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To: Trumpinator
Dallas an open letter by micah white

You knew your protest marches weren't working. And yet you failed to acknowledge the crisis. The result was predictable and horrifying.

I assume this was taken down for copyright reasons.

Could very well have been. If this thread gets canned, let me know and I will redo it for you. So many people seem to get mad when they get no or little information. In addition they do not want to follow the link, and claim it is click bait. So I thought I would bring the website here, because Scott's writings are always spot on and I didn't want anyone to miss it.

5 posted on 07/11/2016 12:58:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
Please post it for me or better yet talk to moderators. I mean that is the Occupy Wall Street founder blaming Black Lives matter for Dallas and we should be shouting it from the roof tops - I even posted a youtube video where he stated as much.

I try and do cutting edge posting on here but I think it freaks people out more than illuminates stuff for them.

6 posted on 07/11/2016 1:02:48 PM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Robert DeLong; Trumpinator
Dallas
an open letter by micah white

The murder of five police officers in Dallas has killed street protest. Activists are partly to blame.

You knew your protest marches weren't working. And yet you failed to acknowledge the crisis. The result was predictable and horrifying.

As I warned in April: “it is dangerous to continue to use tactics that aren't effective. What we don't want is for people to lose hope in the possibility of protest entirely. Because then they become more violent.”

Who will march in the streets now that in the best of cases it achieves nothing and in the worst of cases it is used as a cover for lone-wolf terrorism? This is the end of protest.

Now that protest as we know it is no longer an option, activists are faced with a dilemma: win wars or win elections.

Either we gain sovereignty through an armed insurrection that devolves into martial law; or we gain sovereignty by building an electoral social movement capable of sweeping the people into power.

Those are the only options remaining: nihilism or optimism.

I’m on the side of optimism. Will you join me?

Micah White
July 8, 2016
Nehalem, Oregon

7 posted on 07/11/2016 1:10:53 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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