On Saturday, Occupy Seattle folks disrupted a pro-Occupy Wall Street panel discussion at Town Hall, using the “people’s mic” tactic to prevent just about anything from happening.
On Tuesday, Occupiers blocked the intersection of Fifth and Pine. The expected police response was nasty.
Question: Is this about making a spectacle, about disruption for disruption’s sake? Or is it about something beyond our own selves?
Additional question: Is the job of a police department to maintain order at the cost of violently intensifying the disorder?