This is why we can't have nice things. Berkley
Well, here ya go.
Somehow the Black Bloc is now a tool of Breitbart? MSM, really? This is your best play?
Umm no.
Hello. Black Bloc? What the hell is that? Where the hell they come from "all of a sudden"?
Um Seattle WTO 1999? Oh, that.
Jerks.
Just take a guess who the unwashed masses that have defeated Democrats since 2010 think is "at fault" the gay militant conservative who wanted to speak or whoever smashed and burned and rioted against free speech? Waiting. Done? Gosh you're right.
Idiots on TeeVee.
And it's failed Labor Secretary and failed MA Guv wanna be (nice bus) Robert Reich.
On CNN Thursday, UC Berkeley professor and former Democratic Secretary of Labor Robert Reich suggested the anti-Trump riots on campus were actually a right-wing plot to delegitimize liberals.
“I wouldn’t bet against it,” Reich said. “I saw these people. They all looked very– almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus. I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News.”
Yes. He was checking Student IDs... What a f'g hero/tool. Who the hell is paying him?
Oh, the CA University System. Can you say Janet Napolitano? Well, can you?
Sheeple. Baaaa
Go figure.
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Book tours are to sell books
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/the-berkeley-riots-sucked-for-the-countr...
How can anyone know who the "men in black" actually were, or why they were there? But this article is right about the fact that without all the big drama and controversy, his book and promo tours would be entirely dull. He requires attention to sell books and grab the spotlight. People reacting to him are helping him, whether or not that's their goal.
@CS in AZ Really? You believe that
He doesn't need any added attention. The MSM, ToP et al and College SafeSpacers give him all the PR he needs.
You believe some internet fool organized that riot to sell his book? Really?
Guess you missed BB & OWS. Who are those people in Black with metal pipes and molotov cocktails screwing up our noble goals? Who?
IMHO. This is the Black Bloc and you know it.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Did you read the article I linked?
I never heard of this Milo guy until yesterday.
Yes, I do believe the amazon stats that his book sales increased dramatically overnight, and its obvious that his act requires attention to succeed, which he would not be getting without the protests.
I actually have no idea at all who "black bloc" is, other than people who wear black outfits and masks and claim to be anarchists and act violently at various protests. I don't know why they do this. Is it not true that anyone can don black clothing and ski masks?
@CS in AZ I apologise.
You might want to find out more about the history of US Anarchists and Black Bloc in particular and their efforts for over 20 years here in the good old USA.
Peace
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Thank you, apology accepted, and
I wanted to tell you that I always smile at your sig quote -- one of my all-time favorite lines from my favorite scene in The Holy Grail.
I did read a little about black bloc yesterday, but found a lot of conflicting and confusing stories. For instance, a number of OWS people seem convinced that they were government infiltrators whose goal in inciting violence was to discredit the protesters and/or justify crackdowns.
I've only known one person well who was a true, fully committed anarchist, and he was deeply opposed to violence (but fond of monkey-wrenching and breaking what he considered stupid or pointless rules of authority). He was Australian, however, not American. But he and his anarchist friends didn't dress in black or attack anyone, ever.
Anyway, whatever the motives of the "real" black bloc, it's still easy for others to dress up the same way and act out for reasons of their own. So I remain skeptical.
As for Milo, I honestly believe he should just be ignored. His career is pushing buttons. Reactions to him are his bread and butter.
Peace.
US Anarchists
One of the first things that history will teach you is that nihilistic Anarchists like the Black Bloc are only a small minority of Anarchists anywhere. Far more Anarchists exist who want to devise a human society after alpha bosses than those who just want to destroy everything indiscriminately.
(#$!*%!! Anarchopedia is down again!!)
When it's up again, Anarchopedia in English can be found here.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
black bloc
Welcome to the wild and wacky world of the nihilist. Nihilistic Anarchists have no interest in any future human society; they just want to destroy everything indiscriminately now.
There exists a vast spectrum of Anarchism beyond such childishness. Your phrase "claim to be Anarchists" hit the nail squarely on the head, perhaps even more so than you realized when you posted it!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
CS in AZ
No need. CS in AZ's point is that the book sales will be the effect, sought or not.
And you are correct about this "extra sauce" not being needed; but you have it nonetheless.
No conspiracy theory required; ordinary, garden-variety, publically transparent neoliberal cravenness quite suffices, thank you!
Edited after receiving additional information about the "black bloc" nihilists.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Sounds Like Police Rioting To Me...
Toronto G20 Riot Fraud where police dressed in black mixed in with the protesters attempting to turn the protest into a riot...
Similar to theEvery time it happens I suspect the same thing...
Rioting Police!
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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
They've learned ... to change their shoes.
I am suspicious as hell. Naturally they would have learned to at least to not all wear the exact same footwear as their brother cops.
They can't resist the temptation to nail a Starbucks, though. Here they are seven years ago:
Thanks for the thoughts.
TPTB own the media. They control the national narrative. They can engineer a new narrative, at will.
All we have left is word of mouth and the internet. Online forums, where the people meet, will soon be under attack. The Super predators, aka the 1 percenters, cannot allow free expression or communications between the little people.
Once we lose the Internet, the conquering of our democracy will be complete. Any further resistance will be futile.
The feetkissing will begin in our grandchildrens lifetimes.
Bleak.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Oh, I don't know about that
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Some anecdotes on Black Block
The Black Bloc is a protest methodology, not an ideology.
I like this article's explanation:
http://ca.complex.com/life/2017/02/black-bloc-anarchist-nazi-punch
And ths Meme from Black Lives Matter Disrupt J20 in DC:
https://twitter.com/DisruptJ20/status/826714781600083969/photo/1?ref_src...
Here is something published in 2013 found on Vanessa Beeley's site.
Black Bloc,' Egypt Masked Protesters, Add Mystery To Unrest
https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.beeley/posts/114005138779625?match=YW5h...
In Portland there is Rosa Negra (Black Rose). https://www.facebook.com/blackroseportland/
One recent event listed is this:
Of course the reaction to all this is:
And my favorite description Makes me like them actually.
Well, at least the Black Bloc aren't tulips.
From the Light House.
mihilists
Nihilists. Gak!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Black and bleak
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Who gets discredited by the riot?
Discredited: The Left, which in the 1%'s preferred narrative is everybody from Hillary Clinton to the actual Socialist Party USA.
Whose goals get served? Anyone who wants the population to shut up and work harder to make them richer and need an excuse to make that come true by force.
I am not underestimating liberal stupidity here, but protests have been infiltrated before. COINTELPRO really was (is?) a thing.
I'm not saying that is definitely the way it went down. What I really mean is that we have to keep our eyes and ears open and never accept anything at face value in this time of power struggle/upheaval inside the Establishment.
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