Violence for the sake of violence (the sequel)
Newsmax reports:
While most groups traveling to Washington, D.C., to protest President Bush's inauguration next Thursday say they'll be nonviolent, an angry cadre of anti-American radicals has made it known that it intends to do everything possible to disrupt the event. In a statement posted to its Web site, the D.C. Anarchist Resistance, for instance, sounds hell-bent on causing trouble:
"The U.S. Presidential Inauguration is one of the grandest ceremonies of the ruling class in the land. As anarchists, it's a prime opportunity to shatter these illusions of grandeur by crashing this decadent display of arrogance and wealth."
"There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down. ... This January 20th, let's bring anarchy to the streets of DC - make resistance visible, and ring in the next four years with a smash!"
The anarchists boast that they have the endorsement of a coalition of other protest groups, including the Urban Guerrilla Liberation Front, the NYC Counter-Inaugural Cluster and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, Action Faction.
In its own inauguration protest manifesto, the NYC Counter-Inaugural Cluster declares:
"If the police again attempt to forgo their own laws and arrest demonstrators, we will defend ourselves against this unlawful state repression. A space will be made for people to exercise their First Amendment rights whether the police allow it or not. We will not submit to illegal arrests, unlawful searches, or checkpoints."
The only difference between the "angry cadre" and their professingly "non-violent" comrades is that the former are being honest about their intentions. If they can manage it, the whole misbegotten lot of them will turn the second Bush Inauguration into a second "Days of Rage" that will dwarf the violence and chaos that swirled around the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The D.C. Park Police say they have the situation well in hand.
"We don't expect too many problems with [these groups]. They are familiar to us," Sgt. Scott Fear told the News.
I'd feel a bit more confident about things if a division of Marines were on hand, myself. Unless any jihadists intent on making their presence felt have WMDs to deploy on Thursday, I'd say they really don't have to bother showing up - they'd just be redundant.
While most groups traveling to Washington, D.C., to protest President Bush's inauguration next Thursday say they'll be nonviolent, an angry cadre of anti-American radicals has made it known that it intends to do everything possible to disrupt the event. In a statement posted to its Web site, the D.C. Anarchist Resistance, for instance, sounds hell-bent on causing trouble:
"The U.S. Presidential Inauguration is one of the grandest ceremonies of the ruling class in the land. As anarchists, it's a prime opportunity to shatter these illusions of grandeur by crashing this decadent display of arrogance and wealth."
"There's nothing left to salvage in this empire that is the U.S. government. It's time to bring it down. ... This January 20th, let's bring anarchy to the streets of DC - make resistance visible, and ring in the next four years with a smash!"
The anarchists boast that they have the endorsement of a coalition of other protest groups, including the Urban Guerrilla Liberation Front, the NYC Counter-Inaugural Cluster and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, Action Faction.
In its own inauguration protest manifesto, the NYC Counter-Inaugural Cluster declares:
"If the police again attempt to forgo their own laws and arrest demonstrators, we will defend ourselves against this unlawful state repression. A space will be made for people to exercise their First Amendment rights whether the police allow it or not. We will not submit to illegal arrests, unlawful searches, or checkpoints."
The only difference between the "angry cadre" and their professingly "non-violent" comrades is that the former are being honest about their intentions. If they can manage it, the whole misbegotten lot of them will turn the second Bush Inauguration into a second "Days of Rage" that will dwarf the violence and chaos that swirled around the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
The D.C. Park Police say they have the situation well in hand.
"We don't expect too many problems with [these groups]. They are familiar to us," Sgt. Scott Fear told the News.
I'd feel a bit more confident about things if a division of Marines were on hand, myself. Unless any jihadists intent on making their presence felt have WMDs to deploy on Thursday, I'd say they really don't have to bother showing up - they'd just be redundant.
posted by JASmius at 1:04 PM
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