The Yes Men Fix the World Page #4

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MILLIONS OF OTHERS.

THESE GUYS:

SPREAD FRIEDMAN'S

FREE-MARKET GOSPEL

BY ANY MEANS:

THAT THEY CAN,

LIKE SPEAKING:

TO CONGRESS,

VIRAL VIDEOS:

AND GUEST SPOTS:

ON SUNDAY MORNING

TALK SHOWS.

THEY CLAIM TO HAVE DERAILED

THE KYOTO PROTOCOL

AND TO HAVE HELPED

DESTROY REGULATION

AROUND HOUSING,

BANKING, ENERGY

AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

THEY AGREED TO MEE PRETTY MUCH ANYONE

WITH A CAMERA...

- EVEN US.

YOU SEE THERE'S

A BLUE SCREEN:

BEHIND YOU.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE

TO BE PUT IN FRONT OF?

A PLANET EARTH.

OH COOL,

A BLUE SCREEN.

I'D SAY

THE JEFFERSON MONUMENT.

- HOW ABOU JEFFERSON MEMORIAL?

- IT'S ALREADY TAKEN.

- OH, IT IS TAKEN. SH*T.

- SOMEBODY ELSE...

I'M SURE YOU HAVE

A GOOD BACKDROP:

- OF WASHINGTON.

DON'T PUT ME

IN FRONT OF ANYTHING

IN WASHINGTON.

I HATE WASHINGTON.

PUT UP A SCENE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

OR SOMETHING.

I WOULD SAY:

A WORLD IN WHICH

MAN IS TREATED:

AS AN END IN HIMSELF

RATHER THAN A TOOL

TO BE MANIPULATED

BY THOSE:

WITH POLITICAL POWER.

HOW CAN:

WE REPRESENT THAT?

IS THERE:

A SINGLE IMAGE OR...

A SERIES:

OF IMAGES?

I THINK THA THE IMAGES ARE

OF MEN--

JUST THE PROSPERITY

OF FREE MEN:

FOLLOWING WHA THEIR HEARTS AND DESIRES

LEAD THEM TOO.

- I THINK

WE CAN FIND THAT.

- SOUNDS GOOD.

NOW THAT WE HAD:

OUR NEW FRIENDS AT EASE

IT WAS TIME TO ASK THEM

THE REALLY TOUGH QUESTIONS.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY

TO PEOPLE WHO HARP ON

THE BHOPAL CATASTROPHE

OR OTHER TRAGEDIES?

BHOPAL IS:

AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE.

THAT FACILITY HAD CREATED

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

FOR AN INDIAN EMERGING

TECHNOCRATIC CLASS.

IT HAD CREATED:

VALUE ADDED:

AND TAX BASE:

FOR THE COMMUNITY,

AND SOMETHING LIKE

3,000 PEOPLE DIED.

THAT'S A TRAGEDY,

BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS RISKS

OF GOING:

INTO THE FUTURE.

"THERE ARE ALWAYS RISKS

OF GOING INTO THE FUTURE"?

FOR THOUSANDS:

OF PEOPLE IN BHOPAL,

THERE WAS NO FUTURE.

AT LEAS THE JONESTOWN SUICIDE CUL KILLED ONLY THEMSELVES.

THE FREE MARKETEERS

SEEMED WILLING:

TO PU EVERYONE ELSE AT RISK.

- BACK AT HOME...

- You have new mail.

...WE HAD MAIL.

IT TURNED OU OUR DOW SITE WAS THE GIF THAT KEPT ON GIVING.

THIS TIME IT WASN' A MERE CONFERENCE--

WE'D HIT THE JACKPOT.

THE B.B.C.,

PERHAPS THE WORLD'S

MOST-RESPECTED

NEWS ORGANIZATION,

WAS DOING:

A BIG BROADCAS ABOUT BHOPAL

AND THEY WANTED:

TO KNOW:

WHETHER DOW MIGH FINALLY CLEAN UP

THEIR MESS.

THE INTERVIEW, THEY SAID,

WOULD BE BROADCAS TO 300 MILLION PEOPLE.

THIS WAS WHA WE'D BEEN WAITING FOR.

TO THE B.B.C.'S

GREAT SURPRISE,

DOW EMAILED BACK TO SAY

THEY WOULD BE DELIGHTED

TO SPEAK PUBLICLY

ABOUT THE CATASTROPHE.

AS FOR US,

300 MILLION PEOPLE

WAS ABOU A MILLION TIMES BIGGER

THAN ANY OTHER AUDIENCE

WE'D EVER HAD.

WE WERE SCARED.

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