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an arrest. This is slog.
Jackass.
Still a poor survival strategy, just judging by results.
pffffffft
"Every true social movement", except for East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bolivia, Argentina, Thailand, Hungary, Bulgaria, Burma, etc. and every other democratizing movement of the last 30 years that has succeeded, not to mention the Women's Rights, Civil Rights, the Prohibition movement (and the movement to repeal it), and the Gay Rights movement in this country. I guess those don't count or something?
You don't upset entrenched power sources by attacking their strengths. You attack their weaknesses and their legitimacy. It's pretty simple.
From Dictatorship to Democracy is available free online; read it. It's led to more successful democratic revolutions than I bet you have IQ points.
I know, it doesnt really make a difference in the big picture, but if a few people did that....hmm.
can the hobo's, i mean, anachists go back to Eugene PUH-LEASE?
@107: Ooo, yay, a conspiracy theorist. How often does *that* ideology pan out for you?
@108: Methinks you're wrong. Gandhi and King taught you nothing, I see. More violence does not beget peace. This vandalism is wrong for the same reason the War on Iraq was wrong. Just casualties... most of whom had nothing to do with anything.
To the protesters (the legit ones who aren't into violence): please separate yourselves from these people. You are being associated with them and whatever point you wanted to make is being muddled by those who would believe that breaking things can solve problems. They're doing it in the name of "stirring up a national discourse" which would be funny if they didn't seriously believe it's true. You don't want to be a part of that kind of sick joke.
To the deluded who think this violence will somehow *not* alienate you from the vast majority of society and instead bring people together to support your cause:
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From http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/more-k…
"attack Niketown" video.
Time 0:37, smashing the Nike Store... wearing Nikes.
From http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/more-k…
"attack Niketown" video.
1. Who planned and executed 9/11?
2. Do vaccines cause autism?
3. Do you believe in chemtrails?
C'mon guys, it's not like this is something new.
Clusterfuck. God bless the SPD, and best of luck to you all. The best possible outcome of this is that Phoenix Jones accidentally sets himself on fire and dies in it.
...in one or two incidents that lasted a scant few minutes and involved MAYBE a dozen people doing damage to windows!
Oh yah, and then PEACE CARRIED THE REST OF THE DAY for the literally THOUSANDS of other people participating.
But you know, we'll go ahead and run the "VIOLENCE ERUPTS!!!!" headline.
Cuz that's just the kind of honorable, objective, not-at-all-sensationalistic journalism you've come to expect from SLAG!!
Don't get tense and brusque, dear. I am both nonplussed, and sincerely interested in your opinion. Also, remember that I am an invalid. At least for the next eleven hours.
Also why can't police come up with tatics to stop this kind of stuff? Same thing happened in toronto and vancouver last year. How hard is it to arrest the people that are smashing shit? I mean I'm glad the police are out there and 90% of the time I'm on their side but you think they could come up with some tatic to stop jackass thugs from smashing shit. I was at westlake park this morning waiting for the bus and about 10 people there looked sketchy with black hoodies hidden behind their jackets and scarfs around their neck. There was about three police officers standing near by and I didn't see one go up and be like so whats going on with that scarf. You think they'd be on the look out for people dressed in black bloc outfits...
It might be a little unreasonable to expect anyone under 45 years old to remember the elections of '68 and '72.
The whole point of the "tactic that is called black bloc" is to evade the cops. Hence, it shouldn't be entirely surprising that the police have trouble arresting Smashists who use this tactic; who mingle into large crowds, slip on concealing hoods and scarves for their Smashist actions, and then melt back into the crowd.
The police can't arrest someone for wearing a scarf or a hoodie; they have to catch the Smashist in the act to make an arrest.
Yes. Also, Muslims.
"Profiling"? What's that?
I was going to check out what American Apparel is all about, but I stopped with the slide presentation for "Lola"
http://www.americanapparel.net/
I did see a mention on the site they were "Sweatshop Free".
Seems like a low cost clothing store for hot females.
Why them?
Because they've got "American" in the name? Because the CEO is a notorious sexist shit? Because they're somehow emblematic of hipsterism? Who knows?
Smashists aren't terribly picky, once they get going.
He is not an anarchist, not a member of a group, but more probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am his godmother.
PLEASE email me @ lharris@campicheblue.com and give a description and contact information for follow-up. Did you see or photograph with a smart phone? Please send photos. Did you get/see a badge number? What did you see? What did you hear? Who were you there with?
Trying to figure out the facts here.
Thank you in advance.
lharris@campicheblue.com
OK, fair enough, but could you please explain to us sheeples how real work is being done on those real issues when someone breaks a bit of insured plate glass?
The people who get prosecuted are almost always truly peaceful protesters who are busted under the most ridiculous circumstances, such a being corralled into an enclosed space, peppers sprayed, and then arrested for resisting arrest
OK, I think I get it now. Breaking insured plate-glass windows is like being the Jimi Hendrix of destroying capitalism?
Did you know that "grandiosity" isn't in the dictionary?
Damn, Zimmerman should use today's shenanigans in his defense. "Well look at those black bloc guys with their hoodies and nikes and whatnot, what was I supposed to do?"
Source: I was there.
Geez, I hope you're at least cute enough to fuck.
Here is the point that you have dismally failed to comprehend thus far:
A person's appearance nor choice of dress does not provide evidence that they have committed or are about to commit a crime.
When police suspect persons of criminal activity based on appearance or choice of dress they infringe on those persons' civil liberties. Such profiling based on one's appearance poses the danger that citizens may incur police scrutiny and targeting based on subjective interpretations of dress, skin tone, phenotype, etc.
This can have dire consequences. Perhaps you have heard of a young man named Trayvon Martin?
Further, I never suggested nor implied that "a Muslim scarf looks like a black bloc scarf" (which is of course a moronic interpretation of what I said).
But your very suggestion of this reveals the many flaws in your feeble logic:
What is a "black bloc scarf"? What is a "Muslim scarf"? What does "sketchy" look like? Who gets to decide which scarfs are "black bloc scarfs", which are "Muslim scarfs", and which are "normal scarfs" (or even, I dunno, "hipster scarfs")? You? Officer Joe Schmoe?
Starting to get the picture here?
Good. Please do try to put a little more thought into your posts in the future, m'kay?
Which leads one to ask - were they encouraged to act or not?