>Jim J. wrote:>BUT: people who are all worked-up over this rather petty violence don't
>>(yet?) see the 'Big Picture'. Trashing a McDonalds, or facing down pigs, is
>>_nothing_ compared to the slaughter these goons have been engaged in
>>world-wide
I didn't see many people 'facing down pigs' in Trafalgar Square. The police politely pulled back whenever anyone gesticulated at them. The most that I saw thrown was plastic cider bottles. Trashing McDonalds was indeed 'nothing' - nothing but the hystrionic spasm of the middle class protesters against the mass society they so despise. -- James Heartfield
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