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I think the problem here isn't Facebook, it's the incompetent and hysterical reaction of the police to those parties.

by arrrg 14y ago

kitsune_ 14y ago
Where I live, an illegal Project X party descended into a riot a couple of months ago. The police were were rational in their behavior. They started to intervene once people started to climb on a bus stop's roof - those idiots were very near to power lines and could have been bbq'ed because of their intoxicated state. When the police tried to get them down the mob started to throw glas bottles at them. Alas, it quickly descended into a riot and the police had to disband the mob with tear gas and rubber bullets. The entire vibe of the event was not peaceful, it was clear from the beginning that people wanted to start shit. After all was over the entire city's central place was littered with glas shards and trash. 2 months prior to the event thousands of people danced peacefully through another city, Bern, also during an illegal party, and there were no riots.
tatsuke95 14y ago
"Hysterical reaction" to a party where 3,000 people show up at a town of 19,000? That's asking for trouble. Methinks you have too much faith in mobs; as expected, they smashed and looted. I suppose that was the police's fault?
- antidoh 14y ago
  Indeed. Even if the police over-reacted, which could mean anything from merely showing up to throwing tear gas, anyone in a mob is free to walk away. There is no obligation to throw bicycles at the police.
  - tedunangst 14y ago
    If you don't throw anything at the police, they may not tear gas you, and what fun would that be?
theorique 14y ago
The police reacted as police do when outnumbered by an unexpected and unpredictable large number of people concentrated in a given location. The problem is a person making a private party invitation public, while being naive about exponential growth as the invite is passed from friend to casual acquaintance to complete stranger to anarchist to criminal.
rmc 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with protecting people from themselves. We do it all the time.

I think the problem here isn't Facebook, it's the incompetent and hysterical reaction of the police to those parties.

by arrrg 14y ago

I think the problem here isn't Facebook, it's the incompetent and hysterical reaction of the police to those parties.

Where I live, an illegal Project X party descended into a riot a couple of months ago. The police were were rational in their behavior. They started to intervene once people started to climb on a bus stop's roof - those idiots were very near to power lines and could have been bbq'ed because of their intoxicated state. When the police tried to get them down the mob started to throw glas bottles at them. Alas, it quickly descended into a riot and the police had to disband the mob with tear gas and rubber bullets. The entire vibe of the event was not peaceful, it was clear from the beginning that people wanted to start shit. After all was over the entire city's central place was littered with glas shards and trash. 2 months prior to the event thousands of people danced peacefully through another city, Bern, also during an illegal party, and there were no riots.

tatsuke95 14y ago

"Hysterical reaction" to a party where 3,000 people show up at a town of 19,000? That's asking for trouble. Methinks you have too much faith in mobs; as expected, they smashed and looted. I suppose that was the police's fault?

antidoh 14y ago
Indeed. Even if the police over-reacted, which could mean anything from merely showing up to throwing tear gas, anyone in a mob is free to walk away. There is no obligation to throw bicycles at the police.
- tedunangst 14y ago
  If you don't throw anything at the police, they may not tear gas you, and what fun would that be?

theorique 14y ago

The police reacted as police do when outnumbered by an unexpected and unpredictable large number of people concentrated in a given location. The problem is a person making a private party invitation public, while being naive about exponential growth as the invite is passed from friend to casual acquaintance to complete stranger to anarchist to criminal.

rmc 14y ago

There's nothing wrong with protecting people from themselves. We do it all the time.