I was just looking at one of the Seattlecams, and it shows soldiers in the street. One of those ubiquitous white vehicles is parked right beside them. I get chills. I'm not liking this one bit. I'm wondering if this isn't the "incident" that we have been waiting for. In the footage we saw last night, there were several men in mufti, wearing ski masks and seeming to be right in the middle of most of the action. They were quite conspicuous, simply because everybody else was wearing street clothing and no masks. Why would "regular" citizens feel the need to dress like ninjas for a political demonstration?

-- Liz Pavek (lizpavek@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999

Answers

White buses, check. Buses to take 100s of protesters arrested, check. Abandoned military bases converted to prisoner camps, check.

-- check 6 (it's@all.coming.true), December 01, 1999.

OREGON ARARCHISTS, or something like that. They're an organized group that said they would be causing havok and destruction. Helped along by local punks that were coincidentally let of school early yesterday.

Mayor & police chief gave instructions to cops to take NO action unless lives were endangered.

As ordered, the cops just watched. Must have driven them crazy.

Today, the restricting reins on the cops were loosened a bit & lots are going to Sand Point facility to cool their heels. (previous navy base.)

"An armed society is a polite society."

-- Randers (coyotecanyon@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

Words mean things.

"Military" are about 150 National Guard troops without any weapons other than batons.

"White Busses" are Seattle's regular articulating "Metro" busses with lawbreakers handcuffed with zip-ties. These guys were warned over and over that they would be arrested if they did not clear the intersection-they got arrested on purpose.

Frankly, my heart goes out to the folks who's cars were trashed by the looters and the kids who won't be working at Starbucks now since it was destroyed by the punks.

These guys couldn't spell W-T-O if you spotted them the W & the O.

-- Randers (coyotecanyon@hotmail.com), December 01, 1999.

Liz!!

Glad to see you again :)

BTW, are those white planes still white? hehehehe

-- maid upname (noid@ihope.com), December 01, 1999.

Several months ago the N.Y.C.Fire Department had a weapons of mass destruction drill with the U.S. Marines. (There are 2 Battalions of marines Organized to respond to WMD incidents.) ALL of their vehicles are white, the only identifying features were the U.S. Marine license plates. I saw this with my own eyes, I am a member of the F.D.N.Y.

-- tom (flstplt@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

Tom,

[Re: White vehicles] There is confirmation about those white vehicles. In particular-A federal prison in Texas has thousands of newly refurbished SUV types parked on their grounds.

A very important side note (to me) is that large public corporations are involved in the "prison industry". In Oregon among other things, they (the prisoners) are being used to do construction. You can be sure, those white vehicles in Texas and the ones you have seen have a CORPORATE TIE-IN.

What is the WTO in Seattle about if not Corporations? Money and power to say the least.

Germany, circa 1930's & 40's-main industrial labor base for corporations was prisoners (Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, Balkan peoples). Monkey see, monkey do.

Diamler (old BMW) was major supplier of military vehicles to Nazi werhmacht (army). Now they are Diamler/Chrysler with the "blessing" of the PowersThatBe. Chrysler-makers of the M-1 main battle tank and a long line of previous U.S. army vehicles.

BTW-They haven't stopped making mil. vehicles I'm sure. WTO just a piece of the big pie.

Defense Secretary Cohen berated Germany recently for wishing to downsize their mil. budget. Take a look at our own U.S. mil. budget and the consequences.

America is `The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg'. Just like that story it is being killed purposely.

The comment about Liz and the planes was because she made a typo in an earlier message. I was `funnin' her. Sorry you both took that seriously.

-- maid upname (noid@ihope.com), December 02, 1999.