Subject: Re: [southerngpusa] G-8 protesters step out

I am going to do what I am well known for, which is to be ruthlessly frank and make people mad. These quotes from the article below constitute threats:
"we know we can't control everything. We do want to offer safe possibilities for everybody who's interested in keeping this a peaceful, nonviolent city."
"the city needs to not ignore this and not think that if they don't support this…it won't happen. Well, it will happen."

Savannah survivied General Sherman and the people who live in Savannah are not inclined to allow a bunch of hoodlums to mess it up now.
And yes I said hoodlums.
If they were just political protesters then why are the organizers demanding concessions from the city in order to stop them from being violent? And the truth is that no amount of concession from the city will prevent violence, because by now these events have attracted a contingent of rowdies, like soccer thugs, who go there because they LIKE assaulting police and tearing things up.
And don't even start whimpering about the right to protest. If those 10,000 people who went to Miami had spent the same amount of money and effort right in their own cities and neighborhoods, there could have been some HUGE progress. 10,000 people times $200 ... and $200 is a pretty conservative estimate of a trip to Miami for a week or more ... is two million bucks worth of protest across the country, with nothing wasted on plane fare, gas and lodging.
The main difference is, that if you stay home and do it, you can't attack the police, you can't act like a criminal when your boss might see you, and you can't tear things up and dissapear without paying for it.
And next, according to routine into which these things have fallen, somebody starts to cry, oh, but we're NON-VIOLENT. Well no. You can't speak for 10,000 other people, especially 10,000 other people that you never met.
So if you want to conquer corporate slavery on a global basis then grow up. Stop galavanting all over the country and the world, flitting from one resort city to another, camping in the streets and partying round the clock between rampages.
Stay home, roll up your sleeves and get to work. Like responsible people.


> --- Kellie Gasink <kelliegasink2002-AT-lycos.com>
> wrote:
> > Activists Plan Savannah G-8 Events
> > City Spokesperson Calls Plans "Premature"
> > Steve Ference
> > WSAV News 3
> > www.wsav.com
> > Tuesday, January 6, 2004
> >
> > The city is currently reviewing plans for
> activities
> > local activists hope will keep protestors busy and
> > non-violent.
> >
> > Kellie Gasink, head of the National Coalition to
> > Repeal the PATRIOT Act said in a press conference
> > Tuesday, "the city needs to not ignore this and
> not
> > think that if they don't support this…it won't
> > happen. Well, it will happen."
> >
> > Meeting in downtown's Wright Square, local
> activists
> > talked about their hope for the many protesters
> > Savannah will likely host during the G-8 summit on
> > Sea Island.
> >
> > Because the media will be based in Savannah,
> > protesters will likely also base themselves in the
> > historic city as a result, they say.
> >
> > Margy Betz, spokesperson for the organizing group
> > G-8 Carnival,who also spoke at the press
> conference,
> > said, "we know we can't control everything. We do
> > want to offer safe possibilities for everybody
> who's
> > interested in keeping this a peaceful, nonviolent
> > city."
> >
> >......... cut ..........
>
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