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

[David Hammond]

You missed the irony behind the irony, as I knew you would - Trotsky lost in
1905 - from then on until the ice pick struck in 1941, he opposed the
fascism of the Bolsheviks - fat lot of good it did him.

His comments re: strategy, are just good ole common sense: General
Westmoreland more or less quoted him when he said good-bye to the
Philippines.

You know nothing about "revolution"; otherwise, you would have not called me
a revolutionary.  Revolutionaries seek to switch who's on the bottom and
who's on the top.  I'm all about eliminating the ideas of bottom and top,
and substituting the idea of "How can we live in harmony with our local
ecosystem?"  Top; bottom; wealth; poverty; have no ultimate meaning once the
Fossil Fuel Hegemony has been defeated.

Are tantrums effective in defeating the Hegemony?

Or are campaigns of exposure (comprised of "dirty" tricks revealed and
wrongdoing alleged), all that we need?

No, and no. Anything goes, so long at it advances the cause of alternative
vehicles, successfully fights the government's attempts to suppress said
vehicles, and communicates to the public the linkage between such vehicles
and the response to Rapid Climate Disintegration (formerly known as "Global
Warming")



-----Original Message-----
From: bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org
[mailto:bostoncriticalmass-bounces at bostoncriticalmass.org] On Behalf Of John
Hays
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:49 PM
To: Boston Critical Mass
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Be the change you want to see in the world.

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
>
>
>  
>
>>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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