WTO in Yuppyland? (Score 1)

Hey. I'm from Seattle and I thought that I'd share a little on the situation here. I was at the center of things for a while Tuesday morning before all the violence broke out at 12 (I left because I sensed that it was going to get bad). I've seen and heard some very wrong stuff both on my local TV stations and in the press. Basically what happened was that there were two types of protestors: actual protestors and people who were there to break stuff. The actual protestors were fine. They protested and were legal and were nice people - more on them later. The bad part was the "Anarchist" folks. They were not there to protest at all. They were not even real anarchists. They were there to f*ck up whatever they could, be it protestors or buildings. They were probably the most organized groups of protestors outside of the labor unions. They had thought out tactics on their violence long before the WTO thingy started. Anyways, they went around breaking things and used the protestors by hiding behind the human walls and breaking stuff so that the cops were forced to attack the human walls in order to stop the violence. I am not even going to talk about all the police brutality around here... Anyways, the actual protestors were good people. I liked them. For the most part, they knew what they were talking about and did a good job. Unfortunately because of the violent folks, all protesting was banned on wednesday, so all the real non-violent protestors are now rotting in jail while the a$$holes who were there to make trouble are laughing about it.
Okay, this is a bit long, but one more point: Seattle is not the yuppie capitol of the world. Seattle is where normal people live and the rich upper/middle class come to work. They take all our money and polute our town with their SUVs and then go back to live in Bellevue or Issaqua or Redmond...basically the Eastside suburbs of Seattle where all the rich white folk live.