Barack Hussein Obama, who occasionally draws kudos from contemporary self-styled progressives for effectively getting health care, infrastructure, and pay equalization bills through Congress, has to move the economic summit from Chicago because of outrage to his left.
The heirs to the Youth International Party declare victory.
Ministerial meetings and summits like the G8 have increasingly been held at remote locations to lessen the likelihood of mass protests, which have become common venues for democracy and global justice activists to mobilize around. When the G8 was last in the U.S., it was hosted at the isolated and luxurious Sea Island Resort in Georgia.Dig it, they stopped the pigs, made them run and hide.
The institutional violence and anti-democratic nature of NATO-G8 is again affirmed by Obama’s unilateral decision to move the G8 summit. Neither of these bodies allow for the people to participate directly in crafting the policies that affect so many and to characterize the talks as needing protection from interruption—as HR 347 does by criminalizing the protesting of persons or events under Secret Service’s direction—reveals the authoritarianism of the system. Without provocation, it is unlikely that the state will outright suppress the Occupy movement with direct violence. Rather, the state needs the force of the law to protect itself from protest and civil unrest, particularly when that defiance is nonviolent and more difficult to counter.
“They realized they [G8] couldn’t actually put on their little show of power,” Bill Ayers told a group of about 50 people at the Golden Frog Cafe in an appearance hosted by the Foundation for a United Front. “It’s a defeat for them and a victory for the people’s movement.”In the same interview, Mr Ayers regrets not having gotten to know Our President better.
History doesn't repeat, but sometimes the rhymes surprise.
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