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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
do NOT let that officer, or officers, make an example out of one of your own. That is how you get marginalized, by not showing any teeth. The first time that a police officer puts his hands on a protester, he should get mobbed and beaten, and then the others that jump in should get mobbed and beaten.
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I'm a surprisingly tough lad considering what a hippie I am, but I do not have the necessary ability or resources to stand up to a major metropolitan police force without risking massive escalation and collateral damage. Even if I came to a protest with a few hundred of my closest friends armed to the teeth, all I'd do is provide another "victory" in the "war on terror" when we were all eventually arrested or dead. I'm not interested in lending credibility to the garbage used an as excuse for warrantless wiretaps. I want them to stop.
The only thing I can think of that might stand a chance is corporate espionage, stealing the list of people being monitored and releasing it to the public so that the lawsuits against the telecoms can finally go through. The problem, though, is that no one in a position to release that list is interested in doing so either out of self-interest or fear.