I'm sitting out in my parents' driveway, with a large group of people involved in some sort of protest. Everybody is just sitting, in several horizontal bands across the yard, with aisles between the groups.

A paramilitary-dressed man comes up, in front of me an in between the groups, with a large rope, coiled, which he throws down on the ground and begins to uncoil. We ask him what he's doing, and he says he's going to put the rope around us all to tie us up.

If we're going to be tied up, I think, I should get a two-way radio, so I get up to go into the house and get one. On the patio, I run into another guy who tries to block me from going in the house. I start punching him, but I can't seem to put full force into my blows. It's something psychological and frustrating - why do I always pull my punches?