This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF3D31.9E4D5BE8 Content-Type: text/plain "...and speaking of Chicago, does anybody else have an irresistible urge to start chanting "The whole world's watching!" whenever the TV coughs up images of Seattle? I feel I've failed in my responsibilities as a human being--let alone as a journalist--because I'm not there myself." Indeed, you should have been here. Riots are really meant to be experienced firsthand. Only then do you get a true sense of the players: The short drunken guy boasting to his friends about running through the streets while taking a piss. (I mean, it's not everyday you can get away with that sort of thing). The hooded teenagers who, hoping to see some real violence tonight instead of that televised crap, lob M80s and beer bottles over the protestors and into a phalanx of unresponsive riot police. The couple poised with signs in the middle of the street, glowing with bright Green righteousness, smiling in the face of a police tank and 50 faceless riot police in black armour. The voice on the megaphone (kind of sounds like someone's dad) who politely introduces himself as Sargent Anderson of the Seattle Police Department and calmly asks the crowd to disperse. I like downtown Seattle, and was sad to see it trashed and looted. There was nothing political about that - just the greedy opportunistic mentality of a mob. Sadder still, the only reason "the whole world's watching" is to gawk at the violence and mayhem. -Sean ------_=_NextPart_001_01BF3D31.9E4D5BE8 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
"...and speaking of Chicago, does anybody else =
have an irresistible urge to
start chanting "The whole world's =
watching!" whenever the TV coughs up
images of Seattle? I feel I've failed in my =
responsibilities as a human
being--let alone as a journalist--because I'm not =
there myself."
Indeed, you should have been here. Riots are really = meant to be experienced firsthand. Only then do you get a true sense of = the players:
The short drunken guy boasting to his friends about = running through the streets while taking a piss. (I mean, it's not = everyday you can get away with that sort of thing).
The hooded teenagers who, hoping to see some real = violence tonight instead of that televised crap, lob M80s and beer = bottles over the protestors and into a phalanx of unresponsive riot = police.
The couple poised with signs in the middle of the = street, glowing with bright Green righteousness, smiling in the face of = a police tank and 50 faceless riot police in black armour.
The voice on the megaphone (kind of sounds like = someone's dad) who politely introduces himself as Sargent Anderson of = the Seattle Police Department and calmly asks the crowd to = disperse.
I like downtown Seattle, and was sad to see it = trashed and looted. There was nothing political about that - just the = greedy opportunistic mentality of a mob. Sadder still, the only reason = "the whole world's watching" is to gawk at the violence and = mayhem.
-Sean
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