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Luther Blissett » Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:21 am wrote:
Philly has a law on the books prohibiting infiltration by local law enforcement and it seems like they stick to it. During the run-up to the RNC in 2000, Pennsylvania state troopers were attending lefty meetings, which is how warehouses began to be raided on the suspicion of finding bombs and bomb-making materials. I'm sure you've all heard the stories, but all they found was puppets and posters. I haven't seen any pigs at any planning meetings thus far, but it seems as though there's a good amount of security culture going on in ours - everyone is already affiliated with one community org or another (Greens, Black Lives Matter, Solidarity feminists, all sorts of Socialist groups, etc). The person who probably looks the most like a pig is me.
American Dream » Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:42 am wrote:Luther Blissett » Thu Jun 30, 2016 9:21 am wrote:
Philly has a law on the books prohibiting infiltration by local law enforcement and it seems like they stick to it. During the run-up to the RNC in 2000, Pennsylvania state troopers were attending lefty meetings, which is how warehouses began to be raided on the suspicion of finding bombs and bomb-making materials. I'm sure you've all heard the stories, but all they found was puppets and posters. I haven't seen any pigs at any planning meetings thus far, but it seems as though there's a good amount of security culture going on in ours - everyone is already affiliated with one community org or another (Greens, Black Lives Matter, Solidarity feminists, all sorts of Socialist groups, etc). The person who probably looks the most like a pig is me.
There's always the shell game of multiple agencies to muddy the waters, e.g. this state entity is prohibited, let's not talk about that other agency which is not. That said, whatever the excesses of the previous cop regime, it may well be that they want to try to avoid more bad PR and intend to use other strategies: overwhelming numbers of cops, tightly targeted detentions etc., not to mention their choice of a terrain where resistance will be managed through crowd control techniques that the squads will drill heavily on. Add to the mix emerging tracking and surveillance technologies (stingrays, fusion centers, drones, social media technologies) and the capacity of the organized and/or controlled left to cooperate and they may well have the situation in Philly to a manageable point, where ugly headlines will not be such a problem.
Cleveland however, is potentially much more explosive, due in large part to the Trump factor...
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