Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:42:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Lori Wallach testifies to Congress on Black Bloc
From: Dave <duffy-AT-dojo.tao.ca>


This is pretty much a load of B.S.  Just proves that liberals are completely self 
serving and don't care about the accuracy of their facts.  Who says that it is only 
politicians who twist things around to fit their own needs.  More Naderites being 
truly pathetic.

dave

Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca> said: 

> Leave it to the reformists to stab us in the back every chance they get.
> I believe that Lori is one of Michael Dolan's lieutenants.
> 
> -- Chuck0
> 
> 
> Statement of Lori Wallach, Director,
> Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
> 
> Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Trade
> of the House Committee on Ways and Means
> 
> Hearing on the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle
> 
> February 8, 2000
> http://www.house.gov/ways_means/trade/106cong/2-8-00/2-8wall.htm
> 
> [...]
> 
> Then, mid-morning Tuesday, several dozen young people dressed in
> identical black garb and wearing face masks appeared and started
> marching in formation
> down one of Seattle's main streets, near the Convention Center. Despite
> their highly-regimented paramilitary appearance, they identified
> themselves as
> anarchists. They had popped up, disrupted a peaceful protest and then
> melted into the crowd the day at a peaceful protest in front of a
> McDonalds which had
> featured a French farmer handing out French cheese hit with high tariffs
> under current WTO retaliation on a dispute. Tuesday midmorning, once
> again, these few
> appeared and began smashing the windows of downtown stores, including
> Old Navy, Starbucks, Niketown, and FAO Schwarz. 
> 
> The peaceful protesters conducting the sit-in shouted "Shame!" and
> "Non-violent protest!" at the youths. Some grabbed the window-breakers,
> attempting to halt
> the property damage. Hundreds of Seattle police officers dressed in full
> riot gear stood by and watched, actively refusing to arrest the masked
> window-smashers
> even when peaceful protesters asked for assistance. Indeed, in one
> instance, a person restraining a black-masked vandal armed with a brick
> and poised before
> a store window was told by police to release the vandal or risk arrest
> for assault. The police then stood by as the released vandal smashed a
> row of store
> windows in front of them. 
> 
> 
> 
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