Palo Alto/Stanford "Peace" Rally

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[beckett]

Overall attendance? 100s? 1000s?

[CounterCounterCulture]

150-200

[WVNan]

The Palistinians should have a state. Let's give them the campuses of Stanford U. and Berkley U. On second thought, let's give them California.

[beckett]

Thx for your reply---not too impressive a showing then.

[jrherreid]

Hey, our commies are better than your commies!

[farmer18th]

And I should add that the crowd was predominately WHITE.

Right. That's how I remember the bean-curd crowd--adoring Jesse Jackson as a way of exhibiting their disdain for western culture.

[Syncro]

Good job, thanks for reporting it...

[12B]

When you say the newsbabe was wrapping up her piece does that mean......Oh never mind.

[dorothy]

Got this in my email:

What to do if you happen upon a peace rally by naive, hemp-shirt-wearing college idiots, to teach them why force is sometimes needed:

1)   Approach the dumb, well-off, ignorant student shouting about "peace" and saying there should be "no retaliation."

2)   Engage in brief conversation; ask if military force is appropriate.

3)   When he says "No," ask "Why not?"

4)   Wait until he says something to the effect of, "Because that would just cause more innocent deaths, which would be awful and we should not cause more violence."

5)   When he's in mid sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.

6)   When he gets back up to punch you, point out that it would be a mistake and contrary to his values to strike you, because this would be awful and only cause more violence.

7)   Wait until he agrees to pledge not to commit additional violence.

8)   Punch him in the face again, harder this time.

Repeat steps 5 through 8 until he understands that sometimes peace means it is necessary to punch back.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Unfortunately I couldn't use step 5 with the PAPD hanging around. But thanks anyway ;)

[thunderdome]

Great FReport as usual CCC, enjoy your trip!