March 18, 2003  Put away your puppets  I want to be very careful
about avoiding the blog echo-chamber effect with what I put up
here, where I’m just doing an elaborate version of “me too” on
something that fifty other web pages have already noted.  But
here comes a “me too”: Justin Raimondo’s essay on the right and
wrong kind of antiwar protests, which I found via Electrolite,
is vitally important. Anyone who is planning to oppose the war
needs to read it, print it, staple it to their clothes, memorize
it. Put it in a waterproof bag and take it into the shower with
you.  This is not the time for the usual self-indulgent let-a-
thousand-flowers bloom, let the nutty Spartacist have his turn
at the podium, let Sheryl Crow talk about how war is bad for
flowers and other living things, approach to political action.
This is not a festival or a be-in or a happening. It’s not a
space for creative frolics and really cool paper-mache puppets.
The war is coming, unless Saddam Hussein blinks in the next 24
hours. None of