Germany is going to wish they weren't having that conference...Breaking CNN

[Frustratedlady]

-- At least 146 German police officers are injured, 25 of them seriously, in clashes with about 2,000 protestors ahead of Group of Eight summit in Rostock, Germany, police spokesman says.

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[Cha]

1. cnn=chickenoodlenetwork..

You can trust them to side with the fascist propoganda all the time.

cnn coveted fauxnoise's ratings and wanted to be more like them.

I'm sorry the German police are injured..shit is unraveling and it's not pretty.

[partylessinOhio]

2. Well, it doesn't appear that these two are worried about the injuries:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
hold placards on the occasion of the handing over of a collection
of signatures collected under the slogan "Global Call to Action against Poverty
- your voice against Poverty" during a joint press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin.
Blair on Sunday called on G8 leaders meeting this week to agree concrete measures
to help Africa and on the United States to go further in proposals on climate change.

[SharonAnn]

4. How many "non-policemen" were injured?

[partylessinOhio]

6. I found this on Yahoo:

...The organisers said 20 protestors had been seriously hurt, while another 500 suffered light injuries. The number of injured protestors was not officially confirmed.

"Some of them were arrested in such a brutal manner that they had to be hospitalised," said Wilke Studzinsky, a lawyer representing the arrested marchers.






The police said 433 officers were injured in the clashes, 30 of them seriously -- which it defined as having fractures or worse injuries.

"We are lucky that there were no police killed," said Konrad Freiburg, the chairman of Germany's police union. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070603/wl_afp/g8summitgermanydemo_070603175155

[StudentProgressive]

3. It's interesting -- the protests wouldn't be covered at all if there wasn't violence

It's a sad fact.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The whole point of anti-globalization protests is to scuttle the conferences

Make them fail! Considering all the harm and exploiting the G8, WTO, and others have done to the world, they deserve a little grief.

[Solo_in_MD]

7. I find your endorsement of mob rule sad

[cassiepriam]

8. The non mob rule has resulted in the end of this planet as we know it.

Maybe it is time to give mob rule a chance.
Can't be any worse.

[Solo_in_MD]

9. So if the KKK resurfaces and begins lynching blacks, a classic mob rule, you would be OK with that

[IndianaGreen]

11. KKK is a terrorist group that rightfully belongs in Guantanamo

together with a few others of their ilk.

[Solo_in_MD]

12. Perhaps but it does not address what the prior poster said about mob rule being called for

[IndianaGreen]

10. They are anarchists, they are not a mob

It is a sad reality that there is always an anarchist collective in any demonstration that always wants to do their own thing. Most of the demonstrators were peaceful, and they marched with lots of giant puppets representing the evil doers of globalization.

Unlike some of my comrades, I don't join in the criticism of the anarchists that stage the confrontations simply because it is good publicity. Peaceful demonstrations never get any coverage! Had we stormed the Congress and made asses out of ourselves on the eve of IWR, perhaps we could have delayed that fateful vote.

We are long past the point of being nice and polite to people that deserve neither!

[Solo_in_MD]

13. That might fine hairsplit at best, and in this case they are acting as a mob in an attempt to

break up the conference.

[IndianaGreen]

14. While they may be confrontational, it is usually the police that throws the first punch

In Genoa, it was the police that started all of the violence, and they also open fired on demonstrators. Pictures posted at indymedia showed that a van carrying carabineri threw a fire extinguisher at a demonstrator, and then they shot him in cold blood. The MSM coverage had us thinking that the dead demonstrator had thrown the fire extinguisher at the police. Photos showed that the official version was a lie!

[Solo_in_MD]

15. If as you stated earlier that the goal of the demonstrations was to scuttle the conference

how can it be anything more than an attempt at mob rule?

I have been involved in similar situations where protestors used physicial intimidation, agression, and even assualt to make their point. I made my counter demonstration the same way to their intense displeasure and pain.

Mob rule has no place in civilized society. Those that say that there is no other choice are giving license to the worst parts of society, thus my KKK comment (reductio ad absurdum is a great tool sometimes).

[IndianaGreen]

16. Colonialism and exploitation has no place in civilized society

You miss the point that the G8 includes some of the biggest war criminals in the world, and that organizations like WTO are engaged in terrorism in the Third World.

You are asking us to be nice to the Romanovs, when in fact we should be digging their graves.

[Solo_in_MD]

18. Protest is fine, but violence is not, and the G8 protests have always been violence

While many other protests are not. To blame them all on the police strains credulity.

Also the G8 etc can be stopped by other means, ala Chavez

[Lone_Wolf]

21. I'd be willing to bet there are a handful of agent provocateurs in that mob...

Classic police technique for busting up large gatherings of protestors. Put in a handful of undercover cops in the crowd and have them stir up the violence. Police can then break up the crowds with force.

[malikstein]

19. It's just a question of which mob rules -

them or us. Frankly, I'm for our mob. Fuck theirs.

BTW, the Bilderbergers are so terrified of our mob that this year's meeting venue is secret. You have to know the handshake to find out where to go.

[Gravel2008]

17. German neo-Nazis are also expected to join the protests

http://wpherald.com/articles/4619/1/Analysis-German-neo-Nazis-to-join-G8-protests/Joining-left-wing-activists.html

A German neo-Nazi party hopes to benefit from the populist battle between rich and poor by joining the many left-wing groups protesting globalization at this year's Group of Eight summit in Germany.
The protest against inequality and the detrimental effects of globalization has so far been an exclusive left-wing battleground. Yet Germany's most popular far-right group, the National Democratic Party, or NPD, claims it has been pursuing the same goals as the likes of ATTAC.

Your assessment may prove right.

[malikstein]

20. The real neo-Nazis are running the conference.

The ones on the outside looking in are pathetic, deluded wannabees.