Anarchists join intimidation campaign aimed at Tea Partiers
Really, it was only a matter of time before the anarchists realized that their number was up in the Left’s quiet draft to raise an army to intimidate and oppose tea party activists.
A web site called Infoshop News – described on its banner as offering “anarchist news, opinion and much more” – is issuing a rallying cry to its readers to begin organizing aggressive counterdemonstrations to pushback against a tea party movement that growing across the country. Specifically, Infoshop News is signaling that April 15 protests will be a major focus of their efforts, a day when tea parties are planned in cities and towns across the country.
Tea party organizers have typically developed and disseminated protocols for handling incidents of aggressive and provocative confrontations by other agitators at larger gatherings. The number one rule of thumb has always been that a handheld video camera or cell phone with video capture is like garlic to a vampire when it comes to warding off actual violence.
A page on the Infoshop News site titled “Crash the tea parties!” houses planning tools, pointers to websites on which to gather intelligence about tea party planning, and a laundry list of smears about the character of tea party activists.
Aside from the basic set of slurs hurled at tea partiers – fascists, racists, homophobes – Infoshop News adds the tag of anti-Semite to the mix, a head-scratcher to be sure. If simultaneous straw polls could be taken among tea partiers and among President Obama’s staff on the questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I think the vicious allegation of anti-Semitism would never be brought up again.)
Methinks thou doth project too much. There has long been a clear crossing of paths by anarchists seeking to disrupt global commerce at events like the World Trade Organization ministerial conferences and anti-Semitic promoters of Zionist conspiracies that contend Jewish-dominated institutions are running the world’s economy. But that’s a subject for another post.
But if the goals of tea partiers were met – less government, more freedom – it would seem to be a step in the direction of the anarchists’ desired outcome, even if an incomplete one. But this isn’t your slightly older brother’s anarchist anti-statist movement. The neo-anarchists don’t even seem to have the conviction of their recent ancestors, the ones who wrought mayhem and destruction on the city of Seattle in 1999 during the notorious riots during the World Trade Organization conference. By their own words, it would seem that their chief concern about tea partiers (aside from the fear that the liberty movement will be successful) is that they might take away the comforting pacifier that comes from – wait for it – big government.
Yes, that’s right, the biggest fear of today’s anarchist is the loss of the nanny state. From the Infoshop News site:
If the tea party movement takes over this country they will really hurt poor people by getting rid of social programs like food stamps, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, student aid, free health care, etc. The tea party movement will say these programs must be gotten rid of because hard-working taxpayers cannot afford to pay for these things especially when the economy is in a depression.
At least when, in the past, we observed these anti-establishment types taking kamikaze runs into the wall of civilized culture, their intent to create chaos to kick off the disintegration of organized society could be respected for its logical consistency. Lest some clever anarchist attempt to engage in a thrust-and-parry over the particulars of hyphenated forms of watered down anarchism, let me respond to all such arguments as follows: I don’t care.
For a look at what anarchists can do when they decide to act on their strong political opinions, Seattle Post-Intelligencer photog Mike Urban’s shot of a WTO delegate being mauled by a mob of what left-wing revisionist whitewashing has attempted to redefine as peaceful protestors is as real as it gets. And, yes, that is a wound on the cheek of the delegate inflicted during the struggle.Having seen what motivated anarchists can do in a highly-charged atmosphere, I sincerely hope that all steps will be taken by city and county law enforcement agencies to disrupt any planned acts of violence and protect the safety of those people wishing to exercise First Amendment rights.
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Could U.S. Government Force Americans Into Underground Resistance?
In America one need only visit websites to determine the United States might be approaching a threshold similar to Belfast, Ireland in 1980.
It is apparent at some point there could be a major conflict between conservative Americans and leftists that appear intended on imposing their ideology on America. Similar to Northern Ireland in 1981, the U.S. Congress is proliferated with members that don’t represent most Americans, but instead support a socialist ideology that they are relentless to shove down the throats of the Citizenry.
It has been recently alleged in publications that the current U.S. Government intends to use Anarchists and provocateurs to incite Tea Party members to violence, to criminalize the Tea Party Movement. While that sounds absurd, governments in other countries have done precisely that to crush political opposition. In Northern Ireland during the 1980’s the British Government increasingly used provocateurs including the famous “steak knife” to incite violent conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in order to justify British Forces crushing the freedom and rights of Irish Catholics. Peaceful Irish protesters who opposed British occupation were beaten and gunned down. But N. Irish Citizens that supported British occupation were seldom charged after inciting or committing violent acts against Irish Catholics. The British increasingly arrested their political opposition. In Northern Ireland during 1981, Bobby Sands a Catholic anti-British activist and member of the United Kingdom Parliament locked up in jail, initiated a prisoner hunger strike to oppose British policies that favored Protestants over Catholics. Bobby Sands eventually died of starvation, but meanwhile it became increasing clear to peaceful Irish protesters they could not speak out or protest without being assaulted, arrested or killed by British forces or their provocateurs. Consequently law-bidding Irish Citizens went underground, joining the IRA. Bobby Sands because a symbol of government repression. If the U.S. Government were to actually use Anarchists and provocateurs to incite similar violence against law-bidding Tea Party members, could Tea Party members injured by U.S. police, state inspired Anarchists or provocateurs cause American Patriots to take to the underground like the Irish to resist what they might believe to be government repression?
Is it coincidence that Sen. McCain on March 4th 2010 introduced the “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” that would give Government the power to detain and interrogate any individual without probable cause. Government would need only allege an individual kept in indefinite detention, is an Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent suspected of; having engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners; or has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. “Materially Supporting Hostilities” against the United States or a civilian population could include any person or group that spoke out or demonstrated disapproval against an agency of U.S. Government.
Had McCain’s “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” already passed, anarchists in the future would only have to incite and bate Tea Party members into a violent confrontation to provide Obama an excuse to continuously use S.3081 to arrest and detain without probable cause Tea Party members protesting anywhere for “supporting hostilities” against civilians or the United States: that probably would be the end of the Tea Party Movement. In Nazi Germany, Hitler’s Brown Shirts purposely caused confrontations with their opposition; expectantly German Police arrested only their Nazi “opposition.” That is not to say Obama would use S.3081 to only arrest Conservatives but a corrupt government could.
It cannot be ignored Palin’s endorsement and support of Sen. McCain’s reelection could make the difference whether McCain is reelected. Is it time that Tea Party Groups ask Palin why she is supporting McCain after he introduced his anti-Free Speech Police State bill S.3081, that blatantly contradicts Palin’s purported position to protect the Constitution? If Palin does not object to McCain’s bill, would you want her for President?