RETURN OF THE GEARY ACT

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This is the first non-remix DJ Linux CD. For those of you who don't know (and most people don't which is WHY I titled it what I did), the Geary Act was an extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The Geary Act required Chinese living in the United States to carry a certificate of residence, without which they were subject to deportation or imprisonment and a year of hard labor. It denied bail to Chinese and prohibited them from appearing as witnesses in court. It effectively made it possible to retroactively take away the citizenship of a U.S. citizen and, of course all the rights of citizenship. The course of U.S. action since Bush got installed in 2000 has been mind-boggling and humiliating and I found, with hindsight that I'd made an anti-war and anti-Bush CD. It was meant to come out last October and I was bummed when it was delayed because I thought both Bush and the war would be gone. I'm even more bummed that the CD is even more relevant than when I made it. Like everything I do, it's a bit on the psychedelic side. A lot of the found speech is actually from news records from 1965 and they're oddly prescient for 2004. Scary. Anyway, I really like doing the Linux stuff. I'll never be Terminator X but a boy can dream can't he?

1. Intro
2. Nonverbal Suppletive Paradigm
3. Revolution Was Television
4. America Chooses
5. Time Balm (The Sin of Memory)
6. Shoot First

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