And when a group with a leader and a concrete goal achieves results you get COINTELPRO[1]. There's a reason modern protest movements are "leaderless". It's in p

And when a group with a leader and a concrete goal achieves results you get COINTELPRO[1]. There's a reason modern protest movements are "leaderless". It's in part to avoid the kind of disruption operations hierarchical groups are vulnerable to. There's no objectively "winning" hand here. Governments are always going to try to surveil and subvert protests and protestors. Peaceful or otherwise. Thinking that this is a new phenomenon seems ahistorical. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO