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Roger Day wrote: > I realise I've not made myself clear: > > The huitards actions revealed the bullshit of the authorities. When > the huitards called the authorities bluff, out came the tanks. > > Chris Marker makes the point in "A Grin Without A Cat" that this full spectacular public unveiling of state power came as a moment of revelation for many of the protesters. The Red Army Fraction amongst others were partly stimulated into action by homicidal police brutality during protests against a visit to West Germany by the Shah of Iran. Gudrun Ensslin declared that the authorities were "the Auschwitz generation", with whom no further negotiation was possible: "we must arm ourselves!" Dominic