A sensible Anarchist at the GOP Convention

[rich]

Vermin Supreme mentioned here as well

http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/08/29/christian-lorentzen/march-of-the-beige-turtles/

On Monday the skies were protected by helicopters. ‘Here comes a mob,’
a pedestrian said. At the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and Tampa Street
beige-clad policemen in riot gear formed a line to meet a protest
march. The ‘mob’ turned out to be the Poor Man’s March, a permitless
echo of a demonstration earlier in the day that had resulted in one
protester being arrested after getting tackled by a cop for wearing a
mask.  Leading the crowd was a man on a bike pulling a trailer with an
upside-down Stars and Stripes waving on a pole. Several marchers were
carrying pizza boxes. ‘I don’t know about the pizza theme,’ one said.
A man with a megaphone addressed the cops: ‘I’m an anarchist. I hope
you’re not scared of me because I’m not scary. They’ve got you dressed
up like turtles.’ He was wearing a black plastic boot on his head, had
a rat-face toy gas mask dangling from his neck, and is apparently
called Vermin Supreme. ‘Read my op-ed, it’s an open letter to the city
to provide you with corn starch to prevent chafing in your riot gear.’

p.s. great essay by Timothy Snyder. the anarchists are hovering and
they're not some bozo name vermin but paul ryan. frankly i'm pretty
wigged out now. oh the irony that a marx like specter is
insurgently-like haunting these united states but it's coming from the
right wing. capitalist commies. woo-hoo!

'This is where Ryan comes in. Romney provides the practice, Ryan the
theory. Romney has lots of money, but has never managed to present the
storyline of his career as a moral triumph. Ryan, with his credibility
as an ideas politician, seems to solve that problem. In the right-wing
anarchism that arises from the marriage of Rand and Hayek, Romney’s
wealth is proof that all is well for the rest of us, since the laws of
economics are such that the unhindered capitalism represented by
chop-shops such as Bain must in the end be good for everyone.'

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/aug/28/grand-old-marxists/

rich

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/vermin-supreme-rnc-interview-12178506
>
> TAMPA, Fla. — Somehow it makes perfect sense that the most reasonable,
> sane, articulate politician I have spoken to at this Republican
> convention is wearing a boot on his head. This is Vermin Supreme, the
> perennial New Hampshire presidential candidate for the Absurd Party. I
> ran into him as I was walking out of the seclusion zone of the
> Republican convention, where VIPs ride around in golf carts while the
> hoi polloi sweat their way down an apocalypse-empty sidewalk. He was
> shouting at a group of black-clad Republicans through a bullhorn,
> teasing them about harboring secret anarchist inclinations, but he
> paused to let me conduct a quick interview.
>
> ESQUIRE.COM: Mr. Supreme, as an anarchist, what do you think of this
> security situation?
>
> VERNIN SUPREME: This security is an extreme overreaction and extreme
> overreach. It's an incredible waste of resources, it's part of the
> continuing fear mongering. They're trying to normalize this type of
> security apparatus, normalize getting people used to the police state
> by bringing in every police agency conceivable. It's going
> hand-in-hand with their demonization of anarchists, their attempt to
> criminalize protest, to clamp down on free speech by putting extreme
> limitations on the puppets I can carry.