[kj] Track-by-track: Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman talks MMXII

[Paul Rangecroft]

I view songs like 'Fema Camp' as dystopian visions rather than
reality. That may not be how Jaz indends them but it's the only way I
can "enjoy" them. Jaz believes what he wants to sometimes. I used to
wonder why his interviews were so barking when his lyrics seemed so
profound, now there isn't such a gulf between the two. He predicts the
end of the world as often as he predicts next year will be the Year of
the Joke. Neither ever happens. An asteroid probably won't wipe us
out. The poles probably won't shift. 2012 will go and 2013 will come.
But it's a mad world and KJ do capture that better than any other band
and I'm very grateful for that cathartic release. Some of his ideas a
quite interesting too. There are usually a few gems amid the rubbish.

On 3/29/12, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh well said.

> Jaz is an intelligent man so I find it slightly - what's the word -

> mystifying? - that

> he believes this Fema Camp nonsense. The fact is, if you go on

> YouTube/Google/whatever,

> as Jaz urges, you can swiftly discover how the whole thing is a crock of

> shit.

> The Fema Camp conspiracy theory is one of the more interesting ones in

> that, as

> with the fake moon landing conspiracy, the effect seems to be that the

> bigger and more

> rediculous the lie is, the more people seem willing to believe it.

> Of course, when the conspiracy started they were Clinton death camps, then

> Bush death

> camps, now they are Obama death camps. Funny how all these administrations

> agreed on

> one thing - we really need lots of death camps!

> And yet no matter how secret these places are meant to be, people can just

> drive around,

> film them, put up videos on YouTube and get away with it. Spooky.

>

> The video I posted earlier

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hvPJPTi4

>

> is well known, its 17 years old and shows an old train-repair facility

> which is apparently in

> the process of being turned into a new Auschwitz. Listen to the commentary

> - along the lines of

> "This is a big building, it could be used to process prisoners" - and try

> to keep a straight face.

> The video was shot by this woman

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(attorney)

>

> who is, surprise surprise, a bit unhinged. She was disowned by the US

> militia movement

> because they thought she was too extreme (she planned an armed march on

> Washington

> to put senators on trial for treason).

>

> Glenn Beck, of all people, actually debunked the whole thing here - guess

> what? It actually

> is a train-repair facility.

>

> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513024,00.html

>

> Popular Mechanics also have their own page on it

>

> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/4312850

>

> (see point 3 for the train-repair facility)

>

> This features the infamous photo supposed to be a US death/internment camp.

> It is actually

> a prison camp... in North Korea. If more people got worked up about real

> death camps instead

> of imaginary ones, the world might be a better place.

>

> Well, it goes on and on, its all out there if you want to read up on it.

> Sorry but this particular

> facet of Jaz's paranoia gets on my frigging nerves and I'm pissed off that

> he's clogging up valuable

> album space with boring songs about it. If it had been a great song, I

> wouldn't have minded so much.

>

> n

>

>

> On 28 March 2012 23:08, Rob Moss <rob.moss at gmx.com> wrote:

>

>> Ever cheerful Jaz.

>>

>> Thing is, he laughs alot too!

>> A very interesting man - I'm glad he's wrong most of the time!

>>

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