Friday, January 23, 2009
Orange you glad all the animals in the forest are friends now?
No pepper spray or tear gas has been used today and no "stoned" policeman or sprayed-on protestor has been taken to the hospital either!
In addition, no fires have been lit or public property destroyed and it doesn't look like any windows have been broken in official buildings or that the same houses will need a new coat of paint, new windows or a serious wash tomorrow.
The people are still downtown protesting, clapping, singing, screaming and drumming away on kitchen appliances, but now they wear orange to show that they will not use violence and the riot police has likewise backed off and chilled a wee bit. Who knows, they might even get a chance to drop by the laundromat with their egg- and milkwashed, spat-on and alltogether beat up uniforms tonight, so that they'll look like a fresh summer's day at the protests tomorrow.
I'm very, very happy about this but at the same time I feel sorry for the window installers, painters and house washers. Those poor bastards will be idle tomorrow- and they thought they'd finally hit paydirt!
In addition, no fires have been lit or public property destroyed and it doesn't look like any windows have been broken in official buildings or that the same houses will need a new coat of paint, new windows or a serious wash tomorrow.
The people are still downtown protesting, clapping, singing, screaming and drumming away on kitchen appliances, but now they wear orange to show that they will not use violence and the riot police has likewise backed off and chilled a wee bit. Who knows, they might even get a chance to drop by the laundromat with their egg- and milkwashed, spat-on and alltogether beat up uniforms tonight, so that they'll look like a fresh summer's day at the protests tomorrow.
I'm very, very happy about this but at the same time I feel sorry for the window installers, painters and house washers. Those poor bastards will be idle tomorrow- and they thought they'd finally hit paydirt!
# posted by Björkin : 12:14 AM
