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Fuck Bay Area Anarchists

by Brennus
Kid arrested and no one cares
After the San Francisco Anarchist Cafe tonight, a spontaneous street party/march emerged. Folks marched from the Cafe at 16th & Potrero down to Station 40 at 16th & Mission. The first half of the march was rad. We danced to the Brass Liberation Orchestra for a good 15-20 minutes before a single cop rolled up.

10 minutes later, a youth of color was detained and cited for Jaywalking. One kid was singled out from 50-100 marchers. This is standard. What's not is that the majority of the march (all but 15-20) kept moving. When one individual ran the 4 blocks the mass had marched away from the arrestee, and informed everyone that a kid was being arrested, he was met with "we know!" We had numbers. There were only 4 cop cars. I understand that the march was a party, not a protest, but fuck, man. Y'all would rather go to Station 40 to get drunk than support a comrade? I'm not saying everyone should've dearrested him (though we should've), but even standing to support him, or just chanting or really anything would have been better than abandonment. Y'all got issues. Fuck off and die.

Fuck Bay Area Anarchists. If y'all want kids to show up on Monday, to the Justin event or the Oscar grant event, get your fucking shit together.

Out.
by Aaron Aarons (indy [at] aarons.f-m.fm)
I walked the whole distance at the back of the march. I never saw or heard about this incident. None of my friends mentioned it afterwards, and I'm sure they would have if they had known.

Are there any witnesses to this that are not anonymous or pseudonymous? Where did it happen? Was the guy arrested or just given a ticket. If the latter, we can raise the money to pay it, if that becomes necessary.
by (A)
who gives a fuck if someone was arrested for jaywalking? you san francisco motherfuckers are weak sauce. lets all get out on monday and give the Israeli consulate hell for what they did to Tristan.
Unless somebody else comes forward with information regarding this arrest how do we know it actually happened? For all we know this informer could be another FBI/CIA operative working to help divide the growing "Anti-Police State Movement" in the "BAY AREA"; I mean he sure sounds like one with the construction of words he's using. If your intention is not to “divide and conquer”; why try and make the anarchists look bad in front of everyone here that might be planning on attending future “Oscar Grant Rallies”? We all know about the United States Federal Government spying on all the hippies in the 60's when they had a strong black panther movement and now your scared because the death of Oscar Grant has sparked a continuation and so you're probably just starting to spread lies in order to divide everybody again by race; it's not going to work this time. I'M WATCHING YOU TOO SO DON'T THINK YOU'RE SLICK! I just so happen to watch this site everyday and I’m well informed about government tricks. I'm putting out extra effort to sniff out people like you! I don't know why but something tells me you smell like "PORK"! I will conduct a one-man counter “COINTELPRO” campaign if I got to. I am on it everyday. If this is another escalation in a game of warfare you will be destroyed by any means possible. YOU BETTER HOPE I DON'T FIND OUT YOUR LYING TO DESTROY THE MOVEMENT BECAUSE ALL IT'S GOING TO IS CREATE MORE DISORDER. I CAN CREATE THAT IF I WANT TO. I HAVE MY BAG OF TRICKS TOO! GO AHEAD AND TRY ME? Photobucket
by Anonymous
That U.S. Indymedia is filled with trolls and cops. I do agree though, getting drunk should really be at the bottom of the list of things to worry about...
by Frisk
Funniest shit ever. Hey, fuckhead, people are allowed to have a beef with the anarchist movement without being COINTELPRO agents. Also, I fail to see how criticizing not helping a kid of color counts as "dividing everybody by race"

Oh, and (A)-Fuck off. It's not like we don't have time to help kids getting fucked here as well as protest for Tristan.
by a-feminist
"people are allowed to have a beef with the anarchist movement without being COINTELPRO agents"



amen to that! i don't have a beef with the movement, just some of the behavior of some of the people in it. as for being weak sauce - whatever, dude. while i think the op was a little harsh in their words, it's not without precedent or justification. solidarity and criticism can co-exist; in fact, both are needed to sustain a movement. what really takes sauce is hearing something that you don't to hear, if you get my drift.

I'm the guy that got arrested. Everything is fine and I don't know what this guy is talking about. Everybody stuck around for me yesterday. I'm fine. Don't be so quick to say fuck bay area anarchists because I’m one of them too! You’re basically saying fuck you to me as well. Don't know who you are but yeah! alright!

You can apologize to my friend with the ski-mask! hahahahaha

Cheers! ! !
by .
to maskman! be suspicious,thats the mark of a true warrior! always be ready cause cops are spying. cops spied on tenants in bay area.never trust a cop!
by my two cents
I was there at that march after the cafe' and I was at the party at Station 40 as well. I remeber the guy who was detained and ticketed for j-walking. He was later released and cited. There were about twenty to thrity people who stayed behind and observed, the rest of the crowd marched up the street. I came back actually and walked down the street when I heard that someone was being arrested.

The guy making the comment is kind of making a big deal out of nothing. The cops have fucked with and abused people in a lot worse ways than this. The guy that night only was ticketed for jay walking. The cops may been fucking with people from the march because it was an anarchist march, but in the end: the guy was alright, they let him go with a citation. What were supposed to do anyways, start a riot? Over a jay walking ticket? However, I have seen this community turn their backs on people who have been abused by the police and by others. Sometimes I do get that feeling that some people within the anarchist community only really care about partying or having a good time.

Anyways, I also think that the guy who criticized him is being a little bit outrageous. I do not think that this is a COINTELPRO tatic of creating divisions. Not to say that police,govt. agents and right wing looneys don't troll around Indybay and make comments to spread rumors and create divisions and so forth, but I don't think this is one of them. What is with the mask by the way?
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