Activists target a Google engineer at his Berkeley home

[el_bryanto]

2. Salon also had an article by someone who agrees with you

In defense of militant anti-Google protests.

Whether targeting individual Google employees is an effective tactic is not really my interest here. Certainly, I concede that it will hardly uproot Google’s hegemonic position, nor will the surveillance state be dismantled. Andrew Leonard cited one Bay Area resident describing the latest militant anti-Google protest as “a group of people violently broaching civic norms.” I say: precisely. Civic norms in our current epoch entail the forgoing of privacy, the enabling of a totalized surveillance state, the steady displacement of poor residents by wealthier implants in all major metropolises. The world’s richest 85 people have as much wealth as half the world’s population put together. These are our current civic norms; they deserve some violent broaching.

I will say when you basically admit that you don't care whether your tactics will be effective or not, you've lost me. I'm guessing that she means these tactics won't be useful in the short term, but will heighten awareness down the road preparing for a struggle against our oppressors; but even then I'm not sure I agree with her analysis of how bad things are.

Bryant