three cheers for the Glitter Bomber

[mitchtv]

I know that the tactic was panned by many here at DU,but not by me. It was imaginative and news grabbing. It was not violent as some have claimed. Time has long passed for begging and pleading, Time is now for a large variety of tactics, Flash mobs, street theater, good grafitti/freeway blogging, as well as sit ins and kiss ins, and yes, glitter bombs. no rights, no peace.

[gater]

1. But it's much, much safer to sit and bitch with one's fingers on the keyboard...

rather than actually doing something!

[mitchtv]

2. apathy is our greatest enemy

especially in the LGBT community. Leadership is precious and in short supply

[RKP5637]

3. I stand to be wrong, but I don't think many civil rights issues and the like in

the US have ever been won by being passive. Three cheers!!!

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Silence = Death

Glitter= Life

[devinkay]

5. Foul!

I'm as progressive as they come, voted liberal left since Carter, support the cause with shekels and shoe soles, but I disagree with this sort of action. Your rights stop where my body begins. No matter if it's glitter, water, pie or piss, throwing something on someone is an act of violence. Curse me, scream at me, wave signs in my face, disrupt my meetings with noise, tie up my phones, barricade my doors so I can't enter my place of business, that's all kosher. But where your methods meet my body is where you become nothing but a contemptible thug and your opinions unworthy of respect or serious consideration.

There's more to political theater than simply calling attention to an issue. Done correctly, it can begin to change minds; done wrong, it serves only to catalyze the opposition and alienate the undecided. That bunch of protesting Robin Hoods breaching the moat at the Chase meeting this week was a hoot. Their approach was imaginative, creative, funny, and non-violent. The fact that some of them got maced leaves Chase looking like evil bourgeoisie hiding behind a police state, a perfect metaphor for our current national situation. Glitterboy's stunt, on the other hand, just seemed like the petulant act of one silly, ineffective spotlight-hungry fag. I deeply dislike Gingrich, but I found myself wishing some cop would have power-slammed that smirking protester into next week. If I, a fun-loving liberal queer, feel this way, you can be pretty darn sure the punk did nothing good for his cause. Can someone point to an equivalent act on the part of an individual Tea Party protester? So much for our holding the ethical high ground in political discourse.

[mitchtv]

6. glitter =power slam

got it.Real liberal. spotlight hungry fag, got it. Troll much? Your distain for people actually doing something belies your true liberalism.Newt has no respect for us, nor do his minions. If we waited for the likes of you we would be in a fine mess

[devinkay]

9. The likes of me vote.

The likes of Glitterboy makes me not want to support his cause. That's my point. Offensive behavior doesn't win over any voters, period.

We're already in a fine mess, in large part because hot-headed extremists have shanghaied the discourse and made it all but impossible to have a civil conversation about the important and difficult minutiae of governance. It's all chest-thumping sloganeering and cheap-shot publicity stunts these days. The Republican party is hostage to their extremists and it's destroying them.

Shoot, never mind. The likes of you don't listen to anyone you don't already agree with anyway.

[MNBrewer]

12. You are tempted to NOT support equality for gay people

because some airbag political had a box of glitter dumped on his book signing table? Wow, you're shallow and pathetic.

[mitchtv]

13. thanks MN

some people need only the smallest "provocation" to go off on Gay activists. Better to die standing up than live on your knees

[Iggo]

14. Really?

You woud turn against his cause simply because of the glitter?

:rofl:

[FreeState]

17. His cause? It's not yours too?

So. Your not gay? Your not a progressive? Why is it not your cause?

[mitchtv]

7. Can someone point to an equivalent act on the part of an individual Tea Party protester?

well it's not standing on a young woman;s neck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuM5571nf1I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfkldaFu4lM&feature=fvwrel

better yet google tea party violence

[devinkay]

8. Yup.

The Tea party's violent, too. And they're gaining tons of support across the nation with that approach, aren't they.

[Kurovski]

10. My complaint is he should have used the tiny glitter that sticks to you for days.

But then, the tiny sparkles might have caused eye injury...is that possible?

[mitchtv]

11. during my years in SF`

running around with the Cockettes and the Angels of Light, I never saw a glitter injury, and those guys wore it on their faces.

[Iggo]

15. Sprinkling glitter is an act of violence.

Yeah sorry, there's no way to say that with a straight face.

Hoorah, hoorah, hoorah!

[Very_Boring_Name]

16. Is splashing someone with blood?

[Iggo]

18. Nope.