How many of these miscreants are actually from Hong Kong?
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)
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.
"U.S. Not Expecting Breakthrough"
Good, the Fabian Socialists have been dealt a setback.
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