Re: Jerk with a t-shirt

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Steve Furlong wrote:

I guess it _could_ have been a spontaneous rising of a populace fed up with jack-booted thug harrassment of dissenting opinion. But the more I hear about it, the more this sounds like a planned operation.

In the age of cellphones and email, fast ad-hoc organizations of many people aren't as difficult as they used to be. I believe a good book about this could be Howard Rheingold: Smart Mobs. Especially in the case of already pre-stirred subpopulation, in this case the anti-war part, fast crowding could be initiated by a relatively small cause.