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

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 08:43:03 MST

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    Kai wrote:
    > Giant ant i-war demonstration in Melbourne)
    >
    >
    > 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

    ### Quote from the article "um dem Trend zum Faschismus in der US-Regierung
    wirkungsvoll entgegen zu treten" (to resist the trend towards fascism in the
    US government".

    Wow, Germans worrying about the trend towards fascism overcoming the US. Who
    could have ever imagined.

    Rafal

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