>> One car at a time... (by any means neccesary)
>>
>> The other day, I posted:
>> Mon, Sep. 05, 2005
>>
>> Vandals torch hundreds of vehicles around Rome
>> Courtesy of San Jose Mercury-News
>
> This is actually pretty dumb - another excess testosterone
> thrill-seeking fantasy Symbionese Liberation Army style.
> I would agree that the "car culture" i.e. using private autos as
> status symbols needs to be destroyed, but destroying automobiles is
> not a good way of doing so. If anything it only creates resentment
> and determination, and stimulates demand for new automobiles to
> replace the destroyed ones. A better way is public policy e.g. the
> so-called planned congestion policy which severely restricts
> automobile access to urban areas by parking restrictions and tolls.
> In this country, it would probably spark a revolution, but elsewhere
> e.g. London, Amsterdam or Prague it works quite effectively.
First: in response to:
> ...stimulates demand for new automobiles to replace the destroyed ones.
I'd like to think that a good percentage would end up buying a car that's not as prone to being a target, assuming there are certain types of targetted vehicles, which doesn't seem to be the case in Rome, but that perception could be due to .... the editorial scissors... If anyone has friends in Italy, it could be fact-checked.
The "Deflators" are just some kids having a little fun... Leaving bags of flaming dogshit on western society's doorstep, someone has to do it, and anyone that would care to mess with them is picking a fight with me too.
The destruction of personal property issue is *generally* something you'd not find me approving of, even though some folks think the earth & it's environment is their own fiefdom, and shitting where they live (and ESPECIALLY where *others* live) is a way of life.
Torching cars is just "Back 'atcha with a big FU 2". (just ask anyone that's had the pleasure of torching a police car.)
Personally, I like to "key" Bummers, and if you threaten me in a intersection while I'm crossing, or riding my bike with *any* motor vehicle... don't yield the right of way, your radiator might meet my phillips head screwdriver.
Guess who's the "top" in that relationship.
Fuck your cars... Fuck your "road rage"(really... a helpless whimper) & fuck the way of life that *requires* humans to go faster faster as they truly go nowhere, except down the behavioral toilet like hyperaggressive, hyperalert pieces of shit.
Who actually believes that public transport will improve (in the US) until driving a private motor vehicle is made as uncomfortable, expensive, and inconvienient as possible? The same folks that believe the workers will rise up in solidarity and revolution... Here's a 411, you'll have to pry them out of their little cars and small world first, which won't be easy till you pry yourself out of yours.
"Who needs a musclewagon when you can buy a $5.00 boner pill" --anonymous
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