When goal is confrontation with law enforcement; do not expect widespread community support...

[Earth_First]

of your events.

This is the FB image posted just now begging community members (beyond the usual turnout) to attend a Housing is a Human Right march.



First off, *AWESOME* housing, shelter, adequate food and water along with several other basic needs are human rights issues which I fully support.

However, I do not support gauging the success of the event on whether or not law enforcement deploys non-lethal crowd dispersal methods; which is most certainly a 'tactic' in the eyes of some activists.

Secondly, when called out; to assume that one is automatically a 'pig' or 'narc '...great job alienating the individuals who you are asking to bolster the ranks of your event.

Lastly, I'm uncomfortable being told that I need to dress, act, and otherwise disguise my identity in public. Why? I have no problem who knows that I feel that housing is a human rights issue...what gives. -I'm not that naive either, I know exactly why.

Perhaps I'd like to be ensured that I am not going to be physically injured requiring me to lose work due to your 'tactical' deployment of questionable routes creating attention to your causes...

/rant

[patrice]

1. I cannot agree with you more. & It's unfortunate that you and I are counted as the enemy to

at least some of the people adopting this line of strategy, i.e. those people who may authentically prioritize justice over anger and self-aggrandizement. I am sorry that we disagree, but disagree we MUST, because . . .

Others who are behind it are of no loss to me, because I personally know that at least some of them are of the Libertarian/Anarchism variety that fights DUI driver checks; who tolerate, and in some cases indulge in and exploit, the use of any and all drugs, and whom I personally know one active proponent of which, who worked in a local Republican campaign, who promoted, in "jest" or otherwise, the "justice of stealing" within a group that directly interfaces with the homeless.

I know that masks are admired here at the DU, but I say fuck 'em, fuck all of these masked sorts whom I sketch in the paragraph just above; fuck them and the horse that they rode in on.