Unicorn RiotMar 5, 2023

#BREAKING:

100s-deep #StopCopCity protest marching down powerline clearing towards police set up doing surveillance by the forested site of the proposed urban warfare campus. There is a police helicopter overhead.

“The biggest march in the forest thus far,” one activist says.

Show threadUnicorn RiotMar 5, 2023
The scene moments ago right by Intrenchment Creek and the Old Prison Farm/proposed “Cop City” site in DeKalb County just outside Atlanta - thousands flocked to the ongoing “Week of Action” after police shot & killed a forest defender here in January.
Show threadUnicorn RiotMar 5, 2023
Forest defenders have taken over the police surveillance outpost on the power line clearing near Intrenchment Creek. Police retreated after crowd arrived at barbed wire fence and shot fireworks into the area. People are smashing and destroying the outpost’s remains, sirens can be heard in the distance. A security light post is on fire.
SaltapidasMar 6, 2023
Show threadUnicorn Riot
This police vehicle that was just guarding access to the proposed “Cop City” site is now engulfed in flames.
Mar 5, 2023 at 11:11pmWeb
Show threadUnicorn RiotMar 5, 2023
Show threadSpinozasHeresyMar 6, 2023

@UnicornRiot

Don’t they know that smoking around these things is dangerous?

Show threadPatMar 5, 2023
@UnicornRiot this helps no one except LEOs
Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023

@Pat needing to replace equipment like this -- that they do in fact need, otherwise it would not be there -- objectively slows them down, even if it's replaced from a taxpayer-funded city budget. Property damage is one of the most effective tools in the direct action arsenal

Police will escalate no matter what, because their job is to make sure Cop City happens. People aren't just going to sit in trees and wait to be shot like Tort

Show threadPatMar 5, 2023
@currentbias so how does this help achieve the purported goal? Maybe the goal was increased expenditures and I missed that. Is so, sorry
Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023

@Pat the goal is to stop cop city by any means necessary. Do you understand the stakes?

We have been watching police budgets increase year over year without protesters destroying equipment. They don't need our help increasing expenditures

Show threadPatMar 5, 2023
@currentbias well good luck
Show threadPatMar 5, 2023
@currentbias and how does this advance that goal? This is scattershot
Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023
@Pat no, my friend, this is a police vehicle on fire. Now they need to bring in another one. That's annoying as fuck if you are the police
Show threadPatMar 5, 2023

@currentbias ok, so they are annoyed. this helps the purported goal how?

everyone was on board with George Floyd protests and then riots broke out, the movement lost a lot of support. lots of folks wanted the Vietnam war to end and the weather underground started killing people. eyes on the prize, folks

Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023
@Pat are you more devoted to order than to justice? Do you prefer a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice? Do you constantly say: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"? If so, you are who MLK was criticizing in the Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023
@Pat I appreciate that you want the movement to succeed, but it doesn't need the support of liberals who can't see past their Starbucks, it needs the support of people who already understand the stakes
Show threadPatMar 5, 2023

@currentbias that's rather presumptuous and not the way to win friends and influence people.

and again, no one has answered my question of how this advances the purported goal? why?

anyway, good luck

Show threadCurrentBiasMar 5, 2023

@Pat I answered that question in the first sentence of my first reply

And you are free to actually answer the questions I was paraphrasing from MLK's most influential letter -- they were not just rhetorical questions

Show threadPatMar 6, 2023

@currentbias no you didn't other than greater expenditure. that doesn't go to the goal to be achieved here. I suppose you see them related but I don't. that's fine. we agree to disagree.

the invocation of king here is, I don't know what, sacrilegious. the quote is also being used by you disingenuously in this case. it relates more to a moral vs legal advocacy that he felt was lacking.

like I said, good luck to those on the ground. I hope they are victorious but I fear for them.

Show threadCurrentBiasMar 6, 2023
@Pat in that letter, MLK was talking about moderates who were condemning riots as unproductive. Can you explain how referencing that letter, after you criticized the BLM riots, is sacrilegious?
Show thread2xfoMar 6, 2023
@Pat @currentbias
What does this do? My short list:
- it removes a vehicle that helped them
- it requires agents to put time into replacing it instead of hurting people
- it looks cool
Show threadPatMar 5, 2023
@currentbias I believe you have missed my point. anyway, I hope the people get wha they want. seriously.
Show threadJesse Kawell (he/him)Mar 6, 2023
@Pat It seems you support the protestors, so what do you support them doing? If they protest, but take no direct action, Cop City will be built, no? Is there a point where you think they should just give up?
Show threadChad LoderMar 5, 2023
@Pat @UnicornRiot "This helps no one except King George III"
Show threadOyVeidtMar 5, 2023
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Show thread🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄Mar 6, 2023
@UnicornRiot "fire involved engulfing"
Show threadjordanMar 6, 2023

@UnicornRiot shucks. real shame. tsk tsk.

oh well.

Show threadbendaMar 6, 2023
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Show threadstevenrayMar 6, 2023

@UnicornRiot @tmorman cool.

Always resist.

Show threadWitch HazelMar 6, 2023
@UnicornRiot Based