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To: banco$ who wrote (45415)12/5/1999 8:59:00 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 116764
 
Seattle Fiasco
From NewsHawk Inc. <hawkeye@saber.net>
12-5-99



To all those who paid with their blood and tears as a result of demonstrating against the World Trade Organization in Seattle last week: we the PEOPLE of earth, NOT those billionare/trillionare power-brokers who's little "divide-up-the-pie" party was so severely disrupted in Seattle last week, owe you a major debt of gratitude; for shaking things up so much that the WTO itself is now reeling like a punch-drunk meathead about to go down for the full count.

U.S. Labor leaders and rights activists vow to turn up the pressure and the heat on the federal government to dump much of the U.S.'s entire WTO package in the garbage where it belongs. Of particular note are indications that the U.S.'s horrendous trade policies regarding Red China are more than back on the table after the Seattle debacle, they're almost certainly going to be reformulated drastically to benefit the interests of the PEOPLE of the United States.

So, though the miserable worms from the Seattle police chief to the Mayor to hordes of federal government troublemakers of all kinds in high and low places did their best to overturn fundamental principles of democracy and stamp out the voices of the PEOPLE, the PEOPLE'S voices were nonetheless heard --at least to some (cont)
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