Re: DELUGED ABOUT SEATTLE: Translation

["Chris Doss" <itschris13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jared,

I've worked as a freelance French translator for a number of years and would
love to translate the piece, if you have such a need.

You can write me offlist at itschris13@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Chris Doss


>From: Borba100@xxxxxxx
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>To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>CC: leninist-international@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: DELUGED ABOUT SEATTLE
>Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:54:37 EST
>
>Dear friends,
>
>www.emperors-clothes.com is literally being deluged with thousands of hits
>and many letters because of our coverage of Seattle, especially the Jim
>Desyllas article, re-posted below.  PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE
>DESPERATELY
>WANT THE TRUTH! We are finishing an editorial which directly links the
>staged-violence which Jim describes, in Seattle, and the media-staged
>"persecution" of Albanians in Kosovo.  That editorial will be posted by
>tonight.  It will be called "THEFT, WARS, LIES...AND VIDEOTAPE." It will be
>at the top of the homepage at www.emperors-clothes.com
>
>It will be circulated to the huge American audience which we now have
>because
>of our Seattle coverage.  Here's Jim' Desylla's article.  Please feel free
>to
>trnaslate and ciruclate this!  We are hoping to get Spanish, German and
>Dutch
>translations today, and of course, any others would be welcome - let me
>know
>if you can do one.
>
>Best regards,
>Jared Israel
>
>COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN SEATTLE
>A report from Portland student and Emperors-clothes.com reporter Jim
>Desyllas
>Called-in from a pay phone outside Seattle. Wed., 7:30 pm Pacific time.
>
>I just spent 4 days in Seattle. The "information" people are getting from
>the
>mass media is false. This was not, as Pres. Clinton claims, a peaceful
>protest marred by the actions of violent protesters. This was a massive,
>strong but peaceful demonstration which was attacked repeatedly by the
>police
>with the express purpose of provoking a violent response to provide photo
>opportunities for the Western media. I know because I watched it happening.
>I'll tell you how they did it.
>
>As Michel Chossudovsky says in his "Disarming the New World Order" (See
>Note
># 1 at end for link to that article) - the government put a lot of effort
>into making sure the protesters in Seattle were a "loyal opposition" who
>wanted to reform the WTO, not get rid of it. But the people in Seattle -
>American steel workers, Canadian postal workers, college kids from all
>over,
>environmentalists from Australia - you name it - were not for reforming the
>WTO. They were for getting rid of it.
>
>And this wasn't just true of the protesters. I interviewed delegates. None
>of
>them had anything favorable to say about the WTO. Two delegates from the
>Caribbean were angry about job loss. One delegate from Peru took a bullhorn
>and got up on a car and spoke to the protestors against the World Trade
>Organization. He said it hurts the workers and farmers. I interviewed a
>Norwegian guy from Greenpeace. Totally against it. Even a delegate from
>Holland said it had hurt the farmers there. He said though it is supposedly
>democratic, that's actually a lie: the US, England and Canada and a few
>others get together and decide what they want to do. Then they ask the rest
>of the countries to vote and if they vote wrong they threaten,"You won't
>get
>loans," or whatever. They get them to do what they want by blackmailing
>them.
>The Italians we interviewed were upset too. I couldn't find any delegates
>who
>were in favor.
>
>So the government instigated a "riot" to discredit the movement against the
>WTO because they couldn't dilute it. I am not guessing about this. I was
>there. I saw it happening. And I will tell you I am frankly shocked to see,
>close up, just how little our leaders care what happens to ordinary people.
>Clinton can pose and speak a lot of flowery stuff but the truth is - we are
>nothing to them. I saw this with my own eyes.
>
>Sunday and Monday, there was no violence. None. The people were
>aggressively
>non-violent; they were self-policing. Up until Tuesday at 4pm there was one
>window broken in the whole city - a McDonalds window. This compares
>favorably
>to the typical rock concert, let alone a demonstration of people who were
>non-violently barring entry to the World Trade Center!
>
>At this point, a new group of police - tactical police - moved in and
>started
>gassing people and shooting rubber bullets. Is it any surprise that people
>got mad? Of course, the young kids hit back by breaking some windows in
>retaliation for being gassed, sprayed with very painful pepper gas, and
>shot
>with dangerous "rubber" bullets. The police instigated these kids, plain
>and
>simple.
>
>Sunday and Monday they had young cops, using them to block the streets.
>These
>were trainees. But Tuesday they had the real cops; none of them were young.
>They were trained to attack people. A small group, maybe 100 people total,
>struck back. Then these cops herded that group around the city, making sure
>there were plenty of photo ops of "violent protesters."
>
>A number of times they had these 100 or so protesters caught between
>buildings and walls of police. They could easily have arrested and detained
>this small number of people and gotten it over with. Instead they would gas
>them and let them go. Then trap them again, gas them again, and again let
>them go. The cops made no arrests that I know of until late Tuesday night
>though the skirmishing was going on from three till 9:30. The cops would
>blockade three or five blocks of an area, give the angry kids room to
>operate, keep gassing them - when you gas a person, let me tell you, it
>gets
>them fighting mad.
>
>Tuesday night the police gassed all of downtown. This was going on from 3
>PM,
>till 6 PM.. Gas everywhere. The kids broke a few windows - McD's, Starbucks
>-
>small stuff - burned a few garbage cans. The police were using these people
>as extras. It was staged. I believe also the police had their own people in
>there, encouraging people to break stuff - if people think I may be
>exaggerating, I saw supposed protesters - they were screaming and so on -
>and
>then later, when everything was over, the same people tackled other
>protestors and put handcuffs on them.
>
>At 6pm they issued a State of Emergency. At that point they had pushed the
>100 people outside the city limits, so the police went outside the limits
>too, and they started gassing that area too, gassing the neighborhoods
>where
>the regular people live. I am not exaggerating. The police were relentless.
>
>This was in an area from the city limits for about 10 blocks to the Seattle
>Central Community College. If you were alive, the police gassed you. People
>coming back from work, kids, women, everyone. People would go out of their
>houses to see what was happening because these tear gas guns sound like a
>cannon - and they would get gassed. A block away there was a Texaco gas
>station - they threw tear gas at gas pumps, believe it or not - they were
>like vandals. They gassed a bus. I saw it with my own eyes. A bus. The
>driver, the riders, the people just abandoned it .
>
>I was sitting in a little coffee shop called Rauhaus, [Jim did not spell
>this
>- the spelling may be wrong.] They were shooting "rubber" bullets at the
>glass. I picked up a dozen of the things in a few square feet. They were
>also
>shooting this paint that you can only see with a florescent light. They
>would
>paint anyone and everyone and then go hunting them.
>
>Anyway, because they were gassing everybody, the local people got mad too
>and
>they joined the 100 who had been herded out of the city. So soon there were
>500 including the neighborhood people and all very angry. Naturally.
>Because
>they had been gassed and hit with pepper spray, that stuff does a number on
>you. And shot with these damn bullets. Then people set up barricades at
>Seattle Central Community College. The cops organized themselves for about
>an
>hour and then moved in and gassed that area.
>
>Today they started mass arrests. That was because Clinton - the Greeks call
>him the Planitarchis, Ruler of the World - was coming. Weeping crocodile
>tears about how he just LOVES peaceful protest, which of course you'd have
>to
>be two years old to believe he had nothing to do with the police action.
>This
>whole thing, this police attack, this was US foreign policy, not some
>action
>decided by some bureaucrat in Seattle. This was the State Department. They
>wanted to discredit the people.
>
>When things started on Sunday,  there was a protest rally of solidarity
>involving people from different walks of life. Monday it got even bigger.
>Tuesday there was a big sort of carnival where people were doing different
>things, a band was playing music and people were blocking the World Trade
>Center. And about 3 PM the cops started throwing tear gas.
>
>The thing that drove Clinton crazy was that on Tuesday the protesters had
>succeeded in making nonviolent human chains and had therefore stopped
>everyone from going into the World Trade Center. Only maybe 27 delegates
>got
>through, mostly US and British. There were what seemed like tens of
>thousands
>of protesters involved. So the police did their gassing number against
>these
>nonviolent people to break up the human chains and make the protesters look
>violent.
>
>Today (Wednesday) I followed the union protest put together by the
>Longshoremen's Union. They went down to the docks and had a rally then
>marched to Third Avenue. As soon as they got there the cops started gassing
>them. There was an old lady there. She had gone downtown by bus to buy
>something. This lady was in her 70's and I saw her trying to run, but she
>couldn't breathe. She was in shock. I carried her to a building entryway.
>She
>was gasping, terrified. She had been in Germany, and it was like she was
>having flashbacks. The tear gas sounds like gunfire and there were
>helicopters overhead, sirens, cops on horses, everything.
>
>They had clearly made a decision to destroy this movement.
>
>So anyway there I was with her in this building and she wanted to go to the
>hospital but there was tear gas everywhere and I was afraid if I tried to
>move her she'd be gassed again. I went to this line of cops and begged - I
>mean begged - these riot police to help her. They ignored me. A girl told
>me
>later that a one year old had been gassed. And I myself saw a girl no more
>than 18 - a cop had busted her lip wide open - she was bleeding - and then
>they gassed everyone including her. After that she was kneeling on the
>ground
>crying like a baby and praying for 15 minutes, Hail Mary, Hail Mary. Over
>and
>over. She was in a state of shock. They just gassed these people who were
>sitting down non-violently and doing nothing. Nothing.
>
>At one point the Seattle Mayor said his boys were not using rubber bullets.
>Miraculously, by then I had ten in my pocket. I could open a little market,
>sell the things. They are everywhere. I and other people started giving
>them
>to delegates and stuff. "See what they're doing? They're shooting "rubber"
>bullets and lying about it." We showed them to the media. I guess enough
>people and the media got the information because the Mayor made a new
>statement then that they were using them. As if he hadn't known.
>
>They shot rubber bullets from four feet away into the face of a guy next to
>me, broke all his front teeth. When that happened I lost it. I forgot I was
>supposed to be getting the news for all of you and I started yelling at the
>cops, "What the hell is wrong with you? Are you sick, man?" So this cop
>aimed
>his gun right at me. That was his answer. So I first put my hands in front
>of
>my face because I didn't want to lose my teeth. And then I thought, to hell
>with it. I was wearing my target shirt that said "Collateral Damage", you
>know? With a bullseye target, like they wore during the bombing in
>Yugoslavia. And I told this guy, "Go ahead, shoot! Here! Here's the
>target!"
>He didn't shoot me.
>
>I want to emphasize, these protesters were NOT violent people. They were
>the
>most non-violent people I have ever seen. Even when I was screaming at the
>cop, this girl came up to me and said, "Do not scream. This is
>non-violent."
>These people were too much to believe. They must meditate all the time, I
>don't know.
>
>Clinton said he supports nonviolent protest. That is baloney. Today (Wed.)
>the protesters were causing absolutely no "trouble". In downtown the cops
>had
>people running who weren't even protesters - like that old lady or just
>people going to work or shopping - everyone was getting gassed. The busses
>weren't running because of the gas. I was lucky to catch one with a driver
>who could still see. I begged him to drive the old lady home - the driver
>changed his route especially for her. If you want to find human decency,
>stay
>away from the Planitarchis. Go to the to regular people. They have some.
>The
>Planitarchis lost all his years ago. Now he wouldn't know human decency if
>it
>came up and bit him.
>
>So now I have made personal acquaintance with the people who run this
>country, and they are quite simply scum. There were people at work, people
>with babies, they were all getting gassed because the government would not
>allow an assembly of people speaking their minds. It is the same as what
>happened in Athens. Clinton's requirements on the Greek government created
>the riot and he did the same thing here. And then he says he supports
>nonviolent protest? How? By shooting rubber bullets? And today they
>outlawed
>gas masks. They want to make sure everyone gets his money's worth.
>
>Today, just like yesterday night, the police were in the residential
>neighborhoods. People in cafés were getting gassed and shot at, you could
>hear it on the windows, bang, bang, bang. A guy trying to cross the street
>to
>go to his house got gassed. First a drunk guy outside a bar yelled at the
>cops "Get out of here!" so they gassed him. And then this other guys was
>just
>crossing the street to go home so the cops figured, might as well gas him
>too. People got gassed for coming out of restaruants and bars and coffeee
>shops. I'm amazed that nobody died who had asthma or something.
>
>Or maybe somebody did die and they didn't talk about it. I mean after all,
>it's just collateral damage..
>
>***
>
>Note # 1 - For a critical look at the World Trade Organization, click on
>SEATTLE AND BEYOND: DISARMING THE NEW WORLD ORDER or go to
>http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/seattle.htm
>
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