Slog - Comments on The Long March http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking A few hours ago, looking for a protest march, "Procession For The Future," organized by The Backbone Campaign, I come across the root of all evil: Amazingly, next to the place the state makes money is the construction site for a future jail! The footprint for the building is huge. On this street, there will soon be lots of cash next to lots of prisoners--the state in a state of perfection. Across the street from the future detention center: What does this mean? Four and so thousand DNC delegates and one million Prius owners? What is Toyota trying to tell... Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:18 -0800 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:13:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave Currency is the root of all evil? Fuck you and your barter system.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114138 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114138 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:19 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell Good. Glad to have your open eyes on the scene, Charles.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114147 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114147 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:44:55 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Thank GOD The Stranger paid for you to be there. Doing this. Whole thing.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114149 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114149 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:47:05 -0800 Comment by Dan Amazingly, next to the place the state makes money is the construction site for a future jail!

Why is that amazing? 'Cause the inmates might rob the mint? 'Cause people committing crimes are trying to get their hands on money? Is this irony of the Alanis Morrissette variety?

Plz explain kthx.

]]> Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114156 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114156 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:54:29 -0800 Comment by Sir Learnsalot Bellevue Ave, I think Charles will trade you one concrete structure for the freedom of the proletariat. He holds both in high regard I hear.

]]> Sir Learnsalot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114162 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:57:38 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Those fuckers who make those stupid state quarters are evil, alright. I've been to New Mexico, and it is no land of discovery.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114163 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114163 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:58:06 -0800 Comment by COMTE Well, it makes perfect sense to build the jail right next to the mint: after all, so much of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars go directly into the pockets of the for-profit Incarceration Industry (to the tune of about $40B per year), at least there's some small comfort in knowing someone's saving a bit of shoe leather moving the big piles of cash from one to the other.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114177 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114177 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:07:05 -0800 Comment by Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist LOVE of money, not money, is the root of all evil. But I bet you were thrilled to see the future prison. Communist countries loves them jails for "dissidents" and free thinkers. Seriously, when are you going to China to find out for yourself? Or better yet, PRK. They'd love to have you.

]]> Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114183 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114183 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:10:47 -0800 Comment by danielbennettkieneker These are wonderful pictures... exactly the text and visualization that America is entitled to see at this moment.

I found something that should inspire us to use in conjunction with this type of building today in Freemont.

It IS a Elgin Flatbed Truck.

Parked along the roadside close to Hales Brewery, for an $8500.00 investiment plus tires ( you'll need a couple of them to be "legal" in this state.... { or if your in a real hurry just diesel up and scidattle...) you could have a very good working rig. It is licensed until April of 2009, you'd be good for May flowers after relicense and IF, mind you it' is a big IF, your serious about eco-green bio-diversity you could invest in a bio-diesel conversion... or just say FUCK IT and buy weed and stay high all the time and let someone slag asphalt and hot tar for the roofies and the new legislation recently reported on for cheap labor by and from the state...
( RFID CHIP included in the medical package of course).

]]> danielbennettkieneker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114186 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114186 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:15:19 -0800 Comment by Fnarf DBK, please report to the white courtesy pharmacist.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114202 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114202 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:27:47 -0800 Comment by Giffy That last image reminds why protesting is more of an annoying hobby then a useful endeavor.

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114203 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:27:51 -0800 Comment by Giffy @8 I am pretty sure its actually stupid sayings

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114205 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:30:35 -0800 Comment by elenchos This is the best thing posted on the slog all day. Once again, the commenters are a sad disappointment.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114224 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114224 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:43:43 -0800 Comment by Gurldoggie Sigh...
I've been reading the re-released "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" by Norman Mailer, and lamenting how very different these times are from 1968. Arguably, we're faced with a similar political situation - the country is enmeshed in a foolish war being waged by corrupt quasi-ideologues - but the response has been far dumber and far weaker. The leaders of the protest movements at the 1968 conventions were intellectual heavyweights with the smarts and imagination to subtly analyze the events and politics in which they were enmeshed, and come up with dramatic and effective responses. The protester leaders today are mostly bored housewives, uninspired artists and middle-class dilettantes waiting to inherit their parents' estates.

Back then revolution seemed like a real possibility. Today it's mostly about gently tweaking the status quo and getting back to the hotel in time for lunch. It's sad.

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114342 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114342 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:04:45 -0800 Comment by elswinger I am glad there are few protesters at the Democratic Convention. I don't want any nut jobs doing anything that will lessen Obama's chance of winning.

Save your anger for the Republican Convention.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114380 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:24:41 -0800 Comment by The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver Gurldoggie, and what did the strong response at the '68 convention lead to? The election of Richard M. Nixon.

Maybe we can do without the revolution.

]]> The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114445 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114445 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:35:01 -0800 Comment by Mrs. Jarvie I am a former mass-protest organizer and participant. I stopped when overcome by the class privilege and exhibitionist martyrdom of it all. If the protesters who can afford to fly across the country and spend a week making puppets and provoking the police really want to make a difference then they should go to the local community organizers and offer to volunteer. The protesters could live the change that they claim to aspire towards. Imagine, especially with Union resources, all of the housing projects that could be painted and repaired, all of the riverbanks that could be cleaned and replanted, all of the homeless people who could be fed and sheltered. But real change is not sexy, not adrenalin-driven, not media worthy. Real change is hard fucking work driven by compassion and sacrifice. Protest culture in the USA is not ready for the realities of creating real change, just as the the Democrats are not ready for the realities of real change. The time for marching is long past.

]]> Mrs. Jarvie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114489 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114489 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:27:02 -0800 Comment by herbert browne @17, maybe if nobody protests, then everything is OK? How do you know that the protesters AREN"T "living the change that they aspire to.."? I know some Backbone campaigners... and have held up signs with them- & gotten the finger & insults- early in the morning on I-5 overpasses... & know how they live, where they volunteer, what they help with locally. "Protest culture" is one aspect of real people- not a fucking smear on a glass slide. If the "time for marching is long past" then... what? Lunch is over? Back to your desk? Heil Hitler?

Say, Mr. Mudede, as long as you're checking out non-sequiturious billboards, maybe you can help me with the latest McDonald offering- about coffee "cold, not snobby". What is it about? Really... I don't get it. (I'm over 50... OK over 60. Is THAT why?) chow ^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/a_few_hours_ago_looking#c1114565 2008 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:13:40 -0800