OK, standimg outside the mall promoting “buy nothing day” is fine. Christmas is way too commercial and we all have enough stuff already. But for crying out loud, do you think its really necessary to cover your face with a kerchief? Do you think “the man” gives a rat’s ass about your stupid protest? Are you afraid your father is going to see you in the newspaper and cut off your trust fund?
A pity the cause is just a waste of time.
I agree with you. If your cause is so great, what do you stand to lose by showing your face?
Maybe he was cold? Maybe he was afraid that the grotesque level of commericalization and the mindless drones fighting over slave-made soccer balls in the sporting good store were contagious? Maybe he has a facial deformity and is embarrassed by it?
Maybe it doesn’t matter, and that’s one of the lamest pittings I’ve read in a long time?
Also: what the fuck? Encouraging people to not dive deeper and deeper into the sea of Mindless Consumerism (aka Being a Good, Patriotic American) makes one an Anarchist? Okay. Becuase…you’re either just confused, or an idiot.
Yeah, he should have taken direct action like these putzes did.
Wait. It was just one guy? Ha, what a loser hippie!
NinjaChick, I just noticed your location. I thought you were a fellow South Jerseyan. Are you going to school out there?
Someone much wiser than I once said on these very boards:
Robin
Haven’t you been to any WTO riots? The kerchief over the face is the anarchist uniform? It turns a freshman Reed student from the suburbs into Che Guavera. It’s not cool to write “death to the facists” on a Starbucks window without a kerchief.
Uh, did you look at the next photo on that page?
Weird.
Whoops. Silly me. I guess I’m not up on proper dress codes of various political movements. So, everyone who wears a bandana over their face is an anarchist? So that must mean that everyone who wears a suit and tie is a hardcore republican. Got it.
Yeah, I am a Jerseyan. Survied 18 years here, now a student in New Mex. I’m back in NJ for the holiday this weekend, though, and I’m just now realizing how much it sucks. (Note: The sky, at night? Not supposed to glow. It’s apparently supposed to be dark, like it is out west.)
:eek:
And Larry, do you know you`re in the city that has the Adbusters HQ (not to say that Adbusters would ever back… ah, who’m I kidding.)?
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Is there any evidence that a person who spends no money on any one particular day will also spend less money overall? Just curious.
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Heh… I used to contribute to AdBusters in the early nineties, before they went all corporate and glossy.
Reactionist running dogs. 
Oh how I wish I was 18 again, leaving home for school. You know, back when I knew what was best for everyone?
Those were the days.
Maybe that kid had a job in the mall?
Not many kids I’ve known haven’t had a mall job. 
Hell, the poor guy was just worried about how to break it to the olds that he’d just got a nose-ring. You’ve got to work up to these things gently, you know: “Mum, Dad, I’d just like you to know that you’re a couple of capitalist lickspittle counter-revolutionary jackals who’ll be first up against the wall when the revolution starts. And, um, could I borrow the SUV tonight? Why am I wearing a headscarf over my face? Fascists! Thought-Police! Why do you have to interrogate me about everything? You’re just knee-jerk reactionary tools of the Oppressor! I’ve just got a, um, cold-sore. C’mon, I really need those keys, man: I promised Clytemnestra I’d take her to the Michael Franti gig tonight.”
Also, the poor kid probably had to stand there all day and listen to: “What a perfectly adorable kerchief! My cousin Edna would just love it. Tell me, where can I buy one like it before Christmas?”
I’m sort of with Duffer, but it’s not knowing what was best for the world that I miss (turns out I probably didn’t). It’s the courage and passion it took to speak out about it.
Turncoat! That glow is just Philly… and a bunch of cancer causing materials. Nothing to worry about.
So… does this make you a pro-Christmas anarchist?
ROTFL