Late-nite guerilla campaign meets the Coral Gables Police

[PermanentRevolution]

So I'm all ready to go, about a hundred or so "Two-Faced" fliers, a can of spray adhesive, and about 50 bumper stickers, ready for a week-to-go nighttime raid on my local neighborhood. The plan was to hit just about every lightpost I could find, so that tomorrow morning everyone coming to work would find an overwhelming message waiting for them.

Little did I know that, because of a series of recent break-ins, the Gables police were out in force watching for suspicious activity. I got about three blocks from my home when I got stopped. It could have been much worse. I got frisked, had my bag searched, the usual. I told them what I was doing. They told me not to stick signs up on lightposts because it's city property. I told them I didn't know that. We chatted about the campaign in general, its polarizing effect on the country, the need to eliminate corporate money and special-interest financing, the way that the Founding Fathers didn't put term limits into the Constitution because back then, being a politician was looked on as a necessary sacrifice, not a career choice. We talked Perot, Nader, Bush, Kerry...

One cop was pro-Kerry, one was pro-Bush, but the Bush cop was really very nice about it all. Struck me as a nice guy, but a little uninformed, voting primarily over security and taxes. Said Kerry was too far left for him. I didn't want to push my luck and go for a real debate, since he was being nice and letting me off with a warning. He even told me I could leave up the fliers I had already put up.

So at least I'm not in jail, but now I'm stuck with a bunch of fliers I can't put up. They'll be watching through the election, at least.

Oh, well. Maybe I'll just leave 'em lying on top of the newspaper boxes...

[freetobegay]

1. Alot of Coral Gable Police like to hang out at the hole

The hole is an intersting place.

[Zuni]

2. My parents are GOP

they are good people, very nice, caring people. They love animals, give a lot to charity, always ready to help someone but have been led astray by the endless GOP propaganda.
I try to tell them, but they do not like discussing politics with their son. It upsets my mom, who cannot take arguing. It really makes her upset, so we do not discuss politics.