Heh...about a month after September 11 I went to a San Francisco Town
Hall meeting near Delores Park. It was held in a Lutheran Church and
there were people there I'd heard speak at Berkeley's California
Students Against War meetings already. I was with a friend who was
shooting Mini-DV of the meeting. During the middle of everything
several people started screaming about how we were collecting faces for
the government and they didn't want any government agencies monitoring
their actions. Now, I'm a fat bald guy in my mid-30's, but my friend
Bekah is a 95-pound teenage girl. How she could have been seen in a
threatening way is beyond me. Anyway, the argument came to us and for a
while several people were demanding not only that she put the camera
away, but that she destroy the tape she'd been shooting. We eventually
just put the camera away and they decided it wasn't worth fighting
about the tape, but it was tense for a few minutes. It's strange how
paranoid and frightened people are anymore. Michael Moore couldn't have
been any more timely with Bowling For Columbine and its exploration of
themes of fear and violence in the American psyche. I mean, a peace
protest is the last place you should have to expect to be accosted by
fellow protesters.
-Rob
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 08:15 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
There might be a lesson here. Or not.
http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/archives/000333.html#000333
Walt
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