It is not just discipline that is lacking. It is also strategy. The globalization protests are like a dog chasing a car. What would they do with it if they caught it? Nathan writes about the protesters, the police, the elites and the media as if they are the actors in the drama. The public makes a cameo appearance as spectators: "much of the public shrugged and washed their hands," "the sympathies the public often has with the police," "an angry mirror to the consumerist individualism of those who shop there." Ah, but the mirror faces the other way. It is the protesters, cops, elites and commentators who are the spectators and the shrugging, shopping masses who are the spectacle. Is this any way to run a Salt March? Tom Walker Bowen Island, BC 604 947 2213
