The Greatest Political Speech Ever

Jesse Walker | May 3, 2007

Here are just a few of the gems offered by Toyama Koichi -- nihilist, ex-con, street musician, and candidate for governor of Tokyo -- in a Japanese television broadcast:

* "Gentlemen! This nation is horrible."

* "I do not have a single constructive proposal. The only thing we must do now is scrap and scrap -- annihilate everything that exists!"

* "To further our ferocious, terrifying plans of overthrowing the government, there is information on how to contact me on the posters."

The whole dada-rific performance is here. If he is elected, Koichi concludes, "They will be terrified. I myself will be terrified."

[Via bOING bOING, which also links to some remixes of the speech.]