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In Many Ways, I Have No Idea What Would Have Become Of Me If Punk Hadn't Happened, Because The '70s Turned Out To Be So Stale, And So Boring, And So Backward Compared To What Had Come Just Before. We Were Too Young To Have Fully Experienced The '60s And The Fervor Of The Anti-war Movement.

I Never Expected The Movement Against Globalization And Corporate Rule To Mushroom As Quickly As It Has, Either. And Right Now The Strongest Electoral Arm Of That Movement Is The Green Party. I Try To Stress To People Cynical About Voting That The Greens Are The Most Effective Electoral Arm Of The So-called Spirit Of Seattle, And It's Great Fun To Cause Trouble In The Streets, But That's Not Going To Accomplish Much Without Insurrection In The Voting Booth At The Same Time.

As A Human Being With Notoriety And A Big Mouth, I've Felt Most Threatened During The First Bush Administration. Whenever There's A Bush In The White House, Many People Die, And The Rest Of Us Are Threatened. I Just Didn't Think It Would Happen Quite So Quickly. The So-called Usa Patriot Act, And The Announcement Of Trying People In Military Tribunals If Bush Or Rumsfeld's Or Ashcroft's People Think They Somehow Qualify As Terrorists, Basically, This Is Mccarthyism Run Amok.

You Can Spend The Money On New Housing For Poor People And The Homeless, Or You Can Spend It On A Football Stadium Or A Golf Course.

I Went Through A Big Alice Cooper Phase, Which Was Probably A Major Influence On My Writing Style Later, Especially After Plastic Surgery Disasters.