A Life and Death Struggle in Genoa

The G-8 goes to Genoa, Italy; you know, Italy, the place with the proud anarchist tradition?



A Life and Death Struggle in Genoa
URL: http://italia.indymedia.org/
By Kendall Clark


   A protester, killed by a police teargas round fired to his head,
   lies in the street where he fell.
   
   Today in Genoa a protester, armed only with his fists, his righteous
   rage, a tshirt, 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.
   
   On this ugly, antidemocratic, repressive day, UK PM Tony Blair had
   this to say:
   
     ``We would prefer to be out there in a normal setting being able
     to meet people, Blair told reporters. ``But we can't because some
     of these demonstrators are so violent.''
     
   Presumably the violent protesters did not include the one who was
   killed today; the one armed only with that very lethal roll of
   packing tape; the one who, just in case his dead, lifeless body
   still posed a threat to PM Blair, to the G-8 Summit, to the whole
   goddamned capitalist system, was run over by a police jeep after
   having been shot dead by authoritarian thugs?
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