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Article #3571Re: Santa Cruz Homeless Update - Melee erupts at farmers market drum circle
From: dhm_at_best_dot_com
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:29
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:29
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On Sep 22, 12:50 pm, Undecided <timocra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 18, 12:26 pm, dhm_at_best_dot_...@yahoo.com wrote: > > ...about protests and rights and outrage and such swoony goony muck. > > You know how a pool dries and leaves puddles? That's how culture > works. Santa Cruz is the sump of the sixties. > > Even Berkeley has moved on. Their decades-long Peoples' Park be-in is > finished. The tree sitters protesting the cutting of oaks for the new > expanded athletic building are non-stoonts, and they were not able to > draw even minimal support from those who are enrolled. And theirs is a > much nobler cause than simply the right to be annoying. There is a UC- > Berkeley poll reporting some 80% opposed to the sitters. > > That leaves Santa Cruz, where for generations also street characters > have attempted to leech onto gatherings by others for other purposes > to create disorder due to their Attention Deficit. It's a community > tradition, this Protest Playschool. Anybody can draw notice with no > talent and less humility. > > Why not take your act over by the river and see can you draw your own > crowd with whatever beating your tom-tom is supposed to accomplish? > Over on the benchlands is your full First Amendment Promise Land. I > convey it to you. Go in peace. > > Gadabout Ghandi Because I'm into amateur journalism, not music or drum playing. But I'll cc your message to Robert Norse. Maybe he'll cc it to others in his yahoogroup or comment about your message on his radio show. In the meantime you might enjoy reading my old post from 1999 "UC Berkeley - Bad Architecture" on the Usenet.
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