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A federal law enforcement bulletin "assesses with high confidence" that extremists from anti-government anarchist groups will try to use violence with the aim of disrupting both political conventions.
That assessment, it says, is based on what has happened at similar high-profile events.
The analysis, sent this week to local police organizations nationwide by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, says these groups "probably lack the capability to overcome the heightened security measures" around actual convention facilities but could target businesses or means of transportation nearby. Most of what these groups do, the bulletin says, involves vandalism, trespassing and attempts to block roads. But it says they're becoming more interested in trying to use explosives.
The Republican national convention is scheduled to run Monday through next Thursday in Tampa, Fla. The assessment says the FBI picked up information in mid-March indicating that some anarchists from New York were planning to go to Tampa in hopes of closing "all the Tampa Bay-area bridges" during the convention, although it doesn't say how they planned to do it.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/23/13436396-feds-say-anarchists-expected-to-use-violence-to-disrupt-political-conventions
lob1
(3,820 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Response #1 could not be improved upon.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)tama
(9,137 posts)which won't fly. Tea baggers are not anti-government, they are pro-government. Pure night-watch military government to protect private property and nothing else. Nothing to do with anarchism.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)If those are the choices, I'll vote for the smaller, more localized version.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Oddly, in checking the definition of anarchism, I don't find madmen throwing Molotov cocktails at each and every turn. I do see those who wish to live free from dominating systems and corrupt rulers, developing a horizontal democracy in place of stacked systems.
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Anarchy (from the ancient Greek ἀ????ί?, anarchia, from ἀ? an, "not" +? ἀ??ό? arkhos, "ruler", meaning "absence of a leader", "without rulers" , has more than one definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is used to refer to a society without a publicly enforced government or violently enforced political authority.[1][2] When used in this sense, anarchy may[3] or may not[4] be intended to imply political disorder or lawlessness within a society.
Outside of the US, and by most individuals that self-identify as anarchists, it implies a system of governance, mostly theoretical at a nation state level although there are a few successful historical examples,[5] that goes to lengths to avoid the use of coercion, violence, force and authority, while still producing a productive and desirable society.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
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Geez, a little different from what they're attempting to use to scare us into submission and obedience. 9/11! TERRA!
Which of course is why the FBI are now raiding activists' homes in search of "anarchist literature". The machine needs to justify its domination and continued power grab (DHS, TSA, NDAA, NDRP, HR347, etc.) by creating an Other, an enemy here at home. Now we're not just fighting Them over There, we're fighting Them right Here! AIIIE! Chupocabra!
This demonization and utter fear-mongering and escalating police state only goes to show the system IS corrupt and must be tamed into again serving the public.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)niyad
(113,259 posts)eilen
(4,950 posts)That's what immediately came to mind.
Oh the scary anarchists! Really? this is what they came up with? What is this the late 18th century? I know the Republicans want to bring us back there but shit. Next thing they will be investigating that Aramcheck organization.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)"The Stampa In Tampa"
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