Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare

fiction
edward w pritchard

When faced with a stronger entrenched enemy guerrilla warfare calls for brief encounters with an objective of destruction of property that must be repaired, wounds rather than deaths to enemy soldiers and anything causing damage to morale among one's enemies- Mao and others [paraphrased]

On the old road south out of Akron there has stood an old building used for planned parenting activities. They don't do the abortions there but they interview clients and then refer them to another location. The building is very old and rundown and has been that way a long time.

One Saturday morning about 30 supporters of the mission statement of that planned parenting organization where out in force cleaning the lot, painting the building and working cohesively to upgrade the image and appearance of the property.

Two days later about two AM someone had taken paint and done about four thousand dollars worth of damage to the building. As luck would have the non-profit running the business had a five thousand deductible so the damages were not covered by insurance. Over the next three months there were 3 more incidents of vandalism each valued at $300 or so of damage.

At length the new director of the planned parenthood realized why his predecessor had not fixed up the building or kept up it's appearance. The new director decided to leave the last two acts of vandalism un-corected. He left the graffiti on the building.

After that the anti-abortion advocates picked another target for their activities.

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