Why OWS Needs to Denounce Violent Tactics on Display at Occupy Oakland

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44. The author of the alternet article made the claim

I picked it up. If the author is wrong, then I suppose I am as well.

As for rationalizing violence? Yeeeeah. Friend, I'm not the one running around telling the victims of abuse to keep on taking the abuse for the sake of "PR." I'm not the one who is more concerned about the image of protestors bringing shields to an event, rather than being concerned about why they need to. I'm not the one calling for people to be fucking PURGED for not fitting the shiny happy image of the protest favored by a few hipster pieces of shit, whose only stake in this is looking good on a fucking internet thread.

People are allowed to be human, Robb. There is no expectation of sainthood. People get angry. Angry people lash out. And while people like you are clucking your tongues and making sad eyes at someone spray-painting a wall, that dude with the spray can just saw dozens of people get their asses kicked by Oakland's finest. Which is apparently okay with you, just as it's great for the author in the OP, since lots of people getting mauled by the cops is "good PR."