Protesters as part of A31 (August 31st) made their most volatile protests yesterday. Over 15 police were injured. Traffic was snarled. At least one delegate was spit on. Arrests estimated at 1100. Detainees are being stored in pens in an old bus garage on Pier 57, sleeping in diesel fuel and river dust.
And it doesn’t have a goddamn thing to do with the price of tea in China.
I want George W. Bush out of the office so badly that I would give up my iPod, Playstation, and remaining hair to see him go. My reasons: absurd fiscal policies and tax cuts, his rape of the environment, and is ineptness at running a possibly illegitimate war. And it does make my blood boil when I hear his fear-mongering, semi-illiterate speech. But I don’t hate the man. It’s simply counter-productive to get overly passionate.
The protestors this week are not helping their cause. They are self-indulgently expunging their own bile and frustration and I can guarantee the limited national coverage will not affect one undecided vote in any of the swing states. If anything, it just paints liberals as irrational whackos.
If they really, truly want to make a difference, they should ignore the convention. Do not protest or do anything to give it another line in the paper. Find two pretty girls (see pic) and hide out at a nice restaurant in the East Village. And then make a donation to the Kerry campaign to buy TV ads in purple states. Anything else is for their own edification and unintentionally GWB’s.
Tomorrow I’ll have another plan to make a difference that involves buffalo wings and beer! Seriously.
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