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[Stephen E Philion]

To hear some of the protestors' reaction to the cops, it almost seemed
like they didn't expect that the cops, Clinton, WB, etc. wouldn't learn
any lessons from the Seattle fiasco....

Note, I said, *some*, not all protestors...

Steve

Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
Honolulu, HI 96822

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> >"Max B. Sawicky" wrote:
> >
> >>  . . . Protesters' Headquarters Raided, Shut Down
> >>
> >>  Incredible.
> >
> >What's incredible about it? It seems quite ordinary to me --
> >but I suppose it depends on one's assumptions about
> >capitalist democracy.
> 
> Yeah, the DC cops acted just like special bodies of armed persons are 
> supposed to act - they defended the property & procedures of the 
> bourgeois state against popular disruption. And they did it a lot 
> more effectively than the clowns in Seattle. Which is a critique of 
> the bourgeois state, of course, not a celebration of the cops.
> 
> Doug
>