9/12/2006

Barricade Down

The protesters broke threw the barricades that I mentioned in yesterday's blog. Then they rushed out into traffic, stopped cars and yelled people for not thinking exactly the same thoughts.
My friend Jeff told me yesterday that he was almost hit by an old vet after he refused to take and wear a "Down with the President" t-shirt. Talk about being sentimental (martial law ended 19 years ago).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am surprised you got away with wearing a white cowboy shirt to take the photos on Monday night.

Anonymous said...

I think that if anyone gave me a thought, it would be along these lines: "I can't believe the foreigner has heard of Shih Ming-teh!" My not wearing a red shirt is a very minor detail after that.

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