De-activism - How to Demobilize a Movement

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December 20, 2007, Washington, DC - This morning, Santa Claus (in the person of noted constitutional lawyer Bill Goodman) drove his sleigh to the White House to deliver thousands of copies of the U.S. Constitution to President Bush.

Americans from all over the country - more than 37,000 of them - asked that a copy of the Constitution be delivered to the President in their name and cordially requested that he make time in his busy schedule to read it.

More:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/71268/

-How'd we miss this one?

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	Be sure to plant people like a dumbass with a megaphone to draw negative attention to your cause, or a person to throw something at the police so they can attack the crowd and take down names and intimidate / scare 'would be' activists.

Yeah...we should start to thump this guy before the police thump the crowd.

If we would police ourselves before the planted trouble makers caused problems.

Then again...this would make it seem like we were fighting amongst ourselves.

Police can break up a fight without beating on shocked children like in L.A. on labor day..poor shocked out nice looking Mexican kid is not moving fast enough so he gets the beat down.

If the red flag waving psuedo revolutionaries were dealth with by the moderate factions of the protest the police would have had no reason to shut down what was a family event.

I think it would be awsome to see the insitgator given a warning and when he shows that he is unwilling or unable to comply gets his but kicked right there by the crowd. We cant wait for one person to take the fall...it has to be sudden and brutal mob violence.

These trouble makers are getting people hurt and weakening the natural expression of American Democratic Dissidence.

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We may need fighters. Where are protests getting us? The lone rock thrower is typically a plant who is used as an excuse for the police to get hostile prematurely. The plant won't be detectable until the job is already done.

Now if people made a group effort, see: This is War in the USA

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-The product of these demobilizers.

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This is de-activism at its finest.

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The troofer movement, like all movements, is kontrolled by spooks:

http://www.wbflegalreform.com/wbftableofcontents.html

Scroll down to the section on the right dealing with Linda Kennedy:
http://www.sweetliberty.org/audio/index2.shtml

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No one wants to put blame on themselves or their social group.

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LMMFAO!!! finally someone who gets it...

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I think Deek is good comedy. Most people who talk about this take themselves too seriously.

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http://normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1702

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05.15.2008 | PetionOnline.com

The indefinite expulsion of Molly Little from Brown University for throwing some green whipped cream at N.Y. Times columnist Thomas Friedman is grossly out of proportion to the act. The pieing was not a frivolous student prank, rather, as she intended, the action did evoke some good discussion on the contextualization of "free speech" in our society. Recently, an online petition has been created(see link below) in defense of Molly.

Molly is a Green and my first look at the YouTube video was from a link posted on this listserv, I believe by Joanne. Wherever you stand on the "free speech" controversy is not at issue here. If folks want to have that discussion, fine, but this is about closing ranks in solidarity with one of our own. Molly has been consistently, selflessly, publicly, and passionately opposing U.S policy in the Middle East for close to six years. Many of us feel that she's being targeted for bringing Norman Finkelstein, Dahlia Wasfii, and Mazin Qumseyeh to speak at Brown. In the aftermath of the pieing she has endured, courageously, some incredibly ugly backlash.

If you write to other lists please spread this petition effort. Thank you all for your continued efforts towards justice. Please excuse my silence on this list but we really do have a fairly active local antiwar coalition going on here in RI. – Nick (RI)

In addition to the link, the full text of the petition is also included here: Please sign the petition in defense of Molly Little by clicking this link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/422buml/petition.html

If you are a Brown alum, please indicate that as well on your petition signature.

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To: The Administration of Brown University

On April 22, Brown University student Molly Little threw a pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in protest of his pro-war, pro-corporate views, and the prominence he receives in promulgating those views while others are suppressed. Friedman received no injuries from the fluffy pie, and resumed his full lecture after five minutes. Due to the harmlessness of the incident, no legal charges were pressed by any party.

Nevertheless, on May 15, after a hearing conducted by Brown's Office of Student Life, the administration sentenced Molly to a 'suspension'--in fact an indefinite expulsion. As a result Molly is unable to enroll at Brown in the fall semester, or even set foot on the campus. She is not guaranteed readmission, but must reapply to the same administration which has committed this miscarriage of justice.

The punishment imposed on Molly is severely disproportionate to the incident to which it supposedly responds. It is not compatible with Brown's mandate as an educational institution. The University has put its desire to draw 'marquee' speakers--regardless of their intellectual value--and control student activism above its mission to teach.

Further demonstrating Brown's abandonment of responsibility to students is its indifference towards the actions of Assistant Professor Stephen Porder, who physically attacked and detained Molly in an absurd act of self-righteous vigilantism. The dean who is supposed to be investigating the matter simply refuses to return calls.

We, the undersigned, categorically reject the so-called 'suspension,' actually indefinite expulsion, of Molly Little. We demand her unconditional readmission to Brown University without fines, fees, or red tape.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Petitions in a university setting can work. Perhaps there is something to learn from this. Why sit there and fight the guys with batons when you can target the propagandists. A pie in the face to a government cheerleader. I would have loved to see that. Smile

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Hmm if repetition of what is not true seems to work on the public, why not the truth. However it's important not to sound like the "911 was an inside job" crowd while doing it.

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The media would like to have us believe that these are the only issues we care about. Not one mention of just overhauling the whole damn establishment.

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