Reply #30: There's no security role at all? [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

Even just to prevent FReepers from attacking protesters?

Come on.

I was one of the people that shut down Lake Shore Drive when the war started. They let us have the northbound lanes and go all the way to around Michigan and Chicago (and some FReepers got in fights with some people, not many, but some). OK that's great. What wouldn'tve been great is if it would have gone farther down and people ended up looting all the junk on Michigan Avenue and breaking windows and stuff, so they stopped us. No I didn't like later when they arrested 700 people including people that weren't in the protest (but still, there were like 10,000 of us - that means 9000 of us didn't get arrested, not really what they'd want to have happen if they were just out to suppress free speech), but shit would have probably turned real bad if we were allowed to go south of Chicago Ave. I don't think what the cops did was good but I don't think all the protesters had the noblest intentions either. Most people appreciate that kind of complexity when assessing a situation, but you don't find a lot of them on Indymedia and stuff.