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To: Bill who wrote (66990)	12/18/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Oh, great, finally we agree on something. Yes, I do agree with you that the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted and no agenda to the issues of child labor and environmental concerns was agreed upon. Where we differ is whether this was a good thing, obviously. The protestors in Seattle were asking for a more open WTO, and they used their freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution to protest nonviolently. I must assume at this point that you think this is a bad thing, since you have made many negative statements denigrating the protestors. I think the protest was healthy, because now we are having an international debate about the role of the WTO. In the end, I think good will come from all of this. The anarchists need to be separated out from the organized protestors. Their intent was slightly different. Did anyone see the Sixty Minutes II segment on the anarchists last week, incidentally? I found it really fascinating. They believe that great wealth and private exploitation of resources is in itself violent, and therefore are not disturbed by the property crimes they commit. They are Luddites, young and somewhat idealistic, more like hippies than skinheads. Some of them believe they were protecting the nonviolent protestors from police abuse, as well.