Vigabrand

Predictable liberal protest tactics (arrest me! I can afford it and have a lawyer!) seemed to make some Occupy camps particularly easy to disperse in my experience last winter… Did Chris Hedges ever respond to your open letter regarding the “peace police” and the problems with fetishizing 40 year old tactics?

Hedges is the classic NIMBYist. He wrote on May 24th, 2010: "Here’s to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. "

There was indeed a noticeable shift among the more mainstream liberal types from that point on (after "the Cancer in Occupy")... no doubt about it. Thanks for the update.