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Warren Stupidity

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5. Civil disobedience is law breaking.
Sat May 5, 2012, 08:12 AM
May 2012

You really cannot plan an act of civil disobedience without discussing activities that are illegal.

I have a different theory about how to deal with the infiltration/agent provocateur problem. It starts out the same as yours: assume they are present at all meetings and events. Plan everything up front and out in the open. Be completely honest. If you intend to break the law, be clear about what laws are being broken, why, what the benefit of breaking those laws is to the cause, and what the potential risks are to those participating.

Assume you will be arrested. Assume you will be attacked and harmed by the police. Assume that the police will know all of your plans. Assume that the state will cause you as much physical and financial pain as they can. Cross that bridge in Selma with your eyes wide open.

We will win when our numbers are so large, and our moral strength so great, that the enforcement mechanism of the state collapses. Until then we will lose every battle.

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