I stand by what I wrote earlier. She’s only interested in promoting herself. But that seems to be the path to success and money with well known pagana.

Smearing the reputation of others without identifying yourself and being willing to publicly stand behind those comments with your real name is pathetically cowardly. If you have something to say that is based in any real experience, have the decency to put your name behind it. Otherwise, no one is going to care what you say or respect it. If you have evidence or are even just willing to tell us who you are and stand behind your comments, then I’d be willing to listen until what you have to say. Until then, you are just another internet crank to be ignored.

During the DC protests, activists close to Starhawk (like Lisa) deliberately got pepper-sprayed because it made a good photo opp.

Please tell us how, exactly, one “deliberately gets pepper-sprayed.” Again, your failure to describe specific events does not inspire confidence in your reporting.

Beware what you read in all of the media…

And what are YOUR sources?

My impression is that these are groups of people who are only interested in serving themselves and their own sense of self-importance.

As for Starhawk, I find it difficult to take her seriously when she’s made a very good living for herself through publishing. Doesn’t she own a home in the wine country of California? So it’s OK to use the system to become wealthy and then whine about how oppressive that same system is? Sorry, that actually sounds a bit irrational to me. But these self-described radicals don’t seem to hold a high value of rationality, now do they?

Do you know if anyone’s actually been tried for anything relating to this, or do the police just raid their homes and charge with a misdeamor to justify it?

I have worked first hand with Starhawk, and I have not once seen her or her cluster using a victim ploy.

As Noam Chompsky has said in his documentaries on civil disobediance, it is the responsibility of citizens to participate in democracy. And voting and writing letters are not enough. As he has said, political protest is a responsibility of all citizens. The response of the police are dictated by the organizers and politicians of the convention. Living in Denver, I well know that the organizers of the convention and the city of Denver officials decided what lines to draw for police response. The same is true for the RNC.

What the protestors for the RNC are providing for Americans is a dramatic view of the ethics and politics of the in power Republicans. We need to all pay attention.