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But first I have to blog about them for my paycheck. Yeah, I have ideals and shit, but there's no fucking way I'm getting a job in a cubicle like the losers who generate ad impressions from my Slog posts about how media attention for vandals just encourages them.
Not that I'm keeping score...but how many of these violent criminals were African American?
No one gets to terrorize a person's family and dismiss it as "taking a stand". I can't believe you're implicitly defending such an act. Are you high?
Or maybe you're talking about the damage during the protests? Well, equally cowardly, hiding in a group of peaceful protesters, co-opting their cause for your own infantile "smash the state" message. As was stated in Kiley's post earlier repeatedly - the people working in these shops don't know that you're just breaking a window like a douchebag and moving on. For all they know, you're running inside next and beating them with a sharpened stick. Or chain. Or a 4" knife.
Meanwhile, non-Seattle Black Bloc Anarchists for the epic fail.
Even with the now guaranteed approval for unconstitutional Spy Drones over Seattle by the City Council, Seattle still loves our Mayor.
@11 as she says: "...and then get back to the business of ignoring them."
So Cienna wants us all to be polite to the thugs that are hurting us and our families, the thugs polluting our planet, shitting on our communities, impoverishing us and leading us into a kind of corporate/fascist state. We say, 'hey stop that!' but they keep doing it and they've bought off our government. So what do we do? Good thing Cienna is here to say it is ok to be a passive victim because we all know that thugs really do have our best interests at heart. Too bad she wasn't around to give such sage advice to the Boston Tea Partiers, or to Abraham Lincoln, or to FDR. Because the world would be so much better if our ancestors had only been passive victims back when we were dealing with corrupt monarchies, or slavery, or German fascists. Because you know, a rock doesn't say anything. Or whatever.
Exactly. And anyone familiar with rioting history has heard of mob mentality. A group of angry young men start vandalizing institutions they want to target and soon the violence turns to personal property (sound familiar, apologists?) and then quickly – frighteningly quickly – turns to physical attacks of an authority figure, then onto anyone nearby who might represent an authority figure, and then the violence breeds more violence and becomes random.
you are not a very smart person or a good reader.
You seem to be a jackass. Can you understand that or do you need it explained?
Or maybe just a troll.
For those claiming defense-- against what, exactly? those evil baristas at Starbucks? the "1%" salespeople at Niketown? Gimme a break
For all you know, the attack on the mayor's house is completely unrelated. Why don't you go write your freshman sociology paper somewhere else?
Window breaking has been described as harmless to regular folk; it’s just about the corporations. But there are real, live, minimum-wage-earning PEOPLE behind that glass who are being terrorized by these glass-breaking thugs. They do not know, they cannot know, that the thugs will stop with glass-breaking.
We can look at riots throughout history. We can follow past progression. Riots typically start with one person throwing a stone through a window and end… well, let’s look at LA.
No, idiot, this was not a riot, but the people behind the glass had no fucking way of knowing that as they were being terrorized.
So, hold on.
John T. Williams turns around with a folded whittling blade in his hand, and gets shot point blank without ever having committed a single crime.
Yet, hundreds of weapons were carried in by black clad terrorists who took over the streets of Seattle and caused massive destruction, yet not one bullet was fired.
Duhhhhh.
Then I read this piece...
I'm going to assume here that your understanding of microeconomics is minimal, so I apologize if this seems insulting, but:
Tens of thousands of dollars in damage, spread across even just a half a dozen businesses able to pay downtown rents, doesn't merit anything more than "a slightly slow Tuesday, bad weather" in the office log.
I'm entirely open to Actions that heavily impact megacorporate business, but this didn't even come close. The Seattle Action would have had at least five times the economic impact if it had simply started at 6am, and disrupted the flow of labor to the corporate overlords, instead of starting at 5pm, when the official daily 9-5 corporate servitude had already been extracted from the laborer.
Then why the fuck assume it was by "anarchists" in the first place?