I do not know Anonymous, and I do think it was stupid of them to take private information of ordinary citizens, not the police, BART employees or some other authority that is stifling peaceful protest against "murder of innocent people or mentally ill people", and release it. Why punish innocent people? On the other hand the protestors and ordinary citizens should sue the police and officials who were responsible for the murder of a innocent mentally ill homeless man (who needs compassion, help and support - not death) and later tried to stifle the protest against such violence and inhumanity.

I wish them well!

Terrific interview with KPFA Davey D. He is absolutely right! These people with authority, and guns, never react so harshly when there is sports related drunkeness and brawl, or some bunch of Anglo kids doing flash dance or flashing. But when people protest against "murder of a homeless man" there are quick-finger-trigger police officers, and the bureacrats in three piece suits, worrying about "chaos"! Wew, how the heck did we get there?

There are police officers in other countries without guns and they have better order - because people don't walk around in fear, prejudice, ignorance and hatred. The police is supposed to protect us and make us feel safe...They are tax-payers' employees hired to serve, protect and care. In stead they have become trigger-happy dunken-with-power red neck cowboys with no sense of "balance and peaceful intervention". It is guns, guns, guns for everything. No wonder they are the biggest domestic violence perpetrators too. I know women, minorities and immigrants who say that going into the police force changed their attitude, personality and perspective about people and the world. They treat ordinary people, including homeless people, as "threats, crazies and crooks"...while they use guns often - not to stop people but to kill, kill, kill! Corporations are now allowing this, encouraging this and in some ways using these police for their own profits and personal favors (at the cost of democratic rights, civil rights and human rights).

What happened to police with batons and bicycles? They all act like military men in the frontline of war these days...They even call the streets of America warfront. Every word and language they use is all about "war, war, war". This is what a dysfunctional society must look like...and then we wonder why people get scared, exhausted and are migrating out. Some just put their head to the grind and look after themselves and their children, some get beaten by fools in their own communities (who take out their frustrations and fear on all the wrong people), and some murder their own kind - physically or emotionally.

I guess the greatest achievement in America is that "we did not get lynched...in public!"

This is the greatest achievement today?

I am all for young people protesting...they are showing more restraint, peace and thoughtfulness than most in power.

Good going Davey D.