File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0303, message 393


From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: FW: Reply to Heather
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:41:25 -0000




Heather wrote (in reply to Keri)


> We timed you-you were there from around 5% of 
> the time we were-the woman I was talking to 
> when you passed by had been there for 2 hours.


The woman who had been there two hours presumably
considered this an important thing to do and had
presumably committed herself to doing this. I assume
this was also true of Heather. Keri and myself had
made no such commitment. We have taken part in dozens 
of other anti-war demonstrations and activities in 
and around Dundee over the last few months, yet we 
have never seen Heather at any of them. So far as
this particular activity, the "peace bus", is concerned,
we just didn't consider it very important, and that 
is why we had not volunteered to help with this event. 
But we happened to be in  town anyway, and we happened
to see the "peace bus" anyway, and we happened to
stop by out of curiosity to find out what, if anything,
was happening. To put it another way, we just happened
to be there, as passers-by who were potential "customers" 
rather than as volunteer "sales staff". As it happens,
we did both sign one of the "pledges" to take direct action
in the event of an attack on Iraq. And having done that, 
there was no further reason for us to stay. Now, presumably 
that was the whole  _point_  of having the "peace bus" 
in the City Square. Presumably the "peace bus" was 
supposed to attract the attention of passers-by who
would be curious to find out more about what was going
on. Presumably some other members of the general public 
besides myself and Keri did in fact stop by out of 
curiosity to find out what was happening. And presumably
some of them only stopped by for a few minutes. So,
Heather, do you condemn  ALL  of the passers-by or
members of the general public who only stopped by 
for a few minutes   -   or just us?


Dave Coull


   

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