Shall we write a polite letter asking the police not to rape our comrades instead Bruce Michaels? What measure of solidarity is appropriate in retaliation for rape? Should the women being raped by the pigs in the detention centre have been more polite? At what point will you and your fucking pacifist friends lay off the weed and come up with a better strateg?. Go back to Willowdale you voyeur fuck, this is a class war, not the model UN.

I hope that I catch you in a dark lane one night...

The black bloc are a bunch of fucking tools. If they're not undercover cops, they might as well be. If these faux anarchists want to act like idiots they can go ahead, but show some RESPECT and don't HIJACK other people's demos. I don't want to be a human shied for a bunch of bratty little thugs who wouldn't know democracy if it hit them over the head. 

We can all agree that smashing windows is pretty small potatoes. It's essentialy intense street theatre, those corporations aren't directly being hurt by anything you're doing.

The analysis that needs to happen is "how does this appear?" Be aware that you will probably be filmed whether you like it or not. Ask yourself, what is it that I want to communicate to the public? How is the public reacting?

Smash the state! I don't care about the public!

...then you will remain forever marginalized and the majority of people will not support you. You're playing into the hands of power by giving them the images they want.

Do people think that the bloc has some kind of orgasmic pleasure from fighting? or that they even remotely enjoy being in harms way? That they're not terrified for their lives as they do as they do? This is analagous to Bill Blair's bullshit quotes about how these are nothing but violent thugs with no politics.

There is a place for violent thugs with no politics, a place where they can practice their sadistic, senseless tendencies with impunity. It's called government. It's called the police, the politician, the bureaucrat,  and the military.

"how about switching your role to be the protectors of the marchers, the first line of defence?"

I'm reminded of the words of Fred Hampton "Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it." ( I don't think Fred meant a candle light vigil or march )

The bloc works because members fight back COLLECTIVELY.

As far a media war goes... I mean this is just so painfully obvious. The mainstream media in Canada is predominantly owned by large private interests, and the state. The state serves large private interests. Therefore, defacto, large private interests control the media. Do you really think the mainstream, controlled by private intersts, is going to speak against itself? If you do, I can't help you overcome that chasm of non-logic. I mean, reporters get fired in Canada for not towing the line. It's happened repeatedly at Canwest. Google it.

I'm not saying media doesn't have a part to play. The media co-op is dope. submedia.tv rocks my socks. We need more of it. But pandering to the mainstream media is a waste of the precious little energy that exists for resistance. An arguably better approach would be street level advertising of independent media sources, or even street level soapboxing and political discussion.

Ultimately what will win this war is an abolition of the state, the power that enforces corporate rule. Not regime change. I don't want Harper, Ignateif, Layton, Libby, or any common list of elites having power over anyone I care about. Do people forget the government of Canada, any government of Canada, is a bankrupt, colonizing, and immoral instituion? Decentralized people power is what is needed. People becoming self-organized, building instituitions outside of capital, and violently defending those insitutions when capital attempts to deal them a blow. Real solidarity with the third world doesn't mean bearing witness, real solidarity means attack. The reality is, not everyone will be won over. That doesn't mean that starbucks/nike/coke/ insert union-killing cartel mafia here, doesn't need to have the maximum economic sabotage inflicted on them at any given moment. Maybe if you read more mediacoop and other alternative press, you'd realize this isn't a lone incident. People are throwing down every night of the week all over Canada.

Don't think a window or two means anything? Then pick up a fucking brick and join in you cowards!

there's a history of people utilizing the black bloc tactic to protect vulnerable lines of protests, marches, etc.

i believe at a point prior to the summit, the organizers of the labor march expressed that they didn't want the black bloc presence at their march, hence the block formed and broke off as quickly as possible