Obviously it’s pro-law enforcement and advocates such charming concepts as the importance of duty over conscience, but it’s also clearly written by someone that’s pretty well educated on anarchist philosophy and knows their shit about the organization of political movements in the US. It also doesn’t absolve the police of culpability for inciting violence. Given how often it’s brought up for people to dunk on the police, I kinda expected it to be… I’m not sure. A little bit less uncomfortably accurate in both it’s characterization and predictions. Don’t love that.
The excerpt referenced in the OP:
Few agencies are able to commit to operations that require years of up-front work just getting into a “cell,” especially given shrinking budgets and increased demands for attention to other issues. Infiltration is made more difficult by the
communal nature of the lifestyle (under constant observation and scrutiny) and the extensive knowledge held by many anarchists, which require a considerable amount of
study and time to acquire.
Well… huh. That’s actually a pretty good article.
Obviously it’s pro-law enforcement and advocates such charming concepts as the importance of duty over conscience, but it’s also clearly written by someone that’s pretty well educated on anarchist philosophy and knows their shit about the organization of political movements in the US. It also doesn’t absolve the police of culpability for inciting violence. Given how often it’s brought up for people to dunk on the police, I kinda expected it to be… I’m not sure. A little bit less uncomfortably accurate in both it’s characterization and predictions. Don’t love that.
The excerpt referenced in the OP: