This diary is a WARNING !!! It is my sincere belief that the Bu$h administration in concert with it's many allies on the hard right are embarking on a strategy used by these same elements in the later years of the Vietnam War against the anti-war movement in this country. Specifically, this was the wide spread use of individuals known as "agents provocateurs" whose sole purpose was to infilltrate these groups and then push them to use violence and other illegal actions. Many of us in the movement at that time watched in horror as our own groups were sometimes taken over by these individuals. The violent acts many of these agents condoned and carried out were then used by the Nixon Adminstration skillfully to destroy and neutralize the movement in those years.
I believe were going to see the same kinds of things used against this site and others and I want to warn those of you who encounter TROLLS that advocate violence in here. The Bu$h administration is going to try and raise the anger and frstration level in our ranks to the boiling point this summer and fall. They want to be able to characterize us as violently opposed to their actions and they want to be able to point to violent chatter on the left, especially in these blogs.
I've already had what I believe is just such an encounter here with a troll advocating just such behavior. We have to be on guard now against this strategy. The right would like nothing more then to promote violence from us now. Violent street actions are what they are praying for from the left as well as violent chatter on these sites and the streets. Let's leave the talk of violence to them it's their only way of dealing with dissent.
This administration has it's roots in the Nixon administration and I'm quite sure we'll be seeing the use of these agents to try and turn frustration and legitimate anger amongst many of us into violent talk and violent action. Let's not go there folks. Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandi had it right. We cannot fight fire with fire and defeat these people. They have the POWER now and most of the weapons. They want to provoke us to react violently so they can use our actions to justify even more radical measures to restrict civil liberties. Resist such talk and stay dedicated to peaceful change ONLY. Violence and talk of using violence will only beget even worse oppression.
Let's not play their game this time around way too much is at stake. IGNORE people in here and on the street that promote violent resistance! Right now we are winning in the forum of popular opinion because we are already armed with the most potent weapon available the TRUTH!!