Friday, December 05, 2003
Daniel Pipes At UBC: The Protests
I was inside the Norm collecting donations for Magen David Adom (which, by the way, got around $90!) and signing people up to Dr. Pipes' mailing list, so I didn't get to watch a lot of the fun outside, but I can hear their very loud shouting.
Some excellent slogans I heard:"Globalize the Intifada!"
"Free tuition!"
I didn't see it myself, but I heard that other festivities included them spitting and name-calling (I won't go into specifics here). Mmm tolerance and debate. Don't forget that every single one of them could've went inside and debated Dr. Pipes themselves, but decided that hurting their throats with shouting slogans (which always are in iambic tetrameter, curiously enough).
It's too bad I missed it all. Or maybe I should be counting my lucky stars.