Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Anonymous Warns Black Bloc in Oakland: Quit It or Else
Media / Law Enforcement & Crime / Occupy Kathleen Richards — Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM
A video posted on YouTube by the group Anonymous warns Black Bloc protesters to quit their violent, co-opting tactics in the Occupy Oakland movement, or else face their wrath. The five-minute video also questions whether some Black Bloc members are actually police, trying to incite violence.
"The response from fellow anons to Black Bloc has been overwhelming. Peacefully shutting down banks and locations has had a far greater economic impact than Black Bloc's pitiful acts of vandalism could ever dream of. ... You are at best misguided, harmful, and idiotic in your actions ... We suspect that many of you are agent provocateurs ... Your tactics demonize us in the eyes of the general public, robbing Occupy of much-needed support ... and worse, your activities justify the use of police brutality .... Consider this an act of diplomacy before we start doxing your asses all over the Internet and paying special attention to personally ruining your lives."
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In view of the growing alienation of the general public, I suspect that more and more Occupiers are going to be following the Anonymous lead--trying to blame black bloc tactics on agent provocateurs.
I think that's totally inane--particularly since Occupy Oakland continues to endorse a "Diversity of Tactics" and the General Assembly continues to vote down resolutions condemning black bloc tactics.
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This is so asinine. As Clark noted, folks who use BB tactics are anonymous as well. The threat of doxing is therefore empty; the only people you could threaten online are those who have verbally defended militant tactics, not necessarily those who have used them. The irony and hypocrisy of defending the '1st Amendment rights' of livestreamers and then trying to intimidating people for expressing sympathetic views is depressing.
The more I think about it, the more I think it was the work of agents provocateurs because Black Bloc wear masks so they can't be identified, even with cameras, hence they are as anonymous as Anonymous.
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