Nathan writes:
>Also note the way the bloody violent assault on the Genoa Social Forum gets
>"mushed" into the story. Without the countervailing pictures of the
>protester assaulting the cop, the pictures of the attack and blood at the
>non-violent Social Forum would incite far more massive condemnation of the
>Italian authorities.
>
>But in combination, it creates a sense of the authorities "reacting" to
>violence and thereby justified in finding weapons that might be used against
>the cops. The acts of the most violent protesters are thereby foreseeably
>attributed to the nonviolent protesters and actually lead to a greater hand
>for repression against non-violent protest.
>
>This may be unfair and illegal, but we aren't living in a fair and legal
>world on those terms, so the nonviolent wing of the protest movement will
>have to, out of self-defense, isolate the non-violent wing.
How do you plan on doing the "isolating"?
Yoshie
