Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (9000)	11/5/2001 12:00:51 PM
From: E	Respond to of 281500

In that interesting article, he tries to conjecture how these street-dancing social dissidents (hardly terrorists) got on the FBI's list. It could be right, too: Maybe the terrorism is because auto traffic gets blocked. We have noticed that a car bombing, like a street party, stops traffic until the mess can get cleaned up. But we thought the FBI only got involved when there was something seriously illegal going on or people getting hurt. After wracking our brains, we figured it must be the video footage on Bay Area Reclaim the Streets' web page, which shows a car getting flipped over during the first street party held in the USA on May 16, 1998. xinet.com That street party was to protest the WTO, 18 months before Seattle. Just for the FBI's benefit (you're reading this because it has the newly "terrorist" word RTS in it, right?) that car was donated to us by a friend to help us block the street. We drove it into position in the middle of the streets, let the air out of the tires, and flipped it. It was just a prop. Kinda like art, ya know? We didn't flip all the cars in Berkeley, as much as they might deserve it, because, ya know, we're about having a good party, not getting into fist fights with innocent people who happen to park in the wrong place at the wrong time.