Civil Disturbance and Criminal Tactics of Protest Extremists

[The Straight Story]

Civil Disturbance and Criminal Tactics of Protest Extremists

January 2, 2012 in United States

This manual, which was attached to an email from the latest AntiSec release, has no listed author and little indications as to its source. The introduction states that information in the document “was collected and interpreted by multiple agencies” and the manual is intended for use only by “public safety agencies”. However, a 2003 article from a local newspaper in Colorado indicates that the manual was produced by an unknown U.S. Government agency and is used by Joint Terrorism Task Forces to teach local police about “criminal protest tactics”. According to an email in the most recent AntiSec release, the manual is still being circulated today in relation to police confrontations with Occupy protests. For more information, see our accompanying article about the document and its history.

Civil Disturbance and Criminal Tactics of Protest Extremists

14 pages
For Official Use Only
DISSEMINATION RESTRICTED TO PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCIES ONLY
July 2003 (hmmm came out around the time of the war....)

http://publicintelligence.net/civil-disturbance-and-criminal-tactics-of-protest-extremists/

[Aerows]

1. Protesting apparently is "Extreme" anytime anyone does it

They already call people terrorists for protesting. It's funny how supportive the MSM and government is of protestors in other countries, but not in our own.

[mmonk]

2. What is a criminal protest?

A protest for criminals?

[Zalatix]

3. There's simply not enough jails.

That list covers MILLIONS of Americans. Does anyone realize how many taxpayers this will transform into wards of the state? If the Government takes action on this, it will destroy what remains of the tax base and there won't even be money to keep the jails open.

Bring it on, Uncle Sam... bring it on.

[hobbit709]

4. Damn, I'm in trouble. I support about 98+% of that.

[fasttense]

5. This manual makes OWS sound much more organized and sophisticated than we really are.

I've been to several OWS events and we never knew about 3/4 of this. Most of the stuff it mentions, was spur of the moment ways protesters used to defend themselves. There are even a few good ideas in there. Mostly we got trained on nonviolence.

But really, the whole thing makes us sound like criminals. Did they do a manual like this for all the fat white Teabaggers? I bet not. And the Teabaggers came armed with their personal weapons not just signs.

And not one single word in this manual about talking to the protesters or negotiating with them. Yet police routinely negotiate and talk to armed murderers.