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
>