At 04:52 PM 7/6/01 -0400, Faustine wrote:

A few acts of vandalism isn't exactly anything I'd call significant.

Yes the smells-like-teen-spirit-'anarchists' are good for little more than a laugh, though they're setting themselves up as the next domestic boogeymen after the militia fades from view. The Bloc is just a rung on the career ladder of an up and coming Fed. Easy meat, low hanging fruit, teenagers strung out from Robo sessions 'cause Jenna has their fake ID. The Earth First and ALF folks are a little more effective, and direct, and a lot less theatrical ---though leaving a golf ball with a circle-A on it after you torch a place is a cute, if risky, touch. They are more righteous, too; the anti-WTO folks are all about simple, dirty money. Yawn. EF/ALF can approach religious zealousness, though no one has intentionally self-martyr'd yet.

it's kind of sad that you really think anyone with real power and influence actually gives a damn about anything that happens at these protests to begin with.

Its sadder actually to consider the mindset of the protesters who take themselves seriously. Maybe the Feds will arrange to have more entertaining MTV broadcast during the next Summits, to keep Biff & Buffy home.