LAPD came into a benefit show organized by the Los Angeles chapter of the AGC (Alternitive Gathering Collective)with a fire code inspector and shut it down. Though the venue was in a back alley, and very inconspicous, it is suspected that police managed to find it by getting a hold of the flyer. After closing the show down the fire inspector started taking pictures of people at the event as they were dispersing. The show was a benfefit for the people arrested in the Long Beach Massacre on May 1st. This is another episode added in a wave of attacks against anarchists in the SoCal area since the Long Beach Massacre.
A few points:
1) If true, this appears to be quite outrageous politically
motivated interference in the constitutionally protected
liberties of the people at the gathering. I'd like to hear
more corroborating details
2) The incident you refer to in Long Beach was probably
very abusive behavior by police, reminiscent of the strong-arm
tactics used in various authoritarian one party states. But it
certainly wasn't a "massacre." Webster's dictionary defines
the word massacre as:
1.The act or an instance of killing a large number of human
beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
Massacres are what occur in various proxy wars the US
has fought and continues to pursue in Latin America and
elsewhere. To use the term in this instance is highly
reprehensible and discredits your report.
The list of those massacred by this rouge terrorist group
is extensive.Blue bloc violence must be met with peoples self defence system,operation soft drill.
Soft drill came to riverside before its beta testing at ohio.Officer mark davies may expect a big send off quite soon as donations and pledges flood in.Sue the blue and if you find a cop killer call for soft drill.
soft drill is the open source distro of assasination politics.
soft drill it feels good and it shows.
Could you please provide more basic info: where was the benefit? When? When did the raid occur? Did you get the name of the fire inspector? Name(s) of police officers with them? More basic info is needed so that those of us concerned about basic civil liberties can adequately respond. Thanks.
This escalation of violence against anarchists by the cops won't cause the anarchist movement to break apart out of fear or whatever, as they are trying to do. These brutal attacks that blatantly violate constitutional rights are causing more and more people who don't know much about anarchists to stand behind the anarchists.
Thanks, stupid cops, for working for anarchist values by causing more and more people to learn about and support anarchist beliefs.
The people will prevail!
Thank you webster, but if I needed a dictionary definition of "Massacre" I would have looked it up myself. Thank you for your wasted comments.
-Rampage
While semantics is the least of our problems, we should try to keep it real and not embellish to the point of being ludicrous. Civil liberties can be forgotten conveniently when in violation of tedious codes and zones within a city. We have to keep practicing civil disobedience and letting everyone out there know why we do it. For what we are, anarchists are more coherent a group than all the faceless capitalist warriors who are still negotiating the idea of negotiating to form a committee to negotiate... However, let's not make one party sound like a bloodbath or bitch about the misuse of a word stemming from passion.
Mr. Webster, are you some kind of IDIOT?? (Haha, get it, Rampage?). First of all, no one really cares what the words actual definition is. Fuck language. Second, you talk about this constitution respecting our freedom of speech blah blah bullshit. Do you think they will give us freedom of speech? We have to demand it. I spit on the fucking constitution. Will it respect me? No. Will the upholders respect me? No. DO I CARE? FUCK NO!!!!