On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:56 PM, wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> Thinking back to Doug's earlier comment, I think the fear isn't
> necessarily of violence, but of ungovernability, that ungovernability
> at times take the form of non-violent civil disobedience (for
> instance, a lot of the civil rights stuff in the south was really
> designed to shut stuff down, to destroy the workings of segregation
> in day to day life), at other times it takes the form of property
> destruction, and physical violence against people (the most notable
> form of this really isn't the black bloc historically, its most
> prominent in labor history.) There's more to say on this, but I'm
> going to stop there.
Yup. Obviously the overthrow of the US gov is not very likely.