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The cops who beat peaceful protesters are also (willing) pawns in the same game. Being a pawn doesn't absolve you of your culpability and "I was just following orders" isn't a defence.
I'm not capable of violence myself so I won't pretend to support it. That being said, there is a whole process of dilution of responsibilities to make unacceptable decisions happen, if everyone plays nice and by the rules, nothing will happen. Past struggles have never been overcome peacefully.
I personally vote for being polite and cordial. Patiently wait for them to finish, then swat the camera right back down with a baseball bat.
Smile, then offer them the baseball bat and invite them to take a swing.
I'm picturing someone standing down the street, watching the camera being installed, tubing cutter or sawzall in hand...
Sure, one beats protestors, the other helps them figure out who to beat.
At this point, you're arguing which turd stinks less, when they all smell like shit.
And how many lives get directly fucked because of each individual camera?
Would you not shoot a Nazi installing miniguns around the top of the white house? Sure, there's "being forced into the machine", but actively settng up their weapons is definitely at least one step too far.
The ones installing cameras do point it at cars. The analogy still checks out.
Don't act like the person pulling the trigger is the only one to blame in the process.
I think you have a severe case of intentionally distorting analogies and metaphors. That's twice.