[MadIvan]

Here are the protestors:

Morons, idiots and fools the lot of them. Perhaps we ought to do a surgical strike on these people. I feel nothing but contempt, scorn and anger at their protest.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Tacis]

Every one of these folks thinks he/she deserves that same basket full of cash from the wealthy nations that evry UN employee and politician gets under the table. These are the democrats of the world. They believe they are entitled to what others have earned simply because they don't have what others have. These folks, specifically, would have been so much better off today had their ancestors been rescued by black/Arab slavers and predacious Europeans and taken to America.

[Commander8]

Classic Gramsci. The Summit delegates applying pressure from above and the street activists applying pressure from below.

[MadIvan]

From the Telegraph:

Thousands protest at World Summit

About 10,000 protesters have marched on the World Summit in South Africa to press demands ranging from land redistribution to a Palestinian state.

Environmentalists, anti-globalisation protesters, social activists and Palestinian supporters danced, sang and shouted their way to the Sandton suburb of Johannesburg where the summit is taking place.

Police in riot gear lined up shoulder to shoulder across intersections along the way, as helicopters circled overhead.

They were backed by soldiers in fatigues carrying machine guns and camouflage-painted armoured personnel carriers.

Many of the marchers chanted anti-American slogans and carried banners portraying President George Bush as a "toxic Texan". Others had signs attacking Israel and demanding "Osama: bomb Sandton".

Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu later called some of the protest chants "unacceptable" and possibly "unconstitutional".

Later dozens of civic groups meeting at a forum running parallel to the summit took part in a smaller march along a similar route to submit their demands to world leaders.

Addressing a rally before that march, South African President Thabo Mbeki attacked "global apartheid," which he said divided the rich and poor.

"We must liberate the poor of the world from poverty," said Mbeki, calling on the summit to set clear timetables for reaching its goals.

South African authorities said both marches went off without incident, though one marcher was taken to the hospital after suffering a heart attack.

Mbeki, with his £2000 suits has some gall talking about demanding wealth from anyone. You give up your personal fortune first, me old son.

Regards, Ivan

[adam stevens]

Why are communists protesting other communists? Seriously I would like to know why. Usually they are so united but as of late things have been falling apart. In 2000 the Democrats nominated a marxist openly enviromentalist candidate and then they get challenged by the openly marxist Ralph Nader. And then after September 11, as much as the Democrats hate America and were glad to see Americans hurt, very few of them were open about their feelings. In fact the only one I can think of was Barbara Lee.

[Faraday]

The UN Summit on Sustainable Stupidity is living up to its name. We said it last year during the UN Rant About Racism Conference. But apparently, they didn't hear, so let's say it again: WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, MORONS!

[GaryMontana]

Since these people are able to march against the USA perhaps they too have enough energy to dig for a clean well.

The USA did not create the mess in Africa, and we cannot solve it. It is up to nation to solve their own problems.

By the way, if we gave them clean water wouldn't that encourage them to have more kids. This means more economic problems, a greater lack of resources, and a greater over population -- everything this earth summit is screaming about.

Logically, the best thing we can do for these people is to let them solve their own problems. If they can't than they perish, which in the long run means less damage to the enviornment, less pollution, and a healthier environment?

See, I have the solution to the problem of over population and a decrease in resources. NO AID to Marxist African countries. The world will be much better off than.

[spectre]

See the people in your photo?

Probably 50 percent will illegaly enter the United States or England over the next ten years. The other 50% will be pissed they still haven't found a way to do it.

[general_re]

Greenpeace has accused the US and Japan of horse-trading behind closed doors.

US delegates, it alleged, were offering to promote access to clean water in exchange for Japan supporting a removal of renewable energy targets.

Ah. We're supposed to simply accept the agenda in toto, as a sort of fait accompli. Why are we there again?

Police were out in force, with helicopters, dogs and water canon...

Even the Beeb is a bit over-reliant on spellcheckers, I see ;)