Battle in Seattle Against the WTO, November 1999

Battle in Seattle Against the WTO, November 1999

Five Western nations — the USA, the UK, France, Italy, and Canada — have participated in "Operation Odyssey Dawn" — air and missile strikes against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Operation Odyssey Dawn is supposed to create a no-fly zone over Libya as mandated by Resolution 1973 of the UN Security Council approved Thursday. Several countries have declared themselves against the foreign military operations in Libya including Russia and Venezuela, whose President Hugo Chavez is known to have close ties with Gaddafi.

According to the UN: "Demanding an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians, which it said might constitute "crimes against humanity," the Security Council imposed a ban on all flights in the country’s airspace — a no-fly zone — and tightened sanctions on the Qadhafi regime and its supporters."

In Obama's speech at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 2011, he was not clear as to whether or not the United States would intervene to help every nation in the region, but Obama said: "Born, as we are, out of a revolution by those who longed to be free, we welcome the fact that history is on the move in the Middle East and North Africa, and that young people are leading the way." Without naming other nations in the region where protests are going on, Obama noted that, "a new generation is refusing to be denied their rights and opportunities any longer."

Obama and the other criminals in Washington, D.C. are hypocrites. They will not hesitate to send in the National Guard against the U.S. citizens, as they have done in the past (Democratic and Republican national conventions, G20 summits, Katrina, etc.)

Who will protect U.S. citizens from our government when they turn on us again?

If you don't think they will, then watch the 2008 film "Battle in Seattle," which is a fictitious account of events in Seattle that occurred over five days beginning in late November 1999, when citizens protested the World Trade Organization talks. The protest was prompted by the first American gathering of the WTO. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest. What began as a peaceful protest intended to stop the WTO talks quickly escalated into a full-scale riot and eventual State of Emergency that squared off peaceful and unarmed protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is a broad-based, extremely powerful institution that wants to influence and/or trump the rules sovereign governments have created to run their nations. The WTO favors wealth and profit over things such as the environment, human rights, and unionized labor. The WTO has operated behind closed doors since its inception in 1995 and, unfortunately for all of us, it has never developed anything resembling a conscience.

Actual footage from the Seattle riots in 1999:





A documentary on the event is available also: "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle."

This event in Seattle 1999 was before the "war on terror" began, before the signing into law of the Patriot Act, and before the Department of Homeland Security was created; therefore, the reaction from government officials was tame compared to what it would be if that event were to occur now.

Fellow citizens, beware of the U.S. Northern Command:

U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) was established Oct. 1, 2002 to provide command and control of Department of Defense (DOD) homeland defense efforts and to coordinate defense support of civil authorities. USNORTHCOM defends America's homeland — protecting our people, national power, and freedom of action.

and

the Department of Homeland Security, established by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (taking advantage of an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before by never letting a serious crisis, 9/11, go to waste):

Title I - Department of Homeland Security

Sec. 101. Executive Department; Mission

(a) Establishment. - "There is established a Department of Homeland Security, as an executive department of the United States within the meaning of title 5, United States Code.

(b) Mission

(1) In General. - The primary mission of the Department is to

(A) prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;

(B) reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism; and

(C) minimize the damage, and assist in the recovery, from terrorist attacks that do occur within the United States."

[From the Homeland Security Act of 2002]

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel, November 21, 2008