here's a way to think about the incredible political doctrine of sartwellianism. say you get a bunch of protestors in pittsburgh for the g-20. and say they're radical squatters, internet pirates, anti-globalization people, vegans, anarchists, earthfirsters, etc. now: some of these folks have a lot in common with some of the folks who have been going to tea parties. both you and the tea partiers are looking for a place outside the structures of power, where you can live as you think is right. what y'all have in common is the right approach. join hands, my children.

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I think you got the wrong end of this.

The G20 protesters, like all our alleged radicals, aren't trying to evade power. They're its spoiled heirs, howling for its attention, calling their spots on the guest list for the same conference forty years from now.

Where are all the world's '68ers now? Where they always wanted to be, inside the "massive security cordon," safe from the kind of people the tea partiers are.

Their "approach" can achieve only that. The tea partiers, aping it, will get nothing. They're not in the family.