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from the why-do-they-insist-on-secret-negotiations? dept.
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [TTIP] protesters faced water cannons as the public were barred from observing the negotiations in Brussels.
Peaceful Protesters against austerity and the secrecy surrounding TTIP agreements were met with violence and water cannons from Belgian police.
In an unprovoked move 281 people were "violently arrested" (quoted Revolution News), including Belgian and European parliamentarians and candidates, senior trade union officials, farmers and many elderly citizens.
US Ambassador to the EU, Anthony Gardner, and the EU Commissioner responsible for TTIP, Karel De Gucht have recently complained that speculation of social media has been spreading rumours on false grounds - "There's a void [in information]. The void is being filled more and more by social media." A lack of transparency surrounding the negotiations may have created that void in the first place.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday May 20 2014, @01:58PM
Forget the Black Panthers: The FBI under J Edgar Hoover considered Martin Luther King to be a public enemy. They spent far more resources going after non-violent and in some cases completely legal leftist groups than they did on the KKK (who was at the time bombing churches, lynching voter registration volunteers, beating Freedom Riders and torching the buses they were on, starting riots that left a Kennedy administration official badly beaten, and numerous other major violent crimes).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.