IT'S NO LONGER A KNIFE FIGHT

I updated my post about the Berkeley battle below but it's worth repeating and making a few other points. If you read the police report about the attack on First Amendment marchers by the fascists calling themselves antifa and black bloc, you will see that several of them were taken into custody by the cops, who were otherwise useless, for assault, battery, and carrying switchblades.

The people take note. When one side starts to bring knives to a street fight the intent is obvious. They mean to kill and maim and they thought they could get away with it. In a way it's an indicator that the violence level will ratchet up and that both sides will, in future combats, have along people carrying guns, much the way that one riot started so many decades ago just a little south of here at Kent State. It took just one lunatic (probably an FBI mole in the Peace Movement) who fired a gun he carried to the riot and the hapless National Guard then opened fire on the demonstrators.

That is what the next major tussle will probably bring and it will be done by a boy who thinks he can get away with it. I can see the Fascist Party hacks (young men in their 20's) telling a young teenager to shoot the weapon they give him because, as they will tell him, as an underage youth he cannot be charged as an adult and he can get away with a juvie sentence.

If you were of a  particular persuasion and the kind of sociopath these guys prove to be, the lives of your fellow demonstrators don't matter any more than the lives of your enemy and you won't be deterred from shooting a few in the name of the movement, whatever it is. It's like all those 'wildfires' that seem to have 'spontaneously' lit themselves throughout the west and the south after 9/11. They say fire needs oxygen, fuel, and heat. In a lot of cases all it needs is hate.

Police are still working to identify more suspects. They said they will comb through social media video footage.

There are the names and charges of the 20 arrested.

• Sean O’Brien 35, of Oakland, for Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code
• Addae Reciado 19, of Richmond, for Resisting / Obstructing a Police Officer
• Rachel Schwarz 33, of Oakland, for Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code and for Resisting / Obstructing a Police Officer
• Levi Romero 23, of Palmdale, Ca, for Battery and Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code
• Robert Rundo 26, of San Clemente, Battery on a Police Officer and for Resisting / Obstructing a Police Officer
• Nicholas Ryan 24, of San Mateo, Battery, and Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code
• Genevieve Jones 27, of Berkeley, Battery and Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code
• Vincent Yochelson 23, of Oakland, Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code, and wearing a mask while committing a criminal offense
• Moira Vandewalker 21, of Albany, Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code and wearing a mask while committing a criminal offense
• Jonathan Dalili 32, of Berkeley, for Battery
• Christopher Smith 37, of Martinez, for Battery
• Enrique Yarce 22, of Santa Rosa, for Battery, Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code, wearing a mask while committing a criminal offense, and resisting arrest
• Dennis Luke 36, of Huntington Beach, Assault With a Deadly Weapon
• Kyle Chapman 41, San Francisco, for a Warrant for Battery from the March 4th Berkeley Demonstration
• Robert Scott 39, of Oakland, for Battery and Violation of a Berkeley Municipal Code
• Robert Peete 51, of Berkeley, for Assault with a Deadly Weapon
• Female Juvenile 17, for Battery
• Lee Robinson 68, Berkeley Nomad, Public Intoxication
• Allyn Jensen 30, of San Francisco, for Vandalism and wearing a mask while committing a criminal offense
• John Cookenboo 27, of Albany, for Inciting a Riot, Possession of switchblade knife, and wearing a mask while committing a criminal offense