[lbo-talk] Dancing in the Streets: Revolution with a Smile

[John Adams]

When the police shunted several hundred of us down a dead-end alley at 
RepCon '76 in Kansas City (my first big demo), I'm pretty sure the only 
thing that kept us from being beaten to a pulp was that Wavy Gravy had 
handed out rubber clown noses (I still have mine) and gotten a lot of 
people (myself not included) to put on their clown faces. They stared 
at us, with the headlights from the squad cars in our faces, and then 
they backed down. We didn't outnumber them sufficiently to overcome 
their superior weaponry and the box canyon we were trapped in--I think 
they were just embarrassed at the idea of beating up on clowns.

Takes one to know one, I guess,

	John A