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Ben tells the story: So I woke up to smoke at 3 this morning, leaped out of my loft yelling "fire!" and woke up my roommate Nik... we rushed outside and saw the back corner of the house covered in flames, I ran back inside and grabbed some shorts (I sleep naked) and Nik got his cell phone and called 911, the fire department showed up pretty fast and put out the fire... but there's hella smoke and water damage everywhere, and a giant hole in the wall and ceiling.Then the HPD arson investigators arrived, and straight off one of them started to question me about my politics... "Looks like you guys are pretty anti-american, what's the deal with that?" "Don't you know capitalism makes everything run?" I was so dazed from the smoke and the shock that I actually strated to argue politics with him, but then said "What the fuck, am I under investigation for my political beliefs or are you investigating a fire?" His boss took over and was more polite but their main interest still seemed to be devoted to the radical politics on display in the infoshop... what do you protest against, do you have guns, are you against the federal government, blah blah blah...They said it was almost definitely an intentional fire, because it was started form the outside... then they told us that "if you get too extreme like this, this is what happens" and "if you do this again somewhere else, this kind of stuff is just gonna follow you..."As far as Sedition goes, we think we can salvage most of the lending library, but our retail books were all destroyed. The space is fucked. Nik's drum set is pretty badly water damaged and is probably a total loss, I don't know if any of our amplifiers are gonna work, my record collection got soaked...One of the firefighters told me I'm lucky to be alive though, because up in a loft like where I sleep, people usually get knocked out by carbon monoxide before they smell anything. And Niks cat is ok too, so nothing irreplacable is gone, just a lot of hard work that we put into the place.I'll probably write something more coherent in a little while to post on indymedia and elsewhere, and we'll probably be setting up a paypal for Sedition so people can help us start up again soon...singed but undefeated, ben Sedition Collective
"Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"