Solidarity Statement With DVC Arsonist(s)

Once there have been enough of these incidents and they take place across state lines the FBI can use them as an excuse to legally spy on Anarchists and probably even take down websites and detain people.

These could be real, they could be the actions of a crazy individual, or they could be done by right-wingers in or outside the government with a strong grudge against Anarchists. Assuming the SC window breakings and this attack are by the same person or group, one thing to suggest they aren't real is in the choice of the targets. In the past organized acts of property damage on any significant scale have been taken by radicals mainly against high profile targets where one would get at least some public sympathy. The SC actions first aimed to alienate organized labor, then students who used specific ATMs, then mainstream Greens (with the attack on a Green business) and then those worried about hatred against specific religions (with an attack on a nonpolitical church). Those don't seem like actions aimed at building anything and in fact seem specifically targeted to alienate group that might traditionally support a property damage style atack on corporate, military or right-wing targets.

are you fucking crazy?

did you read the communiques for the SC actions? pigs don't write like that.

paranoia and finger pointing is EXACTLY what the feds want you to do.

if you hadn't noticed, we are already being spied on, harassed and detained. that will never change. you are making things worse by contributing to the fear that numbs our community. get over your ridiculous conspiracy theories and realize that someone might have done something very, very brave. that people are capable of choosing legitimate targets and taking militant action against them. yes, a church, atms, and a green capitalist store are all VERY legitimate, regardless of who you think the actions alienate. stop using that as an excuse to condemn anything beyond sign holding and petition signing.

hmm. i wonder about everyone who is alienated by the existence and necessity of atms on every street corner, or the people who are trapped inside a detention center because of the prison profiteers that the bank holds shares in? i guess they don't exist. oh! or how about all of the damage a "green" home furnishing center does by creating the illusion that industrial captialism can be sustainable? that's not alienating or insulting at all for the people that work in the factories making useless, "green" shit for 12 hours a day.

It does seem possible or likely that the SC incidents were one person or small group. By intuition, I guess it is someone who lives in their head and is not connected with a group, particularly groups that hold long meetings about mission statements, bylaws, strategy and procedure.

...like, say, in Italy. Go back and consider some of the false-flagging ops related to the Brigate Rosse in Italy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigate_rosse

In some instances, the right wing was able to attack leftist populations, then blame leftist elements for the attacks, and thus prevent leftist electoral victories by "bad jacketing" the left as terrorists. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#Terrorism_and_false_flag_operations

Another example of "bad-jacketing," against anarchists in this case:
http://www.infoshop.org/rants/southern_poverty.html

Against AIM:
http://books.google.com/books?id=pOrmZAFrx1UC&pg=PT52&lpg=PT52&dq=%22bad+jacketing%22&source=web&ots=3esazhwdYe&sig=ZHb_RZH5mDJnULwXk41U4Ag_MJ8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result

ISR on "bad-jacketing" as a COINTELPRO tactic:
http://www.isreview.org/issues/49/cointelpro.shtml

More on false flagging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

There are reasons American anarchists forswore the attentat a century ago, not least among them that the attentat seems generally to swing public sympathy here to the targeted entity, what- or whomever that may be. In the American context, of course, one immediately thinks of Berkman and Goldman's attempt on the life of Frick, for the sake of the Homestead strikers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Berkman#The_Attentat

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Homestead_plot

...all of which, of course, helped lose public sympathy for the Homestead strikers, and by extension, justified the use of police and military to destroy the strike:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Steel_Strike#Company_legal_retaliation

Much wisdom on this question, from an anarcho point of view, has been formulated in the Australian pamphlet, "You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship," by Anonymous. See:

http://flag.blackened.net/noterror/cantblowup.html

To the best of my limited knowledge, no one has theoretically countered its contents, except by continuing to try to make social-political gains by means of attentat-type tactics. This seems ignorant at best, and like playing into law enforcement hands at worst, as per some of the comments above. Unless, of course, the overwhelming majority of attentats these days are in fact police and intel ops, designed to make us look violent and therefore to justify the persecution and imprisonment of our comrades. For a recent example of that, of course, look no further than:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/08/18498005.php