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| 'Peace' Protesters Conspire to Make Violence |
| 2004-08-31 |
| EFL According to my source, NION plans to disrupt the convention by having a group of people as march leaders who have memorized a march route different from the one given provided to the police. The march is to begin at Union Square with a small stage and some speakers. They will march north on Broadway to as close as possible to Madison Square Gardens the site of the convention. The marchers will proceed west towards the river, after which, The plan is to attempt to turn north again as soon as we can and then turn east again as soon as we are allowed. You can see how this pattern will soon result in a circle being formed around the Garden... They are telling the police that then they will turn north again on Broadway and move away from the Garden to some "spill out" location, such as a nearby park or pier... This moving away from the Garden will, of course, never happen. They plan to move south again and join up with the marchers still coming up Broadway. This will probably work, and the police will probably shut out the people from moving around in a circle only after they realize what is going on, leaving a group of protestors cut off from the pack... That will turn into a violent confrontation... This is a planned provocation that will surely end in violence. The route and method of police negotiation will make this an absolute certainty." This concept - to stage a march and disrupt the convention - was developed at a national NION meeting at the offices of the Asian American Writer's Forum. This meeting was attended by — among others - Mary Lou Greenberg, a Director of NION and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), with which NION is affiliated, Peter Laarman (a founder of NION), and Joe Urgo, who is an RCP representative. Urgo and Greenberg developed the idea for the march. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Herd them right out onto one of those old, old, decrepit, susceptible to collapse piers. See how fast they beg the cops to pull them out of the Hudson when it caves in underneath them. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-08-31 8:24:44 PM |
| #2 Somehow, I get the feeling that were some conservative groups to have tried this at the Democratic convention, they'd be labeled fascists, Nazis, and the like... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-31 10:58:32 AM |
| #1 Sounds like it's time to apply RICO to groups like NION, UFPJ, and the Asian American Writer’s Forum. For a start. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-31 9:17:58 AM |