03/04/03: Post by Rolo
Posted by: BLOWBACK
Here is some left-wing humor from an anti-antiwar website http://www.culturewar.50g.com/index.htm"Okay, some thoughts on our protest action this pastSaturday... I was pleased overall. At our peak we hadabout 25 people and it was great to have severalpeople from Broward Citizens for Peace and Justicejoining us as well as some new people brought by Kwameand others, so that was cool. I wasn't that thrilledabout our location but we were highly visible topeople driving by and it did allow us to meet peopleat the bus stop. Best of all, we got to meet some newfolks who saw us while driving by and stopped to meetus and expressed interest in joining BAWC.Despite Marcus and myself putting out press releasesto over 20 media, we received zero press coverage. Wedid have a cameraman from Channel 10 come by and filmus and take an interview, but it was never aired. Ofcourse that would conflict with the corporate media'smanufactured image of "America united" and might causeothers to question this whole damn war, so no surprisethere...On the negative side: despite the fact that we agreedat last week's meeting not to engage with pro-warprovacateurs trying to bust up our action, in practicewe didn't follow our own directive. I admit Isuccumbed to responding to that jerk with the videocamera a couple of times myself. He's extremelyskilled at provoking people. Also, we really didn'tdo a good job of conveying this decision and WHY wemade it to those of us who weren't at the meeting so anumber of us fell into the trap of engaging with thatasshole (BTW, his name is Jorge Torres). Torres' whole purpose there is to get in our faces,and try to provoke us and divert our energy from ouroriginal purpose to being focused on him. And hesucceeded. If you go to his website: www.antiantiwar.com you will see that he succeeded inmaking himself the focus of our energy. This guy CANNOT be reasoned with or convinced of ourviews. He is a professional far-right organizer andif you read his posts on various right-wing messageboards, you will see he believes in violence againstthose on the political left. In fact I think a majorpurpose of his website is to IDENTIFY people like usfor others on the far-right to commit acts of violenceagainst us. (A note from me, the "professional far-right organizer". This paragraph is pure leftist nonsense. I have never posted anything to any message board advocating violence. Quite the contrary, I am the one that has been threatened, verbally abused, and even assaulted by a sign wielding senior citizen peacenik. It's all in my videos for the world to see. My counter-revolutionary weapon of choice is the video camera.)If we had followed our decision of giving him completesilence, I believe he would have quickly gotten boredand left. Instead we allowed ourselves to fall intohis trap and he stayed for quite a long period oftime.I'm not suggesting we don't talk to anyone passing by,even if someone is opposed to our point of view. If apasserby is interested in having a conversation thenof course we talk to them. It's when people get tothe point of being abusive or are there expressly todisrupt (like Mr. Torres), that we shouldn't engagewith them.We need to do things like start chanting when someonelike him tries to disrupt. I think it would be goodfor us to brainstorm on some chants and put them on achant sheet so we're better prepared when this occurs."Does anyone else think this was written by Haskell? The writing style and thought processes are remarkably similar. . .