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T H E T E R R Y R E P O R T 2012
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Facts first, logic always, truth before everything
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Keith Gessen has a piece on the New Yorker online about what it is like to be arrested in the Occupy Wall Street movement. One thing he noticed is that no one in his holding cell while waiting to be arraigned dared to use the toilets in the cell for anything other than urinating, even though they were held there for a day and a half. He wrote that the toilets were so filthy that no one dared to use them. As he sat there in the holding cell, Gessen said he realized that by participating in the protest, he had “signed up” for all the other elements of mistreatment he was getting, but he began to get angry about the disgusting toilets:
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“...there simply cannot be any rule, or any carceral logic, or any arguments whatsoever, for filthy toilets. And sitting there, with the stench from our filthy toilet filling the room, and with the filth in our filthy sink making me less eager than I ought to have been to drink from it, despite being thirsty, I became angry, really, honestly, for the first time. I thought for the first time, with genuine venom, of the hypocrite mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire, who shut down the Occupy Wall Street encampment for reasons of “health and safetY”€¯ but has not deemed it worthwhile to make sure that the toilets in facilities that he has control of meet even the most minimal standards of health and safety, such that, while I watched, about forty men, eating a total of a hundred meals, over the course of a day and a half, refused to perform a single bowel movement. This was its own form of civil disobedience, I suppose, and if I’d had my wits about me maybe I could have organized a meeting of all the inmates at Bloomberg’s residence, on East Seventy-ninth Street, so that we could all take a giant s___ on his front stoop.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/11/central-booking.html#ixzz1f38nIgrD
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