tofu wrote: I find it hard to believe that looters, rock throwers and fire bombers are some how victims looking to create positive change. They look more like serious criminals being opportunistic and largely getting away with it. The news commentators have been trying to spin it as HS students just trying to be heard.
Donn wrote:I played sousaphone in the 1999 WTO protest in Seattle. Doesn't really count since I wasn't present at any actual rioting, but the event did include a little of that, and we could smell the CS gas or whatever they were using on our clothes when we got home.
They still remember us, I see from reporting on the current secret "Trans Pacific Partnership" deal.
Like in past wars , like civil war, Tuba players would normally be allowed to work in field hospitals at riot sight or as medical coremen,
lowpitchmoravian wrote:DP-----didn't Al Sharpton play Sax in James Brown's Band -----Seem to remember story on that when J Brown died???????--Big Al was there bragging .
No. Sharpton began hanging out with Mr. Brown when he was about 16 years old. Mr. Brown gave him jobs to do. Sharpton's father was not on the scene and Mr. Brown became a surrogate father. This would have been in the early '70s before Mr. Brown went on his PCP fueled adventures. Sharpton was with Mr. Brown until the end and drove his casket from Atlanta to NYC for the viewing at the Apollo and then back to Atlanta.
