My participation in the vigil yesterday on Oklahoma and 27th
began with my watching www.transitv.com

Not that I wanted to perse, you could say I was coerced.
[ www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9118/mike.html ]

I was taking the 27 bus from my place to the vigil. There
were 5 or 6 flatscreen televisions bolted to the ceiling
inside the citybus and the volume was somewhere between 6
and 10. You cannot get away from it on this trip. I know
of only one other bus in town doing this to people so far,
and that's along Water street. I imagine they're phasing
them in at great subsidy from General Electric, NBC and
whatever other goons are taking advantage of our current
state of poverty and economic instability.

The IRS is going to get you if you don't call a 1900 number
and let them advise you on how to get a better tax return.
Your house is not safe unless you buy this certain security
system. If your eyesight is bad you can buy an "owl" (tm)
magnifying glass to read smallprint. And if you leave the
plaque and gingevitis on your teeth, no sexy girls will
ever kiss you.

Oh yeah, the Declaration of Independence is missing. And
a 2-pack of T-Shirts cost 59cents back in 1959.

Be honest with you, I wonder if the Declaration of CoDependence
(did I say that?) was ever written, then. Maybe it was the nation's
first recorded "vapor-ware hoax."

Bill Gates eat your heart out.

Boise Cascade just announced they're going to slash 700
jobs. So what else is new?

The first hour of the vigil goes on with only one or two
patrolmen anywhere near us. We're pretty much left alone.

But then [12 NOON] a big blue and white police transport
vehicle comes whipping by us and makes a right turn off
into the distance, sirens blaring. It seems to be full
of cops, but I'm not sure how dense. Perhaps many are on
their bellies inside like the Ryder truck that took the
Klan in and out of milwaukee during that World Church of
the Creator, National Alliance rally a while back. I saw
two in the front and a couple in the back as it whizzed
by.

Along comes [1205] the intelligence department of the
police, with their grey late model sedans and their
cam-corders and their handshakes and their willingness
to work directly with any and all rally coordinators.
So now their's 5 squad cars visible and a sedan or two.
The transport vehicle is nowhere to be found.
[12:15] Ambulances and police cars whiz by pretty
regularly with sirens blaring for a few minutes and
then seem to subside for the rest of the vigil.

Someone tells me about a great Kevin Phillips book I
should read, and also Arianna Huffington's newest book
"pigs at the trough."

I meet Jennifer Morales for the first time, having seen her
speak at a couple rallies including the Mothers Day one.

[ mke.indymedia.org/front.php3 ]

She recommends reading a report on the Project for the New
American Century, a thinktank including Perle, Wolfowitz
and Rumsfeld.

[ www.newamericancentury.org ]

[1255] "Well, do you want to go, so we can beep as
we go by?" a father asks of his two children, toward
the end of this vigil of about 220 people which has
swelled down now to about 160.

"Yeah!" says the oldest of the two.

In a matter of minutes it winds its way down to 30 or 40
who linger quite a bit longer. Maybe 15 minutes or so.

I'll end by listing some of my favorite signs at this event.

ONCE THE PIN IS PULLED, MR. GRENADE IS NOT OUR FRIEND

DON'T DO IT DUBYA! DADDY WILL STILL LOVE YOU.

HOW DID OUR OIL GET UNDER THEIR SAND

BUSH IMPERIAL
SERIAL KILLER

PEACE * D O E S * SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

DO NOT ENTER
Oh, no. Never mind. That one was in front of Cousins Subs.

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE
IT'S A SEQUEL

WAR TODAY BREEDS HATE FOR TOMORROW

AN APPOINTED PRESIDENT
TERRORIZING BAGDAD
WE MUST MAKE WAY
FOR PEACE