Someone sent me a link from World Can’t Wait this morning describing the important work that the smelly hippies are doing in Detroit this weekend at the misnamed “Social Forum”. <\/p>\n
Gathered in Detroit today for the US Social Forum, anti-war leaders will address Barack Obama\u2019s replacement of General Stanley McChrystal with General David Petraeus and condemn his strategy of expanding the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, what that has to do with anything “social” is beyond me. But, from my experience, the anti-war movement takes up which ever issue is in the headlines to make themselves appear relevant. So who is attending the “forum” (it’s not a forum, either – it’s an echo chamber)? According to WCW, all of our lovable clowns;<\/p>\n
William Ayers, Elaine Brower, Matthis Chiroux, David Swanson, Debra Sweet, Sunsara Taylor, and Ann Wright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sweet – all of our little fuzzy buddies in one place. But you can bet none of the above named people were soaked by lthe rain storm the other night<\/a>;<\/p>\n
As the rain pelted and the runoff threatened to uproot their temporary nylon homes, the young adults huddled in the US Social Forum’s Tent City confronted some challenges Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Some tried to weather the weather inside their tents, but others took shelter in the adjacent veterans center at Woodward and Temple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, you can bet that the hippie luminaries above were sacked out in a hotel somewhere paid for by donations from the clods stuck in the rain. After all, some animals are more equal than others.<\/p>\n