Tuesday July 24 02:13 AM EDT

REINING IN THE ‘PROTESTERS'

The G-8 summit has now passed and George W. Bush acquitted himself well. Unfortunately, the headlines were again stolen by a roving band of leftists and anarchists who have attempted to push nearly every international economic conference of the past 18 months into near-chaos.

It began with the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle during the fall of 1999. Since then, events have nearly overwhelmed meetings in Philadelphia and Washington.

In Genoa, the protests turned deadly as one rabblerouser, a Carlo Giuliani, was shot and killed by an Italian cop - who himself is now under investigation for possible manslaughter charges.

We won't presume to suggest how the Italian authorities should handle this.

However, considering the thousands of protesters, that Giuliani had his head completely covered and that he was hurling what turned out to be a fire extinguisher - but which could have been a bomb - it's hard to criticize the confrontation's outcome.

In any event, the incident certainly underscores how out of control the anti-globalism movement has gotten.

Some of the G-8 leaders said they wanted to create a culture of greater "understanding" with the protesters.

But that presupposes the protesters are interested in "understanding."

Sorry, but that's not the case.

Indeed, it's time that a little more light was shed on the street demonstrators and the infrastructure that supports them.

Exactly what are these groups?

Who is funding them?

What are their capabilities?

In Carlo Giuliani, the movement has its first "martyr." The world leaders should strive to ensure that there won't be innocent victims the next time around.

When the IMC puts up the obviously biased reports like these that

come from the CIA-backed New York Post/Reuters they need to

include some incisive critique that reads between the lines of

how such media institutions (the "great wurlitzer") put a spin on

them. Once again, the devils paint the protestors as the "threat"

and the G8 leaders as the "threatened." Despite thousands upon

thousands of witnesses to the italian-government sanctioned

death squads, the genoa murderer is still described as "alleged"

while the gross brutality of the other pigs is depicted as legitimate.

In reality though, the beast is shivering in its hide since more

have seen the nature of its crimes...

Requiem in Italy and the World :: Genoa :: 20 July 2001

http://www.mystigall.com/requiemit/

since this is an open-source publishing collective, I will post this response to the individual who placed the New York Post article... I'll note that s/he had the decency to attribute the author of the op-ed piece, something which the Yahoo link failed to do!

http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8901

In order to keep our recent history in mind, the first global murders of the current period occurred at the beginning of this bloody summer in Papua New Guinea.

( note also, victims in Bolivia, and South Korea, prior to the Seattle protest)

http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8340

And accounts of what happened in PNG have been zipping around the world via the Internet links of anti-globalisation activists. The fact that blood had been spilled because of protests against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund has made it something of a cause celebre. Australian students demonstrated outside World Bank offices in Sydney's Martin Place on Thursday and yesterday there was another protest at the PNG High Commission in Canberra.



http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=8361

The death toll from last week's violence in the Papua New Guinea capital, Port Moresby, has risen to four.

Richard Dinnen reports, the four were killed during an attack on a university campus by heavily armed police

A police squard stormed the campus in Port Moresby on Tuesday morning after earlier breaking up a protest outside nearby government buildings. Three students were killed and a fourth has now died over the weekend. Several more are still receiving medical treatment.