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JDPriestly

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6. No. Black Bloc techniques are unfair, not just.

Reply to hack89 (Reply #2)

Mon May 7, 2012, 01:42 PM

May 2012

Therefore they are wrong. You do not make social progress by adopting the brutality of your oppressors. It has never worked. It never will.

"They are saying the people who use tactics that directly confront police or damage property are bad, and the people who take no action are good."

Directly confronting police (part of the 99%) and damaging property ARE BAD in my opinion. Sorry guys, Occupy should not carry on its back people who never got beyond the Terrible Twos.

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Occupy's anarchists seen as both divisive, crucial [View all] hack89 May 2012 OP

A black bloc is not an organized group... ellisonz May 2012 #1

Do such tactics have a place in Occupy? hack89 May 2012 #2

No. n/t ellisonz May 2012 #3

Who has the authority to toss them? ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #17

The police... ellisonz May 2012 #19

So you want the police to remove people dressed in black from Occupy meetings? ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #20

"Unless an individual has acted illegally, the police cannot do anything." ellisonz May 2012 #21

So you are good with them being part of Occupy until they start to smash stuff ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #22

Hah... ellisonz May 2012 #23

Having watched Martin Luther King hold peaceful non-violent protests and then watching his jwirr May 2012 #5

No. Black Bloc techniques are unfair, not just. JDPriestly May 2012 #6

I find it hard to believe that such tactics are acceptable to some IDemo May 2012 #4

Or, worse, doing nothing to stop them. randome May 2012 #8

or black bloc = police/government paid agitators nt msongs May 2012 #7

So all Black Bloc participants are police? hack89 May 2012 #9

Police budgets must consume about half of our GDP 4th law of robotics May 2012 #11

Can you imagine what the unemployment rate would be hack89 May 2012 #13

Oh man, that would be horrifying 4th law of robotics May 2012 #14

So are you guys claiming them or not because you can't have it both ways LOL snooper2 May 2012 #15

I think they are mocking the notion that all Black Bloc members are provocateurs ProgressiveProfessor May 2012 #18

I don't intend to sound like a conspiracy theorist, Jamaal510 May 2012 #10

Because, unlike Occupy, the Tea Party does not believe in non-violence? hack89 May 2012 #12

It's hard to bash the crap out of shit.. snooper2 May 2012 #16