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Leopolds Ghost

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5. I disagree. This is red-baiting hysteria -- the idea of using bamboo poles (<sp) to corral
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:04 AM
Feb 2012

Last edited Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:11 AM - Edit history (3)

fellow demonstrators because of their beliefs or turn them over to the police for what they are wearing frightens and disturbs me.

Time's Person of the Year wore a bandanna.

I don't think people understand the roots of Occupy. It's not about property destruction, it's also not about this red-baiting, anti-leftist hysteria.

People don't seem to understand how to tolerate and overcome differences among violent opponents any more. They didn't do it in the civil rights movement by collaborating with the police.

And most asinine of all are the protestors (on edit -- not referring to you, I apologize -- referring to several weeks back) who call on people to physically unmask people, instigating violence against supposed BBs whom they KNOW (and say in their messages) are undercover cops.

The idea of yelling "bb" at people for wearing anon masks is next, I suppose.

occupy is protest mdmc Feb 2012 #1
It depends on whether violence (including property destruction) is being forced 99th_Monkey Feb 2012 #2
I agree they should isolate BB and hand them over to the Police. In Toronto people were applegrove Feb 2012 #3
I disagree. This is red-baiting hysteria -- the idea of using bamboo poles (<sp) to corral Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #5
Please 99th_Monkey Feb 2012 #6
I apologize if I over-reacted, it's just that we don't experience all this stuff at my local Occupy. Leopolds Ghost Feb 2012 #7
We agree on pretty much everything. 99th_Monkey Feb 2012 #9
I don't think the NYPD would aprove of protestors UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2012 #10
I don't think it matters the structure zeemike Feb 2012 #4
The structure may not matter to you. 99th_Monkey Feb 2012 #8
And they need to be vigilant zeemike Feb 2012 #11
Agreed! Vigilance + to KNOW one another for REAL. patrice Feb 2012 #17
What should Occupy members do? I believe that they should distance themselves physically Vincardog Feb 2012 #14
That was the jist of what i said last weekend in OccupyKochTown ... patrice Feb 2012 #15
I would argue that violence itself is implicitly hierarchical starroute Feb 2012 #12
I agree strongly with what you are saying here. I also have a footnote derived from some observation patrice Feb 2012 #16
I participated in a GA for OccupyKochTown in which this question was a high priority when the patrice Feb 2012 #13
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