Protesters again take to uptown streets (of Charlotte)

[patrice]

120. Though some of the poor and disadvantaged do want to bash heads with cops, I'd bet MOST do not.

I know that from talking to homeless, and the poor and street-people around our Occupy, whenever there was a proposal afoot to do something that could bring the police down on us.

These are people who are quite familiar with the police, some are of the type who will cut their own nose off to spite the police's face, but by far most of them don't want to have anything to do with authoritarian legal powers. They're already quite familiar with what it can do to their lives and they don't want any more of that, if they can avoid it.

They were also quite a-political and almost completely un-informed about any of the social and economic issues and ideologies that focus so many of our lives. They were interested in one thing and one thing only: survival and, for many of them, I'm not at all certain at what price.

To the extent that they are involved in a movement of any kind, they are vulnerable to anyone who knows more about anything and who has even modest resources that they are willing to put at their disposal.