Why not get rid of the counters entirely?
As GetUp! countered entirely reasonably this week in response to Ryan's signal, what is an activist group for the purpose of this discussion?
Much of it is exhibited at a counter not entirely unlike Artisanal's, but since that's old hat for him, it's not the striking part.
He's planning to be the first mayor in the United States to decorate the facade of City Hall with a large, digital "cost of war" counter, funded entirely by private contributions.
Sometimes, when we ran out of counter space entirely, this meant, for them, standing in the corner of the kitchen, in the hallway off the kitchen, or out in the dining room holding a tray of biscuits awaiting its turn for the oven or a bowl of bread crumbs that would become the stuffing as soon as I found room somewhere to sit a bowl big enough for combining the ingredients.
To me, this seemed entirely counter to the entire concept of reading a book, if not patronizing to the romance crowd: basically, blasphemy.
It can only produce an over-the-top, inappropriate response from which counter protestors cannot entirely escape culpability.
Imposing a code on people – effectively asking them to wear a uniform – runs entirely counter to that.
And all the while policies from the Abbott years remain on the books – including things like deep cuts to higher education that run entirely counter to the new economic thinking.
It was a momentous revelation, running entirely counter to law enforcement cultural attitudes that reached back to the days of Eliot Ness's war against bootleggers in the 1920s and that would become the basis for Washington's twenty-first-century counterinsurgency wars.
