{"id":64239,"date":"2017-08-24T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64239"},"modified":"2017-08-23T23:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:50:54","slug":"64239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64239","title":{"rendered":"Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been…"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is looking through the stacks at Midway Used Books. \u00a0G. Wellington BENBRIDGE-GELLER – better known to his social circle and fellow ‘Anti-Fascist Action Macalester” colleagues as “Wookie” – comes around the corner. \u00a0BENBRIDGE-GELLER, age 25, a graduate of Carlton College (BA Anthropology and Women’s Studies), is dressed in black from head to toe, including a black hoodie splotched with home-painted slogans, over a “Che Guevara” t-shirt – the only color in his\u00a0mien. \u00a0He carries a gas mask and a bottle of bear spray in an NPR tote bag. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: \u00a0Hey, Merg!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Uh, hey, “Wookie”. \u00a0What’s up?<\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: \u00a0Fascist symbols are, themselves, a threat of violence to their targets, and thus justify violence in response.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Meaning what?<\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: It’s time to Punch a Nazi.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0And you can tell Nazis by…<\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: \u00a0Swastikas. \u00a0Brown shirts. \u00a0Make America Great Again caps. \u00a0GOP elephants.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0So, pretty much anyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi, so you feel you have leave to punch pretty much anyone.<\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: \u00a0Yep.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0That means if anyone sees\u00a0you,\u00a0<\/em>as you are an immediate threat to them, they<\/em> can respond violently to you, then, as you are an immediate threat to them?<\/p>\n

BENBRIDGE-GELLER: \u00a0Nope. \u00a0(Stops for a moment<\/em>). \u00a0Hey – aren’t you a conservative talk show host?<\/p>\n

(BENBRIDGE-GELLER winds up to kick BERG, but BERG reacts first, emptying a container of CS spray into his BENBRIDGE-GELLER’s face. \u00a0The younger guy falls to the floor, screaming, as BERG squirts the last remnants of the bottle at BENBRIDGE-GELLER’s head. \u00a0He tosses the empty bottle container, hitting the younger man in the face, and then grabs the reading stool and brings it down on BENBRIDGE-GELLER’s solar plexus before turning to walk out of the store. \u00a0A couple of patrons look at him, shocked<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0What? \u00a0You’re expecting a mildly sarcastic comic send-off to the bit?<\/p>\n

(Bystanders go back to shopping as BERG pays for a couple copies of\u00a0<\/em>King and Country, and leaves store).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And SCENE.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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