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Originally Posted by Charlatan
The only time we had any serious crackdown was when we had the IMF here for a week or so
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Imagine that a city you visit frequently had riots while a major organization such as the IMF was visiting. Then you can truly enjoy the fruits of paranoia. Post-WTO riots, Seattle has never been the same. One spring break a few years ago we went to visit some friends there, and the police were out in full force, in riot gear. The Japanese tourists in front of the art museum were taking pictures of the police, posing in front of the lines of cops in full gear.
It was at once humorous and horrifying, to think that three years after the Battle of Seattle the police are still so paranoid of what happened during the riots that they come out in full force any time there is an inkling of civil unrest.