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Or the government sneaked in their people to delegitimize the protesters. This is a well known way police or covert agencies work. Usually if protesters are we
by Ygg2 13y ago
Or the government sneaked in their people to delegitimize the protesters. This is a well known way police or covert agencies work.
Usually if protesters are well versed in such tactics the ring of strongest forms the ring around rest of the mass to protect them from interlopers that would give police a provocation they needed to attack the protesters or to delegimitize them.
- mseebach 13y agoHow very convenient. Hand-wave it away: Maybe the police did it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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- Ygg2 13y agoI know it second hand from an acquaintance that studied Philosophy in Belgrade, Serbia. According to him it was spoken by Dragoljub Micunovic during the student protest in Belgrade during the 90-ties. This is something Milosevic was fond of doing to discredit the student protest. I know this acquaintance had no reason to lie to me, it came up in regular conversation. I don't have any archive material to corroborate but I could try to find something.
- mseebach 13y agoOh, I'm sure it's happened in many places. But that doesn't make it an any less extraordinary claim that that explains what happened in Gezi, given the spontaneous nature of the protests. Also, by all accounts, police moved in on peaceful (if illegally congregated) protesters. The point of instigating is that you can paint the protest as violent before you move in.