Portland protester strategy against the secret police

[Edwcraig]

Understand that Trump sent these guys in to provoke a fight. He needs the image of police fighting with "rioters" that are fighting. Don't play into their hands. Be MLK smart. Sit on your Federal Court House property. Sing. Hold hands. They are there to start a fight. They have to please the boss. Let them. John Lewis knew they had won when the camera's got the picture of the dogs. Play this smart.

[lame54]

1. That means willing to have your head cracked open...

That takes a special kind of courage

Hard to ask of others

[Nevilledog]

3. Everyone should just get naked.

[lame54]

4. Everywhere

[LiberalArkie]

13. That is what it took in the 60's

[dustyscamp]

2. Thugs beating up a patriot

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

7. Remember when a nation's leader gassing his own people was a bad thing for Republicans?

Once upon a time, it was so horrible that it justified launching an invasion.

[Phoenix61]

5. They wait until there are only a few people

from most of the reports I’ve read. They don’t seem to attack when they are out numbered.

[BComplex]

6. That lets us know that they are cowards and trying to start Barr's civil war.

That's what Barr thinks is the only way to lock down the country at the time of the election.

[Voltaire2]

8. So go out there and make your voice heard.

These protests are not centrally organized. There is no strategy other than that which develops spontaneously from the people out in the streets putting their lives at risk.

[Bev54]

12. Be careful though

Barr and Trump are no doubt sending in agitators to make the protestors look like they are violent. This is just one big stage production by them to try and justify their authoritarian take over.

[certainot]

9. protest oregon state and uni of oregon for endorsing RW radio lying about BLM

and the protestors.

the reactions to the protestors are cheered on by the talk radio gods. at least 12 of the oregon radio stations contributing to the bullshit depend on Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5 universities to keep broadcasting sports on them, with limbaugh leading the way attacking protestors and BLM as “maggot infested marxist communists”

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Totally agree, but everything's secret, so they can plant "rioters" and never own up to it

The media need to investigate ... who are the secret police, names, who is detained and why don't they tell us who they are and what they're charged with, and if not charged why .... you see how courts operate? In public. Verifiable information. Public record.

So far I think this is just FAKE NEWS cooked up by the White House to manufacture and manipulate public opinion for the election. We don't operate historically, for 200+ years, in secret, and we won't tolerate it now.

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. Using provocateurs is now standard for police units all across the world

Its been proven to have been used in more than one country. They even had to admit it, as far back as 2007 in Montreal for the North American leader conference.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171

Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.

Its so easy to dress as Black Block from head to toe, smash a few windows and run back behind the blue line for your buddies to bash some heads in. And TV crews to pick up how scary and violent the protest has become.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. There are many, many different kinds of protest tactics and collective action a group can take.

[tirebiter]

14. It may seem counterintuitive to think so. but peaceful protest needs training

I got mine when I was doing sit ins and arrests against a nuclear power plant. There are protocols that are best followed. Hints from protest veterans can be helpful. The sheriffs weren’t bad guys, they were another element to be dealt with.