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Domestic landmarks dot this battlefield: a cop pulls a protester from the treehouse he had climbed into; a trooper stands guard duty in front of an above-the-ground swimming pool; two men sit in lawn chairs sipping Michelob until the tear gas gets too thick and they retreat to their glassed-in-porch. After the first rush, there seems little hope of gaining the site, but scattered charges at the fence continue. As fast as the grappling hooks are attached, troopers with bolt cutters cut them off the fence, often sending those on the other end reeling backwards, losers...
...doors burst open, and Hitler's steel face blew apart in alarm. Two cops forced him against the wall, frisked him. The state attorney seized his copy of Hustler as evidence, impounded his books. They wouldn't let anyone else inside. The DA offered me immunity if I cooperated with them. After all, I was the press. They handcuffed Hitler, and the cop was reading him his rights: "You have the right to remain silent...
...They never invented the jail that could hold me." Hitler sneered at the prison guard, as the slammer door swung open. They were going to prosecute the technicians to the fullest extent of the law, they had posted high bail, the cop said. But he bowed his head humbly as Hitler brushed him away. They had released Hitler on $5 bail...
...will never understand me," he said resentfully to the state cop, "and you can never kill me, without killing a part of yourself...and you are too weak...far too weak for that! I am immortal as long as your world exists...
Fatalism comes naturally after failure; perhaps there is a real chance next week for a joyful, peaceful, effective fence-cutting operation. But the image of the fence, the cop on one side and the demonstrator on the other, both scared, both angry, fighting each other, returns. Those who opt for stricter nonviolence--those who climb the fence, without helmets and gas masks, those who lie in the road and wait to be dragged away--may pay a higher price. The protesters who trek to Seabrook next week must decide if victory is worth the cost...