares.
With the Internet(and you're going to think I'm crazy, just like
I want you to) I plan to eliminate money, make everything free, prove
that it's human-nature to be generous and bring world peace. I am
going to get rid of cars in big cities, make everybody healthy(and
height/weight proportionate) and save the ozone layer. AND, I am
going to get marijuana legalized and chill everybody out. That's the
key. I've got it ALL figured out.
I will tell you exactly how I plan to do this if you are willing
to pay attention, and only then. I hate wasting my time. This
project of mine takes precedence over anything else you have to do.
I am bringing world peace.
What are some problems you run across when you have a new idea
and are trying to get it out? Well, for one, if you are telling your
ideas orally, by mouth, you sometimes run into the problem of not
remembering the whole story, so you're not as effective as you want,
because no one is perfect. Second, mainly, you have ignorance.
People are too set in their old-fashioned, lazy ways. Deathly afraid
of change even if it's for the better. They won't even listen to
you. They think you're crazy.
I have found a way to jump both of these hurdles with the
Internet. What I will do is run an FTP server off my computer giving
anyone in the world access to my hard-drive. Only the files and
directories I want them to access. On my hard-drive I will have a
directory with all my ideas. Just plain simple text files that
anyone can read with any web browser. Simple webpage. Text, no
graphics. This way, people can read my stuff uncensored, first off.
At their discretion, they can finish it when they want to. But,
every single time the whole story will be told. It just seems to me
that's what the Internet is for. It's a global-medium. It's not
part of the system.
Do you know what I am basing all this freedom on? The
pirated-software scene on the Internet where everything is free
already and has been since the birth of the Internet. You can
download new movies still in theaters and watch them at home for
free. Any music you want out there, you don't have to pay for it.
Hell, I even had Windows XP months before it was even released.
It is an accepted-underworld. Companies will spend more money
tracing and litigating each person doing it than they are already
making from all the suckers paying for it anyway. It's not
cost-effective to them so they just ignore it. It's sort of like
alcohol in the 20's, just way too widespread to control. So, what
I'm gonna do is....just tell everybody. I'll massmail detailed
instructions on how to get free stuff off the Internet, so everybody
stops paying for things and we have to get rid of money.
What bigger sign do we need? There is a way to get things, not
pay for them and get away with it, that anyone can do. It's the next
step.
You can't stop bytes.
Wouldn't you work for free if all your needs were taken care of
and you didn't have any bills? So you wouldn't be bored at home all
day? Provided you had a job you enjoyed? Well, if everybody else
was doing that, what would we need money for? It's the root of all
evil, just like it's always been said. When I ask people this
question sometimes they reply with, "Wait, that's communism.
It's already been tried and it doesn't work." Well, what's the
root word of communism? Commune, community. Communism didn't work
in it's time because the technology was not there to support it(like
it is now). Let's not call it communism, though. That name has a
bad stigma. Let's just call it what it really is. Freedom.
Then people tell me, "Money is not the root of all evil.
The love of money is the root of all evil." Well, if money
didn't exist, what would there be to love? Wouldn't getting rid of
money be worth getting rid of all evil?
Just think, if things didn't possess a monetary-value, would
people steal? Even if they did, the stuff stolen could be replaced
easily if everything was free.
I say everybody just keep their same job, as long as they like
doing it, just do it for free. It all comes back to you. Then
people tell me, "Oh, what about jobs people don't like doing
like garbageman or sanitation worker?" After eliminating money
when those jobs don't get done the demand for them will increase and
nice, generous people will do them. Just because they need to be
done. It's simple supply and demand.
In the end we would just stop doing things we don't need to do.
As far as cars go. I think the end of this world(or at least
life as we know it) is going to come, not when Jesus comes back or
anything like that, but when that invisible ozone layer up in the
sky, that is there to protect us from all the cancer-causing rays of
the sun is there no longer. People will drop like flies from skin
cancer and it will all be because of our modern invention, the
internal-combustion engine. The end of life as we know it will be
mankind's own fault(unless I do something about it).
Even if we could design a car that didn't pollute at all(which
the technology is here for already, but we don't use it because it
doesn't make money)cars would still be 60mph bullets that kill
people. It's a known fact that everybody makes mistakes. Mistakes
in cars just happen to kill people. Is it really that convenient?
I haven't been sick in over four years, since my car broke down
and I had to walk and ride the bus. Walking is the secret to life.
If you take care of the body it takes care of itself. Walking is a
full body exercise, working even the mind. I have excellent muscle
tone just because I walk. I'm 6'6" and I only weigh 160lbs.
That may sound underweight, but there's barely any body fat. I am
not skinny. I am streamlined.
Cars are death machines. Cars have made everybody lazy,
impatient and overweight. We have two legs for a reason and it's not
to push the gas and the brake. Walking and riding the bus will teach
you patience and delayed-gratification. Remember, good things come
to those who wait. Why is everybody in such a hurry?
The little money I spend walking and riding the bus beats the
hell out of a car payment, insurance, gasoline and maintenance. Not
to mention, the risk of dying in a car accident. Don't you have
better things to spend your hard-earned money on?
Oh yeah, but walking doesn't make money. It saves it.
Okay, here is what everyone is waiting for. As far as marijuana
goes. Is it just a coincidence that two, naturally-occurring things
in this world, humans and marijuana, have a certain reaction when you
put them together? Is it just a coincidence we have THC receptors in
our brains? It is here for us to use in moderation and responsibly
like everything else. I mean, how can alcohol be legal? Now, what
do you think would happen if all the world leaders got together and
smoked some weed?
Hey, they didn't call them peace-pipes for nothing.
I repeat, how can alcohol be legal? Drunk people do things sober
people wouldn't. It takes control of your mind. Oh yeah, it's so
cost-effective that it doesn't matter(note the sarcasm). Look at all
the lives it claims. People get addicted to it and it makes tons of
money. Even from the deaths and hospital bills which stem from it.
The government is cashing in on all this misery. They seem to like
it.
Then there's the people that say, "I don't smoke because
weed is illegal." I tell them, "And what? You trust our
goverment? The same goverment that is killing the world?"
Marijuana will always be readily-available. Do you know why?
Because you can't stop life! So, the government turns it into a
money-making "drug" and brainwashes everyone into thinking
it is too. The government knows the legalization of marijuana will
be the catalyst to world peace and everybody knows peace isn't
cost-effective. Neither is good health. As long as marijuana stays
illegal it is making the government money by busting people for it.
They just see it as a cash-crop that will never stop paying off,
because so many people know better and smoke it. They really don't
give a damn.
Marijuana is a safe, organic peaceful enhancement. Nothing more.
You can't stop life.
Ok, now that you are aware of my platform I can continue with the
story and it will make sense. Actually, It's more of a legend.
Since I walk so much in San Antonio I have made myself as
independant from money as possible. Anytime I get hungry I'll walk
into any restaurant in town and ask to speak to the manager. I tell
him/her, "Hi, my name is Victor. I am a long-distance walker.
I don't suppose you would care to donate any gasoline for my stomach?
Hey, if it's a big problem and you can't afford it, don't worry
about it. I'm sure the next place I walk by will be generous and
help me out." Dude, everybody hooks me up. Like 98% of places.
Which just goes to prove that not only is it human-nature to be
generous and that we don't need money to live, but also that there is
an accepted loss that every company figures into their finances that
makes it okay not to always charge for it. They just write it off.
Money is just a game you can choose not to play.
Now, I'm not a beggar. I am not a taker. When I give people the
choice to tell me no, helping me out becomes their decision. I am
not twisting anyone's arm. I am giving people the chance to feel
good about themselves. There is an exchange taking place. How many
people do you know will do something for nothing? Ask and thou shall
receive, no? I am only practicing what I preach.
The only thing I beg for is to differ.
In my possession I have over 6,000 people's email addresses. I
have been hard at work for years now. I walk up to random strangers
and ask, "Can I tell you a really interesting story? I am not
asking for anything. I just want you to listen. It's a free
story." Every bus driver hears my story. Every pretty girl on
the bus. Hell, even the ugly ones. My story is for everyone. As I
was saying, I have over 6,000 people who will listen to every single
word I say. I am jumping the ignorance-barrier. It's going to
spread like wildfire.
Let me tell you exactly what I have been doing for world peace
for the last three years. Me and me alone. I have had a minicassette
recorder with me at all times. I have just been logging my life.
Every detail. Whatever happens. I just recap every moment. My book
is writing itself. Nothing but the truth. I have headphones and I
type it all up. Time-stamps and everything. I transcribe it. It's
simple. I just send an email to myself. I have acquired a perfect
memory. I can study myself, literally. I am a one-man organization.
Anyone can do it. It's not rocket-science. I can go into almost
any college and use their computers in the library for free. Why pay
to go to school?
See, when my stuff hits the Internet, all these free rides I've
had to the West Coast and back, these magical adventures, following
signs, it is going to serve as proof in black and white. Nobody is
going to believe one guy could have made up so much stuff(I take
pictures too, over 2000 so far). It will be evidence we don't need
money to live. It will be The Better Book.
Don't you think the 100% true story of some guy who is walking
around the country telling people he's going to get marijuana
legalized and bring world peace and their reaction to that, the
places he goes, the people who help him and prove him right. Don't
you think that would be the most interesting story in the world?
Don't you think that would be an accurate state of the union? I am
going to bring the truth out of hiding and educate the masses. With
today's technology just sit back and watch one person make a global
difference.
Let me tell you about my army. It's my generation and younger,
it's all the kids who don't think I'm crazy and belong in a state
hospital. With many exceptions. There are lots of cool older people
out there too. The way I see it, there is more of us than there are
of them. Global revolution. Kids against the parents. Let's make
things right before it's too late. It's our world they're
destroying. Kids are the future. I am going to prove, without a
doubt, that evolution exists.
Don't worry, it will be a peaceful revolution. I promise.
Now, I am well-aware that I might even be assasinated for having
all these great ideas. But, I take great comfort in knowing that if
I am killed not only would I die a martyr(because I am doing no
wrong), but my mission would be accomplished even sooner. My shit's
already on the Internet. Just imagine the publicity my death or
dissapearance would attract. Everybody would want to know what the
guy who died for the world wrote. It would just blow the lid on it.
One life to save billions. I would die one happy man. It would be a
sacrifice to benefit the all. Like I say, I can't, for the life of
everybody, find anything better to do. I am living proof we don't
need money to work. We don't need money to help.
You can't stop freedom.
When I prove that Karma really does exist and it really does come
back to you, people will think twice before doing bad things. I
seriously pity the individual, or group of individuals who plot my
assasination. Just look at all the work I have been doing to bring
world-peace. Can you just imagine the curse that will strike them
and their family members down for the rest of eternity? In the end
justice will be done. Plus, I bet you all the money in the world
that if I am killed, I'll get resurrected, hehe.
San Antonio is where it all starts. There's no place like home.
San Antonio is my headquarters. It's where all the love is. Deep in
the heart of Texas. My middle name is Antonio. I am San Antonio.
So remember, my name is Victor Antonio from San Antonio. When it
happens just know who was responsible. Actually, I'm not stupid. I
know world peace is going to have to be everybody's fault(at least
all the kid's). I'll just be the catalyst.
Now, I want everyone to do me a couple favors. I want you to all
think I'm crazy. That's the only reason I haven't been assasinated
yet, because no one is taking me seriously. Second, I want you all
to doubt me, that I can do this. It will make my victory so much
sweeter.
I am a walking, talking self-fulfilling prophecy. It's going to
happen someday. Let's make it sooner than later.
Through word-of-mouth let it be known. The man who spends his
life on a mission, he's legendary. Traveling from coast to coast.
I'm the contemporary Johnny Appleseed. I'm just making sure that my
garden grows. I'll plant the seed in every town I go.
That's a NOFX song. I already have a soundtrack.
You can't stop bytes.
You can't stop life.
You can't stop freedom.
You can't stop Victor.
You can only get in my way.
And exactly what are you doing for world peace? Besides fueling the
evil machine preventing it.
Ok, Free Speech TV. Get back to me if you'd like to help me work
some magic. If not, I will work it on my own, just like I have been
all this time. Trust me, that story was just the tip of the iceberg.
- Victor Antonio
¡viva la revolucion!
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