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Hi Yorick!
In re the WTO protests in Seattle, it was probably much the same crowd makeup as you saw: a core group of people there with reason sprinkled with the clueless and some troublemakers.
Unfortunately in my town we had a lot of people show up specifically to cause problems and wreak havoc for no good end, to which the police reacted with criminal heavy-handedness and phenomenally poor judgement.
In the aftermath of accusations and media feeding-frenzy the point of the protest was lost: we actually kept the WTO from acheiving their agenda in our city.
I hope the folks in your town have success without violence.
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