Editor-in-ChiEf Tdd Mrhad Contents [email protected] noVemBer 5, 2009 Volume 5 issue 5 ArtS Editor my sweet misery: the Birth of cinematic suicide p. 6 Judit Trunks [email protected] ColAthEAtEr.Com News.Politics.Commentary S.M. Balm, Garrtt Kllrhalss editorial demint on dope? 33 dESign regional Briefs priest Blesses dogs 33 Rsca Glassr letters to the reader dear autumn leaf 44 statehouse report Boeing stresses need for education 44 muSiC the good fight what do repuBlicans really want? 88 Shlby Sachs, Kingsly Waring editorial oBama’s real death panels 1616 ted rall stop the drones 1818 PubliShEr pg. 6 Paul Blak [email protected] ACCount ExECutivES Arts.Entertainment.Etc Brandy Dby, Jams Wallac 44 Bacardi soundBoard punk/indie/emo/ska/hardcore/metal/rock 66 ContributorS Vocal Booth hip-hop reView and eVents 1010 S.M. Balm, Andy Brack, Garrtt Kllrhals, Ismail arts golden symBols 1111 Lagardin, WR Marshall, Will Mrdck, Td Rall, saVage loVe sex with zomBies 1515 Dan Savag, Kingsly Waring, Baynard Wds rock and roll crosswords 1515 ask a mexican 1717 ColumbiA City PAPEr 1818 2965 Nrth Main Strt jonesin crosswords Clumbia, SC 29201 pg. 15 803.218.9455 (DIAL AReA CoDe) Advertisers in Columbia City Paper assume responsibility for the entire content of the advertisements. The first copy of Columbia City Paper is free. Additional copies are $1 and two-bits each. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the opinions of Columbia City Paper or its publisher. (C) Columbia City Paper, LLC dEmint on doPE? BByy BBaynard WWoods decisions. As a senator (part of the Federal government, by the way), Jim DeMint thinks he knows better than the local voters how they should be allowed to administer to their sick citizens. Jim DeMint is not really a proponent of freedom at all. Or rather he has an excep-- tionally strange conception of freedom. Though DeMint’s brand of freedom may be new in America, it is not entirely novel. Remember when George Bush looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and saw his soul? I suspect that what he saw looked a CHARLESTON seats before switching to a diet of Subway lot like Jim DeMint. brand sandwiches, praised the children for their South Carolina’s faux-populist Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations andand Table knfe sours AA meetn commitment to tness. Fogle rose to prominence Republicans claim to be for freedom and thethe Declaration of Independence both following claims that he lost around 200 lbs. against Big Government. Now their con-- came out in 1776. Since then, we have A Charleston man has been charged with after he adopted an exercise regimen and ate victions will be tested. assumed that political liberty and economic simple assault after threatening his “body exclusively at the popular restaurant chain. Obama’s Department of Justice took liberty were inherently connected. Russia guard” with a table knife during an Alcoholics He has been a spokesperson for Subway since dramatic action to limit federal interven-- and China have radically challenged those Anonymous meeting. 2000. tion in state business. Last month, the assumptions in recent years. They have Department of Justice announced that it shown that it is expedient to allow eco-- The victim told Charleston police that his Lake Cty resdents alarmed by ron would no longer seek to interfere with state nomic liberty, while denying personal and attacker had paid him $20 to be his bodyguard. bear medical marijuana laws. Federal agents— political liberty. Economic freedom inin According to a police report, both men were Lake City police warned residents to stay you know, the ones in the jackboots that thethe Russia expanded greatly under Putin. At the attending the AA meeting at the Star Gospel indoors after receiving reports of a black bear right is so afraid of—will no longer inter-- same time, individual liberty suffered simi-- Mission on Meeting St. when the offender and her cub roaming on the south side of town. fere with states that have legalized medical larly dramatic decreases. The growth of of allegedly became “upset with the quality of the “The bear and cub have gotten separated, victim’s services.” and it has made the (mother) bear angry,“ Lake marijuana. They will no longer invade the Russian and Chinese economies under According to the ousted bodyguard, his City Police Chief Billy Brown told the Florence the privacy of those Americans through oppressive regimes has been a revelation to former employer also said, “If you ever do me Morning News . Police briey set up roadblocks surveillance; they will no longer kick in the DeMinted Right. If economic freedom like that again, I am going to kill you.” The and also solicited help from the S.C. Dept. of their doors. The government will no longer does not require individual liberty, these attacker then unfolded a rag and displayed Natural Resources. DNR game wardens later tax hard-working Americans to pay for all men see no reason for individual liberty. InIn a table knife. The victim called police, who called the search off, believing that the bear of this surveillance, arrest, imprisonment, the end, DeMint means the same thing that escorted the attacker from the meeting. eventually found its cub and left town. trial, appeal, etc. Putin and the Chinese Communists mean Jim DeMint has tried to position him-- by freedom. CLEMSON MYRTLE BEACH self as the Senate’s champion of freedom. If Jim DeMint really loves freedom, Cty councloman suspended for cancer Booze: Achilles’ heel for town ofcials He should be especially delighted at this he should vocally support the Justice scam Just days before Atlantic Beach Mayor, step towards liberty. Around the same time Department’s announcement. This is a true Gov. Mark Sanford has suspended a Retha Pierce, was removed from her post as the Justice Department’s announcement,nt, victory for states’ rights. Unless, DeMint Clemson city councilwoman accused of falsely stemming from hit-and-run charges, Atlantic DeMint approvingly quoted a Gallop poll and the rest of our Republicans are really claiming her daughter had cancer to avoid a Beach Police Chief, Randy Rizzo, was arrested in his blog: “Americans saying govern-- talking about white supremacy when they court hearing and to solicit money.. for public drunkenness. ment doing too much.” He told U.S. News talk about states’ rights. Investigators say Councilwoman, Elouise Following his arrest by Horry County police, and World Report, “Government should I have not seen Jim DeMint’s soul. James, forged a physicians order from Cancer Rizzo told the Sun News of Myrtle Beach that he do what the Constitution says it should do. In fact, he has consistently refused to Centers of the Carolinas to get her daughter simply drank “too many beers” and that he will The Constitution is intended to limit gov-- speak to me. He does not return my calls. excused from a court hearing. The order pay his debt to society just like anyone else. ernment in what it can do. And it’s pretty But I know one thing about him. If he reportedly claimed that Kirstyn James was Prior to Rizzo’s arrest, Mayor Pierce had specific about defending our country, regu-- does not come out in favor of the Justice undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. been arrested four times, most recently on lating interstate commerce, and a few other Department’s medical marijuana policy, he A warrant further charge that James misdemeanor DUI charges. things. What we’re doing today is way out will prove that he holds a Putinesque con -- “solicited money from the victim to aid in the of the bounds of the Constitution.” ception of liberty. He is not for freedom. treatment of Kirstyn James, her daughter, who Exactly. The Constitution nowhere says He is for big business. And he is for big purportedly suffered from cancer,” according to that the federal government should inter-- government, except when it interferes with one report. fere with the states’ ability to allow medi-- big business. No one is hurt by medical James denies the allegations. CorrECtion cal treatment. This is a step forward for marijuana, except for the pharmaceutical DeMint’s anti-Federal agenda. He should industry and the politicians that support it. FLORENCE In the editorial “Still Pulling For The be holding tea parties in celebration of this If he’ll talk to you, ask Jim DeMint: does Jared Fole spotted at area school Home Team” [October 22, 2009, issue 4 vol. decision. he support big government or freedom on Subway spokesman, Jared Fogle, recently 5]: the author mistakenly claimed that “The We all know that he hasn’t and he won’t medical marijuana. But you might need visited Main Street Elementary School in Lake FPA nanced the construction of that second support the Justice Department’s move. some Russian to understand his answer.. City to recognize the grand prize winners of fountain for over $800,000.” The second DeMint has previously indicated that he the Subway “Fresh Fit” contest. The fth-grade foutain only cost $315,000 and City Paper is against states’ rights when it comes to Call his Columbia Office: winners, Ja’Kayla Andrews, Justice Smith and regrets the error. To further clarify Executive medical marijuana. He is an enemy of Zyria McClam, won a $1,000 tness grant for Director of Five Points Association, Merritt freedom for cancer patients. He supports 803-771-6112 the school and $1,000 in Subway cash cards. Mchafe wrote City Paper, “In fact, I told stronger prosecution of drug offenses and The other local grand-prize winner was Steven you that some of my board members wanted other victimless crimes.