Protesters!

Coming out of Evil Pharma today, I encountered PROTESTERS!. They were holding a banner and chanting something about doing business with some three letter acronym. “TLA?” I don’t remember the exact company. My colleague tells me that the three letter acronym company is actually into some pretty bad stuff in terms of animal testing and drug ethics. Strangely, we weren’t anywhere near said company. Evil Pharma, at least the part that I was working at today, has nothing to do with it, so far as I can tell. Apparently, some part of Evil Pharma collaborates with TLA,

Oh well.

The protesters handed me a leaflet detailing the Bad Things that happen to people who work with TLA. It was an informational statement that protesters had sometimes in the past turned violent, and had done things like report to the neighbors of employees that said employees were known pedophiles. I’m sure that these particular protesters would have been shocked. Shocked, I tell you, at the suggestion that they would do such things … but they wanted us to be aware that there are bad people in the world who do stuff like this to people who work with TLA.

Whatev’. I didn’t make weapons, I made targeting systems. I’ve been through those arguments before, and I don’t do business with the truly evil. My time is not for sale to slave traders or tobacco peddlers. Another day, I might have stopped to talk with them, find out what drives them, maybe educate myself. Not today though. Today I just walked by and pitched their threats in the trash.

I did pause to think, before stepping out the door, which of the kung fu techniques might be best suited to a protestor throwing crap on me. I figured, given that there were a lot of them, that the ninja-like “run like hell, you coward” move would suit the best.