Pigs On Horses/Leftist Cavalry

martin mschiller at pobox.com
Mon Feb 17 14:12:06 PST 2003


a msg on 2/17/03 from Doug Henwood contained -


>Wouldn't that be immensely risky? "Assaulting a police officer" is a
>felony - I think there were 5 or 6 such arrests in NYC on Saturday -
>and assaulting one to steal his or her horse would be taken as an
>attack on state power itself. Which it is, right? And wouldn't the
>pigs come down really hard on that?

A long time ago I asked you if there was an outreach from the 'left' to enlist the working police to accept and support left (or at least constitutional) agenda for change. You dismissed me rather brusquely as I remember. Something about the left would never reach an accommodation with police.

I introduced the topic here because labor advocates/activists subscribed. The brotherhood of police are arguably a radical labor organization. Radical is not always positive. But first of all it was a self-proclaimed brotherhood.

This question about assault seems the other side of the coin.

Any collective action should have a protocol for dealing with police force. It needs to be recognized somehow. Is there an agreement of practice that you wcould synthesize for me.

Martin



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