On Feb 10, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Shane Mage wrote:
> "in mainstream memory" it was like a cat's meow in the middle of a sound night's sleep. Take a poll asking "mainstream" Americans what happened in "Seattle" and the answers would likely be about 90 percent "no idea," 9.5 percent "what's a Seattle?" and 0.5 percent "wasn't that some sort of riot?"
> But to the New York Police Department, the protesters represented something else: a visible example of lawlessness akin to that which had resulted in destruction and violence at other anticapitalist demonstrations, like the Group of 20 economic summit meeting in London in 2009 and the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999.