Funny, I don't feel that wild

New York Times, page 1: Anarchists Emerge as the Convention's Wild Card

Not a bad treatment of the @ set. Actually, I think the real x factors will be the size of the Sunday march and how assertive the masses are feeling. But could we please, please talk about violence not as something that looms large just because a bunch of people who don't believe in heirarchy are getting together in the same city, but instead as something perpetrated so massively by the government that no individual or group of individuals could ever possibly hope to replicate it, short of access to a nuclear device? And, while we're on the subject, when did non-pacifism become a wild, extremist, minority ideology? A belief in violence in limited situations is pretty standard among radicals and non-radicals alike. I don't want to see people get hurt in New York, but I also don't want to see the authorities get away with the egregiously antidemocratic behavior they've displayed during the run-up to the convention. And really, any public celebration of the Bush administration ought to be considered a provocation by anyone with even a passing interest in humanism. Let's have fun, let's try to be safe, but let's not allow ourselves to be pushed around.