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Fifth Column
Blackshirt Hordes Descend on NYC, Police Ready
2004-08-26
Fifty of the country's leading anarchists are expected to be in the city for the Republican National Convention, and a handful of them are hard-core extremists with histories of violent and disruptive tactics, according to police intelligence sources. Police said each of the 50 have up to 50 followers who are willing to be arrested during disturbances at the convention.
Anarchists have "followers"?
This group, police say, is expected to engage for the most part in civil disobedience, including sit-ins in front of delegates' buses. They also may stage more direct-action tactics, such as vandalizing McDonald's and Starbucks. But a handful of activists with violent pasts have police concerned they will recruit others into dangerous confrontations. "The older radicals are interacting with the newer anarchists and it's a bad mix," said one police source. For example, NYPD intelligence reports say Kazi Toure, a Black Panther from Boston also known as Christopher King, convicted in the 1980s of conspiracy to overthrow the government, and with arrests for bank robbery and transporting firearms, was observed training younger militants in weapons use.
This common criminal's adopted name is apparently from Sekou Toure, the one-time dictator of Guinea, who was sort of a pipsqueak Castro and a favorite of American radical-chic conformists in the 60s.
And a 20-year-old New Yorker who allegedly leads "The Organization" is advocating shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge, and hurling bricks followed by Molotov cocktails through the windows of military recruiting stations, according to these reports. The man has four minor arrests for nonviolent offenses and the Daily News is withholding his name.
Such quaint terms as "inciting to riot" and "treason" used to be applied to these forms of expression. Trustafarian status-seekers will refer to them as the "people's right to assemble" or the "right to peaceful protest." In their demented lexicon, "peaceful" means "anything that raises our status and feeds our egoes."
And the reason for withholding his name was ...?
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#18  HEADS UP on some possible breaking news:

Uncorroborated report that a blackshirt mob has attacked a Fox News van in Union Square tonight.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-26 11:43:51 PM  

#17  Good point Frank. But I wouldn't touch it.... who knows where its been...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-08-26 7:41:34 PM  

#16  There's no question that imagines like these are going to help push Kerry over the top in West Virginia.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-26 7:41:24 PM  

#15  LOL - nice butt in last pic...needs a spankin'
Posted by: Frank G   2004-08-26 7:37:51 PM  

#14  Steel yourselves, Rantburgundians:

WARNING: EXTREMELY DISTURBING, GRAPHIC, DISGUSTING AND GRUESOME FRONT-LINE IMAGERY!
Pics of today's opening protest (hat-tip: LGF)
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-26 7:32:21 PM  

#13  Cyber Sarge, you really should issue drink alerts for these lines:

I have always been a big proponent of ‘spare the baton, spoil the protestor.’
Posted by: too true   2004-08-26 7:01:33 PM  

#12  I doubt the native NYers will stay quiet if the shit gets out of hand. They of all people remember 9/11, and a few thousand stinky hippies would be no match for your average pissed off New Yorker.
Posted by: Chris W.   2004-08-26 4:08:45 PM  

#11  Set up two speakers at either end of this crowd. Out of one, play the "Internationale". Out of the other, play the "Horst Wessel Song".

Any bets on which direction they would move towards? I think they'd just go around in circles, confused as to which was dearest to their hearts.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-08-26 4:00:37 PM  

#10  CF - good point. We could play religious music. Nooooooooooo!! Make it stop!!

Is it just me, or is that whole NUDE and AIDS thing kinda ..creepy. Sexy it's not. I think most of us would prefer to see AIDS activists fully clothed.
Posted by: B   2004-08-26 3:59:25 PM  

#9  ....and the curtain rises:
Nude AIDS Activists Arrested at Madison Square Garden
This is the comedy lead-in for the main feature.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-08-26 3:52:05 PM  

#8  B, How would you tell the difference with these people? They are not exactly intimate with soap and water you know.....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-08-26 2:44:01 PM  

#7  I vote for the skunk bomb.
Posted by: B   2004-08-26 2:36:04 PM  

#6  Any protester throwing bricks or molotov's should be shot. These guys should be treated as terrorists and enemy combantants. Even if only half of them die, I think it'll send the proper message that if you want to protest, protest, you want to commit acts of terror, you assume room temperature.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2004-08-26 2:35:18 PM  

#5  I have always been a big proponent of ‘spare the baton, spoil the protestor.’ As soon as two of these yayhoos get together play a nice game of whack a mole with them. Since they have only one stated purpose (disruption), and said purpose is deemed illegal, why not just throw the whole bunch in for conspiracy to incite? There is a right to peacefully assemble in protest, but this group has no plans for doing that. Bust em and break em!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2004-08-26 10:40:22 AM  

#4  I just hope the NYPD has like a Big Giant Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot Puppet to beat the shit out of their Big Giant Protest Puppets. And some off duty Philly cops to deal with the Free Mumia crowd.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-08-26 9:27:03 AM  

#3  NYC should invite a few roving bands of Marines and Rangers. Show them the Seattle riot videos and declare open season on these anarchist, socialist international, and Muslim loving assholes.
Posted by: ed   2004-08-26 8:23:38 AM  

#2  "Since his release from federal prison, he has been involved in various groups, and has arrests for minor offenses such as refusing to move out of the way of President Bush’s motorcade in Boston last March."

He should try it in China. Tianemen Square, ideally.
Posted by: Bryan   2004-08-26 7:23:57 AM  

#1  I'm just wondering if Haliburton Chainey the Illuminati Insert your favorite conspiracy here the party leadership is wondering if it could somehow use these idiots protestors in the same way nixon did in '68
Posted by: N Guard   2004-08-26 7:11:42 AM  

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