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> For those who are looking for still more coverage and opinion of the
> Seattle WTO events,  here is some fine coverage from the editor of The
> American Partisan,  a "libertarian " site.     Buchanan is currently a
> rising star in these circles.        Let's see how they talk amongst
> themselves.       Enjoy................Tony
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> Oppress Us Now or We'll Destroy the City
> by Dave Munger
>
> Some of you might have thought I had nothing to say about the recent WTO
> disruption. After all, all of the other Partisan columnists got theirs
> in when it was current, and the readers' thirst for other peoples
> opinions on these events must have been slaked way back then. Well I'm
> not letting it go. Until the Munger has spoken, the matter remains
> open.=A0 It is my contention that the rioters are all treasonous
> sub-humans and that the Seattle police ought to have beaten at least a
> few of them to death.
> To say the least, the self-righteous throwbacks in their non-conformist
> uniforms have profoundly misunderstood the WTO, democracy, freedom,
> themselves, and reality itself on a pretty basic level. This horde of
> slack-jawed barristas entered the proceedings with a collective paranoid
> fantasy of martyrdom that would not be denied. If the authorities
> committed the outrage of failing to play along with the shared delusion
> then, damn it, they'd be forced into the role that they must play in
> order for these insects to be able to pretend to be the type of dramatic
> characters that they must believe themselves to be in order to keep from
> killing themselves.
> The most important thing to remember about big groups of idiots is that
> they always get their way eventually. This is why the government
> exists.=A0 Live local TV coverage showed deeply confused protesters
> chaining themselves down to stuff in eager anticipation of having their
> rights brutally violated by The Man. As the day wore on, they were
> pathetically dismayed by the mellow attitude of the latte sipping cops
> of Seattle (motto: "I'm more tolerant than you, fascist"), as they
> ambled about like Bobbies inquiring as to why Rage Against The Machine's
> lice-ridden pawns were making themselves so uncomfortable. Finding that
> they were actually going to be allowed to exercise their right to free
> speech, they were left with an awkward silence to fill with chanting,
> drums, and incoherent indignity. It was clear they were going to have to
> come up with something else.
> Throughout the day, our shaggy would-be saviours escalated their
> painfully obvious attempts to bait the fuzz. Their pique at literally
> not being able to get arrested was alternately amusing and sad as they
> intensified their infringements on the rights of the WTO delegates
> (freedom of speech and assembly don't extend to people who wear ties
> or=A0 express coherent thoughts. They're The Man).
> The delegates' routes were blocked more and more aggressively, until
> anyone with a real job in Seattle had a hard time getting where they
> belonged. This was not done by a mere handful of Oregonian "Anarchists",
> but was participated in by very large numbers of pious activists. Now if
> that's not time to start hurting people, then why are cops armed?
> Self-defense?
> Nevertheless, the police did not attempt to arrest anyone at this point.
> They concentrated on protecting the delegates by escorting them,
> blocking off paths for them to follow, and misdirecting the hipster
> thugs. Imagine the frustration of the dreadlocked drama-queens at being
> handed everything they could admit to wanting, plus control over other
> people's lives, yet denied the victimhood they so desperately needed?=A0
> When night fell, and all hope of unprovoked Vietnam era police
> aggression was lost, the rioting started.
> Concerning what happened then, the local media has uncritically parroted
> the propaganda of the rioters. For example: there was "indiscriminate
> use of tear-gas". Tear gas is... gaseous. You do not aim it at a person,
> you aim it in the general direction of a disorderly crowd. All use of
> tear gas is indiscriminate, that is why it is used to disperse crowds,
> not to apprehend individuals.
> One of the main reasons that riots are undesirable is that they require
> indiscriminate police action (curfew, marshal law, water cannons).=A0 We
> can be treated as individuals only when we act as individuals. If you
> want a police state (which many ostensible "Anarchists" seem to), then
> the best means to this end is rioting.
> It was also immediately and insistently asserted that all of the
> destruction was perpetrated by a violent minority of out-of-towners.
> Numerically, the violent are always a minority. In war, the majority of
> the population of each country does not wield arms. This did not make
> Iraq or imperial Japan "non-violent".=A0 In any riot, there are more
> people running around acting like it's a big street party than there are
> active looters, and a pretty small percentage actually sets fires and
> throws stuff at cops. The non-violent" rioters obstruct justice by
> refusing to disperse, and making it physically impossible to simply
> single out and arrest looters as they would common burglars. They are
> the ones who make it a riot rather than a simple outburst of assaults
> and vandalism.
> I've gotten some insight into the "minds" of the rabidly compassionate
> brick hurling pacifists by subscribing to an EcoFeminist e-mail
> discussion list. A typical example of the capitalist monstrosities they
> "oppose" is the stories that have been circulating about Nestle (or
> sometimes Gerber) that, if true, would make certain executives guilty of
> mass homicide at least, and possibly crimes against humanity. It is
> alleged that in the third world, the myth that formula is healthier than
> breast milk has been very effectively promulgated by advertising,
> resulting in outrageous increases in infant mortality.
> Where the WTO comes in is that it is said to oppose laws that El
> Salvador passed that would regulate milk advertising.=A0 Apparently, for
> beaded posers, the ability of national government to restrict commercial
> speech is more important than enforcing existing international laws. It
> is never hinted that any individuals should be held responsible for
> these alleged corporate crimes, put on trial, proven guilty, and
> executed, which would be absolutely necessary if the charges are
> true.=A0 It is only used as a reason to justify statism and one's own
> crimes.
> You may notice that I have avoided terms such as "protester" and
> "demonstrator" with regard to the objects of my scorn. That is because
> these terms indicate opposition to government coercion, the status-quo,
> and related injustices, whereas these witless Maoists promote these
> things and oppose free enterprise, private property, personal
> responsibility, and rational thought. The objection to the WTO that the
> aforementioned quisling media passes off as reasonable common sense is
> that it is not democratic enough. What that means is that a
> non-coercive, private, consensus based, free market institution should
> have to take orders from them; that is, the mobile vulgus, the
> proletarian masses, The People, the power that has backed every form of
> tyranny, for which dictators only serve as fronts, and bureaucrats as
> puppets.
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