#infiltrators

"While its meaning is sometimes lost, respecting a 'diversity of tactics' means refusing to impose non-violence upon our co-strugglers and declining to condemn those that destroy property or take up arms. As a group of autonomous UCLA students writes in the wake of vicious assaults on their encampment:

We have noticed a trend of the desire to appear peaceful for the media taking precedent over the right of protestors to self defense, mirroring the world’s response to Palestinians’ right to self defense in the face of blatant fascist attacks and eliminationist violence.

We cannot allow our resistance movement to demand obedience over safety in the same way as western imperialist forces against the colonized.

Without drawing false equivalence with a people living under active bombardment and military invasion, the liberal urge that leads people to denounce burning precincts or fake clinics as 'giving police an excuse to crack down' is the same that denounces the Palestinian resistance for 'giving Israel an excuse to destroy Gaza.' We must refuse any invitation to distance ourselves as the 'good,' 'peaceful,' 'innocent' ones. Instead, we affirm the right of Palestinians and all people to resist colonial domination by any means necessary."

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacketing/#/