"And accomplishing what?  Drug gangs have recruited more people than the 
anarchists with their attractive, riske illegal actions, so I guess they are 
far more important than anyone else?

The criticism of the black bloc tactics is that of course they are 
attractive to people.  It looks like typical juvenile antics and the public 
treats it as such.

The reason Martin Luther King Jr. et al civil disobediance was so effective 
is that it DIDN'T look like fun, but showed political and moral discipline 
that sent a strong political message."


It should be added the King's CD was also successful because the folks in power (LBJ and the Democrats) actually 
felt the pressure from such tactics and it forced Johnson to break with the Dixiecrats. The whole move to CD early 
on was based to a large extent on this contradiction in the Democratic Party. I doubt Barry Goldwater or Reagan 
would have cared less about folks sitting down no matter how sympathetic and media savvy they were. And I don't 
think George Bush or Congress could care less about a bunch of very unsympathetic and unsophisticated Black Bloc 
children committing vandalism. In other words King had a real world strategy and purpose for his actions, as 
opposed to teenage nihilism pretending to be activism.







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