We are the Shadow Government

May 01, 2003

According to today’s article in the Washington Post, “To Packer and company, the Internet is the right place to plant propaganda and fantasy.” See the full transcript of the article.

This is precisely why we have announced that Abe Golam, politician and info-shaman, is entering the 2004 Presidential Race. Mr. Golam, in announcing he is forming an exploratory committee, declared his candidacy would “stir up controversy throughout the global computer networks, that ‘non-place’ where the true battle for democracy in America will be fought and won.”

“If the American people want a lifelong, corporeal politician in the White House, that’s not me,” Mr. Golam said in a webcast news conference. “They’ll have a group of people to choose from if that’s what they want. If they want instead somebody who is closer to them, more connected to them, someone who will subvert the dominant paradigm, who is willing to gnaw into the body politic, inhabit it, and lay his demon seed, that is me.”

Abe Golam is best known as a pop culture info-shaman, a leading proponent of copyright-free art and entertainment products. Since his debut in Mark Amerika’s internationally acclaimed website GRAMMATRON, released on the net in 1997, Golam has been a political activist and performer in various on-line and live theatrical events as well.

See the full text of the announcement.

Randall M. Packer
Secretary, US Department of Art & Technology