On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, petro wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, A. Melon wrote:
After all, given the state of the American Press, this would be P.R. Suicide for the Police.
It would, unless enough fear of these people can be spread among the general population. If you can make the people scared enough of X (whether X is anarchists or anybody else), the people won't protest when you start killing X. The US government, and various police forces, have used this principle extensively in the last decade or so; whenever they want license to kill X, they first demonize X in the press hoping to get lots of people scared of X. The problem with this approach is that when a lot of people, or people whom the scared people know, have gotten killed, people start to get scared of X where X is the police and their bosses.... Bear