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If the protesters did not show up for these WEF events, the WEF would hire a rent-a-mob to make sure the story was always about what happens outside the building, instead of what happens inside the building. In fact, maybe they have been doing so for years (insert X-file music here...)

FReepers should be concerned about the growing globalization movement, because globalization, be necessity, reduces US soveriegnty. Globalists seek to transfer power from elected national governments to unelected international organizations. This should get all of FReeperdom up in arms, but it does not, because we are busy denouncing the motly collection of environmentalists, anarchists, and Communists who are marching in the streets. The protesters also wish to eliminate US soveriegnty, and reduce us all to vassals. They just want us to be subjected by them. They truly deserve our contempt.

But we should not believe for a minute that the enemy-of-our-enemy is our friend. The WEF deserves to be closely examined and criticized. It's membership, methods, and goals should all come under close scrutiny. But instead 100% of the coverage is about a bunch of loser out-of-towners who get into scuffles with the police.

It happens with such regularity, one could be forgiven thinking that it is all by design.... (more X-file music here...)

..this should get all of FReeperdom up in arms, but it does not, because we are busy denouncing the motly collection of environmentalists, anarchists, and Communists who are marching in the streets....

Exactly. Thank you.

We could be discussing how the globalists came to exert such control over our lives, and whether that's a good thing; or we could be sidetracked into pointless media-led sprays against these protesters.

Gee, what do you think Post owner Rupert Murdoch would prefer, Gridlock?