Genoa (was Re: Who provokes whom?

[jbor]

I'm not sure that obvious and outrageous fabrications like this -- Mussolini
being dead for 55 years and all -- are really helping the cause of the
legitimate protesters:

on 7/22/01 11:49 PM, KXX4493553 at aol.com at KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> One 
> person, a member of a nonviolent group, who was horribly beaten up while
> sitting on the floor with his hands up, went through that experience. In the
> police station he was repeatedly tortured like everyone else there. The
> police was hitting the already wounded areas of his body and battering him
> for no reason. Another person who was arrested and released says that they
> were beating everybody and forcing them to scream 'viva il duce', which means
> long live Mussolini.
> 


The call to waive all Third World debts, which is one of the few consistent
or constructive policy statements I've seen coming from any of the
"anti-globalisation" lobbies, if implemented would in fact see those poor
nations and peoples remain as poverty-stricken and economically-backward as
they are now, with the added "bonus" that no developed nation would ever
invest capital there again.

Why are these rioters wanting to stop the leaders of the world's wealthiest
nations from discussing things like $ for AIDS relief in Africa and the
future of the Kyoto agreement?

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