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Juvenile WB/IMF Molestors |
Current rating: -6 |
by Harry Green
(No verified email address) |
27 Sep 2002
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These anarchists are becoming quite a problem. Let's take action now! |
Scavenger hoodlums
This weekend, the adolescent activists protesting against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will make their annual appearance on the streets of Washington. While many of the protesters are simply clueless college students anxious to duck the herculean academic demands required for a degree in English Lit, there is also an ugly, violent fringe element determined to disrupt society and dedicated to doing so by any means necessary.
One of the most frightening examples of the latter mentality is "The Anti-Capitalist Scavenger Hunt," which awards points for wrecking things -- 500 for trashing the inside of a retail store, 300 for smashing a McDonald's window and 75 for puncturing a police car's tire.
Judging from the list, the scary scavengers' sense of morality is as skewed as their sense of logic. Flinging a pie at a corporate CEO or government official is accorded the same number of points as putting together an article about a major corporation (one wonders how many black-clothed, gas-mask-wearing anarchists will be seen typing up papers instead of throwing punches at police). Blocking a street intersection is worth as much as picking up trash from the street.
Chuck, the anarchist webmaster who posted the scavenger hunt, said it was only a joke. Perhaps he and his urban terrorist friends are the only ones who are laughing, since a click away from his site is the home page of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, which complains, "The last two mass demonstrations in Washington, D.C. have been almost completely void of direct action" -- a phrase referring to acts ranging from spray-painting billboards to burning down buildings.
Disrupting traffic, smashing windows and trashing the inside of stores must not be tolerated. While legitimate, lawful protests have long occupied an important place in public discourse, the active participants in the anarchist scavenger hunt have no place in the conversation or the nation's capital. |
See also:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020927-392693.htm
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Who's Joking? |
by Andy Anarchy
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Current rating: 0
27 Sep 2002
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One of the most loveable traits of the mainstream commercial media is its utter lack of a sense of humor, and inability to smell a joke as it farts in their face. This huffing and puffing from the Moonie-owned Washington Times merely falls in this tradition. How else to explain such an over-the-top reaction to what was clearly intended as a joke. Has Mr. Green even ever heard of a Scavenger Hunt before? Sure, he ackowledges the joke, but why should that stop his huffing. Those darn anarchist kids must still be screwing up his pristine city and they can't come to the conversation. Well, guess what, they don't want to come. They want it to stop.
While many an anarchist will have no problem smashing the tools and trappings of modern facist-capiltalism, they need no Scavenger Hunt to encourage or guide them. And, as this morning's events show, there's no evidence of said Scavenger Hunt as police crack down on and arrest anyone daring to walk the streets of DC today. How many brownie points does a DC Pig get for each 18-year-old kid she pepper sprays, or each gay man he beats?
Looks like the DC establishment are the real Scavengers.
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The Clueless Class |
by ML
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Current rating: 0
27 Sep 2002
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If you're relying on the Washington Times for your news, it is no wonder that you don't know what the hell you're talking about. |
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Hey Rock Thrower |
by Harry Green
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Current rating: 0
27 Sep 2002
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Quite a powerful statement from someone who reads Zmag for a living, and stop copying your material from the Rage Against the Machine message board. |
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Trolls And Schoolyards |
by Andy A
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Current rating: 0
27 Sep 2002
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Harry -- you're putdowns would go down great in the 8th grade schoolyard, but they add to any sort of rational debate about as much as saying "I know you are but what am I?"
Thanks, but no thanks for the trolling.
If your petty insults are the best the mainstream and right have to offer, then I'm relieved to realize we can win the battle for the minds with one lobe tied behind our backs. |
