" I was then told something that made my jaw drop, and still confounds me to this day: “It was decided that we are a movement of autonomous individuals, and as such, no one has the right to require that anyone do anything.”

" “Well, if that’s the case, then the “zero tolerance” policy concerning illegal drugs and alcohol is meaningless,” I said.

" Much to my astonishment, my statement was greeted with nods and smiles. I was told that Occupy Maine considered itself to be an absolutely open and free community, in which people were to be trusted to do the right thing.

" Other occupations in cities all across the country had instituted loose rules and codes of conduct. These other occupations had rightly come to the conclusion that without some regulation through consensus things would soon fall apart. The camp was already experiencing incidents that proved that trusting everyone to do the right thing was just foolish. "

" Dozens of Occupy members moved into the building after its owner, an Occupier who changed his name to Sr. Paz (Mr. Peace), donated some of the vacant apartments to Occupiers rent-free. But recent postings suggest a rift between those living at the apartment building and other Occupy Miami members, and the last Twitter update from a main Occupy Miami account says it has been "hijacked by a small, non-consensus group of radical members." "

" If you're going to let anyone wave the Anonymous flag, if you have no structure that allows an "official" view to be communicated, then you have to accept that you have no more right than the BPAS hacker to decide what can and cannot be done in the name of your movement.

" In short, Anonymous doesn't know who it is. And can't know who it is. Because it's made of countless different individuals, all of whom have their own opinions and beliefs about what Anonymous is and what it should be.

" Sure, there are Twitter accounts and some websites that attempt to present themselves as semi-official channels for communication by the Anonymous collective, but ultimately they are controlled by a handful of individuals - and are unlikely to represent accurately the wide spectrum of viewpoints belonging to Anonymous participants. "

" A member of the hacking collective Anonymous broke into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider and planned to publicly release the details of women who used the service.

" James Jeffery, 27, stole around 10,000 database records containing the personal details of women who had registered with the site before "boasting" of his crime on Twitter. "

" Jeffery later confessed to his crimes during interviews with detectives, telling police two friends had had abortions which he disagreed with, the court heard. "

" Remember that in the past weeks I had anticipated the possibility that someone could use the name Anonymous in other operations, from cybercrime to intelligence operations made by hostile governments, that is why I defined Anonymous a cyber weapon.

" The reputation of the group may paradoxically create many problems to the group itself, the audience to which the collective targets is not in fact capable of distinguishing false messages, and infiltration attempts that are occurring and will occur with increasing frequency. "

" Because so many people at Occupy Oakland buy into an impossible and non-fact-based ideology of leaderlessness, they are unable to acknowledge or check the very real systems of power that have come into existence. It is absurd to say that people like Leo Ritz-Barr, Barucha Peller, Omar Jaime Yassin and Jasper Bernays are not influential in the planning and execution of GA business and the overall tenor of the movement. Yet these same people routinely disclaim responsibility for their actions. And their actions have alienated community support — yet no proposals were forthcoming from the Anti-Repression Committee to sanction the Move In Day Committee in the least. I don’t accept this ridiculous nonsense about “well that’s because the police were there.” That’s like assaulting a hill under fire and then, after getting all your troops killed, claiming that it’s not your fault, it’s because there were people shooting at you. No kidding. Your job is to get around those shooters, not whine about them. "

" The "its a tactic not a group" line seems to substantially be for external consumption. ... Internally, BB does not appear to maintain the "this is just a tactic not a group" illusion: "

" Tactics are not religion; everyone would be better off without treating them as if they are. "

" Coupled with respect for diversity of tactic is a separation of space. This seems to be the most misunderstood of the St. Paul Principles and, as such, it is the most important. Separation of both time and space ensures that peaceful marches, boycotts, and pickets remain peaceful—unless, as all too often happens—agents of the police state find it necessary to escalate towards violence, as they have in New York, Oakland, Bahrain, Tahrir Square, and elsewhere. "

" “Diversity of tactics” is democratic internally, but antidemocratic when it forces tactics on community people that they consider harmful, and cannot oppose without being liberal- or cop-baited. In the end community people pay the price, not the implementers of the “tactics.”

" This is the lesson of Chicago 1969:

" October – Weatherman trashes and “fights” cops, ignoring Panther leader Fred Hampton’s warning that it is “anarchistic, opportunistic, Custeristic.”

" December – Fred Hampton is murdered in his bed by police, with the excuse that he was a violent criminal. "

" For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized. This is not to say that formalization of a structure of a group will destroy the informal structure. It usually doesn't. But it does hinder the informal structure from having predominant control and make available some means of attacking it if the people involved are not at least responsible to the needs of the group at large. "Structurelessness" is organizationally impossible. We cannot decide whether to have a structured or structureless group, only whether or not to have a formally structured one. Therefore the word will not be used any longer except to refer to the idea it represents. Unstructured will refer to those groups which have not been deliberately structured in a particular manner. Structured will refer to those which have. A Structured group always has formal structure, and may also have an informal, or covert, structure. It is this informal structure, particularly in Unstructured groups, which forms the basis for elites. "

" The artifact vanished just three weeks after a $2,400 Apple MacBook vanished from Brashear’s office. He told the occupiers that even when the 100-year-old Upper West Side church extended help to addicts during the 1980s drug scourge, no visitors touched its $12,500 sacramental instrument.

" “Not even crackheads messed with that,” he said.

" The pastor and a worshipper finally found the missing basin tossed into a small room connected to the church. The lid is still missing. The pastor has given protesters two weeks to vacate the church. "

Vicious oh-so-humanities condemnation of Occupy Wall Street for co-opting 2009 Occupy UC & having lousy class analysis

" Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.

" OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”

" The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.

" The Post visited the Vermont Street home last week — six weeks after OWS announced that the Carrasquillos were moving in — and the family was nowhere to be found.

" In fact, the only people occupying the house were occupiers themselves. "

" In a press release uploaded onto its blog on January 2, SpyPeople explain that members are leaving Anonymous in order to form an organization with “disciplined leadership” and members.

" “This is a departure from the Anonymous mentality, where everyone does as they see fit without efficient leadership,” the release states. "

" They do not understand, as they never have, they are not the majority and do not represent it. Most Americans will not let their limbs go slack and shake their hair at the outburst of a drum circle. They will not be cheered by Noam Chomsky’s appearance at Occupy Boston. They are not inspired by sex in sleeping bags in public parks, and past a certain point, the perpetual, pointless mass expropriation of public spaces against local ordinances and in contest with municipal governing authorities will turn against them. Roving demonstrations through city streets, looking like roving mobs – especially when there is any violence at all, with antagonistic relationships to police – will turn a supportive population away, and make it easier for their foes, the Bourbons and the Romanovs, to demonize them. "

" Last night the drumming was near continuous until 10:30 PM at night. Today it began again at 11 AM. The drummers are fighting among themselves, there is no cohesive group. There is one assemblage called Pulse that organized most of the drummers into a group and went to GA for formal recognition and with a proposal. "

" Though we do not encourage the involvement of the police in our community, the survivor has every right, and the support of Occupy Baltimore, to report the abuse to the appropriate law enforcement. "

" After smashing the living fuck out of the Walgreens window in a blatant attack on capitalism, several attendees of Occupy Chicago not only tried to kick me out of the march but actually chased me down and attempted to make a citizens arrest. They told me I did not represent them and tried to grab me, screaming for the police. I managed to throw them off as a few comrades in support delivered some street justice to the faces of the disgusting protectors of property. "

" Two men told police they were attacked early Sunday morning when they came upon a group of people throwing garbage and street signs into the street and questioned why they were doing that. "

Anarchy: Because cleaning trash off the street means you need a mob beat-down.

" 1. We are not terrorists and we don't plan on being terrorists. To elaborate even further, we will never harm any innocent civilian. "

Therefore, the armchair anarchist would-be rabble-rousers at @AntiSec_ will never participate in the revolution they are asking others to start.

" you don't "use" terrorism. Your actions define terrorism. Overthrowing government is a terrorist action... "

" the founding fathers of America were terrorists they OVERTHREW government. what part of TERRORIST don't you understand "

lolwut

" New research done by Anarchist Research in Social Evolution (ARSE) has exclusively revealed that anarchists would not last if anarchy took over the UK.

" The research commissioned by ARSE showed that, if anarchy did take over the country, the lawlessness and disorder that comes with it would mean that anarchists would be swiftly eradicated. "

" Every so often (once a year or so), a big protest will happen, and an anarchist will throw a rock through a window, drag a newspaper box into the street, or roll a dumpster down a hill at a cop car. The remainder of the year will be spent hyping this event up to be the sign of the coming insurrection. "

Anonymous as organizing mode, not organization: " Anonymous has no formal membership, no leader, no spokesman, no rules. Any act claimed by anyone as being done by Anonymous is just that – because anyone can be Anonymous. "

Let's mob, corner, & shove around an armed police officer on riot detail hur dur dur #letsplayprotest

@substitute shot of angry janitor

Parasitic student anarchist update 3: The uselessness of pomo grad students, or an epic troll: you decide.

Parasitic student anarchist update: Remember that crowd that got boxed in and arrested? #OscarGrant

Same verse, same as the first! Also professors must be beaten.

Same verse, same as the first! Also professors must be beaten.

It's like 4chan, except that many of them are serious.

"We saw our reflection in the dumpsters that one day," or Zot! Zot! We won't get shot! I can't make this shit up.

Ohmydearlord he's still going on about the empty dumpsters.