“What Barry Says” was a leftist propaganda film about the Project for the New American Century. Its home site, knife-party.net, is long gone, written in Flash and so unarchived, leaving only a 4th-gen dupe of the original short. (How do the British use the word "flash" again?) This Leftism is the older, anti-WTO, Battle for Seattle kind. PNAC was started by Bill Kristol (CEO, the rump state of Bulwark) and Robert Kagan, recently departed from Bezos’ WaPo. (“I’m just a li’l ol’ liberal/progressive,” he cries. The latter’s wife is career State Dept., and ovaries deep in 201x Ukraine, apparatchika Victoria Nuland, surely not a conflict of interest.)
Anyway, my only point is: it’s damn good propaganda. Min information, max persuasion, and looks (looked) gorgeous. I haven’t seen propaganda this pretty since R.E.M.’s “Ignoreland.”
But that hunt led me to Films for Action, and then to this page here. I was impressed by the picture: by leaving out time, it appears to gut arguments for armed self-defense. (A similar rebuttal for Charlie would be him, head just starting to explode, standing next to a “University of Utah — Gun Free Zone!” sign.) But it’ very effective. And then you get to the text:
His murder has given the movement he represented — grounded in Christian nationalism — a martyr. Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
Martyrs sacralize violence. They are used to turn the moral order upside down. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities become heroism. Crime becomes justice. Hate becomes virtue. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues. Murder becomes good. War is the final aesthetic. This is what is coming.
Hmm, wouldn’t a violent movement create martyrs... for the other side? Never mind, coherence is so bougie. “Martyrs sacralize violence,” ah, yes, the violence of tens of thousands of people going to church. “Depravity becomes morality”? How about “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.”
Semen est sanguis Christianorum.
It was what I found on the archive. If you have a copy of the original .swf you are more than welcome to upload that and have them linked. Archive.org is not politically aligned and just archives the record (Albeit in this case Flash becomes Ruffle for security reasons - but it's all still there under it all).
The original was an *.flv file, which was common for Flash sites. I had the original but lost it in a HDD failure. I was hoping someone who still had it had uploaded it.
.flv, .swf and .exe were the most common types of Flash export. If you remember the full name I could be able to help (No promises).