What would your dressed-to-protest suit look like?
This is interesting, and the amplified heartbeat is a nice touch, but perhaps Ralph’s time in NYC as an activist did not fully prepare him for the kinds of brutality cops are capable of meting out. (And no, I don’t entirely blame them, they are following orders.) I would love to display the photo, but hate stealing bandwidth from an artist. Respect. So do click.
I think protestors needs something a little more like the Popemobile, but ambulatory. Just my opinion. I am not a designer.
And why are we not seeing more about 
this movement?
Sadly, it is just satire. But I love the idea. Almost nothing pisses me off more than homophobes who cry “Leviticus! Leviticus!” and go to all-you-can-eat-Shrimp-festivals at Red Lobster. It’s not right.
When John Paul II came into his Popely position, I was about 8. My uncle came into the room, having presumably just seen a TV news report, and said enthusiastically, “Well, we have a new Pope!” You have a new Pope, I thought. We weren’t Catholic, but my uncle’s family was. That was in the days when nice Protestant boys converted so they could marry nice Catholic girls. I am a Quaker now, but we weren’t then. I didn’t really fully understand the Pope concept.
I don’t agree with a lot of his policies, and I think he has to be held responsible for his treatment of Cardinal Law and his reaction to the priestly child molestation scandals. I think that not developing a more pragmatic approach to condom use has led to a lot of deaths. Nonetheless, I realize I say that as someone who thinks neither gay sex nor condom use are evil. So how can I possibly understand conservative Catholic theology? I am also not sure I get Bono’s assessment of JPII as “The first funky Pope.” However, I can also see that he did a lot of good, and maybe some of the good he was not able to do wasn’t entirely his fault. Is it too much to hope he has a more radical successor? Dare I say it, a Liberation Theologist would do nicely.
Anyway, I hope that does not come across as flip. My sincerest condolences and prayers are with all Catholics right now.
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Your expression of condolences does you credit. I’m a little itll at the prufusion of ding dong the witch is dead level of noise on some ‘lieral’ blogs.
Weak and conflict-addicted people take it really personally when any leader dies.
Those suits are dope. If you looked through the Bring the Beef archives which I can’t do now, around late August, I did a post on Urban Assault Gear with links I got from a hardcore anarchist friend.
There. I have hogged your entire comments. Good for me!
Radio,
Comment away, in as much length as you wish. I would even have a separate comments section JUST FOR YOU. It would be a good read.
I will look for the urban assault gear on BtB.
Someone who can keep the Papacy in its proper perspective! Listened to a week of grovelling condolences on radio before someone reminded us (in a very nice, urbane and civilised way, of course) thought to remember his execrable, rude, inconsiderate and petulant performance in Nicaragua, 1982, when the Pope stamped his foot, and went red in the face. The 500,000 strong crowd was asking a blessing on the Nicaraguans who had been brutally massacred in a contra attack, just a week or two before his arrival there. The Pope studiously ignored this request, until the chant “We want Peace” grew and grew to the point when he had stop reading his prepared speech. This incident was brilliantly documented in Australian documentary maker David Bradbury in his prize winning documentary “Nicaragua No Pasaran”.