i am concerned about the destructive presence of anarchist in the movement. Throwing bottles at police, smashing windows, and lighting fires will alienate the very people you most want in the movement. During the 60’s the “Silent Majority” elected Nixon twice based upon their dislike of these tactics within the anti-war movement.
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what does police the anarchists mean? It seems you are implying we should create a mechanism of repression and violence to take care of our own comrades. There is a difference of opinion of tactics here and that is it. Your views are divisive and alienating way more than the people who wore masks and broke windows of corporations, that are our common enemy. The corporate media, also our enemy, will try to increase this divide of good protester/bad protester, but actually they are trying to neutralize any threat to their institutions and sway public opinion to minimize the more threatening gestures around dismantling their banks. How can we dismantle the banks if we are afraid of harming their plate glass? I urge you to reconsider your views, and warn you that offering up people to the police is against the views of the occupation and puts you in an antagonistic relationship to most of the people in this movement who are very interested in finding the producers of snitch culture and removing them from our ranks.
The protest last night did great harm to the cause……I can assure you that.