WTO-conspiracy theories

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

      Another thing I ran across while surfing Louie's
archives were some moderately credible stories
claiming the presence of agents provocateurs in
Seattle.  A related report argued that the police
acted in a deliberately provocative and violent
way themselves (btw, if I had been there I would
probably have rioted in the streets to protest the
police actions, if nothing else).
       The guy posing the conspiracy theory argued
that it was Clinton trying to save the conference
by giving the police the provocation to beat up on
the demonstraters.  I think this is possible except that
I think the motive may have been just the opposite.
It is not just Bhagwati in Washington who thinks Clinton
deliberately sandbagged the conference himself
to please the AFL-CIO while he proposes China
joining.  The more I look, the more it seems plausible
that the agents provocateurs were to make the demo
"more violent" so as to guarantee its failure (and
guarantee no attacks on US anti-dumping suits).
Barkley Rosser