Fury at anarchist convention threat - NY Daily News

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/211413p-182089c.html

July 11, 2004

Fringe elements are hoping to spark major disruptions at the Republican National Convention with a series of sneaky tricks - including fooling bomb-sniffing dogs on trains bound for Penn Station, the Daily News has learned.

Internet-using anarchists are telling would-be troublemakers to decoy specially trained Labrador retrievers with gunpowder or ammonium nitrate-laced tablets in a bid to halt trains or even spur the evacuation of Madison Square Garden.

Top cops are girding against the attempt to foil strong anti-terrorist strategies aimed at protecting conventiongoers - including President Bush - as well as peaceful protesters during the Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 GOP fete.

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So in addition to guarding against the most vile, organized and destructive of terrorists, Kelly and company have to combat a shadowy, loose-knit band of traveling troublemakers who spread their guides to disruption over the Internet.




Sounds like the NYPD is lining up their excuses for using gestapo tactics during the repug convention. Run the anarchists are coming, the anarchists are coming...

[mhr]

1. Let's Hope It All Gets Captured ON Tape Thus Exposing The

Jack-Booted Thugs AKA the Bush Administration.

Hopefully MM will have his camera's rolling as the police state is exposed for what it is!

[mikehiggins]

30. So it gets taped. So what?

WHo is going to broadcast the tapes?

FOX NEWS? MSNBC?

[mhr]

32. Can you say F9/11 Redux Boys And Girls?

eom

[tinanator]

33. Ever heard of Indymedia?

Im sure those outfits will show video as well, but with a slightly different message.

[Terran]

41. If it gets bad enough, they'll all show it.

Big disruptions at the Repug Convention would be a huge story.

[ixion]

2. strong anti-terrorist strategies

signal the end of the republic, and herald the ascension of the corporate theocracy. :-(

[Earth_First]

3. I cannot wait for the RNC...

[Mr.Green93]

4. "The Whole World's Watching"

[Baltimoreboy]

5. Actions like this ARE terrorism

I think those involved will find that out when they spend years in a federal pen.

[IndianaGreen]

11. The only terrorists are the idiots in the White House

They are the ones that should be in a dog cage in Guantanamo!

[Baltimoreboy]

17. There are a lot of terrorists in the world

[IndianaGreen]

19. Including our own government!

Let's clean our own house first!

[TahitiNut]

38. The NY Daily News is serving up the Kool-Aid.

Taste good? :eyes:

[IndianaGreen]

6. Bawahahahahaha!

The only real terrorists in this sordid tale are the delegates to the Republican Convention!

Too bad dogs don't respond to catnip...

[Baltimoreboy]

7. Trying to disrupt a political convention is OK by you?

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. It depends on who you think the disrupters are?

The Daily News publishes an article using very inflammatory language based on at the least, questionable information from a questionable source and you're worried about some kid in a chatroom having fantasies?

[mhr]

14. When It Is The Republican Fascist Party - You Bet!

RNC = RFP

[Baltimoreboy]

22. That's not politics, that's revolution

Revolutions are usually poorly treated by the police.

[mhr]

26. Some Have Thought For Awhile That This Country Is Headed For A

culture war that will end in revolution.

Reason no longer seems to work with the Republicans.

Trying to negotiate with them seems to only encourage more excess.

Hence, they have become a rogue party that will eventually have to be dealt with.

Therein lies your revolution.

[Baltimoreboy]

28. I disagree with your premise

About a revolution.

And I oppose illegal actions taken to disrupt a political convention.

[mhr]

31. You Can Disagree With The Premise All You Desire - Actions Speak

- Illegal war in Iraq
- Systematic destruction of the environment
- Policies designed to undermine and eliminate the middle class
- Disenfranchisement of large classes of Americans
- Bankrupting the Federal Government through profligate spending

Need anyone say more?

The Republicans have become a rogue element and a cancer on our society.

They will have be dealt with one way or another.

If that happens to be revolution then so be it.

Some people like myself have nothing left to lose.

[Forkboy]

44. More muddled thinking from Bb

[geek tragedy]

9. As a New Yorker I can only say that

these punks deserve to get their ass beat by the cops.

Peaceful demonstrators: Rock on!

Anarchist idiots: Fuck off and stay out of my city.

These morons are not Democrats, and I they are making things more dangerous. They are not welcome.

<snip>
The dog decoy ploy is the among most insidious in the fringe groups' bag of tricks - which includes throwing marbles under the hooves of police horses and using slingshots to pelt the animals.
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Lovely people.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Did you know that it was the Chicago police that used violence in 1968?

Prior to the 1968 Democratic convention, the capitalist media was running stories planted by the Daley machine about possible violence from antiwar demonstrators. As it turned out, the only violence was the Gestapo tactics of the Chicago police as it attacked people that had assembled peacefully to register their opposition to the war.

I think what the see in here is a replay of the old Chicago playbook by the GOP.

[geek tragedy]

18. This isn't 1968 and Bloomberg isn't Daley

It's not like there isn't a history of stuff like this at the anti-globalization protests.

[IndianaGreen]

21. Who engaged in violence in Genoa at the G-8?

It was the Italian police!

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. I guess you can't recognize

disinformation when you see it?

This story is a crock of shit. There are no named suspects. No one has been caught or charged with making these plans. There is no mention even of what website this was found on.

Yet, in the meantime folks like you, take the story at face value and get all worked up. That's exactly what they want you to do.

[geek tragedy]

20. I'm leaving town that weekend

so I'm not going to get all worked up. But, the NYPD, which does have its faults, is not controlled by Bush or Ashcroft.


But, the Anarchist idiots who go around destroying things do exist and hijack peaceful protests and I wouldn't be surprised to see them show up here.

[bemildred]

27. Complete crock of shit.

100% fearmongering and blather.
Pre-need justification for police lawbreaking.

[DoYouEverWonder]

29. That's why they ran the story in the Daily News

Even the NYT wouldn't touch such a baseless story with a 10 foot pole.

[JaySherman]

34. I agree

Marbles under the hooves of horses and pelting the animals with slingshots. What "fringe groups" engage in those tactics? :shrug:

This story reeks of propaganda.

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. My guess is that these Internet-using anarchists

are a probably just some bored teens with hi-speed access, who just finished watching an old episode of the Three Stooges.

[struggle4progress]

40. I'd bet you're right! eom

[mhr]

15. Well When The Jack Booted Thugs Stick One Up Your ***

You may not feel the same way anymore!

[oasis]

13. "It's Giulliani time" again.

[mbperrin]

16. So the problem here seems to be people going to a

shooting range and taking the train home, right? That's the bulk of the article. Well, hell, that's simple, then. Close down all shooting ranges, pick up all guns and ammo, and arrest all those involved in the operation of those ranges and the sales and distribution of ammo and guns.

The anarchists are the NRA, apparently. Hey, NYC, bust a few heads!

Problem solved. Next?

[THUNDER HANDS]

23. anyone ever meant a poor anarchist?

Or are they all upper middle class kids with too much time on their hands?

[geek tragedy]

24. The latter

"I hate my parents' money!"

[Cocoa]

35. is that first-hand experience?

or is it hearsay.

My own experience with anarchists is opposite that media stereotype.

[chenGOD]

25. I've met plenty.

Lots of young adults whose parents aren't rich and who protest against the globalization/commercialization of the planet are quite poor. They often live in homes with 7 or 8 people.

Anarchy != Violence btw.

[SOS]

42. The "anarchists"

may well turn out to be the young people in this photo. The Republicans have staged phony "riots" quite recently.

[TahitiNut]

37. Stifle ALL Dissent!

The techniques are time-proven. Just label all dissenters as "terrorists," "anarchists," or "vandals" and you have a ready-made reason for stifling all dissent. Sow fear and lead up to the event with a plethora of well-timed stories about how 'evil and 'illegal' those terrible demonstrators are ... and how they threaten the vital life juices of God-fearing Amurikans.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[kimchi]

39. Heehee! You said "vital life juices"!

TahitiNut, you sure have a way with words and you always make my day.
Rock on with the truth my brother.

The dissemination of disinformation abounds.

[tom_paine]

43. Another Trial Balloon for the "Miami Model" of Oppression

The Busheviks sure are floating a lot of trial baloons lately.

[durutti]

45. Lies.

If these "anarchists" exist, they're cops. I guarantee it.

[Laughing Mirror]

47. Cops or mercenaries of some sort

Coudlbe. Who knows? It was CIA and their famous infiltrators and disruptors during Vietnam demonstrations, wasn't it? Who is it now?

[Laughing Mirror]

46. Fertilizer on trains

You don't even have to go Googling. The good old Daily News provides all the necessary recipes.

Since the Daily News doesn't do it, I'll take the liberty of helping our friends at the News by providing a link to our friends the Anarchists, that "shadowy, loose-knit band of traveling troublemakers who spread their guide to disruption over the Internet."

Sounds like a merry band to me!

http://www.infoshop.org/