Moore: dot.com types = black bloc

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Sat Jul 7 22:08:58 PDT 2001



> >Excerpt from a speech by WTO boss Mike Moore
> ><http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/spmm_e/spmm67_e.htm>:
> [clip]
> >It would strengthen the hand of those who seek change if NGOs
> >distance themselves from masked stone-throwers who claim to want
more
> >transparency, anti-globalization dot.com-types who trot out slogans
> >that are trite, shallow and superficial. This will not do as a
> >substitute for civilized discourse.
>
> So, the head of the WTO believes that
> the black bloc wants "more transparency" and that there is
> a large number of "anti-globalization dot.com-types" who
> regularly trot out subpar slogans. Hmmm, maybe the recent
> protests in Sweden and the impending Genoa debacle have
> him rattled.
>
> Peter
============== Mike Mooore, class traitor. Somebody in NZ has photos of him doin' a Joschka Fischer at a trade union rally, I can smell the Fujifilm chemicals from here........

Ian



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