NP police kill protester in Genoa - eyewitness account

[jbor]

> If the journalists
> that are being quoted are as partial and irrational as some of the posts
> I'm seeing, then who do you believe.

Yes. For example, the article that jbframe posted seems like it could be
legit, but when that info first got posted it was trumped up with
propagandist bullshit about police arresting people and forcing them to say
"Long Live Mussolini" in police stations with pictures of Il Duce hanging on
the wall. And the masked, fire extinguisher-wielding rioter attacking the
police van that we all saw on the news: is he supposed to be one of these
agents provocateurs, or one of the "peaceful protesters", or an innocent
bystander? Or is he in fact what we all saw we was: a terrorist. Who was
attacking whom in those photos. Wasn't the young policeman cowering in fear
in the van? Hasn't he been charged with manslaughter over the incident? It's
sad and a tragedy, sure, but why do I get the suspicion that if it had gone
the other way and the police van had been overrun and the policemen killed
-- I mean, what were all those protesters trying to do with their fire bombs
and metal bars and fire extinguishers -- then there would be people here who
would *still* be blaming the cops and the governments and George Bush, and
saying that the cops deserved it?

And while I'm a little suspicious of the way that it was timed and
orchestrated, isn't it a *good* thing that the Kyoto Agreement is getting a
second wind? Is that one of the things all the anti-globalisation,
anti-government lobbyists want to stop?

The other particularly worrying thing I heard on the local news yesterday
was that there was some international vote in London about setting up whale
reserves in the Pacific which, even though it ended up 20 to 13 votes in
favour of the reserves, with 4 abstentions, the proposal was defeated
because they needed a 75% vote. It was also rumoured that the Japanese
bought the votes of some of the Carribean delegations with promises of
financial aid to their countries.

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on 7/26/01 12:39 AM, Musashi Miyamoto at scuffling at hotmail.com wrote:

> Or does a persons questioning the
> reporting and meaning of this death make them a running dog lackey of
> the bourgeoisie? I've been called worse, by the best.
> 
> For what it's worth (FWIW), I've got an open mind on this situation. And
> I think it's worth discussing. The subject of (re)writing history goes
> to the heart of Pynch Po Mo. I'm waiting for the real revolution, when
> people aren't so quick to believe ANYBODY's official explanation.
> 
> Meet the new journalist, same as the old journalist. (I always crank up
> "We Don't Get Fooled Again," particularly the end. Yeah! Is that song
> reactionary or revolutionary?)