From: "Heather" <Heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk> Subject: A funny thing happened on the way to the repression.... Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:10:32 -0000 Fw from another list H Subject: A funny thing happened on the way to the repression.... Kind of a curious thing..... NY national guardsmen, in uniform, joined some of the demonstrations and marches; meanwhile, the troops of the 10th Mountain Division just back from Afghanistan, staged a support vigil at Ft. Drum, NY..... Meanwhile, Bloomburg (mayor of nyc) asked Gov. Pataki to mobilize a battalion of guardsmen to back up the nypd... Pataki had just been handed the reports of the affair at Ft. Drum and the guardsmen joining the crowd downtown.... And said "no'. Perhaps he didn't want to find out the hard way which side he was re-enforcing with armed troops....<g>
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