Protesters planning big demonstrations for meetings of World Bank and IMF/Free Republic

AP ^ | 9/3/2002 | David Ho

[USA21]

WASHINGTON (AP) Anti-globalization demonstrators, relatively subdued since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, are preparing a clamorous return to the streets this month when the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meet.

Protest organizers said Tuesday they expect thousands to turn out on the weekend of Sept. 28 outside the Washington headquarters of the global financial institutions. The demonstrators oppose policies they say harm the environment and people in poor countries.

[Bogey78O]

Shoddy reporting.

[FreeTheHostages]

Why the heck is Free Republic being mentioned in an AP article for planning a "counter demonstration" of the WTO/IMF protestors?

Hey, I'm with the DC Chapter and I live right near their Ground Zero protests each year. TRUST ME they're only PRETENDING to hate the World Bank. What they actually hate is private property. As per the above news article, they intend to destroy some. They make it clear that they want to harm the entire "system" in downtown DC.

They come, they have banners about the virtues of socialism, etc. Oh, TRUST me, they're socialists. Also there are a lot of Green Party people that come with environmental stuff. (Hey, I even believe there's manmade global warming, but I'd protest their anti-capitalist solutions to it.)

The name of the group is the Anti-Capitalist Convergence. That should give you an idea that globalization is just this banner for their rantings.

[Neets]

Check out the websites of these groups....you'll then see their real agenda.

[Neets]

Check out the websites of these groups....you'll then see their real agenda.

[William McKinley]

I suppose it depends on the definition of globalization.

If you mean globalization in terms of moving towards a consolidated world government, then obviously it should be opposed.

If you are talking about globalization meaning the spread of capitalism and free markets to areas in the world where they don't exist, then it should be supported.

Since these leftists are opposing the entire idea of capitalism, and protesting America as being representative of all that is wrong in the world, they deserve to be counter protested.

This doesn't sound like the DC Chapter is organizing a rally for the IMF. It sounds like a protest against radical leftists.

What is wrong with that?

[FreedomFriend]

Then why would you "we" counter a protest of the World Bank and IMF, two global-growing, one world government engines.

[Neets]

One anarchist group known to participate in anti-globalization events, the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, said on its Web site that its goal later this month is ''not just shutting down the meetings but extending our protests to disrupt all of the institutions headquartered in D.C. that play a part in this system.''

[FreedomFriend]

You can check to see how long I've been here. I'm conservative to the core, including on the issues of national sovereignty.

[FreeTheHostages]

Then look at post 26 above. I think Sauropod may have been asking just 'cause it indicates you may not be aware of many other threads over a period of time about this group.

Just read some of the posts above and I think you'll be persuaded we're doing the right thing here. Don't let the name "globalization" fool you. These guys are avowed socialists (some of them say they're anarchists, who knows, they destroy things and protest the war etc.).

[Southack]

All around the world, we can witness third-world cesspools begging for more and more American money to be given to them through the Worldbank and the IMF, all the while they condemn us, demand more, and want to tax us.

More astounding, however, is that the same socialists who beg for more and more money are the ones protesting the IMF and Worldbank.

This is a clear case of the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

Shut down the World Bank. Shut down the IMF. Screw all those countries that beg for our money while publicly condemning the U.S.

Likewise, arrest and jail all of the anarchists who fail to abide by our laws while protesting the World Bank and IMF.

[FreedomFriend]

I'll agree, there are green and eco-communists who hijack for their own political gains. Some do this because they want world government, and they want opposition from the natural anti-globalist establishment: Freedom-Loving Constitutionalist Conservatives. Hence, they try to create a ruckus, the media follows in the spotlight, claiming that "Greens" and "eco-weenies" want nothing to do with globalization. The end result is that many conservatives are duped and think that they have to be on the side of globalization because the eco-terrorists are against it. In the end, you've been duped.

Take note on the example in Seattle in 1998 or 1999, of which a relatively peaceful anti-globalization protest was hijacked by a handful of "eco-terrorists" who brought disruption, attention, and disillusionment to the reasons why the WTO, World Bank and IMF should be discouraged, not supported.

[FreeTheHostages]

Here, take a look at this link: we protested these guys last year under the title "DC Chapter Routs Commies and Anarchists." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/535967/posts

[justshe]

Good point. And these protestors really DO have a Watermelon image. I would bet that 99.999% of these protesters are also VIRULENT (marked by a rapid, severe, and malignant course; extremely poisonous or venomous; full of malice : MALIGNANT) environ-MENTAL-ists.

I could be wrong.....but I doubt it!

[Dog Gone]

So, please candycoat the WTO/IMF form of "globalization" so we can all laugh at you.

It's rather pointless to discuss any of this with you if you have that mindset. Please, go join the commies in the demonstration. They'll welcome you.

[FreedomFriend]

So we're hurt, regardless. We can support globalization efforts and give legitimacy to engines that will be used for a world government. Or, we can counter-attack the greens who want to take down America's institutions. Wow, that's a choice we have.

[FreeTheHostages]

I TOTALLY agree with you.

I just 100 percent absolutely ASSURE you that this group is anti-capitalist, anti-war, and anti-American.

Please, take a look at the photos of some of these guys and the signs they hold up about private property being abolishd. We have the photos as links off the thread I posted above.

Trust me, it's just like Kristinn said in the news article: these are creeps here looking for something to complain about, a broad coalition of leftist groups. This is my backyard, believe me, I *know* what I'm talking about. Where do you live? I've half a mind, if you're a good conservative, to invite you down for the weekend to see what this is about. You'd have NO PROBLEM with us protesting against these anarchists.

[grimalkin]

>Why?
>Don't tell me that this website supports Globalism?

Most people here understand and approve of free markets. What they don't approve of (and what these anarchists, etc. are actually for) is global socialism (i.e., global taxation, global "family" planning, anything imposed by the U.N., etc.).

These anarchists and misfits are simply opposing and protesting against capitalism and would love to see some of the latter mentioned above imposed upon the entire world.

[Dog Gone]

If you mean globalization in terms of moving towards a consolidated world government, then obviously it should be opposed.

If you are talking about globalization meaning the spread of capitalism and free markets to areas in the world where they don't exist, then it should be supported.

That's it in a nutshell. Thanks.

[Neets]

Check out some of the links Here and tell me if you think people should not counter protest.

[FreeTheHostages]

Sigh -- I *really* think it's much simpler.

These protestors are really just leftists using "globalization" as a banner. You all are already having MUCH MORE ERUDITE discussions that these guys would, LOL! Take a look at the link I posted above to the kinds of things these protestors said last year this time: that the war was racist, that private property was bad, etc. etc.

At the time, we mocked them for how so many of their supposed issues had anything to do with their supposed anti-globalization theme. They're just leftists looking for an excuse to trash my city and tie up traffic.

I don't think the protestors agree on anything except there were a LOT of pro-PLO and anti-Israel signs last year.