Demonstrators draped in, from the left, the Iraqi, Palestinian (two) and Haitian flags, lie on the street during a protest against the imperialist policies of resident bu$h during the un-elected president's visit to Boston, Thursday, March 25, 2004. The pretend president attended a campaign fund-raiser Thursday with about 1,000 super rich anti-working class PIGS attending a $2,000-per-ass hole event at the Park Plaza Hotel. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Now..... tell us how many protestors actually bothered to show up free of charge.

Can you please post distance shots so we can see the extent of the massive protest?

Thank you in advance....

I am sure Steve was there, he is the premier, numero uno, dedicated activist and Bush Basher in the Boston area. I keep checking his site but no news yet.

Maybe he has so many pictures to upload it is taking a while.

Anyway keep watching www.stop-fascism.org and I am certain he will post his eye witness account of the protest in Boston today.

Saw this on a certain alternative to Drudge....

"Bush came to Boston yesterday and I didn't attend the protest. Why?

After two years of COINTELPRO harassment, the fact that the Secret Service monitors this website and the fact the the harassment campaign published a forged document threatening Bush, in my name, I assumed that I would be specifically targeted if I attended. As it turns out, I was right. The COINTELPRO harassers are posting on IndyMedia implying that I was not there. This shows they were looking for me at the protest and that I was correct not to go. It also shows that I am one step ahead of them. My work as an anti-Bush propagandist is more valuable than what would have been gained by walking into a trap for the sake of "being seen." I've protested Bush dozens of times at Harvard Square, sometimes all alone. That, I believe, is more of what resistance is all about than volunteering to walk like a sheep to the slaughter would have been. This is not the first time I have altered my plans for the sake of security. If you have followed this website for some time, you will realize that "seeking approval" is not on my agenda - whether that be from the right or the left. This website and I have survived as long as we have specifically because I think about what I do. Despite their chest beating on IMC, I know that deep down inside they are actually pissed off that avoided a trap. I did not clue anyone in on my plans of not attending as my specific goals were to (1) frustrate them and (2) cause them to waste resources. Consider that my act of resistance (after all, I refrained from doing what I love most because I believe that was the best way to serve the cause). The very fact that energy has been spent to point out that I was not there (which was an act of intelligence on my part) demonstrates that I am viewed as enough of a threat by some people to target me specifically. That some "anarchists" are involved in that demonstrates that I am correct about NEFAC."

DeVoy is just too brilliant for you COINTELPRO nuts. He outsmarted you again. I'm not surprised. He's been outsmarting you all along.

DeVoy's been very clear in his writings what his goals are what his goals are not. He made it clear from the beginning that he does not want to start and organization, that he does not believe in leaders, that he does not wish to be a leader or even think of himself as a leader, and that his goal is to engage in information warfare.

His specific goals have been to take down John Poindexter, the Information Awareness Office and see that Bush is not re-elected. Those are the only goals he set forth for himself. He has already accomplished the first two goals and he is close to finishing the last of the three goals.

Despite efforts to stop him, all of his website remain online. Despite efforts to provoke his arrest, he has not been arrested. Despite all of KOBE's efforts, he is still doing exactly what he wants to do.

KOBE, realizing that they cannot stop DeVoy, has instead attempted to create the illusion that DeVoy has goals he does not have. For example, the shot at DeVoy for not attending the protest is intended to imply that he is not an activist, not dedicated, not a leader, not embedded in the anarchist community, etc.

If you read DeVoy's writing, none of those illusions are his goals. DeVoy invented the concept of disorganized resistance, encourages disorganized resistance and practices disorganized resistance. DeVoy invented the concept of meme warfare and he uses it: his article are everywhere, his bumper stickers are on cars world-wide and I bet he's as happy as can be.

DeVoy has he is is completely unrelated to DeVoy as KOBE portrays him. I do believe DeVoy has uncovered infiltration in the anarchist movement, proved government involvement in the harassment and probably has much more information than he's disclosed.

Even looking at it in terms of share numbers, DeVoy is an individual standing alone and has against him a network of several dozen individuals. DeVoy does not engage in criminal activity to accomplish his goals and his opponents do. Yet, DeVoy is ahead.

I can only conclude that one DeVoy is greater than all KOBE combined.

The Virtues of a Disorganized Resistance

Author: Stephen DeVoy

American opposition movements have always focused on the notion of organization. It has always been their goal to organize the people. Their hope has been to wield the collective power of the disaffected, downtrodden, and exploited as a single unit against the concentrated power of the ruling class. While their hope has been noble, their methods have been foolish. Organized resistance has many drawbacks. These drawbacks have seldom been discussed by the opposition. We believe that the only effective resistance is a completely disorganized, decentralized, and leaderless opposition.

While, on the face of it, this claim may impress you as absurd. Of course it seems absurd! It is counterintuitive. Never the less, it is the ONLY method of resistance that will work within American society. We will explain why organized resistance has never worked in the United States. In addition, we will promulgate a new formula for effective resistance.

Why has organized resistance failed in the United States?

There are many reasons for the failure of organized resistance. The two primary causes of failure are intimately connected to the culture of the United States and the political system laid down by our nation's founding fathers.

The Cultural Cause

Americans, culturally, are anarchists. Few Americans realize this. Most Americans have a false understanding of the term "anarchism." However, upon examining the beliefs of your average American, you will find that most Americans:

do not trust leaders

do not trust government

wish to be left alone

value their privacy

think of themselves as independent from society

do not believe that there is a systemic solution to their problems

believe that others should be free to do what they choose, provided they do so in private and do not harm others

While it is undeniable that political culture in the United States often speaks to the opposite of the above list, it is also undeniable that most Americans register as neither Democrat or Republican and most Americans do not vote. Thus, despite the political culture, most Americans choose not to participate in it. This is not only due to their belief that the American political system is hopeless, but also is due to the cultural clash between the wider culture and the political culture.

Any attempt to organize large numbers of Americans into a single political movement will fail. Any attempt to create an organization led by a strong group of leaders will fail. Americans reject submersion into the collective. In a sense, Americans are anti-collectivists.

The Political Cause

American political culture is not ideological. Politicians attempt to draw ideological distinctions between the two major parties, but these distinctions are a matter of splitting hairs. The only significant difference between the two political parties is the degree of compassion represented by the rhetoric of the two parties. Compassion is not a political concept. Compassion is an attitude. Thus, the two parties differ, primarily, in attitude and not ideology.

Despite this, there remain two political parties. One is prompted to ask "why?" If each party is basically the same, with respect to ideology, why do they not merge into one party? The answer to this question is best found in viewing each political party according to its true nature. American political parties are, for all intents and purposes, organized crime units. American political parties have more in common with the Mafia than they have with their counterparts in more democratic societies. Like Mafia, each political party competes for control of territory in order to maximize the benefit to their business constituency. Like Mafia, the political parties attempt to mold the system to maintain their positions and access to resources. Like Mafia, the political parties force the average citizen to pay "protection" under the threat of violence (taxes). Like Mafia each political party uses the "protection" money collected for its own advantage.

By defining our political system in terms of the "majority" and the "opposition," our Constitution enshrines this two mafia system into law. Each Mafia passes laws to exclude new comers from the game while focusing the rest of its energy in destroying the other Mafia.

Thus, any resistance movement that chooses to become an organization is in competition with these Mafiosi. The deck is stacked and the power of the state, wielded by these organized crime units known as the Democratic and Republican parties, will waste the time and resources of any newcomer. A newcomer can only succeed by rejecting the political system, draining its resources, and undermining the rule of the state.

How is disorganized resistance superior?

In some societies, dissidents become heroes. In American society dissidents are systematically slandered, libeled, harassed, and villainized. If they become successful, they are murdered (e.g. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X). In the American experience, movements that look to leaders are decapitated. Leaders are a liability, not an asset.

Organizations can be (and are) infiltrated. Organizations can be taxed. Organizations have legal responsibility. Organizations have membership lists and lists are wonderful tools for the oppressor. Organizations take on a life of their own. They struggle to exist and their continued existence takes priority over their mission. Organizations attract opportunists, power mongers, and attention seekers. Organizations tend to exploit their rank and file for the benefit of their inner circle. Disorganizations share none of these defects.

Bureaucracy cannot comprehend disorganization. Disorganization is invisible. The asymmetry of the relationship between organization and disorganization favors disorganization. Organization depends upon planning. Planning requires predictability. Disorganization cannot be predicted. This leaves organization at a disadvantage.

Organization requires a supply chain. Supply chains can be disrupted. Disorganization depends only upon the resources of its members. Supply chains that do not exist cannot be eliminated.

Disorganized movements rely upon swarming. Swarms are difficult to defend against. If you cut a swarm in half, you have two swarms. If you eliminate one of the resulting swarms, you still have a swarm. Disorganization breeds. Organization grows. The many and dispersed are a more difficult target than the large and concentrated.

Organizations takes their steps by design. If the design is flawed, the organization fails. Disorganization relies not upon design but upon evolution. The motivating notions of disorganization are memes. Memes evolve and memes compete. This process improves the motivating notions of disorganization. This process produces multiple courses of action. While some may fail, others are likely to succeed. Taken as a whole, disorganization is more likely to succeed.

The important thing to remember is that it is easier to destroy than to create that which is designed. Thus, the cost to those who lose the manifestation of their design outweighs by leaps and bounds the cost it takes to destroy it. That which evolves is cheap and when an effort is created to destroy the evolved entity, it merely mutates and evolves again, adjusting to the new conditions. As a process that fosters evolution, a movement based on disorganization will continue to survive, evolve, and expand without cost. The resource constraints placed upon the designed (e.g. government and corporate) and those absent from the evolved (a decentralized and disorganized opposition movement), favor the later.

The limits of disorganization

We do not propose a complete absence of organization. Instead we propose a disorganization of units. Units can be as small as a single individual, or as complex as cell of individuals working together. Cells may be internally organized, but they should not be statically organized cell to cell. The movement should have no commander. It should have no central committee or governing body. No global plans should be made. The modus operandi of each unit should be to think globally and act locally. Ideas, strategies, and tactics should float freely and compete as memes within the medium of the collective conscious.

Conclusions

We need to construct a disorganized movement. You need not apply to join. In fact, it might be better if you did not contact anyone except those with whom you wish to form a unit. Your ideas, strategies, tactics, and lessons learned should be spread anonymously or by word of mouth. When you act, should you decide to act in resistance, attribute your actions to "the Resistance." The growing din of disorganized disruption will be felt as an earthquake. There will be trembles. There will be pre-shocks. The tension will mount and, in time, there will be an earthquake. When that earthquake strikes, the organized edifice of the oppressor will fall like a house of cards.

Meme Warfare:

http://www.breakyourchains.org/meme_warfare.htm

Complex Adaptive Systems & Revolution

http://www.rationalanarchism.org/complex_adaptive_systems_and_revolution.htm

Overlooked Dimensions in the War on Terrorism

http://www.rationalanarchism.org/overlooked_dimensions.htm

You backstabbers are outclassed and out-IQ'ed by DeVoy. The best you can hope for is to draw less attention to him. They only way to do that is to get yourselves real lives and not waste your time on a hopeless project that will never succeed. The more you try to harm him, the more he evolves. After thousands of years of human history, you would think the less intelligent, such as yourselves, would learn that good always wins and the more you try to harm good the more powerful it becomes. The only effective way to limit the good it to ignore it. Since you are fools, you will chose to continue attacking him and he will continue to improve in his ability to counter you.