this crawled into my inbox today. a first hand report from istanbul, turkey– about the protests and the revolt going on out there. the diarist’s name is not published, due to his request. we respect that. apparently our man in istanbul had a rough ride the last few weeks. his writing and articulation deteriorates towards the end but we should cut him some slack. these are terrible times in istanbul and consider this a public service announcement. we are publishing it verbatim- kicking off with his introduction to us. if you like it say so and share. if you find it offensive, just click on a different blog.
–pisses.me
diarist’s intro:
i am a chapuller. or a çapulcu if you’re linguistically inclined. i just found out i am a chapuller last week. before that i was a simply a man. a professional. a somewhat decent human being. but, now, i am a chapuller. and i take pride in it. according to the mighty wikipedia, what i am is a neologism. i looked it up– obviously it derives from greek words, like almost everything else. apparently it means a new utterance or speech; a brand spanking new term of the english lexicon. it sure don’t feel that way. according to wikipedia, we should avoid neologisms. such avoidance would defeat the purpose of my existence, rendering me null and void. but that’s what avoidance does– renders you null and void. i don’t avoid any more. i don’t seize, i don’t desist. i am a chapuller and i am damn proud of it.
chapulling was born in my beautiful turkey. a nice mediterranean country. as a people, i would say we’re the perfect fraternity special cocktail– throw in turks, arabs, kurds, armenians, levantines, jews (mostly sephardic, some ashkenazi), greeks, bulgarians, albanians, lebanese, and anyone else you can find in a 2,000 mile radius in a blender and you have us. we live in the original melting-pot.
it is easy to figure out why– just take a look at a map. if you forgot how, just google “map”. turkey, or the land known as asia minor, is a natural bridge between asia and europe– the two continents that historically meant something. people traveled through turkey for thousands of years– it was a bridge they had to cross. some invaded, others passed through; but, many, many stayed behind. hence the cocktail.
we turks were the last invaders and we’ve been holding on to this beautiful land for a thousand years. we started our invasion in 1071– just five years after the battle of hastings– interesting coincidence– i guess it was a period of upward mobility for the normans and the turks.
anyways, our language always had a term– çapulcu– which basically meant a looter or a marauder. i was christened one on june 2nd, 2013. this is my story.
i won’t bore you with the “i woke up, took a crap, and went to work again” bits of my diary– rather, i’ll only reprint my evolution from man to chapuller. the rest is irrelevant. at least to you.
may 23, 2013
today i woke up late. i shouldn’t have woken up at all. everything started the way it should– morning coffee, skipping breakfast (sorry mom, i know!), work, then, given it is a thursday (best night to go out), drink and food with the same old friends. same old bullshit over and over again until someone got a tweet and we heard of a new legislation passed by our wise parliament just before midnight (governments like catching us with our pants down, don’t they?)– apparently no more alcohol sales at stores after 10 pm. huh?
we continued drinking and debating (more and more imbibed, but still somewhat coherent), the ramifications of this new piece of legislation. we had an american friend at the table. some ivy league washout who decided to grace istanbul with his presence, teaching english as a second language, after a bad break-up, like many before him. istanbul is becoming more and more an expats city. i don’t blame them, it is magical.
anyhow, our friend said, “what’s the big deal? we had such laws in the US forever”. according to him, apparently americans have they call “blue laws”– each state enacts its own law and prohibits the sale of alcohol after certain hours, and, most definitely, on sundays– the holly day for christians. he even told us that there are “dry counties” in the US– places where you cannot legally buy alcohol. he even claimed that the place where jack daniels is made is actually a dry county. we chuckled.
we didn’t take him seriously and debated till the wee hours. most of it is blurry and i am drunk as it gets. enough for now.
may 24, 2013
i woke up with a colossal headache and dragged my stupid ass to work. why, oh why, drink so much on a school night? yeah, the legislation was an excuse for the libations, but since when did i need excuses for getting shitfaced? just another run of the mill thursday night.
i hate hangovers but don’t know how to avoid them. actually, i do know how to avoid them but never practiced what i preach when it’s booze and excess.
the entire day was a waste but i looked up my friend’s claims about american laws on the internet and turns out he wasn’t bullshitting. then, i read the government’s pundits on twitter and they were reciting our american buddy’s exact same argument– their argument was uncannily verbatim– perhaps they were getting their drink on at the next table last night? what they said boils down to “the americans do it, why don’t we?”… i’ll tell you exactly why but i don’t have the energy. the days of walking and sweating off a hangover by noon are long gone. i am miserable.
came home straight after work. my girlfriend came by around 8 pm, took one look at my hungover self and left, rabbitting off something about a brunch tomorrow. i passed out on the couch watching a documentary on penguins. woke up around 2 am with a raging hard-on, and the penguins still parading around. penguins, really? hangover erections know no shame.
may 25, 2013
we took a boat to bebek for brunch. when the weather is right, there is no place like the bosporus. i’ve seen it a zillion times and each time it feels like a gabriel garcia marquez novel. surreal, magical, and mythical. it is the most gorgeous place on earth. i remember one early morning, drunk as usual, and seeing a school of dolphins doing their nautical show in the mist– sheer magic…
there were eight of us (nine if you count the freeloader who sat down for 15 minutes drinking our tea, eating our food). our american friend was with us again and the conversation turned to the new legislation again. this time around in complete sobriety.
i first asked him if he is moonlighting as a spinmaster for AKP (for the uninitiated, the justice and development party, turkey’s governing political machine) and its fearsome leader, mr. recep tayyip erdogan, the prime minister (AKP and RTE, respectively, from here on). he just laughed.
we were civil, we let him make his case for respecting other people’s rights, how democracy had to be fettered for the greater good, etc, etc. felt like listening to an oasis track– derivative and boring.
we really had to school him about turkey, and the eastern hemisphere in general. you see, there is no one-size-fits-all in political theory. you have to take into account the country, its conditions, its people, or the “stakeholders” like the academicians call them, etc, before prescribing a cure or a solution. what works in turkey most likely ain’t gonna work in the US and vice versa. we are different people evolved through different traditions, cultures, needs, demands, so on and so forth.
to make sense of our brunch discussion, a little detour through history is absolutely necessary: turkey is a spin-off of the once mighty ottoman empire. the once mighty ottoman empire, besides being a powerful force, was also the vatican of the muslims. the sultan, or as we used to call him the padişah, was also the caliph, the ruler of all muslims.
like all empires before and after it, the ottoman empire declined slowly and became a sad shadow of its once glorious self. but, it held on to its delusions of grandeur, which led to its demise.
its demise was ugly– after the first world war, it was divided between the winning nations and the padişah said, simply leave me my title and my palace, and do whatever the fuck you please with the rest of the country.
we, the people, wouldn’t have none of it– we started a war of independence, led by mustafa kemal (later “ataturk”), our hero, our george washington. we fought hard, we fought well, and won our independence in 1923. we established a democracy, a republic, and started catching up with the western world.
to catch-up, we had to change our way of life– in less than five years, we adopted the western alphabet, initiated one of the most aggressive literacy campaigns of history, gave the women the right to vote, modernized our clothing, changed our calendar to justinian, adopted the metric system for measures, and established the rule of law. yeah, we were plagiaristic in the last measure buy why reinvent the wheel? we simply reviewed all the modern laws of western countries and took the ones that worked the best, and that would fit our culture.
ataturk, during that time, even did his due diligence on the two emerging fresh political waves- fascism and communism, but decided they weren’t for us and settled on democracy.
we also demolished the caliphate– we were humble and secular– we had no business in claiming to be the prophet incarnate, or ruling other people outside of our borders.
try this on for size– how many countries can go through this many changes in five years? many revisionists simply shrug and say “ataturk was a dictator and any dictator could have done this”. i call that world-class bullshit– ataturk died in 1938– if all the changes were forced via dictatorship, we would have reverted back to our old ways in no time flat. but that didn’t happen. we prospered and started building a decent sized economy and a happy people from the rubbles of the first world war and our fight for independence.
why am i explaining all this? to emphasize how we embraced secularism and how easily we, as a people, can change. we can change, and adopt to changes, at the blink of an eye. perhaps it is because we predominantly came from nomads. it is our biggest blessing and our worst curse. we adopt, we survive, but we also change– our identity is shiftier than a billboard lawyer. it is a blessing and a curse.
i’ll go off on another tangent here– bear with me– it will all make sense at the end: physicists cannot still explain precisely what “time” is. i don’t know much about “time”, as a vector or a dimension or whatnot, but i know that “western time” is not the same as “eastern time”.
western time is quicksilver, eastern time is molasses. western time is leaps, eastern time is a baby crawl. western time is instant gratification, eastern time is deferred. western time is a revolution, eastern time is an evolution.
as far as time is concerned, western folks got desensitized. their concept of time is instantaneous– if something happens now, it exists– if it will happen tomorrow, it doesn’t. it is all video montages, sound clips, and big thumbs-ups.
eastern time is about patience. eastern time is the fateful acceptance that the next generation, or the one after them, will reap what you sowed.
western time is the time-lapse clip of a seed blooming into a flower; eastern time is meditating over it, assured that someday the seed will bloom into a forever, whether you’ll be there to smell it or not– someone will be there to smell it and that’s what matters.
cognizance of these tangents was the great divide between us and our american friend. he did not see a minor regulation banning the sale of alcohol at stores after 10 pm as a big threat to our democracy. he did not see the minor but persistent attacks on freedom of speech, religion and press as threats either.
he didn’t take them seriously because neither amounted to an islamic revolution by itself. he operated on a different time wave– he did not have the inherent patience to sit and watch the seed grow, millimeter by millimiter. unless the revolution was televised, with time-lapse tricks and 10 word soundbites, it did not happen. we tried to explain him what was going on was an evolution, not a revolution, and, therefore, more dangerous.
taken individually, the limits on our freedoms did not matter much– but, taken in their entirety– now that’s another story.
that’s what scared us– we saw the pattern– starting with headscarves (or “türbans” as we called them), crawling slowly to the latest ban on alcohol. next thing you know, let’s prohibit alcohol sales on fridays. next thing you know, let’s give municipalities the right to ban alcohol outright. next thing you know, for common decency, and for not hurting the feelings of devout muslims, let’s ban it in public places completely. next thing you know, let’s ban private consumption too while we are at it. and, you know what, those public spaces where people used to drink, now young couples are commingling and committing amoral acts offensive to our devout citizens– let’s ban the commingling of the sexes as well.
let’s use america as an excuse– let’s ban the teaching of evolution in our schools– americans are still discussing it in 2013, aren’t they? let’s ban abortions. let’s ban prostitution, which we used to run clean and tax the shit out of. let’s close down all the restaurants during ramadan– serving succulent food while our devout citizens are fasting is insensitive!
while we are at it, let’s visit the feasibility of a new caliphate and a new padişah as well, shall we? let’s inflate the egos of our people with romantic notions of our glorious past, sell them pipe dreams, sing them lullabies of grandeur. hush a bye lil’ turk, go to sleep, go to sleep. when you wake up, you’ll be a serf in a dictatorship, but the romantic notions and the illusions of grandeur will keep you going at full-steam until you realize it is too late. you can change and adopt quickly, can’t you? here is your task, are you up for it?
when you’re the legacy of such a majestic empire, when you were ruled by the caliphate, pushing religion is just like handing out a cold beer to a recovering alcoholic on a muggy summer day, saying “hold this for me for a minute, will ya?”, and disappearing we all know how that story ends.
if we do all these overnight, we are iran, we are shunned… but, if we do it over a decade, it is democracy as usual. no time-lapse clips, no western frowns.
AKP and RTE know this too well– they already took most of the baby steps. the dissenting journalists are in prison, the secular soldiers are bunking with them, the media has one voice and one voice only, freedom of speech went down the drain years ago, and things are proceeding according to the plan, on eastern time.
and AKP and RTE continue to thrive, while the west watches silently, applauding them as chosen leaders (and don’t even get me started on how the elections were bought and sold), and turkish democracy ticking away like swiss clockwork.
until its too late and you realize your baby grew to be an angry teenager without you realizing. then comes the time-lapse clips, the soundbites, and the volumes on “how the fuck did this happen?”, but it is too late to do anything anymore…
that was the gist of our schooling during brunch today. i think our friend started seeing where we are coming from. he is not completely sold– he still believes that a staged “mission accomplished” banner is all it takes; but, we can’t blame him, he is on western time and the western state of mind.
after brunch, we took a nice walk and then went home with my girlfriend. made love, hanged out, made love again, argued whether or not she told me she slept with 16 guys before me when we first met (she claims 9 now), ate, hanged out more, and fell asleep. it was a good day.
may 26, 2013
woke up late. vegged out in the house all day. more sex was inevitable. did nothing productive or meaningful. was the perfect day.
may 27, 2013
went to work cheerful. during the commute, i thought more about the alcohol ban and saw an opportunity. oh, i forgot to mention, we turks love, love our shortcuts and once in a lifetime opportunities. i knew there was nothing we could do about the ban– why not profit from it in a vigilante sense? open a few underground stores and sell alcohol after 10 pm. like the speakeasies, but in a take-out model. nothing like the black market for much needed cash. did you think they don’t broadcast the “boardwalk empire” in turkey? shit…
came home pumped, started working on a half-baked business plan. will look at a few spaces the next few days.
may 28, 2013
work, work, work. during lunch and after work looked at a few available basements. no need to find a major supply-chain– i can go to supermarkets and load up on wine, beer, and liquor and sell ’em with a good mark-up. will approach wholesalers after i make some money. i am sure a new industry will emerge.
girlfriend on a business trip. won’t be back until thursday morning.
masturbated. internet is a wonderful thing. realized, just before climax, the tv on mute was showing penguins again.
may 29, 2013
more work, more real estate agents. not sure which is more depressing.
didn’t jerk off– if i am all spent and slow in completing the deed, girlfriend will grow suspicious.
may 30, 2013
had an epiphany on the way to work. i’ll buy some scooters and bikes and have messengers deliver the booze. create twitter and facebook accounts for taking orders. ain’t technology great?
girlfriend called during lunch. her flight back was a-ok. she told me about some protest in taksim, the epicenter of istanbul. apparently AKP and RTE are planning to build something in gezi parki, the last remaining green oasis in my beautiful city. what’s next? pave over the bosporus? agreed to meet her in taksim after work. have to look at a few basements there anyways.
dealt with a new obnoxious real estate agent (do they come in any other flavor?), and made it to gezi parki. it is like a college yard– lots of young people picnicking, reading books, hanging out. asked her to give me the skinny on the protest.
apparently AKP and RTE want to build a shopping mall after razing the park. here is another thing about them– their’s is an infinite hunger. since they got the power, they got rich, their families got rich, their friends got rich, friends of their friends got rich, and they covered the entire country in concrete. i hear that now they are planning to rezone the national parks and concrete ’em over as well. shameless, that’s all i can say.
the only thing AKP and RTE learned from western time and mentality is instant gratification when it comes to worldly greed. they want it now and they want it all.
i am not a protest type of guy but couldn’t say no to the girlfriend. it wasn’t much of a protest anyhow– lots of young bright things hanging out peacefully, doing their own thing, and having a merry old time. apparently yesterday saw some police action and water cannons. but today was quite.
went to her apartment this time. she needed to unpack and tomorrow she has the day off. sex was great. glad i didn’t jerk off last night.
may 31, 2013
work again. is this how i am gonna live until i retire? going somewhere i totally despise everyday, and doing things that make me nauseous? there should be a better way to live out our years. intelligent design, minttelligent design, or random evolution, i don’t care either way– i am 100% sure we are not designed to live like this.
girlfriend called me just before lunch. she said things were heating up at the protest. she said she was scared and asked me to come by.
when i arrived, the protest was nothing like the day before. there were hundres of police officers and they had their ugly assault vehicles on the ready. thinks started heating up– i heard a bang and started smelling something sharp and acidic. someone yelled “teargas” and panic ensued.
the rest of the day is a blur. midnight found us in besiktas, just a neighborhood away from taksim. my whole body was aching. i’ve never known such pain. not sure how many plastic bullets, pressurized water, electrical batons, and teargas my body absorbed. girlfriend has a little cut on her forehead. i think i tried to protect her and everyone around me as much as i can but i am not very sure.
people started building barricades. feels like the paris ghetto all over again. feels like civil war. there are thousands of people and hordes of police.
called my mom in ankara to make sure she wasn’t worried about me. she asked me why she should be worried? wasn’t she watching what was going on in TV? she said there is nothing on TV. there was coverage of a beauty contest and now she is watching a documentary on penguins. despite my aching body, and despite the voice of my mother on the other end, i felt an erection emerging. i hanged up.
mother called half an hour later– she said she was curious and checked online and saw on the BBC site what was happening. apparently everyone but the turkish media was reporting on our protest.
around 6 am, we decided to call it quits and made it home. i am telling you, with all the police, fires, and the barricades, it was an ordeal.
we tended to each others wounds, and then, surprisingly we had the best sex we had in a while– apparently adrenalin does wonderful things to the libido.
june 1, 2013
we slept some, if you can call it sleep, and then went out again. it was a war zone. tweets started coming from all over about protests in other cities.
everyone was on the streets. and this time, it wasn’t only the bright young things of the last few days. everyone was out– old, young, from all walks of life– and they were united against the police brutality and AKP/ RTE. i guess gezi parki was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
i don’t know what i can tell you– much of it is pretty well documented in the international media. i guess “carnage” is the only word that explains what we saw. we were beaten down, hosed down, gassed, down, and then some more. but we felt a sense of purpose and we were united.
we heard reports of hospitals and infirmaries being attacked by the police, injured folks gassed down in emergency rooms, people losing eyes, suffering broken bones. we heard of people dying but thankfully most reports turned out to be false.
then they started gassing us with an orange chemical. other protestors said it was agent orange. the government later vehemently denied it– they said it was just colored teargas. i am not sure what it was but it sure hell wasn’t teargas. it burned my skin like acid.
somehow we made it home just before daybreak. everything we passed by was broken down and ruined, everything was burning. hotels, restaurants, stores that should have been closed were offering shelter. i heard from someone that they sought refuge in a whorehouse– the prostitutes offered them food and drinks– the person said “i’m not sure who the real whores are– those inside the house, or those outside”. that will stay with me forever.
when we got home, we showered, cleaned our wounds, and passed out. adrenaline carries libido so far.
june 2, 2013
can’t believe it’s been a week since our last peaceful sunday– feels like forever.
cruised the internet after a quick breakfast. i guess my eyes must have been more swollen from the gas than i thought they were– the swollen eyes and the batons to my head must have made me see triple or quadruple– the turkish media finally started reporting on our revolt and claimed that about a hundred protestors were responsible for the mayhem and only a handful were injured. the thousands i saw fighting on the streets, and the hundreds i saw limping with blood all over them must have been an illusion.
i was very happy to see the international protests though– apparently our revolt not only made it quickly to all the major turkish cities, but also caught up globally as well. there were protests everywhere– from amsterdam and london to los angeles and the zuccotti park in new york city.
people from all around the world gave us their support. with tens of thousands protesting and risking life and limb in all major turkish cities, the international support was a jolt of much needed energy.
despite our better judgment, and aching bodies, we made it to the streets again in the early afternoon. this time we were not only greeted by the police, but also with shady characters holding big sticks and wearing police helmets. RTE’s boys finally joined the party.
we fought, we resisted, we chanted, we did not give up. this wasn’t a revolt anymore, it was a national awakening.
june 3, 2013
today i woke up a man, went to bed a chapuller. eat it kafka. my metamorphosis was complete. you see, RTE finally made a statement and called us “a handful of çapulcus”– i guess we were looters. i am sure there were some looters after all the mayhem, but all the protestors i’ve seen were actually cleaning up the broken down stores, too busy and too weary to be looting.
i don’t mind it though– if RTE thinks i am a chapuller, so am i. i take pride on it. pissing in his general direction makes me happy. if only we can aggravate them a fraction of how they aggravated us…
RTE is dismissing it all with the rest of the media. it is scary how such carnage and mayhem can be downplayed with the help of a friendly media.
but, in turkey, people are scared to speak. there is no freedom of speech or press. you follow the partyline or you’re toast. ask fazil say, one of our favorite sons, if you don’t believe me. the boy is a world famous pianist and composer. he is also very outspoken.
one day, last year, he tweeted a poem from omar khayyam. y’all know khayyam, right? he was a persian genius of the 11th century. fazil only tweeted the poem– no commentary, no nothing. it was a poem questioning the wisdom of the islamic paradise in the typical sarcastic khayyam style. bear in mind, khayyam is one of the greatest poets of the east, if not the greatest. but, fazil was promptly arrested for “publicly insulting religious values that are adopted by a part of the nation”, a crime that carries a penalty of up to 18 months in prison. how you like them apples? try to exercise your freedom of speech in turkey now.
you know what gave me hope though? people were finally able to say what they thought and felt. and i mean everybody. people were tweeting like there is no tomorrow and facebook was nuts. i have 2,000 friends in facebook. yeah, sue me, i am popular. but, most of my friends are hardcore conformists. at least, i thought they were. when some political issue arose, when a small protest was organized, maybe only 1 out of 10 friends raised their voice on facebook. the rest continued posting stupid songs or pointless tidbits about their mundane lives. this time around, it was different– 10 out of 10 were posting about our revolt– and from all around the world.
i have this one friend– perfect conformist– nothing rocks his boat. steady job, steady income, never a political statement out of his mouth. i saw him on facebook today with a gasmask on, fighting in the streets. it gave me hope.
RTE continued to dismiss us and got on a plane to morocco for some diplomatic trip. we went home. this time our bodies were more used to the abuse and our libidos finally prevailed again.
june 4, 2013
work? what work?
we were on the streets all day again. fighting was still at full blast. the momentum was building consistently. but, the foreign media was losing interest in our awakening and domestic media was either still asleep or dismissing us outright.
istanbul wasn’t that bad but i heard ankara, hatay, and adana were terrible. people got hurt seriously, people died.
it was just another day of the awakening.
june 5, 2013
RTE is coming home tomorrow! we’re still fighting in the streets and waiting for his return with open arms. i wonder what he has to say to us chapullers. we heard that the king of morocco refused to see him. i guess he is a fellow chapuller himself.
we’ve been discussing where this awakening will lead us. some of us are optimistic, others not. the pessimists fear that soon we will lose momentum and eventually things will quite down and people will forget all about our awakening in no time flat. it is a distinct possibility– i told you before, we turks adopt and change very quickly. they are also worried that even though we are fighting for our individual freedoms, we don’t have a proper leader and a proper mission. i have to agree with that. but, i am still the glass is half-full type of guy– this awakening will not be forgotten– it will change the course of the country and it will keep the AKP on a short-leash. accuse me of dreaming, but one can hope.
tonight, back home, i felt like a war weary veteran– i felt my body, despite all its aches and pains, was as strong as it ever was, and i was ready to fight another day.
but my mind is a different thing– even though it is sharp as it gets when i am on the streets, i am having problems concentrating and articulating in down times. my writing got very sloppy, and i am sorry for subjecting you to it. hope i am still making sense.
june 6, 2013
today’s highlight was cleaning up some broken down stores and restaurants and manning a barricade (teargas only this time– felt like a walk in the park), with our american friend who we ran into in taksim. he is a regular hemingway- seems to be enjoying himself. we also started building a library for the protestors in gezi park. all the restaurants, bakeries, etc are contributing to the cause. i’ve never ate this good for free.
we talked more about freedoms. he mentioned operation iraqi freedom and i nearly puked. how can someone be this naive? after years of dictatorship, invading iraq and trying to establish an american style democracy is not any different than “let them eat cake”. remember stakeholders? remember cultures and traditions? such arrogance. there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to different societies and cultures. to each its own.
RTE is coming home tonight. the city is ready for him– during our awakening, public transportation was limited at best. tonight, the subways and buses will run late so his fans can go to the airport to meet him. his party offices are chartering buses to the fucking airport. such injustice.
tonight we will go home early and watch his speech. i am sure he will give one. let’s see who am i going to wake up as tomorrow? i hope chapuller again.
june 7, 2013
i hope this is not my last diary entry.
i was so mad last night i couldn’t finish my entry. i wanted to summarize his speech but i’ve never known such aggravation. i simply couldn’t write, couldn’t think, couldn’t function.
i can’t write, i can’t articulate anymore. words feel weird and strange.
bear with me while i try to explain.
he arrived in istanbul little after midnight. thousands of his fanboys were waiting for him. and he gave a speech. it was probably the single most provocative speech i ever heard from a turkish politician. and this speech was coming from a guy who said shit like “zionism is a crime against humanity” and twitter “is the worst menace to society”… really, without twitter, we wouldn’t have been able to exercise even a bit of our freedom of speech.
basically, his speech was a call for civil war. he ranted about us drunkards, chapullers, foreign agents, extremists, terrorists, etc, etc. his fanboys chanted “allahu akbars” and “we’re your soldiers” and “we’ll die for yous”.
it was a call for war. a war on us. us, who only wanted to exercise their basic individual rights- our freedoms of speech, press, and religion. us who want democracy. us who want our parks and environment protected.
this time around he also called us vandals. i’ve been promoted, i am a chapuller-vandal now.
we will go out on the streets again today. but this time i am very, very afraid. his fanboys are pumped up and full of hate. today will be a different kind of battle. we are awake. we are revolting. i know we accomplished something. i know we will never be the same. i know we are not a herd anymore.
but, RTE is inciting civil war. he is pitting us against each other. and i am scared.
i only hope this is not the last entry and there’ll be more later… and more sex.
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