Responding to msg by wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204) on Tue, 30 Aug 6:56 PM
Sigh. Unfortunately, governments have been quite effective in making people more afraid of "anarchists" than they are of governments with nuclear weapons.....
Yeah, it's been conventional wisdom around NYC since the 19th century that the best way to get some funding from LEAs was to set up a group with the word "anarchist" in it, or have an anarchist-like manifesto. In the 80s the "commie bomb thrower" types were bitching that the money was moving out west to the "right wing gun nut" types. Now long-time anarchist hustlers around here say that even the gray-haired cops bemoan Red-squad cut backs so that LEA money could go toward defeating "psychopath survivalists" and "the David Koreshes" and "murderous ex-defense workers". To divert attention from the nuclear geopolitics of the Kissingers.