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Anonymous remailer at remailer.xganon.com
Sat Jul 21 14:35:14 PDT 2001


> If we all look back to our younger
> days, I think we can see a much more plausible explanation for their
> actions.  Hell raising.
>
> For certain people at certain ages, it's FUN to riot, throw things at the
> cops, trash stores, overturn cars and burn stuff.  It is exactly the real
> lack of coherent messages from the "protestors" that supports this obvious
> conclusion.  At the University of Michigan, the riots were basically the
> same, only the justification was more banal--the outlawing of booze on
> campus.
>
> It should be obvious that these riots are not so much ideologically
> motivated (though that's the pseudo-rational), but testosterone motivated.
> Most of these monkeys couldn't spell anarchy let alone understand it
> philosophically.  Let's not confuse the cover story with the real
> motive--fucking stuff up for the fun of it.

And so you propose that the protestors travelled hundreds of miles, putting
themselves in direct danger of physical harm, simply for fun?

Certainly the UofM riots don't illustrate that mindset...

I would submit that you have no idea what the protestors actual motivations
are.








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