[lbo-talk] Seattle redux

Miike Quenling Ellis flagrant_sake at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 3 22:31:06 PDT 2003


--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote:


> That's what people did see in the civil rights protests in the 60's.
> Because faced with a police force that responded to protests with
> violent repression, the strategy was to stage exaggerated pacifist style
> protests. People saw this on the TV and were horrified by the "violent
> repression". I imagine history would have been somewhat different if the
> Black Bloc had turned up to the civil rights demos and decided to run
> around breaking windows, frightening old ladies and small children.

i was at a protest and i overheard some black bloc people say they were going to set some pupies on fire.

~M.E.

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