Now if they had gone around spiking gas tanks on people’s cars, for example, that would be different in ethical terms and something I would condemn. Furthermore, if you’ll read further up, you’ll note that I somewhat agree with you that the gas station action wasn’t the best possible choice. That’s a PR concern rather than an ethical one, though. Clearly the gas station action has been misinterpreted as a rebuke to gas buyers — which I would never intend, regardless of what the views of Code Pink members are.

Even so, I’m generally encouraged to see more radicalism generally. The mainstream hasn’t gotten off its ass to stop this war yet. How much longer will that be the case? We shall see.

Note that I’m only speaking for myself and not Code Pink or SDS.

Sorry, wrong targets. If they want to get that message across there are better ways than being the bullies they claim to hate so much.

When I am not voting Democrat, I am voting Green, and live in a Blue state. If this new-active-energy thing had happened while I was trying to get home during a rush-hour-KC-summer, my assault would not have been theoretical. And I’m a guy who *agrees* with you.

And “action”. Anti-abortion protesters “blockade” and “harass” when they block private property. How come this is an “action”?

What’s good for the goose, etc.

CITGO gas comes from Venezuela, and of course, we know Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela, and Cindy Sheehan is Hugo Chavez’s good friend. And Cindy Sheehan is also Code Pink’s CEO. And we all know Medea is down with the socialists.

How much sense does this protest make?

The three (corporate owned) gas stations in question were in a row within approximately a three to four block area. One at a time was targeted, at any time leaving the other two open. It would seem some sort of case could be made that any disruption was rather minimal.

At each station, flyers were handed out explaining what was going on and why.

Prior to the action, the level of activity for the groups in question were much lower. This qualifies as the beginning of a campaign of more frequent and higher profile activity — “signs of life” for local anti-war radicalism, so to speak.

The action was carried out non-violently, save for (reportedly) justifiable self-defense on one participants part.

Gas stations have been a common rhetorical target of working class ire in the area.

Clearly, these targets fall under the “grey area” in the middle of the spectrum explained in Agorist Class Theory, rather than being clear embodiments of one or the other of the polar opposites at each end of that spectrum. It is my personal, and admittedly subjective, assessment that the capacity of the particular shades of grey in question were not exceeded.

All in all, not bad for ordinary leftists without libertarian input (I had client matters to attend to that day and was out of the loop on the planning process for the action. I would agree that targets more closely aligned with the ruling class would make for much *better* activism, but I don’t see much worthy of vigorous condemnation either.