Post by heavymanners on Dec 10, 2005 20:50:55 GMT -5
I was just watching a video of an NHB/MMA fighting match and noticed that one of the fighters had a black and red star tattooed on his chest and a 'circle A' on his back. www.sherdog.com/news/picture_popup.asp?pic_id=7484&f_id=262
I googled his name, Jeff Monson, and found out that he's been controversial within that scene for making anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-Bush statements. Anyone know anything about this guy and his politics? I gather he's a pretty solid fighter.
See below for a quote from a recent interview where he discusses his politics:
www.fightsport.com/fsport/fightsport/news/2005_09_18_fightsport_archive.html
Interviewer: There seems to be some controversy after the fight about a shirt and what was said. Can you tell us briefly what went on?
Monson: I wore my ATT shirt to the fight. A couple of days before the fight, they come and do an interview in your gym. They bring a film crew to your gym and I wore an 'Assassinate Bush' shirt in my gym when I was training. So when they came in to do the interview I had the shirt on. So they showed the cut on the screen when I came out to fight. Afterwards, basically I made a reference of the hurricane Katrina and that Bush had diverted 76 million dollars from the Army Corps of engineers that do the levy reconstruction and all the improvements and that kind of stuff. They have taken the money away and diverted it elsewhere, so when the levy broke all those people had died from the flood. The hurricane only killed a handful of people. It's the flooding and the subsequent dehydration, and all the other stuff and not having the ability to get out there and the sickness that killed most of the people. Basically that's what I said.
Interviewer: You grapple and you fight. Is there any politics in your future?
Monson: Yeah I hope so. This weekend I'm going to Washington D.C., they are going to be 100,000 people protesting International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and the war on Iraq. I'm kind of excited to do that. The IMF and World Bank are basically two institutions that loan money to poor countries and when they can't pay them back, they basically give money to dictators. And of course the dictators use the money inappropriately. Not reconstruction, not on railroads and it doesn't go where it's supposed to and the people end up having to pay all the money back. When they can't pay it back they put them in debt or in a condition where everything gets privatized. They privatize the railroads, they privatize the oil, and all the people end up paying for it and it's a bad deal that got going on.
I googled his name, Jeff Monson, and found out that he's been controversial within that scene for making anti-capitalist, anti-war and anti-Bush statements. Anyone know anything about this guy and his politics? I gather he's a pretty solid fighter.
See below for a quote from a recent interview where he discusses his politics:
www.fightsport.com/fsport/fightsport/news/2005_09_18_fightsport_archive.html
Interviewer: There seems to be some controversy after the fight about a shirt and what was said. Can you tell us briefly what went on?
Monson: I wore my ATT shirt to the fight. A couple of days before the fight, they come and do an interview in your gym. They bring a film crew to your gym and I wore an 'Assassinate Bush' shirt in my gym when I was training. So when they came in to do the interview I had the shirt on. So they showed the cut on the screen when I came out to fight. Afterwards, basically I made a reference of the hurricane Katrina and that Bush had diverted 76 million dollars from the Army Corps of engineers that do the levy reconstruction and all the improvements and that kind of stuff. They have taken the money away and diverted it elsewhere, so when the levy broke all those people had died from the flood. The hurricane only killed a handful of people. It's the flooding and the subsequent dehydration, and all the other stuff and not having the ability to get out there and the sickness that killed most of the people. Basically that's what I said.
Interviewer: You grapple and you fight. Is there any politics in your future?
Monson: Yeah I hope so. This weekend I'm going to Washington D.C., they are going to be 100,000 people protesting International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and the war on Iraq. I'm kind of excited to do that. The IMF and World Bank are basically two institutions that loan money to poor countries and when they can't pay them back, they basically give money to dictators. And of course the dictators use the money inappropriately. Not reconstruction, not on railroads and it doesn't go where it's supposed to and the people end up having to pay all the money back. When they can't pay it back they put them in debt or in a condition where everything gets privatized. They privatize the railroads, they privatize the oil, and all the people end up paying for it and it's a bad deal that got going on.
