Stand up. Fight back.

[scooterbird]

Overslept this morning, so I missed David Cobb's speech to the crowd at Malcolm X Park...and I do mean "crowd". The park occupies two or three blocks, and it was full up to the gills. It was at that time, while standing on a park bench, that I realized my digital camera was out of juice and wouldn't even turn on. Sonnybishgohelldammit.

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[scooterbird]

The barricades, with Abby on top of one of them, started to rock...

I realize, in review, what a poor choice of words this was, considering that I said these fences were 2 m high (slightly taller, actually).

The fences were, from the side, L-shaped. There was a large base that stuck out on the bottom that was almost a meter wide, so if you wanted to stand against the fence, you had to actually stand on that base...so anybody up against the fence - as Abby was, trying to get a look of what was going on on the other side - was "on the barricade".

When things started to happen, or it looked like things were starting to happen (the couple of times that the cops moved in phalanxes down the street, for example), I grabbed Abby and held on to her until I was sure things were okay.

[whimmydiddle]

A lot of Bush's supporters are indeed rich & clueless about the needs of so many people less fortunate than themselves, and there's nothing new there; there have been clueless rich for centuries-- "Let them eat cake" & so forth. Like Jesus said, there will always be poor--and the corrollary is that there will always be clueless rich.

But the Bush supporters that sadden me are the poor with blinders on who rally behind Bush's conservative right-wing religious agenda and aggressive agenda of warfare out of fear. Fear of homosexuals, fear of terrorists, fear of whatever. They think Bush will protect them & are blind to what he's doing to our own domestic situation & the world's natural resources, hurting them in the process.

[scooterbird]

I think it's the blindness more than the fear, to be honest. They're blinded by ignorance and hate. It cuts both ways, of course - there were many, many people who voted for Kerry, but were blind to the fact that he intended to continue the war in Iraq.