> Doesn't matter who they are, what music they listen to, how they dress, how old they are... it's a tragic.
I feel the core problem is that there're are WAY too many guns around in the States, everybody has access to them and can easily pack one. Sad, sad thing. Many pay with their lives for that kind of policy on a daily basis. Jan (disrupt) www.jahtari.org I'm sure in the coming days there will be > things, sings or behavior, that should have been paid attention to. Always > seems like there are. The media hounds will blame the kids and the music > because the harder questions are just to difficult to deal with when you > still have the sports and weather to report. > > MEK > > > > Fred Heutte > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ta.com> To > <[email protected]> > 03/26/06 06:47 PM cc > > Subject > (313) Re: [313) r.i.p Capitol Hill > Kids > > > > > > > > > > > It's hard to say what motivated the shooter. There is even speculation > he planned to attack the "official party" itself which was well-run > on a heavily traveled street and finished at the early hour (for me > anyway :) of 4 am. When they say, "the freaks come out," Seattle > knows how to do that and be cool with it. > > The Seattle scene has always been an ever-changing melange and > people cross readily between music genres because they are *friends*, > you know. The boundaries are much less than they are in other parts > of the country, from what I have observed, and there is a lot of > crossover between electronic and regular band scenes as the > interests of those already identified as victims indicates. And there > is less of the segregation by age groups that has occurred in > other places, certainly in Portland where I am. The people in that > house were in the late teens to late 20s. > > This was utter violence visited on a scene that works hard to keep > that out, where people actually say "PLUR" and mean it. Our > friend groovinkim, who founded nwtekno, lives a few blocks away > and says the neighborhood is semi-sketchy. This is all about a > multi-ethnic youth culture trying to find a safe space to function in > an increasingly unbalanced society. You can chuckle at the "candy" > aspect of some of it but these are, through only a couple degrees of > separation, our brothers and sisters in electronic dance music of > *whatever* kind. > > fh > > > > > > > > -- (disrupt) www.jahtari.org
