I 'volonteered' my Chevy Costum Deluxe pickup truck I had driven from Virginia down to Nicaragua to  Miskito fishermen of a small community on the Atlantic coast.

Sergio a good friend of mine, a metal worker who lives in an small occupied farmhouse (casa cantoniere) near Viterbo, once did exactly what you said: During violent clashes with the 'celere' (riot police) he went back to his parked car and quickly drove it beetween the police forces and his comrades and torched it. He was later arrested for that and did some time in Viterbo prison.

The last car I drove (a Golf) I gave to an Albanian gipsy who had asked me for it amidst the Brussels traffick. He actually offered me 200 euros for it. I didn't take it. Since that time I am without car.

And yes, I have more respect for the French kids than for the troops. They do their thing, the troops do the others' thing.


"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

No problem with that. I also hate cars by the way. But I am polite guy and I do not nothing.

I am not cheering, I am saying that I am happy.

I do not know how fair the violence is, no idea. Maybe their violence is absolutely unfair, directed to cars of poor people in the neighboorhood.

Maybe the schools are high quality schools where a lot of people are coming out of misery.

But maybe not, may be they target only rich cars, or so disgusting and malfunctioning schools that this is for the better.

I have no idea, no idea. This is why I do not cheer. Nevertheless I think that very strong changes only comes from local and sporadic violent acts.

Murdering is disgusting and accomplishes nothing. Being inside the system can produce incremental improvement if you are lucky. The best way to produce a very important change is controlled and smart violence outside the system. The civil rights movement in the US shows that, among others (Frenc revolution anybody?).

I do hope that they are targetting the appropriate cars and schools, then I would be happy and I will understand them deeply (not even cheering, I can not cheer any violence). Just as I would understand the nepalese if they would attach chinese cars, or the palestinianas if they would burn israelis cars in the terrotories.

This whay I am happy, they look for violence, but they do not try to kill anybody. They want a face to face violence fight, but without killing. So let me be happy for the moment. As soon as their tactics change I would change too.

A pleasure.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude