The key thing is, to start with–and it's the most basic understanding–security is not about being macho vigilantes or being super suspicious or having techniques of this or that. It's not some spy game. *Security is about good politics.* That's why it's so difficult. And it requires good politics from the movement as a whole. Not from some special body or leadership or commission–from the movement as a whole. This is demanded of us. It's part of the requirement to be revolutionary, that you try to work on this . . . When you go to school, there's a branch of capitalism that's interested in selling you a tuition. And there's a branch of capitalism that's interested in selling you shoes. And there's a branch of capitalism that's interested in nullifying everything we do as rebels and if necessary killing us, right? - J. Sakai It wasn't even that activists were saying sketchy stuff, more just that she thought, "Okay, these are the people. I've git the jackpot with this network, and I'm going to get to know these people a lot better and follow them." I don't know how she got that first anti-G20 meeting in Guelph. I was protesting at the Olympics in Vancouver at the time, so I don't know if it was an open meeting or if she had been invited because she was around for long enough that people trusted her. But she ended up at the first meeting of what would become the Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance before there was a vouch system in place. And then she breezed through all the rest. - Mandy Hiscocks