Flutterby™! : onward "Christian" soldiers

Last Thursday a self-proclaimed "Christian" group disrupted a Mike Daisey monologue. You may remember Mike Daisey from 21 Dog Years, about slacking in the early days of Amazon.com. Anyway, I read the initial comments on the incident, skimmed it, caught things like:

After the show I told the audience something, and it's been rolling around in my mind. It's common to think things will never happen where you are--never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle--that sort of thing, whatever it is, never happens here, not in our community. Then it happens, right in front of you, and you realize you were blind to it, that you forgot that intolerance and zealotry and viciousness are human currency everywhere, and it takes your breath away. You want to curl up and pretend it never happened, because they were fools, idiots--you make excuses and move on. Do the next show. Breathe. Forget.

A paragraph that I think is particularly apt because the monologue he was presenting was about living in New York for the year before the September 11^th 2001 attacks. But I didn't think it was worth pointing people to.

However, the follow up, in which Mike Daisey talks about the aftermath, and talking with the attacker who destroyed his notes is well worth a read.