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Subject:     Re:Seattle
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Subject: Clinton Supports Gestapo in Seattle


In a message dated 12/2/99 10:38:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, JaredI writes:

<< Subj:    COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN SEATTLE
 Date:  12/2/99 10:38:37 PM Eastern Standard Time
 From:  JaredI
 To:    JaredI
 BCC:   Seth17279

 COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN SEATTLE
 by Portland student/reporter Jim Desyllas

 Called-in from a pay phone outside Seattle. Wed., 7:30 pm Pacific time.

 (Posted at www.emperors-clothes.com  12-2-99.  Feel free to distribute in
full including this note.)

 I just spent 4 days in Seattle. The "information" people are getting from
the
 mass media is false. This was not, as Pres. Clinton claims, a peaceful
 protest marred by the actions of violent protesters. This was a massive,
 strong but peaceful demonstration which was attacked repeatedly by the
police
 with the express purpose of provoking a violent response to provide photo
 opportunities for the Western media. I know because I watched it happening.
 I'll tell you how they did it.

 As Michel Chossudovsky says in his "Disarming the New World Order" (See
Note
 # 1 at end for link to that article) - the government put a lot of effort
 into making sure the protesters in Seattle were a "loyal opposition" who
 wanted to reform the WTO, not get rid of it. But the people in Seattle -
 American steel workers, Canadian postal workers, college kids from all
over,
 environmentalists from Australia - you name it - were not for reforming the
 WTO. They were for getting rid of it.

 And this wasn't just true of the protesters. I interviewed delegates. None
of
 them had anything favorable to say about the WTO. Two delegates from the
 Caribbean were angry about job loss. One delegate from Peru took a bullhorn
 and got up on a car and spoke to the protestors against the World Trade
 Organization. He said it hurts the workers and farmers. I interviewed a
 Norwegian guy from Greenpeace. Totally against it. Even a delegate from
 Holland said it had hurt the farmers there. He said though it is supposedly
 democratic, that's actually a lie: the US, England and Canada and a few
 others get together and decide what they want to do. Then they ask the rest
 of the countries to vote and if they vote wrong they threaten,"You won't
get
 loans," or whatever. They get them to do what they want by blackmailing
them.
 The Italians we interviewed were upset too. I couldn't find any delegates
who
 were in favor.

 So the government instigated a "riot" to discredit the movement against the
 WTO because they couldn't dilute it. I am not guessing about this. I was
 there. I saw it happening. And I will tell you I am frankly shocked to see,
 close up, just how little our leaders care what happens to ordinary people.
 Clinton can pose and speak a lot of flowery stuff but the truth is - we are
 nothing to them. I saw this with my own eyes.

 Sunday and Monday, there was no violence. None. The people were
aggressively
 non-violent; they were self-policing. Up until Tuesday at 4pm there was one
 window broken in the whole city - a McDonalds window. This compares
favorably
 to the typical rock concert, let alone a demonstration of people who were
 non-violently barring entry to the World Trade Center!

 At this point, a new group of police - tactical police - moved in and
started
 gassing people and shooting rubber bullets. Is it any surprise that people
 got mad? Of course, the young kids hit back by breaking some windows in
 retaliation for being gassed, sprayed with very painful pepper gas, and
shot
 with dangerous "rubber" bullets. The police instigated these kids, plain
and
 simple.

 Sunday and Monday they had young cops, using them to block the streets.
These
 were trainees. But Tuesday they had the real cops; none of them were young.
 They were trained to attack people. A small group, maybe 100 people total,
 struck back. Then these cops herded that group around the city, making sure
 there were plenty of photo ops of "violent protesters."

 A number of times they had these 100 or so protesters caught between
 buildings and walls of police. They could easily have arrested and detained
 this small number of people and gotten it over with. Instead they would gas
 them and let them go. Then trap them again, gas them again, and again let
 them go. The cops made no arrests that I know of until late Tuesday night
 though the skirmishing was going on from three till 9:30. The cops would
 blockade three or five blocks of an area, give the angry kids room to
 operate, keep gassing them - when you gas a person, let me tell you, it
gets
 them fighting mad.

 Tuesday night the police gassed all of downtown. This was going on from 3
PM,
 till 6 PM.. Gas everywhere. The kids broke a few windows - McD's, Starbucks
-
 small stuff - burned a few garbage cans. The police were using these people
 as extras. It was staged. I believe also the police had their own people in
 there, encouraging people to break stuff - if people think I may be
 exaggerating, I saw supposed protesters - they were screaming and so on -
and
 then later, when everything was over, the same people tackled other
 protestors and put handcuffs on them.

 At 6pm they issued a State of Emergency. At that point they had pushed the
 100 people outside the city limits, so the police went outside the limits
 too, and they started gassing that area too, gassing the neighborhoods
where
 the regular people live. I am not exaggerating. The police were relentless.

 This was in an area from the city limits for about 10 blocks to the Seattle
 Central Community College. If you were alive, the police gassed you. People
 coming back from work, kids, women, everyone. People would go out of their
 houses to see what was happening because these tear gas guns sound like a
 cannon - and they would get gassed. A block away there was a Texaco gas
 station - they threw tear gas at gas pumps, believe it or not - they were
 like vandals. They gassed a bus. I saw it with my own eyes. A bus. The
 driver, the riders, the people just abandoned it .

 I was sitting in a little coffee shop called Rauhaus, [Jim did not spell
this
 - the spelling may be wrong.] They were shooting "rubber" bullets at the
 glass. I picked up a dozen of the things in a few square feet. They were
also
 shooting this paint that you can only see with a florescent light. They
would
 paint anyone and everyone and then go hunting them.

 Anyway, because they were gassing everybody, the local people got mad too
and
 they joined the 100 who had been herded out of the city. So soon there were
 500 including the neighborhood people and all very angry. Naturally.
Because
 they had been gassed and hit with pepper spray, that stuff does a number on
 you. And shot with these damn bullets. Then people set up barricades at
 Seattle Central Community College. The cops organized themselves for about
an
 hour and then moved in and gassed that area.

 Today they started mass arrests. That was because Clinton - the Greeks call
 him the Planitarchis, Ruler of the World - was coming. Weeping crocodile
 tears about how he just LOVES peaceful protest, which of course you'd have
to
 be two years old to believe he had nothing to do with the police action.
This
 whole thing, this police attack, this was US foreign policy, not some
action
 decided by some bureaucrat in Seattle. This was the State Department. They
 wanted to discredit the people.

 When things started on Sunday,  there was a protest rally of solidarity
 involving people from different walks of life. Monday it got even bigger.
 Tuesday there was a big sort of carnival where people were doing different
 things, a band was playing music and people were blocking the World Trade
 Center. And about 3 PM the cops started throwing tear gas.

 The thing that drove Clinton crazy was that on Tuesday the protesters had
 succeeded in making nonviolent human chains and had therefore stopped
 everyone from going into the World Trade Center. Only maybe 27 delegates
got
 through, mostly US and British. There were what seemed like tens of
thousands
 of protesters involved. So the police did their gassing number against
these
 nonviolent people to break up the human chains and make the protesters look
 violent.

 Today (Wednesday) I followed the union protest put together by the
 Longshoremen's Union. They went down to the docks and had a rally then
 marched to Third Avenue. As soon as they got there the cops started gassing
 them. There was an old lady there. She had gone downtown by bus to buy
 something. This lady was in her 70's and I saw her trying to run, but she
 couldn't breathe. She was in shock. I carried her to a building entryway.
She
 was gasping, terrified. She had been in Germany, and it was like she was
 having flashbacks. The tear gas sounds like gunfire and there were
 helicopters overhead, sirens, cops on horses, everything.

 They had clearly made a decision to destroy this movement.

 So anyway there I was with her in this building and she wanted to go to the
 hospital but there was tear gas everywhere and I was afraid if I tried to
 move her she'd be gassed again. I went to this line of cops and begged - I
 mean begged - these riot police to help her. They ignored me. A girl told
me
 later that a one year old had been gassed. And I myself saw a girl no more
 than 18 - a cop had busted her lip wide open - she was bleeding - and then
 they gassed everyone including her. After that she was kneeling on the
ground
 crying like a baby and praying for 15 minutes, Hail Mary, Hail Mary. Over
and
 over. She was in a state of shock. They just gassed these people who were
 sitting down non-violently and doing nothing. Nothing.

 At one point the Seattle Mayor said his boys were not using rubber bullets.
 Miraculously, by then I had ten in my pocket. I could open a little market,
 sell the things. They are everywhere. I and other people started giving
them
 to delegates and stuff. "See what they're doing? They're shooting "rubber"
 bullets and lying about it." We showed them to the media. I guess enough
 people and the media got the information because the Mayor made a new
 statement then that they were using them. As if he hadn't known.

 They shot rubber bullets from four feet away into the face of a guy next to
 me, broke all his front teeth. When that happened I lost it. I forgot I was
 supposed to be getting the news for all of you and I started yelling at the
 cops, "What the hell is wrong with you? Are you sick, man?" So this cop
aimed
 his gun right at me. That was his answer. So I first put my hands in front
of
 my face because I didn't want to lose my teeth. And then I thought, to hell
 with it. I was wearing my target shirt that said "Collateral Damage", you
 know? With a bullseye target, like they wore during the bombing in
 Yugoslavia. And I told this guy, "Go ahead, shoot! Here! Here's the
target!"
 He didn't shoot me.

 I want to emphasize, these protesters were NOT violent people. They were
the
 most non-violent people I have ever seen. Even when I was screaming at the
 cop, this girl came up to me and said, "Do not scream. This is
non-violent."
 These people were too much to believe. They must meditate all the time, I
 don't know.

 Clinton said he supports nonviolent protest. That is baloney. Today (Wed.)
 the protesters were causing absolutely no "trouble". In downtown the cops
had
 people running who weren't even protesters - like that old lady or just
 people going to work or shopping - everyone was getting gassed. The busses
 weren't running because of the gas. I was lucky to catch one with a driver
 who could still see. I begged him to drive the old lady home - the driver
 changed his route especially for her. If you want to find human decency,
stay
 away from the Planitarchis. Go to the to regular people. They have some.
The
 Planitarchis lost all his years ago. Now he wouldn't know human decency if
it
 came up and bit him.

 So now I have made personal acquaintance with the people who run this
 country, and they are quite simply scum. There were people at work, people
 with babies, they were all getting gassed because the government would not
 allow an assembly of people speaking their minds. It is the same as what
 happened in Athens. Clinton's requirements on the Greek government created
 the riot and he did the same thing here. And then he says he supports
 nonviolent protest? How? By shooting rubber bullets? And today they
outlawed
 gas masks. They want to make sure everyone gets his money's worth.

 Today, just like yesterday night, the police were in the residential
 neighborhoods. People in cafés were getting gassed and shot at, you could
 hear it on the windows, bang, bang, bang. A guy trying to cross the street
to
 go to his house got gassed. First a drunk guy outside a bar yelled at the
 cops "Get out of here!" so they gassed him. And then this other guys was
just
 crossing the street to go home so the cops figured, might as well gas him
 too. People got gassed for coming out of restaruants and bars and coffeee
 shops. I'm amazed that nobody died who had asthma or something.

 Or maybe somebody did die and they didn't talk about it. I mean after all,
 it's just collateral damage..

 ***

 Note # 1 - For a critical look at the World Trade Organization, click on
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