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Fifth Column
My Wednesday Night Field Trip
2003-11-20
I took the Metrorail to Downtown Miami about 8 P.M. tonight, to play a visit to our "friends" the anti-Capitalism protesters. Oh, you don’t know what I’m talking about? Miami is hosting negotiations this whole week for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a proposal that would do what its name suggests; create a tariff-free area for almost the whole continent. (I’m pretty sure Cuba won’t join.)

With the FTAA conference, of course, the blithering morons respectful protestors come. I got off Metrorail (Miami’s overpass train), and I took the metromover (downtown’s mini-rail overpass service) to an station close to the meeting--the closest station was closed. The cops were everywhere, tense, but I don’t think they were in danger today. I went to the concert/protest, and I was amazed... by how few people were there. I don’t think there were a thousand people. Hell, I think half the people were there to watch exotic animals colorful people like I was. When I walked by there was the Guitar player from the extinct Rage Against the Machine playing by himself--apparently, Rage was a machine itself, it broke down, and there were no Marxist mechanics around. The "activists" themselves were pretty quiet, they haven’t reached critical mass, but I did manage to run into a Marxist lady I know (from a philosophy class), and she looked at me with the most surprised eyes I’ve ever seen. She must be telling her friends about the spy she recognized today.

In the end, I didn’t see anything spectacular, but it was nice to see the evil ones demoralized.
Posted by:Sorge

#8  You can always count on anarchists to be disorganized;)
Posted by: Spot   2003-11-20 9:07:12 AM  

#7  What happens to papermache in the rain? Perhaps the puppet show is delayed because of the drizzle. Without puppets to watch a lot of the other protestors might just stay home. The Pink tank only has so much appeal without a supporting army of puppets.
Posted by: ruprecht   2003-11-20 8:41:10 AM  

#6  Based on my observations of the protest here Monday, and others:

1. Papermache - the media of choice for the educated protestor
2. Chicks with pink hair are required
3. Multiple messages, no point in all of us protesting the same thing
4. Must not march in unison nor in the same direction as anyone else. Conformity is bad.
5. Recruit homeless people to hold signs
6. Never forget the good old days of Vietnam
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2003-11-20 8:39:30 AM  

#5  todays the big protest day in London, expecting 100,000 people to march. So add an extra hour to my journey home
Posted by: JoeyBananas   2003-11-20 6:02:10 AM  

#4  tu3031: I didn't see any giant puppets, and only a few giant banners, but the slogans were boring.
Posted by: Sorge   2003-11-20 5:53:01 AM  

#3  Well, it's been rather cold and drizzly in London, and rainy in Miami. In inclement weather, the left has to be very careful they aren't purposely infected by some biological agent disguised as a 'cold' by the Fascist Regime©. Those jackbooted thugs will stop at nothing, you see. It's all part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy™.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-11-20 2:38:07 AM  

#2  So far, seems the protests in the UK are a flop too. Looks like the "revolutionary" dreams of the looney left and their communist cohorts are falling apart.
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American   2003-11-20 1:55:55 AM  

#1  No big puppets?
Revolutionaries, my ass!
Posted by: tu3031   2003-11-20 12:36:42 AM  

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