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One Of The Best Things That's Come Out Of The Seattle Protests Is The Birth Of The Independent Media Center. It's Not As Though The Independent Media Movement Wasn't Already There, But It's Given It Another Jump-start. There's The Feeling That Not Only Should We Report On Our Underground Culture And Our Own Situation, But Now We Have To Start Telling People What's Really Going On At A Time When Everything From Cnn To Usa Today Is As Tightly Controlled As Tass Or Pravda.

The Boyfriend Of The Student Music Teacher Came In: "hey, Kids, This Is A Real Air Force Pilot." I Asked Him Something To The Effect Of How It Felt To Be Dropping Bombs On Children In Vietnamese Villages. And It Got Very Icy In There All Of A Sudden, And Finally The Teacher Said, "oh, Well, Eric Reads A Lot Of Newspapers. Next Question."

We Need A New Law That Owners Of Suvs (sport Utility Vehicles) Are Automatically In The Military Reserve. Then They Can Go Get Their Own Goddamn Oil.

What I'm Getting At Is, You Know, If We Really Want To Get Serious About Helping All The People Living In The Street And Getting People Jobs, We Could Just Hire Half The People In The Country To Spy On The Other Half.

I've Been To Enough Other Countries In The World To Know What Happens When You Have Socialized Single-payer Health Care. It Works. People Don't Get Sick As Much. They Don't Lose Their Life Savings With A Catastrophic Illness Like Cancer Or Aids.