Class Will Out

Monday, March 8, 2010 — Finding a parking space in Portsmouth can be a challenge for anyone. Those who appreciate the finer things in life are used to taking these challenges in stride, however — the driver of this Mercedes-Benz E350 ($48,000 – $86,000), for instance. Early Monday afternoon, he parked his elegant buggy (New York plate number EUW 1284) athwart the crosswalk at High and Congress streets.

The driver did not appear to be particularly thrilled when he saw that his handiwork was being documented. To his misfortune, however, there were no officers of the law on hand to apprehend our Wandering Photographer on charges of infringing upon his privacy.

2 thoughts on “Class Will Out”

  1. Yep. Direct Action at the Point of Class Arrogance.

    The first industrial strikers were overworked Dutch workers in the first powered (there by wind, probably) machinery….for the first time, workers were subject to a mechanical rate of production. They reacted by throwing their wooden shoes into the wooden gears of the machinery, jamming and stopping them. In Dutch, wooden shoes are ‘sabots’ – hence ‘sabotage.’

    These days the Industrial Workers of the World are careful to publicly advocate sabotage as “the conscious withholding of efficiency.”

    But as Wobbly songwriter Joe Hill put it in his ‘Rebel’s Toast’ –

    If Freedom’s road seems
    rough & hard
    And strewn with rocks and thorns,
    Then put your wooden shoes on, pard,
    and you won’t hurt your corns.
    To organize and teach, no doubt,
    Is very good – that’s true,
    But still we can’t succeed without
    The Good Old Wooden Shoe.

  2. When you are from the uppity class, you don’t have to follow the rules that are set forth for the peons. That’s just how it is and I am quite surprised you don’t understand that!

    Of course, as a ruling member of the Peon Class, I can tell you that we have ways of striking back…It IS a crosswalk afterall, and I typically walk with my car keys in my hand (in case I get mugged…its good protection). And sometimes in a crowded crosswalk, my keys er….they hit things in the crosswalk….

    The poor old Mercedes owner is then forced to pay a peon to repair the paint job, so it also serves as a jobs-creation program.

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