The anarchists came to Pittsburgh to prepare to disrupt the G-20 summit. They quickly saw signs that made them believe that someone, or some entity, was prepared for them too. “Obviously, repression has already started,” Pittsburgh anarchist Alex Bradley told a gathering of anti-authoritarians — the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project — in a closed-door meeting on Sept. 20. Members of the group say they have been followed, photographed, stopped and searched in the run-up to their protests of the Group of 20 meeting of the world’s leading economic powers on Sept. 24 and 25. The 40 people in the room were urged to write local lawyers’ phone numbers on their bodies in case of arrest.
via time.com
Article continues at above Time.com link
The right to protest, even “energetically”, is a fundamental right of every American [on American soil]. However, the anarchists are just a bunch of thugs who go far beyond protest… they destroy private property. Property owned by folks who usually have nothing at all to do with what the anarchists are protesting.
The rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights have an unstated, but well understood, clause: “My rights stop at your nose.” In other words, I cannot harm you [or anyone else] in the exercise of my rights. No matter how angry or aggrieved I may feel.
I am not unsympathetic to the anarchist’s complaints. I do not like exploitation of peoples or natural resources either. Some of my personal boycott of Chinese products are based in these very issues [among a list of morally repugnant issues I take exception with the Chinese government over].
But no matter how morally repugnant I find the Chinese government and its policies, I understand that I don’t have the right to damage or destroy the products imported from that country, or the businesses that import them. My right is to not participate in enriching the Chinese government. Period.
Thuggery is thuggery. Even if it’s dressed in the garb of moral indignation.
The anarchists are thugs… period.
Posted via web from SophiaZoe
