NYPost

SHOT PROTESTER DESERVED WHAT HE GOT

By ROD DREHER

July 22, 2001 -- THE death of 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani has given the anti-globalization mob an excuse for launching further spasmodic attacks of violence. Yesterday's attackers wore black armbands mourning the young man's death.

The world leaders gathered in Genoa aren't clarifying matters by pulling a long face and pretending this idiot's demise was something to be taken seriously.

If another Giuliani, Rudy, were among the G-8 honchos hunkered down in the besieged Italian city, there's no doubt that he'd tell his comrades to can their crocodile tears.

Rudy would be alone - and dead right - in saying good people ought to instead worry about the police and the ordinary folks whose lives are threatened by the anarchist berserkers.

I'm sure his mama loved him, but Carlo Giuliani deserved what he got. Video footage shows him in a terrorist mask attempting to hurl a fire extinguisher through a window of a van full of armed carabinieri.

Unsurprisingly, they shot the fool.

Wouldn't you? In the middle of a riot, when a masked aggressor is attempting to strike you in the head with a heavy metal object, you point your gun and you shoot the SOB. It's not a complicated issue.

Unsurprisingly, some of the Euroweenies leading cheese-eating, surrender-socialist nations reacted like countless chancellors of American universities, who rolled over for the militants in the 1960s.

"One hundred thousand people don't get upset unless there is a problem in their hearts and spirits," moaned the president of (where else?) France.

Oh, boo hoo hoo. Here we go again, with people who know better trying to "understand" the kids, and be tolerant of what common sense says ought to be condemned outright: anarchic street violence in support of a dubious cause.

To be sure, the anti-globalization movement has something of a point. One sympathizes with those who worry that political and cultural sovereignty is being stolen by businessmen and bureaucrats.

But we Westerners live in democracies, where these issues can be worked out peacefully, through reasoned discussion and debate. These violent protesters, though, are using valid concerns as a justification to engage in destruction for its own sake.

These bourgeois white radicals, these spoiled-brat trustafarians flatter themselves that they're striking a blow for justice when they throw a chair through a Starbucks window, or trash city centers where law-abiding people make their living.

Despite their political pretensions, these creeps are no better than murderous soccer hooligans, and they deserve to be treated as such.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2001

Answers

Keep in mind that some of the "protestors" are actually plants who have been tasked to create some serious havoc in order to discredit the legitimate group. So those kinds do try to injure people so that the news will carry a negative picture of the whole thing. If that is what the guy in question was up to, and got himself wacked in the process, it's just an example of grim justice.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2001