RE: "peace police"

[Issam Mansour <imans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

And we all know that there only needs to be a few agent provocateurs in order to
egg-on these young anarchists.  It struck me as strange when the main media 
reported
that the Seattle police was not prepared on Tuesday night for the demo even 
though
they have been in training for weeks for this.  A more likely explanation is 
that they
let some of their agents infiltrate and the encite that part of the demo that 
is more
prone to fall for that than other parts and give the necessary excuse for the 
cops to
do their job the following days and to discredit the demo as the actions of a 
bunch of
hooligans.

I think that all demos should have a strategy ready to deal with such 
situations so
that the actions of a few do not discredit the actions of the many.

Issam

-----Original Message-----
From:   Michael Pugliese [SMTP:debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Thursday, December 02, 1999 11:14 AM
To:     marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        "peace police"

 << File: ATT00015.html >>     A short comment- wouldn't underestimate the
presence of numbers of agent provocateurs, but, as anyone on the list would 
now, every
young radical esp. those in the anarcho/punk scenes, isn't likely to be all that
willing to follow the lead of their left elders when the "peace police" call on 
the
crowd to not trash Niketown or Starbucks.
                                  Michael Pugliese


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