– Badtux the Disgusted Penguin
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]]>I am definitely not a pacifist which is why I avoid demonstrations that are aiming for non-violence. If attacked, I will always respond. and that is not what the majority want in the Occupy movement.
The Black Bloc aren’t really providing a reason for their actions, they are just looking for an excuse.
]]>I’ve read the anarchist tracts. I’ve listened to the black bloc types try to explain why their tactics are useful. None of it makes any sense at all. It’s like a cobbled up philosophy thrown together to attract alienated kids who want to feel powerful, sort of a cult now that I think about it, a cult that’s amazingly similar to Ayn Rand’s cult of perfect freedom without responsibility. And as with the Rand cult, it has absolutely nothing to do with leftists or left-wing causes, and black bloc in the midst of a protest should be treated the same as teabaggers in the midst of a protest — i.e., as a hostile force with a philosophy and goals completely incompatible with our own.
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