[ASDnet] NLG Condemns G8 Repression and Use of Live Ammunition

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jul 24 11:12:09 PDT 2001



> --- Kelley Walker <kwalker2 at gte.net> wrote:
>> max is lambasted for suggesting that we ought to care about what people who
> > aren't radicalized think.
>
>in fairness, what set me off on the lambastment trail was the suggestion that
>Giuliani was the author of his own misfortunes.
>
>Separately, the "not radicalised" are often quite a bit more radicalised than
>one might think, and in my experience of Italians, surprisingly few
>of them who
>are not actually Fascists are prepared to give the carabinieri the benefit of
>the doubt. Their unpopularity is significantly greater than that of the
>Guardia Civil or CRS, and only just less than the RUC.
>
>d^2

It sure ain't politically smart for _leftists_ to let the police & the state in general off the hook for the murder of Giuliani & repression of other protestors by mainly blaming anarchists or stone-throwing youths in general for what happened.

Yoshie



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