The organization may have been fluid and dynamic, but it was tight . While we may not be professional activists, we've all been working on this convergence in Seattle for months . Some of us did work in our home-towns and others came to Seattle months in advance to work on it . To be sure, we were responsible for many hundreds of people who came out on the streets on the 30th, only a very small minority of which had anything to do with the black bloc . We are neither ill-informed nor unexperienced . .
Masked anarchists are anti-democratic and secretive because they hide their identities .
People tell us that if we really think that we're right, we wouldn't be hiding behind masks . While this is a fine and noble goal, it does not jive with the present reality . Those who pose the greatest threat to the interests of Capital and State will be persecuted . Some pacifists would have us accept this persecution gleefully . Others would tell us that it is a worthy sacrifice .