What is taking place here is a kind of silencing. Defining people as "violent" is fundamentally a way to delegitimize them; Solnit and Hedges feel entitled to spread falsehoods about their political adversaries because their goal is to shut them out of the discussion entirely. That's why Hedges acknowledges he never spoke to anyone involved in a black bloc in the course of composing his diatribe. Perhaps we shouldn't expect better from journalists with their own wikipedia pages and glamor shots, who have much to lose should popular movements cease to be managed from the top down.
To counteract this silencing, we sought out our comrades from the heart of the black bloc and asked them to tell their side of the story: where they come from, why they participate, how they see the world. We do not accept the terms set by the mudslingers: our intent is not to compete for ideological legitimacy on a battlefield of abstractions, but to foster mutual understanding grounded in personal experience. As the expression goes, God only knows what devils we are: He can't know anything else.
A 'zine version is available as a pdf [  link to www.politicsisnotabanana.com ].
A web version may be read here: http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2012/02/20/black-bloc-confidential/
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And one last thing, remember that word bourgois, remember it from when Anonymous hacked that security firm a few months ago. If you dont want us, too bad. You either stand in solidarity with us or fall with us while contributing to the movements decline by denigrating us. But then again, it's only YOUR ego that's on the line. It's not like you've ever sacrificed a thing.
You self important blowhard. Get a personality too. You're writing reads like old dusty copies of the Sunday Guardian from the 19th century. You wreak of lack of imagination, dryness and contempt for your fellow man. All for your ego though.
From the bottom of my heart though, and for the second time in the last century THIS Jewish American either directly being called or by having his family called a cancer...fuck you.