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symbioidljIt's like Jericho
And the walls came tumbling down.
The FTAA(Free Trade Agreement of the Americas) protests are occurring in Canada this week during a minsterial meeting to work out final details on a document which had input by large corporations, yet politicians haven't even seen yet. This document is supposed to finalize the rules for the worlds largest free trade block. All countries in the Western hemisphere(save our dastardly enemy, Cuba, of course) are in on this scam.
Anyways, they erected a 10 foot high wall 4 miles long around the meeting area. Quebec was fortified against protestors. It was a chain link fence embedded in concrete. Anwyays...
Yet again it takes the anarchists to have the guts to force an issue. The meeting was delayed by an hour.
Here's a quote from the article:
Then about 100 of them, many masked and clad in black, tore down about 15 segments of the 10-foot-high fence. Pouring into the security zone, they hurled bottles and cans at police who responded with tear gas and a baton charge.
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Now if any of you know how the press tells stories about these events, you'll have high suspicion about the claim that anarchists were the ones who initiated the violence. In seattle it was the police who started riot tactics. Even non-anarchists who were there said it wasn't the anarchists who started it. And knowing how the pigs operate, I'm sure it was they who started it. But who cares. The wall is down. Sure, the cops are rebuilding the defenses and shit, but still.....
Oh and get this. I'll have to find the quote, but here's something in this article that alludes to it:
"proponents of the Free Trade Area of the Americas say it will spread prosperity underpinned by democratic rule."
Democracy. Yep. Block out those who propose alternatives with a big ass fence, send cops to interfere with their voice to be heard. Then insist that you are instilling democracy while allowing corporations to sue governments if they pass laws that are popular amongst the local communities that are intended to protect them, but would interfere with trade. Yep. Democracy.
Gotta love how these people think this is democracy. And I don't doubt for a minute they really truly believe that this is democracy.
Peace out.
