Breaking Bernie: 21st Century Rat-Fucking

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15. On the subject of disruption

From an interview with the late Julian Bond:

People in politics may often, if not usually, not be what they appear to be. Often, things are best explained by examining the effects of their activities according to the result, according to the rule of cui bono. Seldom is it possible to 'follow the money', because it's important to the people with the money that it not be followed, but the rule of cui bono ('who benefits' or 'what is the effect') still holds. If a meeting is disrupted, it often means that there was money involved and the disruption was intended for just that purpose - to disrupt.

I'm not saying that the people disrupting the recent Net Roots event in Phoenix were not sincere. I'm saying that, most probably, low-level political professionals were involved in organizing the disruption ... for the sole purpose of disrupting Bernie Sanders' appearance.

Do you think that all of those $billions go into buying media time? For sure, $millions go into hiring low-level political professionals to do things like make phone calls and assure that people will show up and be encouraged to disrupt. It happened in Portland, Oregon, earlier this year when a crowd of BLM protesters managed to shut down the town hall meeting where anti-TPP activists planned to confront Senator Wyden on his support for Fast Track. Very possibly, if not probably, it happened in Phoenix at the recent Net Roots conference.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/22/1404428/-Julian-Bond-Gay-rights-are-civil-rights