Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:55:31 -0500 From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca> Subject: Re: [a-act] Police riot taking place right now in Seattle Andy wrote: > Bollocks - I don't think this was a whine. It was pointing out that there > was a complete over-reaction by heavily tooled law enforcers, who were [from > their own perspective I would have thought] woefully incompetent if not > merely stupid. The cops and the authorities have had months to prepare for > this - are you saying it's beyond their brain-cells to have an alternative > venue on the sidelines, or to have an exclusion zone as the UK cops > sometimes enforce in the City of London to counter the IRA???? I've worked a convention at the Washington Convention Center. Believe me, they have this interconnected warren that ties the hotels to the convention center. It's pretty easy to control the complex and insulate the meeting attendees from interacting with people on the streets. I think the organizers and the cops just thought they'd be confronted with the standard retinue of placard-waving, commie-newspaper-selling leftists. It shows you much they hold leftists in contempt. I'm not sure that the cops were totally unprepared. They looked overwhelmed during the day, but found plenty of cops at night to clear the streets. Why did they only arrest 22 people? Were they secretly expecting a bigger eruption? It's still hard to say. We need to talk to folks who were there. -- Chuck0 Mid-Atlantic Infoshop http://www.infoshop.org/ Leonard Peltier Freedom Month Executive Clemency For Peltier! http://www.freepeltier.org/lpfreedommonth.html Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Now! http://www.infoshop.org/gulag/mumia_idx.html "A society is a healthy society only to the degree that it exhibits anarchistic traits." - Jens Bjørneboe
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