In Reply to: Re: WTO 2 ACTION posted by Kevin on December 01, 2000 at 09:35:12:
: : : Action on the wto number 2 is on 23536 Right now... It is now 8:46 PM
: : : Fourth and Pine..
: : : anyone want to hear this mess, tune in.. Post your notes
: : very little FRS GMRS action.. was looking forward to listening to the other side. the media freqs are preaty active.
: : i just love the statements made this month by the mayor and police cheif, "we have learened alot from last year's WTO". what the hell is that.. there's nothing different in their actions, reactions, or choices other then dietary intake from last year. They seem a BIT more focused crack down on individual vandalism, but man, they still beleive it to be a military type of movement and crush/supress/arrest.
: : am i the only one that sees this like a mini vietnam??? they rush in in numbers, reclaim a geographical square, call it their own, move on to the next square and loose the 1st square to the flood of people closing behind them? very little organization on the big scale, but everyone has thier own micro battles..
: : I donno what the answer is, i just think it's not this. you can't win the will of the people if you go in bomb the area flat, nore can you win if you pussy foot around and let the masses bully you around. Anyone heard of something nice/good/decent that police officers have done?
: : there were a couple nice stories on ch5 TV (barried in the fluff) that really made police officers someone to be sorry for.
: When so called "protesters" start to be come violent and feel the whoosie need to destroy priviate property, then I feel that their "right" to protest should be YANKED away from them!!!!!
oh ya i know, you can't just contain all the "protesters" in a 3 block area and believe they all have the same agenda, it's just like real life.. you have the normal public, but amongst them are wreckless drivers, rapists and credit card scammers.. yet somehow we are able to punish those who are bad. Criminals feels the threat of being arrested/fined/jailed, but in a mob they don't seem to have that deterent becuase they know that the cops are organized in a way to facilitate their looting.