Packs of angry car burners on the loose in Berlin.

[Os Cangaceiros]

THE car-burning insurrection (http://vastminority.blogspot.com/search?q=berlin) in Berlin is turning up the heat on the German authorities.

“At night all over the city, cars are burning on the streets of the German capital,” reportsThe New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/world/europe/25germany.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1).

http://actforfreedomnow.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/berlins-burning/

[syndicat]

actually the article in the Times said it is not clear it is "packs", that is, groups who are doing this. In the past there had been cars being torched by anarchist or leftist groups but according to the article they swore off this tactic because it alienated so many people. so the authorities think it is isolated perpetrators, and not all political...sometimes personal grudges.

certainly no indication of any actual organized rebellion.

[Os Cangaceiros]

"Packs of angry car burners" was used by me for rhetorical effect, admittedly. :sleep:

The idea that car burning had been sworn off by anarchist groups is definitely false, though...there was an action a few weeks back in which a car dealership was firebombed and an anarchist group claimed responsibility (in solidarity w/ what was happening in Greece).

[Os Cangaceiros]

Mercedes appears to be the number one choice:

http://www.brennende-autos.de/

[bcbm]

actually the article in the Times said it is not clear it is "packs", that is, groups who are doing this. In the past there had been cars being torched by anarchist or leftist groups but according to the article they swore off this tactic because it alienated so many people. so the authorities think it is isolated perpetrators, and not all political...sometimes personal grudges.

certainly no indication of any actual organized rebellion.

as of three years ago, at least, this tactic was definitely not sworn off by anarchist or leftist groups.

[Aleenik]

I find car burning to be a dumb and useless practice. It gets the movement nowhere. Especially if they are burning cars that the average person owns, not corporations. In that case it can cause great harm to the movement in the public eye and especially the eye of those who had stuff they worked hard and long to obtain burned to the ground. People can work hard for a long time to get a car and then have it burned to the ground by some anarchist who are doing it in the name of... anarchism? Lol:laugh: I apply this same train of though to house burnings.

[Sasha]

I find car burning to be a dumb and useless practice. It gets the movement nowhere. Especially if they are burning cars that the average person owns, not corporations. In that case it can cause great harm to the movement in the public eye and especially the eye of those who had stuff they worked hard and long to obtain burned to the ground. People can work hard for a long time to get a car and then have it burned to the ground by some anarchist who are doing it in the name of... anarchism? Lol:laugh: I apply this same train of though to house burnings.

they are actually doing it to slow down gentrification by discouraging rich people to settle in the working class area's through targeting expensive cars only.

you might not agree with the tactic but its not mindless vandalism