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ARTHUR BREMER MEETS PETER GABRIEL
It was announced yesterday that the man who shot George Wallace in 1972, Arthur Bremer, will be released in December after 35 years behind bars. I remember hearing about the shooting and I was upset but not because I liked Wallace. I was upset because I hoped that Wallace would run as a third party candidate as he had in 1968 and deny Nixon re-election. A faint hope but a hope nonetheless: Tricky Dick was my main political bete noir pre-Beavis. It scares me that Beavis makes Tricky look good in comparison. <shuddering>
Back to Arthur Bremer. He was the classic American nut job loner assassin: he stalked Nixon, Muskie and McGovern in 1972 before settling on Wallace. He thought that if he killed someone who was important that he'd be important. He was wrong: he was just a nut in jail. Bremer wrote a diary that Peter Gabriel read in the late Seventies, which inspired him to write the great song Family Snapshot:
Great song. Looks like the So tour? Or an Amnesty show?
It's Bremer trying to be as cool as Jack. He failed.
He stills performs like this. Some songs even upside down, (or is it
downside up? ;-) )