Posted on 04/01/2003 5:52:34 AM PST by mattstat
Yesterday, I sent this email to the M27 Coalition. They are the folks who are rabidly anti-freedom and sponsored, among other things, last week's so-called die-in at Rockefeller Center.
M27,
Some of us just can't stand it any more. But we have learned that some ships that supply the war effort make passage through the East River in New York City.
Tomorrow, in an act of civil disobedience, several of us have planned to try and block these ships along their route. We are only about 14 strong now, but we know that if word got out we could have enough people to do what we plan.
Please announce that we will meet at noon at the East River near the 63rd street entrance. From there, at 12:30 when the ships are scheduled to pass, we will swim into the river and form a human chain, linking arms and so prevent the ships from passing.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
The Union to Stop Ships in New York City
USS NYC
About twenty minutes later, I received this reply from them:
Are you sure you want this on the site? If you announce it publicly, the cops will make sure you are prevented from doing the action.
Mark
I wrote right back:
Good god, Mark, very, very clearly no. I am surprised that I have to be formal about this, but April Fools!
I am a day early with my joke and this is bad, I admit. I hadn't planned on revealing myself until tomorrow, but then I got your reply and realized that your mind is either so young or so addled that you took my note seriously.
I know the police read your site so as to be ready for your public tantrums, and the very thought that I might, even accidentally, cause some distraction to the brave men and women who watch over us frightens me. So, no, please, do not post my call for linking arms in the East River on your site.
Good grief.
Matt
Mark was a real sport and even wrote me back saying, "Believe me, I have heard far more bizarre proposals for actions." I did ask him what some of these bizarrer proposals were, but I have yet to hear from him.
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