Harry:
Don't intend to tell tales out of school, but you were the one that said "So, you wanna kick me out now," as though we'd bodily toss you from the treehouse for expressing a dissenting opinion. No-one here's interested in doing so, man; to be frank, your phrasing sounds bitchy. I'd advise against using that voice, because it doesn't help you; many might cease listening to you altogether because of an overly emotional statement.
For you, that might be worse than being zapped, Ellis-forum style.
Just a friendly word.
Now, as to your more recent post:
....But, hey, "fighting in the streets", I always thought that was some kind of hip sense of humour, or some anarchistic Invisiblesque posture, not actually embracing real street violence in democratic societies.
Don't let this happen to you, kids.
'Embracing' is rather a strong indictment. Do the postulated leanings of a few memebers apply to the group? If 'Cop Killer' were judged on the basis of his adopting the name of an Ice-T song, he'd be in the slam. His early admonishments to 'fuck shit up' would be taken into account at the expense of his real-world behavior; it's so reactionary as to be comparable with expelling a child from school for non-violent use of the word 'gun'.
That's sophistry putting on a suit and calling itself 'fair play'.
Choose your words carefully if you plan to play agitator.
Re: "fighting in the streets"--
I would like to point out that despite our highfalutin' idealism, revolution and/or coups are rarely accomplished bloodlessly; by 'bloodless' I do not mean body count, though that is an unfortunate reality, but rather mass injury.
Injury on both a wide psychological level, verging on trauma (which isn't a stretch, considering political ideologies as they are) and injury on a simple physical level, going from the boo-boo of a scraped knee to bystanders being crippled & comatose.
I'd love to avoid that scenario, but once a certain level of streetwide hysteria takes hold (often aggrevated by armed resistance from either authorities or fellow protestors) things will escalate. And continue to escalate until the tenuous framework of the 'demonstration/riot' can no longer maintain [said frame's strength being defined by constraints of urban geography i.e. the city itself, the citizens, resources, funds, resistance, and ratio of setback to accomplishment].
In short, riot behavior more often burns itself out than is suppressed.
What we should be shooting for are demonstrations where it has the lowest probablity possible of escalating into a riot, because at that point, all is lost to King Mob.
....And would you honestly dis the police as much if the guy who got shot was a neo-nazi, in a right wing demonstration?
Life is life. Take that as you will.
[ 01-07-2001: Message edited by: Leisure Butcher ] |
