On Nov 9, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Then the group of Black Bloc demonstrators set fires. Their exact
>> motivation for doing so wasn't clear. When Occupy medic Douglas Connor
>> arrived shortly after 1 a.m. and asked what the fire was for, he got a
>> matter-of-fact response from one of the protesters standing guard. "Fires
>> help dissipate tear gas," the protester said. Apparently, they'd all read
>> it somewhere in a protest manual.
>>
>
> How does this passage make any sense at all?
It's the journalist's fault for reporting a nonsensical justification?