Taiwan’s anti-[President] Chen protesters sure do speak a lot in military terms, which is a bit odd for a movement that bills itself as being about "peace and love". On National Day (Oct 10), they’re going to "lay siege" to the Presidential Office Building. To do that, they need "siege vehicles". And and top of that, they’re now drawing up plans for an "attack":
…the campaign is considering four different plans of "attack," including asking protesters to conduct a sit-in around the Presidential Office, confronting the police near the cordoned-off area, pushing through [police] barricades or simply pretending to push through the barricades in a symbolic gesture.
They’re thinking about pushing through police barricades? And what, pray tell, is the plan after that? Sing "Kumbaya" while they confront the police and storm the Presidential Building?
Symbolic gestures like that are the ones which end up getting people hurt.
UPDATE (Oct 12/06): Correction: The motto of the redshirts is actually, "Love, Peace and Non-Violence." Whoops.