Is “Support the Texas 2” condoning acts of violence?
No, we are not condoning violence or violent acts. We believe that the Texas 2 were provoked and entrapped by law enforcement to further a larger political goal of discrediting anarchists and the validity of all street protest. At the RNC, violence was almost exclusively being perpetrated by law enforcement without probable cause. The largest block of arrests (300-400) was not against “rioting anarchists”, but hundreds of peaceful anti-war marchers on the last day of the convention. As their permit expired, heavily armed riot police descended on them with clubs, tear gas, smoke bombs, pepper spray, flash bombs and guns. Let’s be clear that real violence in our communities is the police, the courts and the prison system, and it could be argued that the worst crimes in history have been committed in the name of obedience, not disobedience.
