THE AMBRO WEEK IN REVIEW!
BY JOHN AMBROSAVAGE - YOUR CORRESPONDENT!
SUSPECTED TERRORIST SEIZED AT PORT ANGELES!
IT IS SUSPECTED THE SUSPECT WANTED TO BLOW UP THE SPACE NEEDLE NEW YEAR'S EVE!
WHY NOT BLOW UP THE KINGDOME INSTEAD? IT'S SLATED FOR DEMOLITION - MAYBE THE CITY COULD WORK OUT SOME KIND OF DEAL WITH THE TERRORIST- HE'S GOT EVERYTHING WE NEED IN THE TRUNK OF HIS CAR! COULD SAVE SOME BIG DEMOLITION DOLLARS!
THE OUTRAGE CONTINUES!
MAYOR PAUL SCHELL PROCLAIMS "FALUN GONG DAY" AND THEN DE-PROCLAIMS IT OUT OF FEAR OF OFFENDING THE CHINESE!
THE CHINESE??? WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT KNUCKLE HEAD WORRIED ABOUT OFFENDING THE CHINESE FOR? THEY ARE WAY OVER THERE - WHEREAS WE ARE RIGHT AND HE JUST GOT DONE OFFENDING ABOUT EVERYBODY IN THE CITY AND MADELINE ALBRIGHT!!! WHAT A CHOWDER HEAD!!!
BESIDES MOST OF US DON"T EVEN KNOW WHAT FOULON GONG IS. WHAT IS IT? SOME KIND OF BEAN DIP?
HEY - YA KNOW WHAT? I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE CALLING MAYOR PAUL SCHELL NAMES! LAST SUNDAY THE SEATTLE TIMES CALLED HIM TEMPORARILY INSANE, AND ON TUESDAY THEY CALLED HIM A DUNCE!!!
I ALMOST FEEL SORRY FOR THE GUY - IF THE TIMES HATES HIM HE CAN'T BE ALL BAD!
I AM READY TO FORGIVE AND FORGET AND MOVE ON! THERE! I HAVE SAID IT! LET THE 'HEALING' BEGIN!!!
Yes indeed - I think the second public outrage meeting healed me of my outrage. The second public outrage meeting over the WTO debacle was quite a different experience than the first. As you may recall, they held the first public outrage meeting in a broom closet at the public library that only held the six members of the city council present - everyone else had to stand out in the rain! This lead to very upset and wet testimonials...the speakers were literally dripping with rage! Rage was as present at that meeting as the vast billowing clouds of tear gas were present over down town and Capitol Hill on December. 1 and 2nd and maybe 3rd....
This time the city council got things right. They got a room at the Seattle Center that held five hundred people - and then went over the top and had the City Council Ladies Auxiliary host a table full of free cookies and coffee and cremora at the back of the room! Why didn't they try THAT during the WTO convention! Mollify the protesters with bands of jack-booted thugs passing out free cookies and milk! Then they could have given nap-mats to the protesters sitting in the streets and everything would have been fine! Why do I have to think of everything? Most of the city council members were present - Margaret Pageler left early but she had a permission slip signed by her doctor....Brand spanking new City Council person Jim Compton was moderating with his ponderous professional TV broadcaster presence. King County Council was also present in the large, bulky form of Larry Gosset Jr.... City Council WTO hero Richard McGiver was there - the black council member who was hauled from his car and rough housed by a soon to be very apologetic SPD as he was heading to a WTO function.... well, ya gotta give the stressed out riot cops a break - what were they to think? A nicely dressed black man in a nice car heading to a function which mostly featured nicely dressed non-white sort of people serving repressive regimes world wide...fer crying out loud - give the jack-booted thugs a break!
Oops - I forgot....I have begun the healing process! I forgive the jack-booted thugs! Lots of the speakers at the meeting had yet to be healed though! They were still way upset! Actually many of the 196 speakers seemed to be upset about things that had nothing to do with the World Trade Organization debacle! One person was upset with his parole officer! Another person was upset with his therapist! I am upset with my internet provider - maybe I should have spoken!
However, as usual, there was some gold to be found amongst the dross..... the woman who owns the "Twice Told Tales" Bookstore chain spoke with such white hot passion that ponderous former professional broadcaster and new city council member Jim Compton's eyebrows were singed - which actually improved his appearance! Also the woman who is the head of the Communist Party of the Greater Puget Sound Area spoke with a moving eloquence and actually was one of two people at the meeting that called for armed insurrection! As usual the commies are way out in front of the crowd. There were two things that much of the outraged citizenry seem to want - one, accountability for all the cops that behaved unlawfully - but is anything unlawful for a cop in a no-protest zone? That is the question. But the lawfulness of a no-protest zone itself is in question.... oh well, I am certain City Attorney Mark Sidran will get it all sorted out. The man that made sitting on the sidewalk illegal should have no problem with a no-protest zone! Also, many speakers seemed to feel that the Darth Vader-like riot cops should have had their badge numbers and names prominently displayed somewhere on their all black outfits - maybe on those nifty billowing black capes they were wearing! In big giant letters - maybe with a smiley face beneath it!
Right. How in the world can you be a jack-booted thug if everyone knows your name? Mark Sidran should be able to handle this too.... maybe they could write their names in Pig Latin for instance.... oops.... I keep forgetting I have healed!
In any case, as I say, altogether some 196 people spoke. The meeting, which came to order - well in a sense - at 4 PM. was adjourned, by a bleary-eyed and eyebrow singed Jim Compton well after midnight.
If the city council did not loathe Mayor Paul Schell before they certainly do now!
As for me, as I say, I have forgiven the Mayor. He can keep his job. It is okay with me.
Maybe NOW he'll invite me to his Chateau in France! Hope so!
