Anarchist Direct Actions: A Challenge for Law Enforcement

[sabotabby]

Link to article (hit the funny bit about how to identify an anarchist) collectivized from crudocrust while "masking up" for a "direct action." Because we don't believe in property!



Slum update: Hot water to be restored Monday morning. It'd bloody well better be.

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[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

sob

that's an academic journal

[sabotabby]

I know. It makes it funnier or sadder, depending on who you are.

[rote.livejournal.com]

I found it interesting.

[sabotabby]

Me too, but probably not for the reasons they intended.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the diagonal line runs one way, sometimes the other? That's an awesome finding.

I've also just discovered that every piece of paper on my desk can be turned upside-down too.

[sabotabby]

So can the American flag! I heard it means anti-Americanism when you do that.

Your tax dollars at work. Well, someone's, anyway. Not mine.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the Reno Police Department, who in thier gang "guidebook" lists punks as members of "Racist White Supremacist" gangs and list the Sraight Edge kids as a "gang".

One time an aquaintence was pulled over wear a black bandana on her head. The cop ask he if she was in a "straight-edge gang" and tried to use her supposed membership in said gang as cause to search her car.

Once she pretended to make a phone call to her lawyer on her cell the pig stopped that shit pretty fast.

Sad but true.

[sabotabby]

I saw the Straight Edge gang thing and had a tremendously good laugh over it. Probably the first time since the Puritans that someone's been targeted for not drinking.

[tazerfloyd.livejournal.com]

sexy. in uniforms and stuff. craving an order to call their own. a great force of history.

there are so many wonderful ways to express your inner fascist.
Andrej met this girl at this anarchist university party we were at who he said goes well with his communist (lazy fascist) side.

[tazerfloyd.livejournal.com]

oh wait.. the other part is that you have to help andrej find this girl.

her name is kirsten and she does a masters at york for political science... know her?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

that's like hundreds of people right there.

[sabotabby]

That sounds like half the people I know.

If it's an Anarchist U person, though, I think I've spoken to her on the phone. It had something to do with getting Uprising kids to Montreal, so Uprising would be your best starting place. I've already unwittingly involved myself in one escapade too many tonight, however, so I'm not sure how useful I can be in that respect.

[meshaselimovic.livejournal.com]

Andrej here.
Would love to talk to that girl.
Do not know much more than the info you have.
Time is slowly killing the interest, but that one experience of meeting with her fell on me like an anvil on a coyote in a roadrunner cartoon.
If she can do that to me in one conversation, I do want to talk to her again. If it can be.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

"ultra-liberal"!!

[sabotabby]

I'm offended. Exponentially, relative to how much a liberal would get offended.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

the “Conflict” symbol is sometimes used, typically represented by a circle with a horizontal lightening bolt through it.

SHAZAM!

[sabotabby]

I'm surprised they didn't throw in the feminist fist and the three arrows. Nor was there a mention of stars of any sort. I'm not even sure what that "Conflict" symbol is -- I've seen something similar before and figured it was a fandom thing.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I didn't read that far, but isn't this logo what they're refering about?

[sabotabby]

The squatters' logo? I always thought that was an N.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

There were parts of it that I thought would work well as anarchist recruiting spiels.

So anarchists can now fool the cops by wearing pastels?

-)(-

[sabotabby]

Well, shit. That's what I do.

Granted, my switch from wearing excessive amounts of black to wearing lighter tones was motivated primarily by being adopted by an Every-Coloured Cat with a shedding problem, but I can claim that it was ideological.

[polywob.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a pretty good article, actually.

I found their analysis to be pretty in-depth, and mostly accurate (although there were some funny moments). They did a pretty good job of summing up some of the major debates in the community, and identifying major challenges an infiltrator faces. And there was a tacit admission of the use of agents provacteurs (when reviewing some of our strategic arguments against black blocs). I wish they had discussed their own strategy a bit more in-depth, but the authors were too smart for that.

And the ultimate conclusion was a bit chilling. Basically, they're recommending monitoring the anarchist movement not only because of the "criminal" acts we do in the name of activism, but because of the potential to actually develop into a revolutionary movement.

I don't like that the cops can write this good of an article about us.

[sabotabby]

Basically, they're recommending monitoring the anarchist movement not only because of the "criminal" acts we do in the name of activism, but because of the potential to actually develop into a revolutionary movement.

I think they give us too much credit. I also love how very much outside of their profile I fall.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Oh no, not "power imbued to 'the people'"!!!

[sabotabby]

Anything but that!