Reply #25: The success of the WTO protesters in Seattle in 1999 [View All]

[Goldstein1984]

set an example that has to be suppressed--civil disobedience successfully shut down the Ruling Class of all nations gathering together.

Similar tactics were used in Copenhagen, including "preventive arrests." Both preventive arrests and extrojudicial extermination are based on a fundamental denial of the human right to due process.

The Ruling Class have no borders. U.S. presidents have more in common with dictators of other nations than they do with their own electorate. We fear the development of a police state, when, in fact, we are witnessing the development of a police planet.