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Vincardog

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14. What should Occupy members do? I believe that they should distance themselves physically

Reply to zeemike (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:44 PM

Feb 2012

from anyone they see as violent. Let the (BB)=Bad actors go about their mischief and stand away from them pointing in their direction when the "MAN" comes asking "Who did that?"

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With the horizontal structure of Occupy, will it mean less or more chances of a bad actor [View all] applegrove Feb 2012 OP

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