--- Kelley Walker <kwalker2 at gte.net> wrote:
> At 06:12 PM 7/21/01 -0500, / dave / wrote:
> >This is a perfect incident with which it's easy to
> separate the
> >courageous activists who are wisely committed that
> their cause should
> >rest on a solid bedrock of verifiable, supportable
> information from the
> >always-inevitable group of others who are either a)
> under- or
> >ill-informed, perhaps somewhat understandably given
> the circumstances,
> >or b) prone to engage in haphazard assumptions
> and/or willful
> >obfuscation owing to the fact that they imagine
> (perhaps rightfully)
> >that they won't be held to account and can engage
> in the same kind of
> >tactics that they routinely decry in their foes.
>
>
> thanks / dave / for a really good analysis. i'm not
> a fan of the sizzlean
> and know first hand what they're capable of on a
> daily basis. but, i gotta
> say that i completely agree. it would be nice to
> expect the sizzlean to
> behave differently. but they don't. it would be nice
> were they trained to
> not shoot to kill, but they aren't.
An Indymedia article noted otherwise, regarding this shooting. I'll look for it.
acting in ways
> that assume that they
> should is ignorant.
And the policeman is being charged with murder:
www.sfmedia.org/display.php?id=1020IT
Alec
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