Protesting and helping a squirrelly friend.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:50 PM by Dieter
The GAP or Genocide Awarness Project graced us with their presence yesterday and today, showing off there giant pictures of aborted fetuses and pictures of mass genocides. Their idea of equating genocides like Rwanda and the Holocaust with abortion was horrible and many of the Western students and staff voiced their opinions. Adam and I gladly joined in protest with our fellow students including Black Jesus who provided a great distraction, carrying his cross around while making several seudo-biblical decrees. There were also many women showing their support. Kelsey, a good friend of Adam and mine passed out condoms encouraging protection as a way of lowering abortions.
The second day of protests lead to an attack against the oppositions’ graphic pictures consisting of paint and eggs. This was quickly followed by vigorous power washing of the area to prevent the paint from drying. Although I do not agree with this tactic of protest I would say that it was quite amusing.
In addition to this messy fiasco a funny thing happened to me today. I had just got off of work at five, and so I figured I’d go check if the GAP people were still in red square and I found there to be no one present at all. I proceeded to go on through red square when I spotted three people, easily recognized as Japanese exchange students leaning over the side of the fountain edge. I realized that one of them actually held the very sign that I had made for protesting which I had left to dry after it had fallen into the fountain. He proceeded use my sign to fish for something at the fountain edge as I looked on in disgust for I believed him to be quite ignorant when suddenly to my surprise pulled a soaking wet squirrel out of the water who had trapped herself (I later verified this) in the fountain. After the squirrel just lay there twitching and looking half conscious i decided to wrap her up in my jacket and hide her in some bushes nearby. I kept her in my lap for about a half hour rubbing her to warm up her body. She managed to get me and my jacket pretty wet and all the while was twitching like crazy from the cold but eventually stopped and got warmed up. Finally I let her go back in a semi-forested area where she kinda just crawled off my jacket, walked about a foot and curled back up. I went to dinner and came back to find that she was doing fine.
-Update-I’m sorry guys, I actually checked the area where I had left the squirrel and found that it didn’t survive the night.
2 days, 2 hours later
Those GAP people were obnoxious… not to mention full of misinformation…
I find it fascinating that we live in a country where bare breasts shown on television can land a network huge fines and FCC sanctions, but enormous photos of bloody fetuses juxtaposed with dead Jews in concentration camps is accepted as “free speech”… when, exactly, did the human body become more offensive than violence, gore, and obviously inappropriate analogies? Jeeez.