The Gates/Support Our Troops!

There is little time for explanation.

On Saturday, February 12, you are invited to temporarily vandalize The Gates, by Christo and Jeanne Claude. The Gates do not make sense. But Christo and Jeanne Claude have $20 million that says it doesn't matter, including a $3 million donation to the city (more here). Besides, The Gates will be wonderful.

Our country is now full of magnetic ribbons, both yellow and with a flag motif, exhorting us to "Support our Troops." These ribbons do not make sense. They could be a genuine attempt to cope with grief or an attack on the depravity of the left.

On Saturday, February 12, you are invited to confuse vandalism and patriotism, grief and celebration. Get as many of those magnetic suckers as you can and slap them onto the steel bases of The Gates. The following day, please help me clean up afterwards - collecting the ribbons and Leaving no Trace. And celebrate! I'll certainly organize something in Harlem, where this idea was born.

No one will know why they were put up. Some people will think they are an official gesture of solidarity. Others will see biting sarcasm. There will be suprise when they are promptly taken down.

Remember, it's not our job to make sense. But please, pay attention to what you are doing.