> What is incontrovertible to me is the disgrace of initiating actions that
> facilitate police attacks on those who did not choose to participate or in
> any way endorse such action. I am not saying that is what happened in
> Oakland, I wasn't there, but any apologies for such practices are beyond
> the pale.
Well, that's the accusation here, that they drew the police to the OO camp. Not too smart from a military viewpoint:
<http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/04/18697383.php>
"...and watching black bloc-ers run from the cops and not protect the camp their actions had endangered,... I saw black bloc kids running from the camp while it was under police assault, and as someone who spent about two hours negotiating and assisting in the care of an ostensibly homeless man from the camp, hit by a rubber bullet in the camp, while black bloc kids ran away..."
> We are not quite armed maoist guerrillas swimming in the sea of the people
> in opposition to a brutal dictatorship. We're not the French resistance
> under Nazi occupation.
Or even the Yippies during the DC May Day protests of 1971. At the least, those actions were supported by the vast majority of draft age youth in Northwest Washington, and would have turned out very differently if not.