Re: AUT: A Reply to Noam Chomsky

[Tom Messmer <messmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should probably just not send stuff like that at all, I just don't
have any impulse control.

On Mar 30, 2004, at 11:47 PM, Thiago Oppermann wrote:

> On 31/3/2004 4:04 PM, "Tom Messmer" <messmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Whatever... My back is raw from pepper spray and the pigs' caresses,
>>> so I am
>>> in no mood for this.
>>
>> Dude is one bad mofo.
>
> Perhaps you should address your sarcasm to those people who demand
> principled positions against the Terror of compulsory voting and so on
> and
> then lecture their comrades about the nasty cops who would enforce
> it...
>
> (...)
>
> We very nearly occupied the university about three hours ago as part
> of the
> higher education campaign. Loads of fun, but the police went medieval
> on us.
> Hilarious follow up: after the  altercation with the police, the mob,
> under
> guidance of - who the hell knows - ended up occupying the hall in which
> graduations are made. There they sat down and  disrupted... the gaze
> of the
> badly painted portraits of chancellors past. I got told off for
> talking out
> of turn; it didn't occur to me there were turns. Then I noticed that
> under
> the direction of - who now? - there was some sort of meeting on. The
> sort
> that achieves not very much other than produce contact lists for -
> can't
> remember. The anarchist kids started playing soccer. The best comment
> would
> have to be that made by a Labor Party student who walzed into the
> meeting
> and murmured to his comrade "they seem to have gotten a lot of our
> people
> here - must be because they have a sound system." Oh, brings a tear to
> the
> eye, student politics...
>
> Thiago
>
>
>
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