Dennis Davis97 said:did I even say they didn't endure repression??
all I said was you guys could've been way more creative with the actions, rallying the rest of the soccer fans and all that jazz
Look, someone really needs to draw you a map, or maybe you're just pretending that after all these years of fighting, since the day the Zoning Board was formed, through all the misery and hell in the stands and everything else that came with it, you haven't noticed (seriously?):
- at least one massive protest every single year, whether it's four of us under the bleachers, outside government buildings, camping out, or organizing stuff all over the city?
- dozens of legal battles and lawsuits, hundreds of hours of brainpower wasted, sitting around in offices, meetings with both the living and dead management, appeals, filings, the whole nine yards?
- at least four or five public forums with actual respectable guests where we practically had to dig into our own pockets just to rent a hall, plus fan group press conferences, endless interviews with the leaders, TV spots, official statements, calls, printing stuff, making posters on our own dime, rallies, recording freaking songs and music videos on a volunteer basis, basically doing everything short of selling our souls?
- all those charity drives, concerts, and even big soccer matches featuring Boban and other legends?
- countless mass membership drives to join the club as it is for the sake of higher goals, pushing for democratization and all that crap, booths, the website, Facebook, PPTs, PDFs, emails, member databases, connecting with other clubs and supporter groups across the country and abroad, and all those endless volunteer hours?
- things like the legendary four's public forums, Facebook, volunteers, and small-sided soccer tournaments? You think all that just falls from the sky?
- the indoor soccer scene—yeah, the indoor soccer and all its success—you think that just happens by magic without thousands of volunteer hours and constant hype?
- all this, while people were being thrown in jail, detained, beaten, and shot in impossible conditions when your own club, your own city, the media, the "club loyalists," and the general public are all against you.
Did we have to play hide-and-seek for it to actually work and for those high-and-mighty writers to finally admit that something was actually happening?? And there are just as many of those writers riding on other people's hard work in Washington, D.C. as there are in Miami, which makes the whole thing even more pathetic.
Apparently, yeah, we should have played hide-and-seek instead of "meh, the Zoning Board song."
Sure, we weren't out there begging on our knees in front of potential supporters, but maybe we should have been.
If you can't even wrap your head around the opponents you've conjured up in your mind, at least try to be fair.
Man, what a joke. Here I am, writing the same thing for the hundredth time, just shouting into the void...
