From: "Joshua Houk" <jlhouk-AT-uswest.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 23:32:21 -0800
Subject: Re: Top Anarchist Events of the Century


<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>On 29 Dec 99, at 0:47, Chaos912-AT-aol.com wrote:


<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>> I want to know how my words got twisted.  I am not arguing that everything 

> the police did was right.  I wasn't there, I'm not totally sure of what the 

> police did and I certainly don't know the chronological order of things.  

> What I do have an opinion on, is that the protesting was done improperly.  By 

> this I mean violently.  Even if the violence was prevoked, it doens't make it 

> right.  It's just as wrong as what the police did.  MLK jr.'s protestors 

> stuck to peacefullness even when prevoked by the law enforcers.


</color>That certainly helped Medgar Evers. Or the four black girls in that 
Birmingham church.


Listen here you snot-nosed little kid: I was in Seattle that week. I 
was gassed and grenaded. The most violent thing that I did during 
the protests was yell at some head protest honcho who thanked 
the police. You know what? It's kinda hard to think nice warm 
feelings of peace and happiness when your eyes and mouth are on 
fire whilst being shelled with flashbangs. Instead, you get riled up.


Fighting back is not wrong. To suggest that fighting back is 
somehow "wrong" is sick and twisted.


I saw the police assault a residential neighborhood. For two nights 
in a row. Hundreds of people sitting in their homes weren't safe in 
their own homes because the tear gas would seep in through the 
windows.


People who went out grocery shopping were assaulted by cops.


Two students filming in the neighborhood for a class project were 
flagged down by a cop as they were driving out of a parking lot to 
escape the mayhem. The policeman motioned for the driver to roll 
down her window. She did. The cop said "Tape this, bitch" and 
gave her a bunch of pepper spray to the face.


If that was an isolated incident, that'd be something.


It wasn't.


This month, the Seattle City Council listened to 18 hours of public 
testimony by over 700 people on the police brutality that went on 
that week. I would detail all of them to you, but you won't care. 
They deserved it. The sixty-year old woman with a broken arm 
derserved it. The HIV+ man walking home from work who got 
pneumonia from being assaulted by the cops deserved it.


Hey kiddie - you are a motherfucking little prick. Go home and play 
with your money. You've earned it.


joshua h

jlhouk-AT-uswest.net


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