"Excuse me, brutality here. You are on camera! You are on camera. You are on camera. Do not use brutality! You may not detain us! You are on camera. Excuse me, do not use force ... we deserve to have explained what is going on! ... are they armed, do they have devices or tasers?"I'm all for protesting and being distrustful of police force and such, but this was laughably pathetic.
More coverage: Dorf on Law, HuffPost
Take Back NYU rocks!
ReplyDeleteI love those guys! A team of the world's best comedic screenwriters could not have scripted their pathetic last stand to play out any funnier. Corporate Water???? That's the most patently bourgeois thing I've heard in a long time. Water is bad, Apple is good? Take Back NYU! is going to ruin the Apple brand altogether; Apple is marketed for slackers, NOT hippies.
And why did Take Back! narrow their goals when they were doing so well and capturing the imagination of the worldwide public? Why not go all the way and fight to achieve federal protection for the Cape Fear River shiner, one of the most endangered fishes in North America? Or demand that the porn industry replace the hurtful "MILF" genre of adult film with the less judgmental "experienced women" title?
If only they had not been so pragmatic, this really could have been a changed world. . .