Re: Philadelphia Repression: What Can Be Done?

[Cyborg Yoryie <yoryie@earthlink.net>]

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 H.B. misses the point. Yes the activists in philadelphia were out to break
the laws. Of course phrasing it that way keeps us from questioning "the
laws" who passes them and what are the laws designed to protect.

    Second a lot of them are being accused of breaking "laws" that were not
broken......

       Third, yes I believe must activists did expect the level of state
reppression to be higher, and probably martin Luther King and Gandhi did
too.  Does that mean we are not to be outraged at it and do nothing?  It is
outrageous that H.B. suggests that because we should not be shocked at the
state brutal and reppressive tactics, we should do nothing.  I am still
shocked at the photo of the dogs being hurled at the martin Luther King
demonstrations and if the police aim dogs at the demonstrators now I will
still be outraged and I will still denounce it.

    also your generalization of all activists as "birdbrained band of white,
middle-class twits, used to living comfortable, cossetted lives" is
misleading and responds more to how the corporate media has try to portray
the protests and in that way invisibilize the diversity not only of the
protesters but of the issues that bring them together.

        Yes, reppression from the state is part of the territory when we do
civil disobedience, but this NEVER means we must remain silent in its face.

saludos,

Cyborg



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