People at universities have formed groups and done a few weird things, like confronting David Horowitz, the right wing provocateur. Students all over the country tend to confront him and interrupt his talks, which gives him the edge, because he can claim the banner of free speech and so forth. So some people associated with the Revolution Party at Miami University, instead of doing that, celebrated his right to free speech, and carried on in a way that would subvert his message by seeming to support it. It kind of blew his circuits.
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I'm sure there's plenty of fun to be had for people who want to pretend to be Bush supporters. If you want to show up at places where Bush is speaking, and carry signs that don't quite give you away, so that they let you into the area where other people are carrying signs, signs that seem pro-Bush but subvert the message - something that will create an element of doubt in people who happen to see your sign broadcast on TV, that kind of thing. So, I think infiltration is probably the best technique for having some fun with this election. Actually, there is going to be a yippie presence at the Republican Convention in New York in August.
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