Re Coordinated Occupy Bigfoot Crackdowns

[Mark Kohut]

>From a UC Davis Prof on Huff Post....
 
Last week, former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper published an essay arguing that the current epidemic of police brutality is a reflection of the militarization (his word, not mine) of our urban police forces, the result of years of the "war on drugs" and the "war on terror. Stamper was chief of police during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, and is not a voice that can be easily dismissed.
Yesterday, the militarization of policing in the U.S. arrived on my own campus.


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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: Re Coordinated Occupy Bigfoot Crackdowns

Yes, and with deeper intertwining, I guess.....prophetic there or just "realistically true"? 

The future is a boot in the face forever---1984

And when I read of some Occupy places haveing to deal with 'infiltrators' who bring/want drugs, steal,
are internally violent or 'beyond' the General Assembly's wishes, I think of the inherent vice of some
that clogs the beach freedoms.......



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From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com




Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: Re Coordinated Occupy Bigfoot Crackdowns

Much of what you say here is true of Vineland as well, no? 

Sent from my iPad

On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A longtime plister, not posting for awhile lately, insightfully noted that
> one difference between Inherent Vice and much earlier Pynchon
> was that TRP was prophetic earlier but IV looked back (by setting and placing in time of
> thematic meanings).........
>  
> i keep thinkign of that, thanks Tore Rye, but as is the first thing many critics, readers say
> about an "historical fiction", it is written by a person seeing the past thru the present.........
>  
> The militarization of our police forces, revealed as if in bas relief, often in the bas(of)night....
> is so clearly emphasized in Inherent Vice as to be a shout (as from a sound cannon, used on Occupyers).....
>  
> Re: Occupyers presence as Occupiers. Melville has a wonderful image of a drummond light---
> circular intense flashlight-like light....which he offers as something we can be like if we can be
> nothing else.............
>  
> Occupyers are, at least. I hold my little keychain light up to Laura--who was more---and all ot them.
>  
> The rest is pettiness. Imho.