False accusations again?
May. 22nd, 2012 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marjaerwinIt looks like the arrests in Cleveland and Chicago are more frame-up jobs. After all, there is a very long history of these frame-up jobs, from Haymarket through CoIntelPro to St. Louis. And the press goes along with the story. When the police tell reporters that gazpacho soup is "pepper spray," it's easy enough to suspect that they are telling reporters that beer-making equipment is "Molotov cocktails."
Now first of all the centrists and rightists denounce the accused and denounce all anarchists. They say we're violent. They are the ones who believe violence and domination are a just social order, and they say we're violent. Many of them are calling for violence against us. One said he'd take me down with a rock, and 'joked' about raping me or raping another activist womon.
Second, there are those rushing to declare the guilt of those accused, yet insisting we ought to assume the innocence of the police departments. *facepalm* On one side you have people, who may be [are being] railroaded. One another side you have institutions, ruling institutions, with a history of railroading people. There is no equivalence!
People deserve the benefit of the doubt. Institutions do not. And the more powerful the institution, the more important it is to challenge it and hold it to scrutiny.
Third, there are those saying the frame-up in St. Paul was not a frame-up, saying that the people accused there were guilty of 'terrorism' and let off with 'a slap on the wrist.' I suppose it would help to gather resources to debunk this.
Now first of all the centrists and rightists denounce the accused and denounce all anarchists. They say we're violent. They are the ones who believe violence and domination are a just social order, and they say we're violent. Many of them are calling for violence against us. One said he'd take me down with a rock, and 'joked' about raping me or raping another activist womon.
Second, there are those rushing to declare the guilt of those accused, yet insisting we ought to assume the innocence of the police departments. *facepalm* On one side you have people, who may be [are being] railroaded. One another side you have institutions, ruling institutions, with a history of railroading people. There is no equivalence!
People deserve the benefit of the doubt. Institutions do not. And the more powerful the institution, the more important it is to challenge it and hold it to scrutiny.
Third, there are those saying the frame-up in St. Paul was not a frame-up, saying that the people accused there were guilty of 'terrorism' and let off with 'a slap on the wrist.' I suppose it would help to gather resources to debunk this.
