Posted on 09/21/2001 5:43:07 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
European antiglobalization campaign organizers vowed to pursue their protests as scheduled this fall, saying that the terror attacks in New York and Washington were a direct result of U.S. foreign policy and that only an end to global capitalism will ensure safety for all.
Organizers were shaken by the loss of life and the destruction in Tuesday's tragedies and hastened to express their rejection of terrorism. But many activists also expressed understanding, if not approval, of the motives behind Islamic terror groups like the organization of Osama bin Laden, who is suspected of masterminding the attacks.
"We want to be clear that our enemy's enemy is not our friend, and bin Laden has nothing to do with anticapitalism," said Guy Taylor of Britain's Globalise Resistance movement. "But I'm stunned by the hypocrisy-the picture that we're getting now from New York is exactly what people of Iraq or the Balkans must have felt when the West waged war against them."
Globalise Resistance, Mr. Taylor said, plans to take part as scheduled in demonstrations against the Labor Party convention in Brighton Sept. 30, and also attend a demonstration against the European Union in Brussels in December. Attac, one of Europe's main antiglobalization groups, also plans to carry on as scheduled with demonstrations against an EU finance ministers' meeting in Liege, Belgium, Sept. 21-23.
"We understand the shock in the U.S., and it may well be that there won't be demonstrations against the IMF in Washington this month, if only because the IMF meeting itself may be canceled," said Bernard Cassen, chairman of Attac France. "But, in Europe and the rest of the world, we are not in a state of shock. Life goes on, and we see no reason to change our analysis or our actions."
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said yesterday no final decision had been made on whether they would cancel their annual meetings, scheduled for Sept. 29-30, but some officials indicated that the gatherings may be postponed, according to Associated Press.
Human solidarity with the victims of the U.S. bombings implies no solidarity at all with the U.S. government or its policies, Mr. Cassen said. This especially concerns a possible retaliation by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, reviled by many European antiglobalization campaigners as a "gendarme of the American empire."
Francesco Caruso, the coordinator of planned protests against a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ministerial meeting in Naples, Italy, on Sept. 26-27, said that few of the organizers want to call off the demonstration. "Of course, emotionally, it is very difficult to be on the streets after this kind of tragedy," Mr. Caruso said. "But if NATO holds the meeting, we'll have to hold our demonstrations too."
The leftist kids are all about the same age and all the same in appearance - no diversity to be found. The counter-demonstrators are young, old, black, white, etc. The first group is attacking America for what they call planned "murder." The second group is holding pro-America, support the troops, remember the fallen, support the prez signs. The police have shown up to "protect" the handful whenever they want to cross the street to get food - protect them from the peaceful pro-America crowd.
That means cutting off the central bankers, and following George Washington's advice, the greatest American, which essentially told us to stay out of foriegn entanglements. Oh how the USA could have been spared so much suffering in the 20th century if we had followed that advice. Now we are getting off to a bad start in the 21st. The time has come for America to clean house.
Perhaps we should start with the anti-globalists! By that I mean all shades of the spectrum from left to right.
Disingenuous. OBL has everything to do with it.
"We are groveling moral cowards seeking to appease those who would kill us."
This ain't Viet Nam, baby, and college kids trying to be cool and sexy in 60s style demonstrations will soon be disabused of the notion that a 60s style mass movement will result.
I have no interest in vengeance. But I am deeply interested in securing my own life and the lives of my fellow Americans from blindside attacks by warped, evil men consumed by hate. I think it is a very safe bet that a huge majority of Americans feel the same way.
Global planners have the USA tangled up in their web of deciet. For the sake of the victims, I support killing the perps, but once that is over with, the USA must clean house. The starting point is getting rid of the central bankers, and returning our money supply to a system mandated by the constitution.
There are a few other things that are necessary, but the truth is hard to bear, so I'll just stop here for now.
When I speak of anti globalism, I speak against the central banking regime that uses fiat money to play nations against eachother, which ultimately leads to THEIR objective, which is a central global government. That is pretty much it in a nut shell. The inspiration for my position on this sort of thing comes from George Washington's farewell address. I stand by that. I think it is lame to fly off with leftist accusations, and align me with Clinton and Gore. This sort of thing goes on all the time at FR. I think people should think before they speak. We're likely on the same page. It might be possible I know a little more about this subject than others. But maybe I don't. Either way, to be anti-globalist as I define it is hardly left wing.
Not to be disrespecful but crimany the world economy is different than it was 200 years ago. 200 years ago capitalism was in it's infancy, GW had no clue what a global economy was. Besides, isolationism was tried in the 30s and failed. To discount the hand of the globalists in this current affair is hopelessly naive.
Right church wrong pew. The globalist reach is on the part of the Islamic fundamentalists wanting the infidels to convert to thier warped view of the world. There is a world of difference between a global economy and trying to impose a global political order ( communism) or religion ( Radical Islam). Global bankers? Ahh- I'll just leave that for the conspiracy loons.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3bac063e5bfc.htm
Too bad you can't see that.
Things have been getting worse ever since, to the point now where foriegners attack the USA on our soil, something that has not happened since 1812.
America needs to disconnect from central bankers globalist elite, and define its position in the world based on its principles, not according to the dictates of the money makers. You just have to do a little more homework.
George Washington was right.
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