Re: Giant anti-war demonstrations in Oz and abroad (was RE: Giant ant i-war demonstration in Melbourne)

From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 01:03:01 MST

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    Am Montag, 17. Februar 2003 00:23 schrieb Emlyn O'regan:
    > However, when you attack another country, you are not a democratic
    > government with respect to the target population; you are an hostile
    > power attempting to impose your will.

    Regarding "democracy": I just found an article in the german online
    magazine Telepolis[1] about an anti-war demonstration in New York on
    Saturday. They say the police built barricades, hindered demonstrants to
    reach the place of the event, beat up people and used almost every
    non-democratic way to keep this demonstration small. Nevertheless, First
    to Fifth Avenue were crowded with people. Seems that slowly, slowly, the
    US authorities really drift from "freedom and democracy" towards banana
    republic.

       Kai

    [1] http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/mein/14197/1.html 

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