Greetings Matt.
I am writing to you now because frankly, you would be the only one to understand the effects of a recent event.
On Sunday, December 26 my wife and I went to a colleagues house for an after Christmas dinner. When we arrived and exchanged pleasantries with some of the guests. The topic of international terrorism came up (don't ask me how); specifically the incident pertaining to the Iraqi fellow who smuggled in nitro-glycerin. I said that I wouldn't put too much faith in what the news has to say about the particulars of the case.
I gave an example of the recent WTO incident. Citing your video as an example of the abuses the police were inflicting on the peaceful protestors. Here is where the plot thickens...some fellow there said,
"...one thing's for sure, my bullets wouldn't have been made out of rubber!" At that point I basically left the conversation, if a conversation is what you would call it.
So many people are so blind to that fact that even simple words are more biting than tear gas or rubber bullets. I will now step off my soap box.
Eman
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Mattro replies:
Was this guy a cop? If not, had he been there (as he boasts) he would've been gassed along with everybody else. The police were indiscriminate as to who got gassed.
This just goes to show how ignorant people can be even when "informed" by the mainstream media.
In general, when people like that start spouting off, I usually ask them "Were you there?" If/when they say "no" I politely remind them they don't have all the information they need on the subject and should talk to someone who was actually there. Also, out of curiosity, I like to learn where they got their information from (in your situation, I would hazard a guess that he got his info from AM radio... that's the only "news" source I heard conveying such harsh anti-protest opinions).
I pursue this line of questioning... unless the person I'm conversing with is drunk. In that case I just ignore them and don't waste my efforts. That's like shadow-boxing.
Mattro
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I don't know specifically where this fellow got his info, but I believe it was that boxy thing called a television. No, he was not there and no he is not a cop... a postal carrier.
Eman
