>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/19/03 10:47PM >>> The NZH reports: "Police were out in force in the evening to ensure activists did not breach a cordon in front of the palace, where Bush and his wife were to spend their second of three nights. Airline worker Dawn Totten, 50, said she had flown from her home in the United States to join the scattered protests. "I came all the way from San Francisco because demonstrations go unrecognised and unreported there," she said. Her message for Bush? "I'd like to tell him to stay here." Jurriaan <<<>>>
bush's attitude re. protests seems to be attempt to disempower them, he said same thing the other day that he said in australia a few weeks back: 'i love protests, people are free to protest in this society, iraqi's couldn't protest a year ago, north koreans can't protest, blah, blah, blah....' reminds of oh-so-unfashionable marcuse and critique of abstract 'pure tolerance' as 'repressive' in that it concretely protects established machinery... michael hoover