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WTO Protests Turn Violent [70 people were sent to hospitals, 900 people have been detained]
WNBC.COM ^

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

(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hongkong; lefties; usefulidiots; wto
but other than that everything was peaceful...
1 posted on 12/17/2005 1:10:29 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

How many of these miscreants are actually from Hong Kong?


2 posted on 12/17/2005 1:12:55 PM PST by Dahoser (Time to condense the nonsense: Terry Tate for Congressional Linebacker.)
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To: Dahoser
How many of these miscreants are actually from Hong Kong?

That is the question. I'll bet most of them.

3 posted on 12/17/2005 1:15:12 PM PST by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: Sub-Driver
U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said he's not expecting any big breakthroughs before the WTO meeting ends Sunday

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.

4 posted on 12/17/2005 1:15:27 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Sub-Driver

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)


5 posted on 12/17/2005 1:16:08 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: Fzob
I'll bet most of them.

I bet none of them.

6 posted on 12/17/2005 1:17:34 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


7 posted on 12/17/2005 1:19:32 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Fzob

Most likely none of them were from Hong Kong:

Flash Mobs ( Another Rent-A-Mob )

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=flash+mobs+moveon&btnG=Google+Search


8 posted on 12/17/2005 1:27:24 PM PST by LucyT (Merry, Merry Christmas, everyone.)
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To: Howlin

I agree, I screwed up what I wanted to say. I meant most are not from Hong Kong. duh!!!


9 posted on 12/17/2005 1:35:15 PM PST by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: Sub-Driver

"U.S. Not Expecting Breakthrough"

Good, the Fabian Socialists have been dealt a setback.


10 posted on 12/17/2005 1:36:21 PM PST by Amish with an attitude (An armed society is a polite society)
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To: Fzob

No big deal; we all do stuff like that.


11 posted on 12/17/2005 1:38:53 PM PST by Howlin
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To: LucyT

They may not be from Hong Kong...but they're getting a few free Kung-Fu lessons;))


12 posted on 12/17/2005 1:48:06 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Sub-Driver
Instapundit has a link to a WTO representative who is blogging directly from the scene.

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

13 posted on 12/17/2005 2:02:12 PM PST by DesertWalker
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To: GSlob

Why is it that WTO protestors are always the most violent?


14 posted on 12/17/2005 4:14:43 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Gordongekko909
"Why is it that WTO protestors are always the most violent?"
The science is as yet unable to answer this question. Maybe because it is relatively safe for the perps - a serious violence too close to GWB, for example, would be treated with non-rubber bullets, and they know it. If they try something similar in HK against the Chinese supremo - they'll get a Tienanmen treatment. And protesting things like Davos conference is both "serious" enough and safe enough at the same time.
15 posted on 12/17/2005 4:21:30 PM PST by GSlob
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