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solarbird ([personal profile] solarbird) wrote2011-10-16 12:02 pm
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Burning Draft Cards, February 24, 1966


Burning Credit Cards, October 15, 2011
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[identity profile] banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com 2011-10-16 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I read somewhere that the first guy to try this had to give it about five tries before he could get the credit card to melt, or burn, or whatever it did. I'm not at all sure burning them is a good idea, but if someone could work up a solar- or bicycle-powered crosscut shredder with sufficient oomph...
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[personal profile] solarbird 2011-10-16 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure. But the imagery parallel could be useful in getting their parents interested. I was just struck by that parallelism.

[identity profile] 403.livejournal.com 2011-10-16 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly, they need a very small amount of thermite.
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[personal profile] solarbird 2011-10-16 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow yeah no.

My nightmare scenario is that OWS gets declared a terrorist organisation by the Executive Branch. Follow that chain of powers if you want to get really ill.

[identity profile] 403.livejournal.com 2011-10-16 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a joke - thermite is the default solution to anything that you *really* want to burn, which won't go up on its own. I'm not advocating toasty rust-aluminum fires for OWS, any more than I think it'd be a good idea for Occupy Boston to have an MIT-style sodium drop night in the harbor.
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