Protest, by Katie
I went to the protest over the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley. I went to support Nick Provenzo of the Capitalism Center, in his pitch about the constitutionality of the situation. (See previous post). A friend and I arrived at about 5:45pm and met up with Nick. As expected, the loonies had shown up in full force, on both sides of the false dichotomy, probably over a thousand of them. The liberal lunatics didn’t interest me, and they were jammed at the front besides. But boy, the conservative crazies were pretty scary too. One guy held a sign that said "Waterboard the liberals." Genius, dude, you’re really helping your cause.
Nick told us about a protest by some Objectivists in Philadelphia. "A what??" I said, incredulously. Apparently this was some time ago - like ten or maybe 15 years ago, and had to do with a movement at the time for "mandatory volunteerism" for the military. I liked one of the cheers they came up with. I think it’d make a good sign: "Just because it rhymes, doesn’t mean it’s true!" (Is that in iambic pentameter? I never did quite master that).
I thought of a couple other good signs. "Blowhorns are for bullies", "Please ask me about my petition", "Think for yourself", "Invective is not reason", "’Reason is the life of the law’ - Edward Cooke". Signs would only be in black or white on gray, to symbolize the necessity of stark reason in unclear situations.
Something to think about.
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JUST beCAUSE it RHYMES,
DOESn’t MEAN it’s TRUE!
Yup, iambic pentameter!
Comment by Chris — February 15, 2008 @ 7:10 am