Some Iraqi War vets staged mock raids in Chicago based on patrols they performed in Iraq. It’s in interesting guerrilla theater tactic to get people to switch mental gears. Frankly, it scared the crap out of me.
PS As I was thinking about the action depicted in the video, it occurred to me that post-9-11 doing guerrilla theater is so much more dangerous. Essentially the security industry is outsourcing to uneducated people to detect out-of-the-ordinary events that defy patterns of “normal” behavior. Additionally, there is a rattled and scared citizenry who are so nervous that even a chap reciting the lyrics of a Clash song becomes a threat. People are grasping so tightly to the shreds of reality that bind them to the old world that disturbances and disruptions can send them over the edge. For this reason I think the video scared me. I was worried about the “performers” being misconstrued and misinterpreted because at this point terrorism has been reduced to spectacle and theater, and under those conditions, the security apparatus can decide that performance of any kind is now suspicious activity, in the same way that England is starting to criminalize photography. Is it possible that in the near future, if the current trajectory continues, that any art outside the establish commodities market will be construed as subversive?
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