smash windows, get noticed

[brettk at unicacorp.com]

I saw this on one of those email joke lists that circulates from time to
time, but it captured the same point:

If you ever wonder whether anyone cares if you're alive, stop paying your
mortgage and credit card bills.

It was meant as humor, of course, but there's a lot of radical content in
it.  Imagine the social chaos generated if we all wrote "non-serviam" on
our next Mastercard bill, as our esteemed moderator suggested in his (thus
far) magnum opus.

Brett

                                                                                                                         

                    Doug Henwood                                                                                         

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Peaceful protests are doomed to be ignored. Only a dose of
destruction leads to real social change.
by Ted Rall April 25, 2000

"Violence is the only thing
That will make you see sense."
-- Mott the Hoople, "Violence"