Comments for DC Dispatches http://www.dcdispatches.com Sic semper something or other. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Snowpocalypse Now: Redux by A Fenty Snow Triumph?: Loose Lips Daily - City Desk - Washington City Paper http://www.dcdispatches.com/2009/12/20/snowpocalypse-now-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-64 A Fenty Snow Triumph?: Loose Lips Daily - City Desk - Washington City Paper Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:03 +0000 http://www.dcdispatches.com/?p=390#comment-64 [...] on A1 of today's paper. DCist's Kriston Capps was an eyewitness, as was Matthew Bradley, who offers his own account. Also CNN, WAMU-FM, WRC-TV, NY Daily News. The essential bit of bad behavior here is that the [...] [...] on A1 of today's paper. DCist's Kriston Capps was an eyewitness, as was Matthew Bradley, who offers his own account. Also CNN, WAMU-FM, WRC-TV, NY Daily News. The essential bit of bad behavior here is that the [...]

]]> Comment on Snowpocalypse Now: Redux by Matthew Bradley http://www.dcdispatches.com/2009/12/20/snowpocalypse-now-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Matthew Bradley Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:59:31 +0000 http://www.dcdispatches.com/?p=390#comment-62 I'm not trying to pick a fight, but you were a "small faction" of the larger group (which was 200+). You carried overtly an anti-war message riffing off the old "no war but class war" motto. And as you say, you joined the group, great. I guess that paragraph is a little unclear, but I was speaking of the event over all, including parenthetically (or between commas in that case) that there were some folks there who were overtly self-labeled anarchists with an anti-war theme (which, by the way, I am entirely sympathetic to), and that some people stopped in the midst of the snowball fight to help the police car. I would guess that some of your "posse" possibly did get in on that, but hey, I'll imagine you would know better than I -- and if you don't want the credit for being civil to a another human, great. There's some left to spread around to everyone else. Aside from the misunderstanding about how precise I was being with regards to who helped who, nothing you've said is mutually exclusive from what I've said. I’m not trying to pick a fight, but you were a “small faction” of the larger group (which was 200+). You carried overtly an anti-war message riffing off the old “no war but class war” motto. And as you say, you joined the group, great.

I guess that paragraph is a little unclear, but I was speaking of the event over all, including parenthetically (or between commas in that case) that there were some folks there who were overtly self-labeled anarchists with an anti-war theme (which, by the way, I am entirely sympathetic to), and that some people stopped in the midst of the snowball fight to help the police car.

I would guess that some of your “posse” possibly did get in on that, but hey, I’ll imagine you would know better than I — and if you don’t want the credit for being civil to a another human, great. There’s some left to spread around to everyone else.

Aside from the misunderstanding about how precise I was being with regards to who helped who, nothing you’ve said is mutually exclusive from what I’ve said.

]]> Comment on Snowpocalypse Now: Redux by Daniel Meltzer http://www.dcdispatches.com/2009/12/20/snowpocalypse-now-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Daniel Meltzer Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:13:19 +0000 http://www.dcdispatches.com/?p=390#comment-61 "It looked like a mess, it looked like fun, it looked like a small faction of anarchist anti-war protesters had joined-in and tried to make a point with their banner “no war but snowball war.” At one point some of them stopped the action to help a police car trying to make a u-turn. " 1) Anarchists came, beacuse some of us wanted to go, and the ads for the event said: bring your posse. So we went, and with our posse. We didn't go to make a point, but we made a banner and brought shields, both for tactical snow-war-purposes. 2) this pisses me off: We aren't a small faction of anti-war protesters. We are locals, many of us who have lived in the district since we were born, and there were like 25 of us there. 2) There wasn't a single anarchist who helped a cop, that's for sure. That's just not how we roll, son... “It looked like a mess, it looked like fun, it looked like a small faction of anarchist anti-war protesters had joined-in and tried to make a point with their banner “no war but snowball war.” At one point some of them stopped the action to help a police car trying to make a u-turn. ”

1) Anarchists came, beacuse some of us wanted to go, and the ads for the event said: bring your posse. So we went, and with our posse. We didn’t go to make a point, but we made a banner and brought shields, both for tactical snow-war-purposes.

2) this pisses me off: We aren’t a small faction of anti-war protesters. We are locals, many of us who have lived in the district since we were born, and there were like 25 of us there.

2) There wasn’t a single anarchist who helped a cop, that’s for sure. That’s just not how we roll, son…

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