At 08:35 PM 7/20/01, Julia wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>
> > </geezer>
> >
> > What ever happened to non-violence? A silent march is way more
> > impressive than a bunch of unwashed, masked, drum-beating,
> > giant-puppet toting, tomato-costume-wearing punks. In my day, we
> > dressed up to march. Sunday best, to show The Man we were there to
> > politely point out the error of his ways, and by God we got stuff
> > done!
> >
> > These kids today, with their long hair and their Rock and Roll
> > music...
> >
> > <geezer/>
>
>My sister has the attitude when she goes out and protests that it's
>something of a sacrement (I'm not kidding, that's the word she used) and
>so she should dress nicely. She was questioned by someone dressed a lot
>more sloppily than she when she was at Ft. Benning
I had to re-read that before (I hope) I parsed it correctly -- that she was
protesting something at Ft. Benning rather than that she was attending jump
school . . .
>and gave that
>explanation. This can lead to people not identifying her with a group of
>protesters and treating her differently than they would if they knew she
>was there to protest.
Speaking of protests, does anyone know what the protestors are protesting
about at the summit in Italy? Or are they just protesting for the sake of
doing so, because world leaders are meeting there and that's the thing to do?
--Ronn! :)
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