[lbo-talk] Glimmer of Things to Come? was RE: Bahrain

[Carrol Cox]

I'm allowing myself just a very tiny glimmer of hope. I sat in (by
invitation) at a small student meeting in a local coffee house tonight. They
are the first actual radical student group on campus since SDS collapsed 40
years ago. They were cheerful, relaxed, and businesslike. The main topic was
how to relate to the events in Madison. (One of their members is already
there, participating in the  occupation of the Capitol.) I had chatted with
their leading member (who calls himself a socialist anarchist, or anarchist
socialist: I forget which) a couple weeks ago at the monthly meeting of
BNCPJ. (Sorry shag: I had nothing to do with the beads; I spent my time in
the back of the room jawing with Stefan.) Stefan said their main purpose was
to prepare the students in it to go out and create  similar groups in the
places they got jobs after college! That's an improvement on SDS. There were
some brief references to Egypt -- not as a focus but as encouragement for
what they were up to. That's my slight glimmer of being optimistic: however
little a given struggle achieves, if they start to multiply, things can
happen. They build up mutual courage and trigger others to move towards
political activity. 

Carrol

-----Original Message-----
From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
On Behalf Of Wojtek S
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:01 PM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bahrain


>From Al Jazeera:
"Tiny Bahrain is a pillar of US's military framework in the region. It hosts
the US Navy's 5th Fleet, which Washington sees as a critical counterbalance
to Iran."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/2011217191751611489.htm
l

Enough said.  If  the orders did not came directly from Washington, they
must have been given a green light there..

Wojtek

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:


> Just watching the bodies in the hospital and  AJE wondering around among
> the victims of the police...
>
> First it looks like the police are using a much more powerful and near
> lethal form of tear gas. Many people are being given oxygen, with their
eyes
> and noses running. This is a sign of severe mucus membrane reaction which
is
> causing moderate to severe respiratory distress. Some, many, are too weak
to
> stand. Many of the victims act like they have real difficulty breathing.
>
> Another observation is the pellets that peppered the chest of a dead man.
> These were not lead heavy bird shot. They were about the same gauge, but
> with twin spines poking out. These are probably made of some material like
> steel or iron that  does not deform. The reason for the spikes is the same
> as a barbed hook, to make it impossible to pull out, without further
tissue
> damage. This design smacks of more advanced US crowd control designs. At a
> guess, only places like Bahrain can afford this ammunition. The small
wounds
> are sufficient to cause death by a thousand cuts and shock. The genius of
> this shotgun pellet design is you can probably make a legal case for
> non-lethal crowd control ammunition.
>
> I hope somebody gets a hold of the shotgun casting and tear gas canisters.
> Pretty sure they will have Made in USA.
>
> CG
>
>
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