A Seattle protest group called the Infernal Noise Brigade travels the world spreading its message of auditory pain:
It has performed at the World Bank meeting in Prague; for masked Zapatista guerrillas in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas; for revelers in Paris and São Paulo, Brazil; and at last year's WTO meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The INB creates a carnivallike atmosphere at otherwise dull events, and protesters make their appreciation evident, often by begging for more.The INB will be in New York City next week presumably trying to persuade Republican convention delegates to give it all up and become anarchists, or maybe just to make them go deaf. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 25, 2004 10:08 AM
"You think it's the hat? A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it."
Uncle Buck
Posted by: jimg on August 25, 2004 05:16 PMMaybe he should just stick to skin flute.
Posted by: Ken J on August 26, 2004 08:52 AMWhat's the medal on the hat?
Posted by: Andy Freeman on August 26, 2004 09:40 AMStefan, I see you've moved to my home town: Seattle! I sure hope you and your fellow "art students" come by.
Posted by: wendy rimely on August 26, 2004 10:46 AMDa, Comrade Andy:
It is the glorious hammer and sickle, emblem of the proletariat and the coming utopian order! Next, we liquidate the kulaks!
Posted by: chunkstyle on August 26, 2004 11:10 AMWhat with John Perry Barlow intending to dance the Republican Convention into hysterics, and now these aural-pollution generators adding to the din, it seems that the Disloyal Opposition has been reduced all the way to non-verbal communications. Their political inadequacy has driven them speechless.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on August 26, 2004 06:32 PMI think protestors who wear masks should be specifically singled out for the rubber bullet treatment.
Posted by: Toren on August 26, 2004 11:21 PMBoy, the chicks must really dig this guy!
Doesn't he understand the participation of most males in these activities is mostly all about getting laid. It's cheaper than booze.
Uh oh, the secrets out.
Posted by: Gary B on August 27, 2004 09:54 AMYeah, when I see people being really stupid it always makes me want to embrace their opinions.
I was working in Seattle when the WTC riots happened. It made me regret that the US does not have a permanent troop of Cossacks especially to ride down protestors with cold steel.
Alternately, it made me regret that Starbuck's and Nike didn't hire mercenaries to shoot looters.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna on August 27, 2004 04:17 PM