Cops advised to take cover. Anyone got a visual? Are they guards or cops? 12:57EST

-- Hokie (n@va.com), December 01, 1999

Answers

In case you missed this and are interested:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001tan

Link to Old Git's post of riot in London Tues night as well, anti WTO

-- Hokie (scared@va.com), December 01, 1999.

It is the National Guard, and there are some pics in this article:

article with picture gallery

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 01, 1999.

Thank you Hawk.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 01, 1999.

You're welcome Hokie. Sheesh, looks like the idiots are trying to burn down their town! Here is a more recent report about the curfew:

overnite curfew until daybreak

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 01, 1999.

OOOPS!! That link is the same as the first one, try this;

newer report

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 01, 1999.

thanks all for the news no tv here, not that tv would be good anyhowbut being out in the boonies for awhile do not understand this major riot coming now...seems fishy to me

-- sandy (rstyree@overland.net), December 01, 1999.

Sandy, the basic problem with the WTO is that it is designed for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. How can you pay workers as cheeply as possible and avoid expensive regulations like all those environmental ones. The whole thing sucks.

-- Psychotic (y2k@doom&gloom.com), December 01, 1999.

Er, apologies to the Y2K martial law predictors. After the Seattle debacle, I now think that it's not just possible, it's likely. :(

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

Apology accepted, Colin. Never fear, you have an entire 30 days to come on board with some of the other opinions which are often dismissed as 'nutso'.

We may be a small percentage, but we are mighty. :)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), December 01, 1999.