20 September 2007 - Andrew Meyer
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Weird: Let’s go! Let’s go! Where’s Senator Kerry speaking
next? I want to be famous too!
Smart: You don’t think it’s about free speech?
Weird: Free speech belongs to those who own a video camera.
Like this one!
Smart: And the taser doesn’t bother you?
Weird: I gave up music, my body has become non-conducting.
Smart: Well then, I guess you’re fully prepared for modern
American participatory demagoguery, where the rude and the vicious
fight to be the least unappealing.
Poet: It’s coming to that, isn’t it?
Smart: This democracy survived a civil war. It can survive
the bringing to light of normal police behavior.
Weird: The great thing about video is that it makes
historical re-enactments so much easier!
clue:
Re the arrest and tasering of Andrew Meyer at a talk by Kerry,
an event at which no party behaved well, except perhaps the
camera operators.
“Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.” — A.J. Liebling
take oh take this clue away