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>Thanks for sharing this. I am soooooooo glad people are getting to see
>what is REALLY going on.
An interesting notion, as with the protests against the WEF in Melbourne last
year, there is a tendency especially among sympathisers and those who took
part, to portray the protestors as victims of police brutality. But it seems
to me that the heavy-handed reponse in Quebec is a direct result of the
excesses of extremists, the anarchists, Trotskyists and other self-appointed
revolutionaries, usually members of white middle class with a guilt complex
(which they usually get over when they grow up) who show their contempt for
democracy and free speech through their so-called "peaceful blockades" and
deliberate acts of vandalism and violence.
After the contemptible behaviour of some protestors in London (May 99),
Seattle, Prague and Melbourne anyone who dared to protest in Quebec should
have seen the police overkill coming. But there are times when I think that's
exactly the sort of response that the revolutionaries and other radicals want
to make martyrs of themselves.
That doesn't resolve the issue of whether free trade is a good thing. I don't
presume to know yet. But I suppose it depends on what your self-interest is,
and I have to say that taxing consumers to protect jobs in unsustainble
industries, thereby locking out cheaper, usually developing country
suppliers, is morally suspect...
BD
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