From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 01:01:10 MST
Michael writes
> Yes. A large component seems to be "don't rock the boat", along with a hunk of
> "rock the boat *my* way" driving the organizers/drivers. Or, at any rate, that
> is not inconsistent wth what I think I observed in this weekend prior.
>
> estropico@virgilio.it wrote:
> > “The obsession with avoiding risk informs the position of just about every
> > protest movement today, whether the object of their fears is the MMR triple
> > vaccination, GM crops or whatever else. All exhibit a deeply conservative
> > better-safe-than-sorry siege mentality. From this point of view, the new
> > anti-war movement appears to be modelled on the anxious outlook of the
> > anti-MMR lobby, projected on to the Middle East.”
My reaction is ;-) "What is the worst that could happen?"
But I break up laughing when I remember that this is the
name of a Danny DeVito movie (which I haven't seen), and
as I imagine Danny DeVito saying it!
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