Just my personal slant on today's headlines. These events may or may not escalate directly into greater unrest, and/or greater need for "military assistance to civilian authorities" -- regardless, I'm glad my preps are done -- largely that is. E.g., I wouldn't want to have my 1/10th oz gold eagles awaiting my pickup from a coin dealer in downtown Seattle. Etc.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), November 30, 1999

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best to meld with the skyline or stay under it.

-- mrunderhill (prancing@pony.com), November 30, 1999.

Hey, we hear you! All those mini adrenalin rushes sparked by discussion on this Forum have resulted in not having to shop if it's hairy in any way.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 30, 1999.

No doubt. And all the protesters with firearms as reported on the police scanner scares me. I don't want any more gun control "ammunition".

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), November 30, 1999.

Indeed, indeed, indeed! For the foreseeable future, I won't have to worry about some natural compulsion to provide for my own, taking me into a curfew zone or ... as Seattle has NOW become, a preliminary "presidential emergency" zone, what with the arrival of the Chief tonight, bringing another "presidential emergency" in his wake. Shades of Athens just days ago ..... Who's he working with?

However, after reading the prep forum this morning I find my supplies of TOMATO PASTE & TEA PLANTS woefully low. And now I must add CAYENNE PEPPER .. and oh by the way PEPPER MACE would come in handy. And now Stan has a gig up for GAS MASKS, KI TABS, etc. But in recognition of all that our individual and communal (forum) efforts at bargain-hunting, researching, anxiety, prayer, scavenging, etc. have accomplished ... it is TREBLY GOOD to not be facing the Y2K issue now for the first time, when there are now immediate threats -- if not long term ones -- to social order, in e.g., Seattle.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), November 30, 1999.

I am a PNW native, today has been off the chart for me. We have been warned for a very long time about what could happen with the WTO meeting, and it certainly has, so no surprises there. What does surprise me is the assumption that during the day that most people assume the police were correct in what they did with peaceful demonstrators, I'm not talking about the vandalism, etc. by the few who came here specifically for that purpose, we were warned of that as well. Let's wait and see both sides of the story prior to making a judgment against the demonstrators. I have been watching the news locally as the events unfold, the stations were using raw footage, and I've seem some pretty iffy things that I would like explained, especially by the SPD.

-- Sammie (sammie0x@hotmail.com), November 30, 1999.

Sammie-

I think you've really hit on something here. I mean, shouldn't we y2kers, more than anyone else, be highly skeptical of the portrayal of these protests by the Big Corporate Media??

just a thought..

sean

-- sean (thanks@sammy.hearya), December 01, 1999.

Sammie, I dunno if we're talking about the same thing, but I saw footage of a crowd of pacified and kneeling people being sprayed with a large cannister of irritant. That's not reasonable and necessary crowd control, that's torture. :(

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

Couple of points: I not only lived the Sixties, I was in a couple of the major protests, did the marches, and watched my roomie find strange electronic gadgets in the light fixtures. The Seattle violence I saw on television last night was not, repeat NOT, the work of adrenalin-rushed demonstrators with a beef against the establishment. Those guys (all male that I saw) were calm, cool, collected, and seemed to be all wearing the same kind of ski masks as they methodically tipped over news boxes and threw them through windows. I remember COINTELPRO, and Seattle has black operation written all over it.

Second: Drudge has a good editorial this morning about the media/PTB slant on Seattle that's worth reading. Go to: http:// www.drudgereport.com/seattle.htm

Thanks. Cash

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), December 01, 1999.