From: "Tom Trouble" <twbounds-AT-pop.mail.rcn.net>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Black Bloc Communique
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:58:02 -0500


From: Joshua Houk <jlhouk-AT-mindspring.com>

>And some fuckin' idiots at indymedia think this is a COINTELPRO action.
>The left liberal mantra is now "look at those bad anarchists" while, as
>people have noted previously, they're riding our coattails. I'll be
>writing to those folks.

Indymedia ran a piece from Lyn Gerry refuting the claims that the N30 Black
Bloc Communique is "proof" that they are agent provacateurs.  The person
responsible for these absurd COINTELPRO claims is Ken McCarthy.  He has a
website at www.brasscheck.com .  Ken is an idiot.

Tom

"We truly don't want a seat at the table to "reform" trade rules,
because if we get one, then sooner or later we'll be standing
alongside Global Exchange's Medea Benjamin proclaiming that Nike,
which pays its workers less than 20 cents an hour, has made "an
astounding transformation", and in Seattle actually defending Nike's
premises from well-merited attack by the street warriors. Capitalism
only plays by the rules if it wrote those rules in the first place."  -
CounterPunch 12/3/99

"Yesterday's Seattle Times had an article on the delegation of anarchists
from Eugene, Oregon, who are being blamed for most of the violence. The
Eugenians - playing the always-useful role of outside agitators - published
a manifesto denouncing the unions and NGOs protesting the WTO as "part of
the glue holding a rotting order together. It's time to create a new world
from the ashes after the ruined one. Fight back and don't get caught." And
they didn't; almost all the arrestees were doing nothing violent, while the
window-smashers seem to have skipped town unhindered. Before leaving,
though, the Eugene anarchists amazingly flattened the tires of eight police
cars and spray-painted them with the circled A that symbolizes anarchism.
Doing that takes amazing nerve; getting away with it is stunning." - Doug
Henwood, Left Business Observer