[lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders

[Andy]

On Fri, 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.

It was startling how quickly even Reps felt the need to express
sympathy and/or fear of not that many campers and marchers.

-- 
Andy