And in this debate, it has been repeated over and over and over and over by elements on the not-even-very-far left that the police was almost completely in the wrong in their actions, and should preferably had kept out of a city that was quickly laid waste to by the pugnacious among the protesters since their tries to keep some sort of peace obviously provoked people to start violence.

Not one word was uttered from this side of the debate as to whether there is an internal hypocrisy in the argument that personal safety is expected simultaneous with the perceived right to form road blocks hindering police from doing anything at all against the stone throwing, car burning, shop thrashing minority that transform the protests into riots Every Single Time.

I do recognize that these are not the same kind of left as the vast majority. But they hoist a similar flag, and I do not like the continually spouted “We have no responsibility for them”-line that meets any critique of the behaviour of the large mass of every single riotous globalization protest.

Glad you didn’t. One thing you need to understand about the fringe left is that it isn’t necessarily “left”, but a different branch in its own right. If you come out to organisations like IS, they live by the old communist proverb that anything that aids the revolution is moral, and anything that delays it is immoral. Now various extremist groups may not have an actual revolution as their revolution, but they share the mindset. If a mass movement can’t be subverted to exactly _their_ aims, then they’d rather see it fail, no matter how “left” it is.

These people are simply not susceptible to “admonishments”. Staying at home, however, would be playing into their hands, so I don’t think it’s a good idea. If that gives ammunition to lazy rightists wielding the tar bucket, so be it.