Posted on 12/17/2005 1:10:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
WTO Protests Turn Violent
POSTED: 3:49 pm EST December 17, 2005
HONG KONG -- Hong Kong is seeing its worst street violence in decades.
The government said 70 people were sent to hospitals after hundreds of protesters broke through police lines outside the World Trade Organization's meeting. Tear gas was used to prevent rioters from reaching the trade ministers, who were meeting in the convention center.
Police said 900 people have been detained, and authorities have been dragging away some of the 300 to 400 demonstrators who were holding a sit-in on one of the city's busiest streets.
The demonstrators oppose the WTO's efforts to open up global markets.
U.S. Not Expecting Breakthrough
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said he's not expecting any big breakthroughs before the WTO meeting ends Sunday
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How many of these miscreants are actually from Hong Kong?
That is the question. I'll bet most of them.
No, we're just getting screwed, as usual.
According to a story yesterday, the WTO has now decided that since "services" are a part of trade, we cannot keep immigrants from coming into the country and getting jobs. Naturally the administration and the press, in agreement for once, are playing that demand down.
Apparently stupid South Korean leftie punks don't know the difference between a liberal democracy and a Communist dictatorship. I guess they are finding out the hard way right about now.(miming ice-skating movements)
I bet none of them.
Water cannons connected to septic tanks should have been used. Protesters publicly p*ssed and cr*pped upon instantly lose credibility, both for themselves and for their cause.
Most likely none of them were from Hong Kong:
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I agree, I screwed up what I wanted to say. I meant most are not from Hong Kong. duh!!!
"U.S. Not Expecting Breakthrough"
Good, the Fabian Socialists have been dealt a setback.
No big deal; we all do stuff like that.
They may not be from Hong Kong...but they're getting a few free Kung-Fu lessons;))
I lifted this from Instapundit.com:
Actually, of course, they have this exactly backwards. Daniel Drezner is blogging from the middle of all this: "The result is that I've spent this evening looking at policemen sheathed in protest gear -- gas masks, body-length Plexiglas shielding, truncheons, etc. -- while drinking and dining at the hotel buffet along with a healthy number of WTO delegates. It's more than a bit surreal."
He adds, however: "The truly bizarre thing is that, having ventured out earlier in the evening, I'm quite certain that the number of curious onlookers outnumbers the actual protestors, the press contingent outnumbers the protestors, and the police most definitely outnumber the protestors. The Korean protestors are certainly causing inconveniences beyond their numbers, but this is a much smaller contingent of activists than were present at either Seattle in 1999 or Cancun in 2003. And any press report suggesting otherwise is full of it."
Nice to know. And as Drezner notes, Hong Kong blogger Simon World has much, much more on the topic.
posted at 04:22 PM by Glenn Reynolds
Why is it that WTO protestors are always the most violent?
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