Saturday - July 09, 2005

Send In The Clowns

I have found the perfect protest group for OldCatMan. In fact, I might join this group myself just for the entertainment value. Yes sirree folks, this is it.  The wave of the future.  The way to protest that’s catching on all over the globe.

I give you: The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

That’s right. Clowns.  Clowns as protesters.  An army of assclowns.  They have it all: Recruiting, training, operations manuals…all of it.  I found this part of their ops manual particularly funny:

Things to stuff your pockets with:

In order to mock the stop and search terrorist laws, which are regularly used to intimidate protestors, CIRCA clownbattants fill their pockets to the brim (which often makes CIRCA members seem more portly than they actually are!) with stupid things – strings of sausages, underwear, rubber ducks, pink furry stuffed pigs, sex toys, miniature garden gnomes, old bones, small tanks, rubber ducks, plungers and more, which all have to be laid out on the street and documented by the police during searches. Dozens of police officers searching an army of clowns is a weird enough sight, but when members of the public see all the objects being taken out the absurdity of the situation overflows.

We are rebels because we love life and happiness more than ‘revolution’. Because no revolution is ever complete and rebellions continues forever. Because we will dismantle the ghost-machine of abstraction with means that are indistinguishable from ends. Because we don’t want to change ‘the’ world, but ‘our’ world. Because we will always desert and disobey those who abuse and accumulate power. Because rebels transform everything - the way they live, create, love, eat, laugh, play, learn, trade, listen, think and most of all the way they rebel.

We are clowns because what else can one be in such a stupid world. Because inside everyone is a lawless clown trying to escape. Because nothing undermines authority like holding it up to ridicule. Because since the beginning of time tricksters have embraced life’s contradictions, creating coherence through confusion. Because fools are both fearsome and innocent, wise and stupid, entertainers and dissenters, healers and laughing stocks, scapegoats and subversives. Because buffoons always succeed in failing, always say yes, always hope and always feel things deeply. Because a clown can survive everything and get away with anything.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/09/2005 at 09:03 AM   
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