# I'm starting the White Bloc--who's with me? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 28, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743 "2010-06-28T03:12:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/41 "2010-06-29T03:01:23Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > When it comes to (G(6|7|20))|W(B|TO) protesters, they are all the same. I wouldn’t be surprised that if you looked at the budgets for all these summits you’d find out that the protesters were part of the program; I mean, not having protesters would be like being loser. > [@alphaboi867](#): > > Eh, the name’s sounds funny. “White bloc” sounds like a group of white supremacists or Russian monarchists of which I am neither. Maybe compulsive Domino players? > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Strangely enough, there are some local anarchists who’d be down with this idea (with a couple changes). > > On May 1, some Black Bloc mofos from Chicago came to Asheville, went to an anarchist party, and afterward went on a rampage through downtown, smashing windows and destroying property. They targeted a lot of small, locally-owned businesses. The cops picked them up pretty quickly, and they’re facing some serious charges. > > The local anarchists were enraged by these folks, seeing them as a particular pernicious brand of tourist: come to Asheville, enjoy the mountains, fuck it up, and leave! While the black bloc groupies back in Chicago held fundraisers to pay the $110,000 in bail for the vandals, the local anarchists tried to find ways to help out the local folks that were hurt by the rampage, and did some PR stuff, basically saying to Asheville, “Hey, we’re your local anarchists, and we’re not about smashing stuff up, we’re about community gardens and co-op bookstores.” I wouldn’t be at all surprised if next May 1, the locals do a community-watch thing to prevent a recurrence of this incident. > > Our local anarchists are cool. “Those out-of-town guys were too well organised, we’re Anarchists, dude, we NEVER organise!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/42 "2010-06-29T03:02:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > It’s safe to say the worst of them is a better person than **Rand Rover.** Why’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/43 "2010-06-29T03:09:11Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Why’s that? Because you’re a stupid, burping anus? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/44 "2010-06-29T03:25:20Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Because you’re a stupid, burping anus? Self evident rock, meet oblivious hard place. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/45 "2010-06-29T06:02:32Z")
Being a veteran of several such protests and disagreeing strongly with the tactics of the tiny minority of protesters who think fucking up Starbucks, banks, and McDonald’s is a good way to get the point across - not to mention the possibility that people who initiate such actions could very well be planted in there - I should very much hope that people of **RR** ’s ilk find out the hard way that their insurance _doesn’t_ cover such injuries. Also, giving Goose Island to people like **RR** is a tragic waste of perfectly good beer. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/46 "2010-06-29T06:05:13Z")
> [@Gotterfunken](#): > > Yeah, historically speaking, the color white has been associated with monarchism and the far right, e.g. the counterrevolutionary [White Terror](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_terror) episodes. Missed this the first time around. What about the Black Hundreds? ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/47 "2010-06-29T13:41:16Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah… at least do it up right and dress as Batman or something. I vote for them dressing up like [this.](http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2010/04/Toy-Story-3-Big-Baby.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/48 "2010-06-29T13:57:05Z")
> [@mack](#): > > I vote for them dressing up like [this.](http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2010/04/Toy-Story-3-Big-Baby.jpg) That’s creepy. Put a number of the forearm and you’d have an Auschwitz-Patch Kid. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/49 "2010-06-29T14:01:01Z")
It’ll freak those ruffians right the hell out, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/50 "2010-06-29T14:08:35Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Well, I guess it’s okay, but what happens after Labor Day? **Rand** gets out of prison, and can stop wearing orange. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/51 "2010-06-29T14:10:52Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > These fucking G20 protesters are such pieces of shit–especially the Black Bloc, which are a group of anarchist do-nothing fuckheads who think society owes them something. > > I’ve decided to start a counter-protest group to go in and kick these protesters’ asses. We’ll infiltrate the crowd and then start beating the shit out of protesters once we’ve gathered up enough of us. We’ll dress in all white so we know who we are. We’ll try to concentrate on the Black Bloc, but if a protester’s head finds itself on the business end of our bats, then so be it. > > But first I need to make sure my long-term disability insurance covers injuries incurred while trying to beat the shit out of idiot anti-NWO protesters in foreign countries. If it does, I’m in. > > Who’s with me? Good luck with that. Worst case scenario: you become a martyr to the cause you love so dearly. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/52 "2010-06-29T15:54:07Z")
In every generation, a leader arises, champion of the comfortable, palladin of the privileged. To griddle his loins and struggle against the scruffy hordes of Anarch, in their tens. To boldly stand athwart those who would undermine the truest American values: a solid portfolio, an admirable credit rating, and good grooming. Supported only by his moral convictions and a few thousand police truncheons, he stands ready to sacrifice the unworthy on behalf of those blessed few whom God, in His wisdom, has determined to be the appointed stewards of a nation’s wealth. Such a man was Senator John Blutarsky. May we see his like again? Perhaps. Perhaps he may rise from amongst us, and go forth to do battle, never to return. We can only hope. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/53 "2010-06-29T16:02:40Z")
Griddle his loins? Sounds painful. But hey … ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/54 "2010-06-29T16:22:00Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > Good luck with that. Worst case scenario: you become a martyr to the cause you love so dearly. Why is that the **worst** case scenario? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/55 "2010-06-29T16:34:36Z")
Elucidator… Man that was an instant classic! ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/56 "2010-06-29T17:53:53Z")
**Rand** , you’re a sap if you’re not being well paid by the big governments and big corporations to act as their thug. But you’d probably be more effective working on their behalf as an _agent provocatuer_. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Griddle his loins? Sounds painful. But hey … You oughta see what a waffle iron does to them. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/57 "2010-06-29T17:57:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yes, but do such people deserve to have the shit beat out of them? Well, when those anarcho morons find people in danger of death by fire, they shout anticapitalist songs to them. Yeah, those Greek bank tellers are the lackeys of capitalism ! ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/58 "2010-06-29T18:33:20Z")
Luci–how do I represent privilege, exactly? I’m just a working stiff. I think I represent those who actually try every day to make the world a better place instead of those who get government handouts during the week and march to tear down the government on the weekends (ie, the Black Bloc idiots). ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/59 "2010-06-29T20:51:15Z")
Psssst, **Rand** , my man, she may be thinking of : [thread=551009]‘Ask me what it’s like to be rich’[/thread] or [thread=524753]‘Anything else you motherfucker’s need’[/thread] Although, with regards to the OP, I must contribute my personal observation that the anarchists we had in Vancouver during the Olympics were a pain in the butt, and didn’t produce anything like decent political theater - or a point of any kind. They just busted shit up. Dolts. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743/60 "2010-06-29T20:55:34Z")
**Rand Rover** , I know that lately you’ve been super confused about [what trolling is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=568299) and genuinely interested in learning how to spot it so you be sure to avoid accidentally doing it yourself. To help you in your quest, I present a perfect example: > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > I’m just a working stiff. I hope this helps. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-the-white-bloc-whos-with-me/544743.md?page=4)