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- From: yal@cltr.uq.oz.au (Yvette Lian)
- Subject: Re: Pro-Queer violence and Re: Starting Trouble: Homophobia at MIT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.034837.28825@cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
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- References: <1993Jan19.164922.1749@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan19.224047.23735@reed.edu> <18432@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 03:48:37 GMT
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- In article <18432@autodesk.COM> owen@autodesk.com (D. Owen Rowley) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.224047.23735@reed.edu>, nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
- >> paramilitary. We wore uniforms. We had a commander. We walked in
- >> formation. We tried to look intimidating. We were trained to deal with
- >> violent situations. We carried weapons (capsicum).
- >
- >For what its worth, I have used capsicum on another ( an unruly patron in
- >my bar ) and have little faith in its effectiveness. It didn't stop
- >my assailant at all, and subsequent contact only wound up making the
- >frey that much more unpleasant.
-
- *Yvette tries for a moment to picture these guys hitting others on the head
- with a green and red splotchy vegetable*
-
- Nope... that can't be it... although I guess I might concur with Owen in
- that it probably wouldn't be effective against an assailant.
-
- So....... what the hell IS capsicum, if it isn't a hollow vegetable the
- size of my hand?
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