[kj] rebellion?

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Tue Aug 11 20:44:11 EDT 2009






lol, you better, yo!




-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Weil <karen.weil at sddt.com>
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And to think I was going to skip wearing
my gang colour doo-rag before possibly heading up to L.A. ... ; )


 


Cheers,


 


k.w.


SoCal


 


 




----- Original Message -----


From:
Darren A.
Peace


To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the
band!)'


Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 11:01
AM


Subject: Re: [kj] rebellion?








Oh
it’s so complicated.


 


There
I was, idly knotting my brown handkerchief, and popping it in my back left
pocket before going in to Heaven...


 


Darren


Hungerford,
UK


 






From: gathering-bounces at misera.net
[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Karen
Weil
Sent: 11 August 2009 6:23 PM
To: A list about all
things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj]
rebellion?




 




Remember when
colored shoe laces were just worn for fashion?





 





 





k.w.





SoCal

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From: Matthew Burke






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Sent: Tuesday, August
11, 2009 10:12 AM





Subject: Re: [kj]
rebellion?





 



I recall that,
in the US, red laces mean you've participated in a physical attack against a
minority.  They're "earned", not just something you pick up in a shoe
shop for a splash of color.



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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:48:43 +1200 (NZST)

> From: "Brendan" <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>

>

Subject: Re: [kj] rebellion?

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> I read a book

called F?hrer Ex by Ingo Hasselbach, who was a leading Neo

> Nazi

figure in the 80s or 90s I think, ended up changing his mind about

>

it, wrote a book and went around talking to kids in school about racism
/

> fascism. (I had a mate who was in the anti-fas who reckons he only

changed

> his spots when he got busted, but who knows. Sounds like he

had a shit

> time growing up in East Germany u

nder the Stasi and being
a Nazi was the

> perfect way to rebel against them as fascism is the

idealogical opposite

> to comminism, in theory). Anyway apparently

over there red bootlaces meant

> anarchist, white was fascist, and

black was neutral. If I remember

> correctly.

>

> >

That can actually be true, sometimes. Next time you see a video on

>

> YouTube of Neo-Nazis, check out the laces on their boots. A lot of
the

> > times they're white laces. Unfortunately, I have met a few

of these

> > douchebags and they did have white laces indeed. One

had a RAHOWA ball

> > cap.

> >

> > Like anything,

just seeing someone with white laces is nothing to accost

> > them

about,t hough. They may not know what the hell they are doing, like

>

> all the kids who have "88" after their usernames online because
they

> > thought it was some punk thing.

> >

>

>

> >

> > Alex Smith wrote:

> >> I seem to

remember reading a piece in SPIN magazine about twenty-five

> >>

years ago that said you could tell what type of skinhead someone was

>

>> (i.e. racist or not) by the color of the laces on their Doc
Martens.

> >>

> >> Yeah, whatever.

>

>>

> >> Alex in NYC

> >>

>

>>

> >>

> >>

> >

> >

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