Monkeyfist on the Genoa killing:
Today in Genoa a protester, 23 year old Carlo Giuliani, armed with righteous rage against repression and injustice and what appears to be a roll of packing tape on his right arm, was killed, shot twice in the streets by the Carabinieri. Then, in a fit of excessive cruelty, the kind of excess that capitalism is best known by, the Carabinieri ran over his dead body with a heavy police vehicle.
Kendall apparently wrote this before he saw the pictures showing that the masked man was armed not just with packing tape, but with a fire extinguisher he was preparing to launch at the car. Other pictures, in this weeks' print edition of Newsweek, show Carlo's fellow masked hooligans battering the car's occupants with long wooden planks. Is it any wonder they shot? Is it any wonder they drove over the body in their rush to escape the violence? Everyone knew this one would blow up - it was too hot even for radical groups like EarthFirst, founded by convicted eco-terrorist Dave Foreman.
“I’m very glad I am not there,” said Angharad Penrhyn-Jones, an Earth First activist... Hooligans, she said, “have come along and hijacked the whole thing."
Hijacked? There's nothing to indicate they weren't driving the whole time.
I've heard people drawing analogies to the Kent State tragedy. This was no Kent State, and to say so cheapens the memeory of those who died in Ohio. Carlo Giuliani was a hooligan in a mask, a convicted criminal, and if he becomes a martyr, it will be the most powerful statement of purpose the opponents of globalization can make.
Posted by wasylik at July 23, 2001 11:07 PM