Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:17:53 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Group Claims Responsibility for Summit Weaponry / Un groupe assume 


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Wednesday, April 25th

Group Claims Responsibility for Summit Weaponry
Applauds Police Satire

Following yet another nabbing of Jaggi Singh (this time, at the Summit
of the Americas in Quebec City), and his court appearance today on
charges for possession of a weapon (a humongous catapult), the group
DIST issued the following statement:

Our group, the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST)
was responsible for the enormous catapult which helped lay siege to the
Summit, and launched stuffed animals (infected with the plague) from
inside the security zone.

Prominent perma-protester Jaggi Singh has been nabbed and charged with
possession of our catapult.

Jaggi is not a member of our group, and has never been a member of our
group.  Nor will we ever let him become a member of our group, as his
sense of humor does not meet the rigorous standards required by DIST. 
Jaggi was not involved in any way with any aspect of the project's
planning, nor with catapult construction and deployment. Nor does Jaggi
have the chutzpa necessary to smuggle a 25x10 foot catapult into the
most heavily fortified city in Canadian history.

Furthermore, we admonish him for managing to steal credit for our
catapult. While it may not be his fault that the police were stupid
enough to charge him for its possession, he should have known better
than to take a look at it during the protest.  It is no wonder fellow
activists call him Braggi Singh.

DIST would also like to applaud the brilliant satirical techniques
employed
 by security forces.  We thought we had reached the pinnacle of irony
with our teddy-bear launching siege equipment, yet the security forces
manage to upstage us with these absurd charges against Singh.  We are
humbled - this is even better theater than when they charged him with
assault for speaking too loud into a megaphone.

The kidnapping of Singh is also a brilliant strategic move, since with
each
 nabbing, the size of his ego doubles.  Soon, he will be so intolerable,
that none of his fellow activists will be able to stomach working with
him.

The catapult was deployed by members of the medieval bloc (they wore
pots 
on their heads, and shields made of pot lids).  Another group built the
catapult, and rabble.ca publisher Judy Rebick arranged the funding.  She
will
testify today at the hearing at the Palais de Justice, 9:30 a.m. in
Quebec
City.

For more info, visit the DIST webpage at http://tao.ca/~wrench/dist or
Email 
wrench-AT-tao.ca


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