Hmmmmm... how about Spot the Redundancy? "Hard-core extremists"? As opposed to the moderate extremists, I suppose...

As opposed to the undecided, moderate extremists?

And I like how all these non-conformists all dress, act, talk and think alike.

Just a weird coincidence...

The more radical they are the better, right?

"leading anarchists"

There can be no leading anarchists, that would assume other anarchists follow them. Anarchists don't follow anyone.

I suppose you don't mean "... police intelligence ..."

"Police said each of the 50 have up to 50 followers who are willing to be arrested during disturbances at the convention."

When they start having followers, are they still anarchists?

"This group, police say, is expected to engage for the most part in civil disobedience, including sit-ins in front of delegates' buses. They also may stage more direct-action tactics, such as vandalizing McDonald's and Starbucks."

Isn't that awfully....French?

Reminds me of my youth as a wannabe punker. I finally decided that those people were idiots and I felt like a phony (and an idiot) when I tried to be like them. Great music, though.
Two things I remember: First is being derided for not owning a leather jacket. See, I didn't live with my parents and thus couldn't afford one. Ironically, now that I'm an evil Republican running-dog capitalist I make enough money to own a leather jacket that I look baaadasss in. Second is this guy telling me, "My friend's a *real* anarchist, he blew up a dumpster!" Ooooh, way to strike a blow against the man, man! Yeah, the strategic dumpster stocks are the lynchpin to the whole corrupt system! In conclusion, anarchists are nitwits.

Anybody know what the Judean People's Front has planned for us?

The JPF are poseurs. It's the Judean People's Alliance that will usher in revolution.

Solution #1: Heavily-armed McDonalds cashiers and Starbucks caffeinators. (No drinking on the job, don't want a shaky trigger finger.)

Solution #2: Angled snowplows on the front of each delegate's bus. (Or maybe those triangular guards they have on old locomotives.)

Solution 3: Call in the OH National Guard

According to the Associated Press, a lot of these anarchists must be Boston Red Sox fans (or at the very least, part of the anybody-but-the-Yankees crowd).

Just John,
"The scoops are coming!"

How, exactly, does one go about becoming one of the "50 leading anarchists"? Are there chaos competitions held in the wilds of Idaho? Does the FBI game this out with computer profiles of the contenders and report the results to local authorities? I would think, as noted above, that if you are a "leading anarchist" you are, by vitue of that fact, no such thing. Perhaps the reporter, taking after Douglas Brinkley, just created this category out of thin air? Maybe "50 leading anarchists" are really just "50 criminals from the 60's."

Try "50 bitter, delusional, aging boomers, trying to recapture that one moment in their youth when they actually had attention focused on them."

Glory Days, well they pass you by
Glory Days, in the wink of a young girl's eye....

What kind of plans can an anarchist make?

My son tells me that he became part of an antiBush demonstration when he went on his usual Saturday bicycle ride through Manhattan. "There were thousands more people than usual."

About 300 were arrested, though he didn't see it.

He was also solicited to dress up like a mouse and go to Broadway. "I haven't figured that one out."