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125. Seattle May Day protest marked by vandalism, arrests

May 01, 2012
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times

SEATTLE — Downtown Seattle erupted in chaos Tuesday as black-clad May Day demonstrators marauded through the shopping district, smashing plate glass windows at banks and retail outlets, spray-painting cars and slashing tires.

At least eight people had been arrested by early evening. May Day arrests also were reported in Portland, Ore., and New York.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn signed an emergency order authorizing police to confiscate sticks, tire irons, hammers and other implements that might be used for continued destruction ...

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/01/nation/la-na-may-day-seattle-20120502


Ms Plante is, of course, entitled to her anarchist views, though I suspect there's little potential for significant growth of that movement. In any case, the public-at-large will not be very sympathetic to smashing windows, spray-painting cars, slashing tires and other such propaganda-of-the-deed: the view of the general public will be that such activities are criminal and that organizing such activities qualifies as criminal conspiracy. So if Ms Plante has knowledge of such conspiracies, but is unwilling to testify when the justice system attempts to unravel said conspiracies, she will not find much public support for her stance, and the public will generally regard as a crackpot extremist anyone who supports her