Me in the desert? Not until they dig a series of tunnels and an underground city. Or I attend only at night. My vampiric pale (but I am told, still scrubbable) ass would be screaming "It burns! It burns!" and not in a good way.

yeah, weather underground had some interesting stuff going on. i definitely recall finding them pretty inspirational when i was younger (in my twenties) and more apt to subscribe to a more reactionary political position. now, in my late-thirties / nearing forty perspective, i see how things like a slogan of "bring the war home" can't really do much to advance the cause of peace.

i still have huge admiration for the psychology behind their motives ie these were a bunch of very well educated predominantly white and / or jewish theorist types who saw how only the poor and black and disenfranchised populations were being really fucked with and, in the wake of freddie hampton's assassination by the chicago police and fbi, they felt the only honorable position to take was to not only stand in solidarity with them, but to also actively target (in a militaristic sense of the term) the financial and political institutions that were responsible for the agendas that put the nation at war (for the profit of the few) and kept institutionalized racism at the seething infected heart of it all...

sheesh... sucky thing is, no matter how much i can find faults with some of the weather underground methodology, i can't actually see how any other methodologies have done much to curb the wealthy and powerful minority from continuing to advance militarism to exploit the public sector (tax payers) to fatten the wallets of the private sector (military contractors)... if anything, that trend has gotten much, much, much, much worse under cheney and his whole cadre of "privatize everything and let the public foot the bill" disaster capitalists...