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No to WTO! Seattle 1999

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What country are we in?

Seattle police have formed a "demonstration-free zone" in the downtown area immediately surrounding the WTO buildings and are arresting protestors for merely entering the area (presumably a public throroughfare).

What happened to the "right to assemble"? Isn't this what Sam Adams, Tom Paine, and the gang fought for? Absolutely outrageous. I am a USMC veteran (gulf war) and am ashamed of this nation for the way dissent is quashed by belligerent armed force and a contemptuous media.

The British excelled at preventing "illegal demonstrations" by the colonists. (Boston Massacre comes to mind.) There's been lots of commentary criticizing those who smashed the windows of such exploitive corporations as Nike, Gap, and Starbucks. Sharp rebukes were heard about the destruction of property! Anyone recall the Boston Tea Party? No one calls them rioters or terrorists. No globalization without representation!

The WTO is a clear and present danger to Americans and the true freedoms and democracies we profess to hold. Nothing, not even a "prosperous" world economy (obviously only for the top ten percent), is worth losing our rights.

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187	No doubt that true believer anarchists are bent on destroying the system. It isn	Tom Clarke	-	12/29/2000
186	It's odd....wonder if anyone else kept this site open...But I think there ar	KLP	-	12/29/2000
185	I guess there are some anarchists who actually support Gore. The magazine I have	Tom Clarke	-	12/28/2000
184	Hope you're right Charley...but somehow I don't think so.... . . I looke	KLP	-	12/28/2000
183	I don't know who the IAC is, but I don't think they're the hardcore	Tom Clarke	-	12/28/2000
182	Nearly a year later...wonder how many of these WTO groups and people will be at	KLP	-	12/28/2000
181	Yes, that's a terrific site! A must read. I don't recall the commentary	Tom Clarke	-	12/29/1999
180	lewrockwell.com makes for some very interesting reading, the kind that the "	Yogizuna	-	12/29/1999
179	No Globalization Without Representation By Dr. Lenora Fulani "The hour of	Tom Clarke	-	12/29/1999
178	An excellent commentary, CharleyMane. Thanks for the link.	Frederic Conrad	-	12/23/1999
177	A good lesson in resistance: lewrockwell.com	Tom Clarke	-	12/23/1999
176	How ironic that one councilman left the hearing about police brutality on his o	Yogizuna	-	12/15/1999
175	The behavior we should not be accepting is the brutality of the police! Did you	Yogizuna	-	12/15/1999
174	Your opening note was right on the mark! The common "American sheeple"	Yogizuna	-	12/15/1999
173	Who Owns the Movement? By Michael Albert Or: Since No One Owns the Movement, H	Tom Clarke	-	12/13/1999
172	<i>A source said there was a "running intelligence log" that co	Tom Clarke	-	12/12/1999
171	Wonder if anyone has stopped to ask why the FBI info (see link below) wasn'	KLP	-	12/11/1999
170	If anybody happens to be in Seattle right now they are replaying the public h	Mosko	-	12/11/1999
169	World bureaucracy and free trade incompatible: antiwar.com	Tom Clarke	-	12/11/1999
168	Yep. He's actually walking away, IMO, to avoid being fired and risking los	The Philosopher	-	12/10/1999
167	That is interesting. I retract what I said in a previous post about the chief h	Tom Clarke	-	12/10/1999
166	Frustrated Cops To Jump Ship - (SEATTLE) -- Hundreds of frustrated Seattle Poli	The Philosopher	-	12/10/1999
165	Horror stories from Seattle: Hearings on WTO police brutality. seattletimes.co	Tom Clarke	-	12/10/1999
164	It's refreshing to see someone with enough honor to understand that "I	Tom Clarke	-	12/8/1999
163	Seattle police chief Stamper is resigning as a result of the WTO situation. Ma	The Philosopher	-	12/7/1999

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