On Thu, 14 May 1998, Dennis R Redmond wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 1998, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
>
> > Ah, Dennis, would that I could regale the list with stories of sheep riots
> > in New Zealand (did you mean riots about sheep or rioting sheep?).
>
> Rioting quadrupeds. The radical tendencies of the naturally woolen. In
> short, the uprising of the sheared and shorn -- who seem to be an
> uncannily abundant species in neolib New Zealand, if not the world, these
> days.
>
> > I did recently have
> > the opportunity to stand six inches away from a (armed and uniformed) cop
> > and yell at him about some feral chickens. It was very empowering.
>
> There you go. I see the pamphlet already: "Long live the armed, tentacled
> and occasionally feathered proletarian eco-revolutionary struggle against
> the vicious exploitation of the running human IMF overlords... signed,
> the Lamm Chopp Collective." The Zapatistas are past masters of this sort
> of thing. Well, gotta boil me some brine shrimp...
>
> -- Dennis
>
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