Perot and Carville

Phil and I took our afternoon break down at street level to see what it was that those people we could see out the window were actually doing. It turned out they were doing guerrilla street theater.

These people came up the street from a marshalling area in front of a local TV news truck. I doubt that this event would have occurred without the willing participation of a camera crew. It looks like the intention is Keystone Kops arrest Bush and Cheney for crimes against America. The cops had the big heads chained with big plastic chains and they attempted to deliver them to Checkpoint Charlie were they were to be taken into custody.Two problems. The big heads looked way more like Ross Perot and James Carville then like Bush and Cheney.

And the real police didn't display much interest in participating in street theater. This is the deployment at Checkpoint Charlie for the theater event. These police were not present before the actors showed up. They stood down shortly after the actors left. This is the police reaction to today's street theater performance.For authenticity verification, here is a picture with both groups visible, separated only by a city street and a vast chasm in world view.It was feeling very East Germany today.