Re: people are nuts
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Thu Jan 15 2026 05:37 pm
The smart ones are getting paid to riot...
The stupid ones follow the smart ones around like sheep...
It is funny you mention that. I remember reading a police manual from the Hoover era and the takeaway of the prologue was exactly that.
More specifically, the manual mentioned that beating rioters was unlikely to fix things in the long run because organizers and smart activists would use useful pawns to do the grunt work and anybody with brains would be far away from the beatings when the riot brigades showed up. So basically the movement leaders would be handling all the funding etc and everybody else would be taking the hits for them.
I once met a lawyer specialized in defending rioters and his experience backs that book. Police tends to focus on the most noisy, leader-looking guy and charge him with organizing whatever protest and riot is getting out of hand but more often than not the guy was not the organizer, just somebody calling the shots on the field.
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