I used the term ‘allegedly’ to suggest that I think they might be agent provocateurs like the ‘New Black Panthers’. Which remains a strong probability in my view.
Anyone who has ever run a demonstration (and I have run a few in my time) knows that you have to keep tight control on the loonies or they will hijack your demonstration for their own purposes. Either the organizers are incompetent or they intend this type of outcome. Since they haven’t come forward to disown the abusive types as a minority, I assume that the organizers endorse their behavior at the very least.
These alleged protesters started with violent behavior. The approach appears to be that Google has to do what they want or they are going to be more violent and more thugish. I am not surprised Google have hired security guards. It is what I would do in their position. And I can imagine the howls of protests from these thugs who turned up at a Google employee’s house to try to intimidate him as their activities are tracked.
The tactics are so obviously self-defeating that I have to assume that there is something else going on.
