There’s a group called Oath Keepers that vow to protect civilians from police power. Some may regard it as an extreme right wing group preparing to protect US from Leftist tyranny. It will be interesting to see if they will become involved. Small contingents have been present at our local Occupy group. I’m idealistic enough to see them as they have defined themselves-not as they’ve been portrayed. Time, and how police power is used, will provide clues-if not an answer on the OK’s From: Dante-Gabryell Monson Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 3:59 AM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Cc: Michel Bauwens ; Sepp Hasslberger Subject: Re: [P2P-F] occupymarines and occupypolice .. also : http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/marine-navy-army-and-airforce-vets-an... Marine, Navy, Army and Airforce Veterans and Police Vow to Protect Innocent Protesters In response to the police brutality against peaceful American protesters – here, here, here, here, hereand here – military and police groups are forming to protect American citizens. In fact, many in the military support the protests (and see this). As of today, OccupyMarines, Occupy Police, Occupy Navy, Occupy Airforce, and Occupy Army have formed to protect the people against police brutality. After Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen – a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq – was critically wounded in the Occupy Oakland protest, Occupy Marines tweeted: WHEN YOU SHOOT ONE MARINE, YOU SHOOT AT ALL OF US. OORAH. Do It Peacefully Occupy We Stand In Solidarity On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> wrote: http://occupymarines.org/ http://www.occupypolice.org/ On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Kevin Carson <[email protected]> wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > the above are, I dare say, significant if not 'revolutionary' developments > ... Kevin, any chance you could report on this? I'm in a 'retreat' with just > one our pe day of net time ... Did you mean to include a link? -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation