On 9 February 2012 12:30, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd been waiting for this one.
>
> "I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who
> wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who was
> deeply involved in the early stages of planning Occupy in New York.
>
> "I am also an anarchist who has participated in many Black Blocs. While I
> have never personally engaged in acts of property destruction, I have on
> more than one occasion taken part in Blocs where property damage has
> occurred. (I have taken part in even more Blocs that did not engage in such
> tactics. It is a common fallacy that this is what Black Blocs are all
> about. It isn’t.)
>
> "I was hardly the only Black Bloc veteran who took part in planning the
> initial strategy for Occupy Wall Street. In fact, anarchists like myself
> were the real core of the group that came up with the idea of occupying
> Zuccotti Park, the '99%' slogan, the General Assembly process, and, in
> fact, who collectively decided that we would adopt a strategy of Gandhian
> non-violence and eschew acts of property damage. Many of us had taken part
> in Black Blocs. We just didn’t feel that was an appropriate tactic for the
> situation we were in ..."
>
> http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
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> lytlað."
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