From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:29:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Subject: Re: North CA cops skip preliminaries, get straight to torture
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At 9:14 PM -0700 10/30/97, Anonymous wrote:


>  This non-violent demonstrators were willing to accept the agreed
>upon punishment/cost of their actions in protest of the actions
>of their public servants. Their public servants, as usual, chose
>to to act in the manner of savages who are incapable of holding
>to the rule of law which they use to justify their confiscation
>of the citizen's right to bear arms in the face of tyranny.

Excuse me, but this modern notion that protestors get to "make a deal"
about the fines they'll eventually pay is bogus. If they're trespassing,
they're trespassing. They don't get to take over Intel's factory, chain
themselves to the Evil Factory doors, and then make a deal to pay some
token fine.

Like the AIDS protestors who "arrange" a deal whereby they'll shut down the
Golden Gate Bridge for several hours and then pay their arranged $50
tickets.

Well, what's wrong with me driving up to the head of the sit-down protest
and saying to the cops standing idly by, "Hey, there are some queers in the
middle of the road, blocking my trip to Marin. If you're just gonna let em
sit there for hours, putting my business and plans at risk, I'm just gonna
gun my engine and drive right over their fairy asses."

Crimes are crimes, not "guerilla theater." Not "performance art."

(And I was one of the organizers of "Critical Smash," a counter-rally of
truck drivers and fed up motorists who met the "Critical Mess" bicyclists
planning to "shut down" major intersections.)

>
>  Twenty years or so ago, after seeing pictures of mothers and
>children in chains at a Livermore Labs protest, I wrote a song
>called "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For The Monkey."

I had a much better idea back then. Leave the mothers and childrens chained
to the fences and gates.

Pull back from them, erect a cordon around them, and block anyone from
approaching.  They wanted to be chained to the fence, sans keys, so let
them have their wish.

Others could show up to throw stuff at them, and place bets on who would be
the last to die.

And, as the flesh dripped off and the bones whitened, it might be a nice
object lesson for the others.


--Tim May

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