Your prior example of the outside suburbs being attacked by the cops
explains that quite clearly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert S. Thau <rst@ai.mit.edu>
To: Karee Swift <karee@tstonramp.com>
Cc: fork@xent.com <fork@xent.com>
Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: WTO the rampage!
>One further note:
>
>Karee Swift writes:
> > What was most disconcerting on the end of the cops was the force
used to
> > arrest/remove _peaceful_ protesters. There is something inately wrong
with
> > this picture. Granted, the news is all second hand, but for most
people,
> > peaceful usually denotes that laws aren't being broken --
>
>In fairness to the police, this isn't true. Some of the nonviolent
>tactics which the protesters were planning to use included forming
>human chains blockading some of the WTO meeting sites. This is
>illegal activity, peaceful or not, and they were expecting to be
>arrested for it (in fact, they'd trained for it) --- but not gassed.
>
>rst
>