[*BCM*] Be the change you want to see in the world.

[John Hays]

There's a profound irony in trying to play "more revolutionary than 
thou" and quoting Trotsky at someone while simultaneously advocating... 
um... flyering and three-word chants. If you want SUVs off the road how 
about you stick a sharpened screwdriver into their tires or knock off 
their mirrors with a U-lock (when they're parked and under cover of 
darkness, of course). I guaran-fucking-tee you Trotsky would get behind 
that long before "SHAME SHAME SHAME."


David Hammond wrote:

>Yeah, Baby, let's give the hummer-lovers an issue they can rally around and
>elect far-right demagogues with.  Maybe then the Republi-fascists can ban
>bikes altogether.
>
>And you're what? 125 - 300 lbs (guessing) on a <40 lb bike, and you're gonna
>run a 5000 lb SUV off the road? What are you - one of the squirrels on that
>Geico commercial?  To which funeral parlor should I send flowers?  Hey, even
>better: mention me in your will first.
>
>SUV owners should be ashamed and embarrassed, not righteously empowered.
>How can we sustainable transportation enthusiasts accomplish that???
>
>I have a horrendous, gut-wrenching, nauseating photo of an Iraqi child
>machine-gunned by U.S. forces.  Suppose prints of that photo with the
>caption "Keep Gas Cheap" get shoved under SUV windshields?  Or a simple
>"Katrina Thanks You, NOLA Hates You", in 48 point bold arial?
>
>Or how about conducting a NOLA-style funeral procession for the Earth, in
>the parking lot of a huge auto/SUV dealership, where everyone gets arrested
>in front of the nightly news cameras?
>
>Or simply, how about a CM where folks pause at a busy intersection, point at
>the SUVs passing through, and shout "Shame, shame, shame!"
>
>"If you want to win, and not just make a grand gesture of defiance, do not
>adopt or accept your enemy's strategy, tactics, battlefield, choice of
>weaponry, or process of propaganda"  Leon Trotsky
>
>Let's get it right this time.
>
>Dave Hammond
>
>
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>>Goddamn hippie liberal bullshit. I want to see a world where every SUV 
>>has four slashed tires and a gas tank full of sand. I don't want to 
>>'respect' motorists - I want to run them off the road. 
>>    
>>
>
>"(And so on...)
>
>Hmmmm.  While Boston does seem to be a pretty good fit for you and your
>world view, maybe you'd be even happier in Badhgad?
>
>-Turtle
>been trying to leave Boston, and it's lovely worldview for a few years
>now, but appearantly not trying hard enough 'cause I'm still here..."
>
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>seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.  We must
>pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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