Power

Yesterday was sunny.
It was the 1st of May and in Germany they celebrate Labor Day. It is somehow a celebration of worker's rights and slightly communist and even anti-capitalist. I was told it's mostly just punks and neo-nazis smashing stuff and burning cars. It's not even that though; It's just 12 or so streets blocked off and maybe 6 or 7 stages with music, cheap beer and street food everywhere. It's hard to be anti-capitalist when your selling "May Day" tee shirts and mohitos for 4 Euro.
I wandered around for a while and then Joe and Randi found me and then we sat on a curb for a while. There was a really old guy holding a box that read "Frage Mich Nach JESUS" which means "Ask Me About JESUS"... maybe not the best place to discuss theology but he still looked pretty interesting and I took some pictures of him.
We eventually ended up watching a band on a stage that were really good. We stood about 20 feet away and there was a constant river of people walking from left to right past us between us and the stage. Every once in a while about 20 riot police would flood the river and it would pour out everywhere. It was non-stop. Seriously. People walking no place in particular for the entire 1 hour or so that we were there.
We left around 12:30 and I didn't see a burning car but there were a lot of police and a lot of smashed bottles.