confronting special bodies of armed men

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 22 08:06:46 PDT 2002


Chuck Munson wrote:


>On the other hand, nobody should expect the nature of Saturday's protest
>to become the norm at future large mobilizations. I talked to many
>activists this weekend and I get the sense that many want to be more
>confrontational. It seems that those who wish to harness the growing wave
>of dissent are about to lose any control they may have had. Even the
>"moderate" protesters are sounding like the black bloc!

What does this mean exactly? Can demonstrators withstand the armed force of the state? Or do you mean something non-obvious by "confrontational"?

Doug



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