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<< ATHENS ATTACKED ~ MAIN ~ IRAQIS OPTIMISTIC >>

LONE VOICE OF DISSENT

All hail Simon Patkin—accountant, business instructor, McDonald’s diner, and Australian hero!

(Via Benson)

1. The guy is a legend. Still, hope he has his will up to date, those anti-WTO protesters aren’t known for being gentle.

   Posted by Skip on 2005 12 12 at 05:42 AM • permalink



2. Big brass ones.
   Bigger brassier and much much shinyer than mine thats for shure.

   Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 12 12 at 06:08 AM • permalink



3. Der da man

   Posted by geoff on 2005 12 12 at 07:28 AM • permalink



4. There were only about 2-3000 assorted clowns (in the truest meaning of the word if you saw them) though I dont expect he’ll do it if they get the 10,000 people they are predicting for Tuesday.

   Posted by Nic on 2005 12 12 at 07:36 AM • permalink



5. I thought dissent meant you are going against the flow… SO it is the WTO protestors who are the dissenters…. So by definition, this guy is an anti-dissenter, if you know what I mean.

   Posted by chai on 2005 12 12 at 08:31 AM • permalink



6. Dissent against the dissenters is not real dissent, is that what you’re saying, Chai?

   I respectfully dissent with your opinion!

   Posted by TimT on 2005 12 12 at 08:54 AM • permalink



7. No firebombs, no shattered windows, no rock-throwing: this, alone, should capture some media attention.

   Posted by paco on 2005 12 12 at 09:47 AM • permalink



8. SO it is the WTO protestors who are the dissenters

   Yes, because nothing says “dissent” like being part of a rent-a-crowd collective of a couple of thousands who will bleat the same 30-year-old rhetoric all over the world, from Brussels to Seattle, from Davos to Shanghai…oops, wait, they didn’t dare go to Shanghai. Wonder why that is?

   Posted by PW on 2005 12 12 at 12:04 PM • permalink



9. Well, and vandalize stores and fast food joints when regular people aren’t paying enough attention to the bleating alone. Real fine upstanding world citizens, your “dissenters”.

   Posted by PW on 2005 12 12 at 12:05 PM • permalink



10. Power to Patkin!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 12 at 01:17 PM • permalink



11. Am I alone in noticing the basic contradiction of the “Anti-Globalization” protesters: denouncing capitalist free trade, while calling for a world-wide Marxist revolution?

    Wadda buncha maroons.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 12 at 03:00 PM • permalink



12. Whoa… I dont see how you guys can extrapolate my comments above into support for violent protests or whatever. It’s very adversarial here. Maybe reading in a flat voice may help.
    I was merely pointing out that in any topic you have the “pro” and the “con”. So in the above, you are calling the “pro” the “con-con”, which is by definition the “pro” or whatever the antonym of dissenter here.
    http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=dissenter

    So from a semantic p.o.v., perhaps the word to use would be supporter instead?

    Posted by chai on 2005 12 12 at 03:39 PM • permalink



13. From a real-world p.o.v. it might be easy for you to notice that there are a lot more anti-globalization nitwits than our dear Simon, which clearly makes him “going against the flow”.

    At any rate, going up against of professional, paid anarchists takes a lot of courage, more so than your dissenters can probably muster as a whole.

    Posted by Sortelli on 2005 12 12 at 05:30 PM • permalink



14. My thanks to the news cameraman who was careful to close-up, in the Hong Kong protest crowd, the pasty-faced young Anglo with his pierced eyebrow and regulation keffiyeh.  Whitebread middle-class boys travelling to Asia to protest: isn’t that globalization?

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 12 12 at 05:35 PM • permalink



15. I’d like to buy him a beer.

    Posted by Jonny on 2005 12 12 at 08:08 PM • permalink



16. My dissenters? I was just trying to clear up usage of the word.
    First we have to agree what dissent is, which is ‘to disagree’ (Latin dissentire).
    Consider this.
    A and B attend a meeting.
    A is opposed to the agenda. So A is a dissenter.
    B does not agree with A. So B is dissenting against A, however, 2 negatives make a positive. So B is a supporter. If you think about it, B supports the agenda, thus B is a supporter. To call him otherwise may mislead.
    The numbers of A and B does not change the positions of A and B. Neither does the approach taken. That would be a separate discussion.
    Perhaps what you were after were the words ‘majority’ and ‘minority’.

    Posted by chai on 2005 12 13 at 07:16 AM • permalink



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